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One of Scottish Labour’s most prominent left-wingers, Neil Findlay, who backs Jeremy Corbyn’s orthodox stance on Brexit, has been appointed shadow Brexit minister at Holyrood in a reshuffle by the party’s new Scottish leader, Richard Leonard.

A combative supporter of Leonard’s leadership bid, Findlay voted remain in the 2016 referendum but, like Leonard, has voted against Holyrood motions in favour of continued single market membership for Scotland or special post Brexit privileges. He will now shadow the equally-combative Scottish Brexit minister Mike Russell in the Scottish parliament.

Leonard insists he will not lead the party on a factional basis and his reshuffle, which kept several prominent party figures in existing posts, appears to reflect accurately the Holyrood group’s spread of centrists, moderates and left-wingers as well as meeting his pledge of leading a gender-balanced team of seven women and seven men (excluding Leonard himself).

Heavily emphasising his Corbynite politics, Monica Lennon, a left winger first elected to Holyrood in May 2016, is made shadow cabinet secretary for communities, social security and equalities, while the only Labour MSP known to have voted leave last year, Elaine Smith, is made shadow cabinet secretary for the eradication of poverty and inequality.

Amongst the most prominent centrists, Iain Gray, a former Scottish leader, remains on education; Jackie Baillie, a supporter of Anas Sarwar’s leadership bid, remains on economy; Sarwar stays in health and Daniel Johnson, an ally of previous Scottish leader Kezia Dugdale, is given justice.

Lesley Laird, the shadow Scottish secretary at Westminster, remains acting deputy leader until the Scottish executive announces a contest to succeed Alex Rowley, who resigned as deputy leader on Saturday over harassment allegations against him.

Leonard said:

This team is a blend of energy, talent and experience, ready to hold this government to account put forward the positive difference a Scottish Labour government would make.

Scottish Labour (@scottishlabour) . @LabourRichard has unveiled our new Shadow Cabinet. pic.twitter.com/Xc8Dn6tzoA

Here is the full list of the Scottish Labour shadow cabinet.

Leader - Richard Leonard

Shadow Scottish secretary and interim deputy leader – Lesley Laird

Parliamentary business manager and women and equality spokesperson – Rhoda Grant

Shadow secretary for finance and the constitution – James Kelly

Shadow secretary for the economy, jobs and fair work – Jackie Baillie

Shadow secretary for Brexit, camaigns and party engagement – Neil Findlay

Shadow secretary for education, skills and science – Iain Gray

Shadow secretary for health and sport - Anas Sarwar

Shadow secretary for environment, climate change and land reform – Claudia Beamish

Shadow secretary for eradication of poverty and inequality – Elaine Smith

Shadow secretary for communities, social security and equalities – Monica Lennon

Shadow secretary for justice – Daniel Johnson

Shadow secretary for culture, tourism and external affairs – Claire Baker

Shadow secretary for rural economy and connectivity – Colin Smyth