Sentences with phrase «conservative shadow leader»

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The Welsh Conservatives were, apparently, prepared to consider this proposal, and David Cameron, the Conservative leader at Westminster, was prepared to allow them to do so, but the shadow cabinet would not hear of it.»

The shadow education secretary said that any decision on whether Lord Archer joined his local Conservative association was up to the local board, saying it would be «crazy» for the party leader to intervene in the proper process of membership.

Labour leaders and ministers outnumbered Conservative shadow ministers by approximately two to one in 2007.

It was denied both by Margaret Thatcher, the leader of the Opposition, and byGeoffrey Howe, the shadow Chancellor, in a campaign in which the impact on prices of the Conservative's declared plans to switch from direct to indirect taxation played a significant part.

Other Conservatives to attend the exclusive school in Berkshire include Mayor of London Boris Johnson and the shadow leader of the Commons Sir George Young.

Chris Williamson, the MP for Derby North who has been one of the Labour leader's most vocal champions, is made a shadow fire services minister, having won back his seat, which was snatched by the Conservatives in 2015.

She then debated her film in the Daily Politics studio with former Conservative leader Lord Howard and shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander.

Outbursts by prominent Tories — for instance, by his shadow home secretary, Chris Grayling — have fuelled scepticism that the Conservative party is anything like as modernised as the leader protests.

In the days after the Budget, unease grew as Harriet Harman, the party's acting leader, and Chris Leslie, the shadow chancellor, signalled that Labour would not oppose Conservative policies such as the 1 per cent cap on public - sector pay rises for four years and the reduced benefit cap of # 20,000 (# 23,000 in London).

Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson was among those to take issue with Thornberry, suggesting that the shadow defence secretary was guilty of undermining the fight against sexism.

For the Conservatives, shadow Commons leader Alan Duncan said: «I think the black ink is justified where it is things like ex-directory phone numbers... and personal details and bank accounts.»

Yesterday shadow Northern Ireland Secretary Owen Paterson and UUP leader Sir Reg Empey wrote this article in the Belfast News Letter emphasising the benefits to the people of Nothern Ireland of the electoral alliance between the Conservatives and UUP:

I'm afraid that the world has moved on from the time when a well crafted piece from John Redwood would be enough to send potential Ukip jacks back into their Tory boxes.A party where the old guard of Maude Clarke, Hurd, Heseltine, Gummer, Patten etc clearly now pull the strings of an inexperienced leader just endorses the fear of being conned.What did happen to the Tory policy on fisheries?Why can only backbenchers support BOO whilst shadow (non) ministers and whips are blackmailed into supporting the collective policy of continued EU membership.Why would those seeking disengagement from what even the most active champions of the EU now CONTINUALLY refer to as an experiment vote Conservative?

With money being wasted like this, how dare a CONSERVATIVE leader or shadow chancellor say there's no money for tax cuts?

In an interview with the London Evening Standard, the Conservative leader said that moving people in and out of the shadow cabinet was «very difficult, but it absolutely has to be done».

It was presumably why two Conservative party leaders, William Hague and David Cameron, selected me to be shadow attorney general and why Cameron also appointed me as shadow home and then shadow justice minister, and why he, as prime minister, asked me to be solicitor general.

Rumours that the Labour leader will begin a «revenge reshuffle» of his shadow cabinet in the new year have drowned out the party's attacks on the Conservative government, the shadow culture secretary Michael Dugher has said, in a jibe at Jeremy Corbyn's aides.

Other senior Conservatives who made questionable claims included Alan Duncan, the shadow leader of the House of Commons, who oversees the party's expenses policy.

This morning, Alan Duncan, the shadow leader of the Commons, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that raising the inheritance tax threshold to # 1m would be in the Conservative party manifesto, and that the party would introduce it in the first term of a Tory government.

Second, and in part to facilitate those resignations, it's notable how the Conservatives continue to hold off direct attacks on the policies, statements and personal alliances of the leader of the opposition and his shadow chancellor.