Sentences with phrase «conservative shadow secretary of state»

Nick Herbert, the Conservative shadow secretary of state for justice, questioned how accountability would be preserved in the event of the removal of the requirement of the consent of the attorney general in respect of a wide range of prosecutions.

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New Welsh Secretary Stephen Crabb has been welcomed to his post as «the third Secretary of State for Wales in the last 22 months» by his Labour shadow, Owen Smith, who says it time for the Conservatives to end what Labour call the Tories» «war on Wales».

A Conservative government would end the «something for nothing culture» of the welfare state, shadow work and pensions secretary, Chris Grayling has said.

Health secretary Andy Burnham and his Conservative and Liberal Democrat shadows Andrew Lansley and Norman Lamb appeared together on BBC1's The Politics Show to discuss the state of their proposals.

More than half of Labour voters (56 per cent) are pleased with Mr Corbyn's performance while just 25 per cent believe shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn, who was widely lauded for a bravura Commons speech backing military action against Islamic State in Syria, would make a good replacement, rising to 42 per cent among Conservative voters.

In her speech to the Labour Party conference in Brighton this afternoon, the shadow education secretary drew battle lines between her and the Conservatives, stating that government education thinking was «dead» and signalling the start of a stronger campaign on teacher shortages, school places and cuts to sixth form funding.

Dominic Grieve, the Conservative shadow home secretary highlights one popular criticism: «The Act has attracted a huge amount of public hostility and helped to create a rights culture which has been seen by many people as forcing the state to make concessions to the undeserving... public bodies routinely hide behind the Act to hide their own incompetence.»