I find it astonishing if you think about the talent you've got around that shadow cabinet table, even around that small circle of people who came out of the last government together — Miliband, Balls, Burnham, Yvette Cooper, I'm not Douglas» biggest fan but you can include him in that list. (totalpolitics.com)
«Around the shadow cabinet table there are four of us with beards. (totalpolitics.com)
Ed must genuinely have hoped to have his big brother back around the shadow cabinet table after the bitterness which marred the later stages of the leadership contest — and the narrow outcome which must have shocked him almost as much as it did his defeated. (theguardian.com)