MP On Shadow Cabinet
The promotion means that Mr Flight now joins the 25 other senior Conservatives of the Shadow Cabinet and is now the Shadow Chancellor's deputy.
Mr Flight said: "I am delighted to have been asked by Iain Duncan Smith to join the Shadow Cabinet.
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Hide Ad"I am also pleased to remain within the Treasury Team, thus enabling me to continue the work of scrutinising Gordon Brown's dangerous, over-spun economic policies while also playing a very active role in developing new Conservative ideas."
The Shadow Health team was not affected by the reshuffle and East Worthing and Shoreham MP Tim Loughton is still a Shadow Health minister.