Sentences with phrase «conservative shadow cabinet members»

Indeed, a deal of this kind — nothing much doing in the kitchen or the bedroom, but orderly consideration of domestic finances — sounds remarkably like a domestic equivalent of «confidence and supply»: exactly the arrangement that many Tory MPs and two then Conservative shadow cabinet members, Chris Grayling and Theresa Villiers, wanted in the first place.

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And now we have a more explicit outlining of an emerging new Tory constitutional doctrine in an extraordinary Guardian report on Tuesday — based on anonymous briefings from «senior shadow Cabinet members» — that the Conservatives intend to mount a partisan attack on existing constitutional conventions, and the Cabinet Secretary's protocols for handling a hung Parliament, even though a primary motivation for these has been to protect the Monarchy from being dragged into party political controversy.

The Welsh Conservatives have replaced two members of their shadow cabinet in a surprise reshuffle today.

Whether it's Gordon Brown weeping over the tragic loss of his daughter, or members of the shadow cabinet briefing journalists about their worries for the Conservatives» fortunes, there are wobbly lips and squeaky bums aplenty among our representatives.

The foreign secretary hit out at Conservative calls for a referendum, saying eight members of the Tory shadow Cabinet had blocked a public vote in the Maastricht treaty.

Mrs Hammond took her complaint to Peter Ainsworth - then, as now, a member of the Conservative shadow cabinet, and for whom Mrs Hammond had once worked.

Most voters understandably don't distinguish between a «Top Tory», a Conservative frontbencher and a shadow cabinet member.

Labour cabinet members and ministers outnumbered Conservative shadow cabinet and ministers by approximately two to one (90 vs 46) in 2007; in 2012, Conservative cabinet members and ministers outnumbered their Labour counterparts by more than four to one (67 to 15).

Jon Trickett, Labour's election coordinator and a shadow cabinet member, agreed with the Liberal Democrats that it now looked like «the coronation of a new Conservative prime minister».

In fact there were two things missing from almost every shadow cabinet member's speech last week which have pulsated through every Minister's so far at Conservative conference.