Sentences with phrase «as shadow health secretary»

Fox became an MP in 1992 and later worked for both Hague and Duncan Smith as shadow health secretary.

Announcing Alexander's appointment, Khan said she «knows this city inside out, and her work both as shadow health secretary and campaigning over the best Brexit deal has demonstrated the terrific job she will do as part of my team standing up for London».

As shadow health secretary, my work was undermined on more than one occasion by the shadow chancellor John McDonnell — and I know it was the same for other colleagues,» she added.

Heidi Alexander, who quit as shadow health secretary last weekend, has criticised John McDonnell's «totally unacceptable» conduct in setting up a team of NHS policy advisers without telling her.

A senior Labour source said: «This raises serious questions about Andrew Lansley's judgement and it is difficult to see how he can continue on in his role as shadow health secretary when it would appear that a private health care company is helping to fund the development of Tory healthy policy.

His successor as shadow health secretary, John Healey, contrasted David Cameron's emphasis on a real rise in NHS funding with the simple fact that it's down by # 1 billion.

Burnham might have hoped to win the support of the main public sector trade union after his warnings, as shadow health secretary, that the Tories are trying to move towards NHS privatisation.

The Lewisham East MP criticised Corbyn's «inept, unprofessional and shoddy» tenure as she explained why she quit as shadow health secretary.

Burnham is widely seen as having done extraordinarily well as shadow health secretary and there will be cries of horror if he is moved.

Not exact matches

More attention has been paid to the pugnacious shadow health secretary, Andy Burnham, who has been tipped as a possible future leader.

Others firmly said they would not, including defeated challenger Smith and other prominent figures such as Smith's campaign manager and former shadow health secretary Heidi Alexander.

Liam Fox, shadow secretary of state for defence, reaffirmed his commitment to mental health as a welfare priority and announced a post-traumatic stress treatment programme and a mental health screening for all service leavers.

Jeremy Hunt, the health secretary, and Andy Burnham, his Labour shadow, squabbled all week as A&E targets are missed.

It is this plan that critics such as the RCN and Labour's shadow health secretary, Andy Burnham, have warned would turn the NHS into a two - tier system in which those who can pay get preferential treatment.

The shadow health secretary promised that Labour would run its own Yes campaign, focusing on issues such as preventing workers being «undercut» by EU immigrants, exclusive recruitment from overseas and strengthening enforcement of the national minimum wage.

Speaking to ITV Daybreak, shadow health secretary Andy Burnham agreed it does make sense to make closures as more lives can be saved by centralising services on one particular site.

Mr Burnham's comments have been interpreted as an attack on Labour leader Ed Miliband - a claim the shadow health secretary denies.

Speaking on ITV's Good Morning Britain, the shadow health secretary went on: «That motion has got my complete and full support and I hope the conference votes for that motion because we should have absolute zero tolerance when it comes to the quite disgusting and pitiful anti-Semitism that sadly we're sometimes seeing on social media these days, and indeed, as I believe if you look at the newspapers, I wasn't there... was at an event in Brighton last night.»

Alexander, the former shadow health secretary who quit Corbyn's frontbench during the string of resignations over his leadership in 2016, has resigned her seat to take up a role as deputy mayor for transport under the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, at City Hall.