Yes, usually the Shadow Government doesn't care because they run the show anyway and can control the front people who are all Oxbridge or Establishment etc
It is possible that this time it is different, that just like Brexit, the Establishment will be defeated by the people in this global populist uprising that is spreading across the world and that frightens all the elites and the Guardian and the Oxbridge teams who call it "post-truth" politics because their spin no longer works and no longer fools the people.
But it could be the elite being very clever and giving the people what they want i.e. opposition to the Estblishment, but in a phoney form, a controlled form that cons the people.
That is what the elite did with Obama. The people wanted "hope and change" that he promised, but as Wikileaks showed, his cabinet was picked for him by Citigroup before he even started and he did what the bankers wanted and bailed them out and appointed them to top positions and carried on with what the Establishment wanted which is why there is now such a rebellion against the Establishment that has led to Trumo defeating 16 Establishment Republicans and taking on Establishment Hillary, the Establishment's last hope to save themselves.
But the Establishment may be using Trump, like they used Obama, and may trick the people once again.
Plus ca change