Johnson previously balanced two jobs as MP for Henley and editor of The Spectator magazine, until accepting a position
as shadow arts minister under Michael Howard in 2004.
«Mr Corbyn appointed me and press released this without my knowledge or consent whilst I was in the middle of cancer treatment,» the
former shadow arts minister wrote on Facebook.
[147] In his Shadow Cabinet reshuffle of May 2004, Howard appointed Johnson to the position
of shadow arts minister.
The move to Out see Howard join forces with Boris Johnson - aka the man he once sacked as
shadow arts minister for his affair with society hostess and writer Petronella Wyatt.
Mandelson said he was not aware of the confrontation between the
Labour shadow arts minister Chris Bryant and the singer James Blunt over social class.
The Observer has learned that the MP for Bristol West, Thangam Debbonaire, learned of her appointment in January as
a shadow arts minister when the communist newspaper, the Morning Star, in receipt of a press release, called her office.
Government Art Collection in the UK criticised for gender bias
The shadow arts minister, Kevin Brennan, has criticised the UK government's art collection of «institutional bias» against female artists, reports the Guardian.
Kevin Brennan,
the shadow arts minister, has revealed that there is an «Institutional» male bias in the government's art collection.