Sentences with phrase «former shadow ministers anglea»

The signatories - including former shadow ministers Heidi Alexander, Paula Sherriff and Kerry McCarthy - said campaigning outside MPs» homes and offices and bullying at constituency meetings should be condemned rather than «quietly condoned».

Conservative campaigners are planning to target high - profile Labour MPs, some with large majorities, in the hope of unseating current and former shadow ministers including Liz Kendall, Tom Watson and Vernon Coaker.

Conservatives eye seats in Midlands and northern England in the hope of ousting current and former shadow ministers

But he said it would also put pressure on former shadow ministers to put their differences aside and return to the top team.

The former shadow minister has served his constituents since 1992 and escaped unscathed from the expenses scandal.

Former shadow minister Chuka Umunna - once a favourite to replace Ed Miliband as Labour leader - has dismissed reports that he was being lined up to challenge Mr Corbyn before the next general election.

Patrick Mercer has been MP for Newark since 2001 and is a former shadow minister for homeland security.

Also getting front bench jobs were former Coronation Street actress - turned Labour MP Tracy Brabin and former shadow minister for young people Gloria De Piero, who resigned last year in protest at Corbyn's leadership.

But former shadow minister Michael Dugher said Labour was «not on a trajectory to victory» in the next general election, scheduled for 2020 while former shadow chancellor Chris Leslie said Labour should have done much better.

Claim: The former shadow minister for local government claimed more than # 2,000 of furniture for his second home in London but had it delivered to his parents» home in Wiltshire.

Many are angry at former shadow minister Chris Leslie's attempts to drum up support for her - and the involvement of the Blairite campaign group Progress.

One former shadow minister told PoliticsHome: «If you look at the numbers, it will be impossible for him to appoint someone to every job - there simply isn't enough MPs willing to serve under him.

The former shadow minister posted: «Today I will be a) swimming with sharks for the Labour party and b) giving statement to police on yet another death threat.

Former shadow minister Chuka Umunna, a supporter of Remain, took to Twitter to make clear his anger.

Diane Abbott, a former shadow minister who has been steadfastly loyal to Miliband despite being sacked last October, said: «I think that by sacking her Ed Miliband made the story bigger.

The former shadow minister criticised Jeremy Corbyn for «ambiguity» over the EU referendum and said the party needed a leader that «reaches out to voters».

One former shadow minister said it was difficult to believe Arbuthnot had not informed Hague about Ashcroft's tax status.

At Thursday's meeting Gary Streeter, a normally loyal backbencher, and former shadow minister for international affairs, warned that it would be «worse than Maastricht» if the government went ahead.

«There are some on the left of the party who may be prevaricating about our membership but actually it's about jobs, growth and the future of our country and we have to make that case,» the former shadow minister told the Andrew Marr Show.

[36] The former shadow minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs, Dr Michael Wooldridge, explained this in the parliamentary debate on the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation Bill 1991:

Not exact matches

The senior former shadow Cabinet minister was criticised for submitting a # 957 claim for a «pewter finish» on radiators, and # 8,000 for work on his garden.

The former shadow Treasury minister has represented the seat since 1997 and has a majority of 6,507.

Among the replacements could be former lord chancellor Charlie Falconer, former shadow chancellor Alan Johnson and shadow pensions minister Rachel Reeves, the Independent reported.

Lib Dems hope business minister Ed Davey, the party's former shadow foreign affairs spokesman, could influence a new approach to Europe by the government.

«Mr Corbyn appointed me and press released this without my knowledge or consent whilst I was in the middle of cancer treatment,» the former shadow arts minister wrote on Facebook.

McDonnell also hit out at former Labour shadow cabinet minister Caroline Flint, after she told the BBC's Sunday Politics programme yesterday that his ambition that the party «hang on» in the recent local elections was not good enough.

The former shadow education minister Tristram Hunt had a decidedly mixed 2015, but he recently talked pretty powerfully at the Fabian Society about the politics of inequality, Labour's frayed bond with working - class voters and the necessity of reinventing the party's belief in redistribution.

But every previous former EU commissioner has been appointed to the Lords, and it is common for ministers and shadow ministers to be appointed from the Upper House.

«It's a damning indictment of this government that, half way through this parliament, a former Conservative Cabinet minister is still calling for a plan for growth,» shadow chief secretary to the Treasury Rachel Reeves said.

The first, from former shadow cabinet minister Caroline Flint, was part of a speech last month urging the party to commit to a full - blooded Brexit, outside the single market, customs union, and the realm of free movement of people.

The former shadow business secretary argued Mr Corbyn was unable to «provide the leadership» to win a general election but that she believed she had what it takes to become Prime Minister.

Two of Corbyn's choices who were only elected in June are former MEPs Anneliese Dodds as shadow Treasury minister and Afzal Khan, who becomes shadow Home Office minister.

The signatories — including 10 former shadow cabinet ministers — told Mr. Corbyn that the «extremely worrying trend of escalating abuse and hostility» is «being done in your name.»

Tony Lloyd, the former Stretford MP who stepped down to become Greater Manchester police and crime commissioner and was later beaten by Andy Burnham for the nomination to be Greater Manchester mayor, has been made a shadow housing minister.

Jeremy Corbyn has appointed an array of new MPs to frontbench Labour jobs as well as handing junior roles to recognisable names such as former shadow cabinet minister Gloria De Piero and Tracy Brabin, who replaced the murdered MP Jo Cox.

He attacked the «lightweight» shadow cabinet and called for the former ministers Alan Johnson and Alistair Darling to be brought back on to the front bench.

In a highly unusual move, the Tory former education secretary Nicky Morgan joins forces with her previous Labour shadow Lucy Powell and the Liberal Democrat former deputy prime minister Nick Clegg to condemn the plans as damaging to social mobility, ideologically driven and divisive.

Another former Conservative cabinet minister and ex-MP, David Mellor, was even more scathing, describing the Tories under Cameron as «this pale sad shadow of what the Tory party used to be» and warning that it was «ripping itself apart now because of the sense that David Cameron is a prisoner of Nick Clegg and the Lib Dems».

Indeed, former adviser to Labour's shadow Europe ministers, Andy Tarrant co-wrote a report dispelling such claims.

Sadiq Khan was a former radical human rights lawyer and doing a good job as shadow secretary for justice when he also became shadow minister for London, and responsible for running the general election campaign in London.

Meanwhile former shadow Foreign Office Minister Stephen Doughty MP pledged to raise the matter with the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA), and the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner, stating: «These further revelations about the shadowy ERG and their influence over the government in pushing an ultra hard Brexit agenda, in conflict with official government policy, are deeply concerning.

The former London mayor also said that shadow defence minister Kevan Jones «should see his GP», after Jones questioned whether Livingstone should be leading a review of Labour's defence policies.

Charlie Falconer, one - time flatmate of Tony Blair and a man once described as being like a brother to the former prime minister, could easily be talking about his unlikely position in Jeremy Corbyn's shadow cabinet.

I am two and a half stone lighter which, as a former shadow public health minister in the Scottish Parliament, is just as well, given how much time we witter away about taking personal responsibility for one's own health!

The highest level of claims from the Conservatives came from former shadow education minister Alun Cairns, who spent the entirety of his # 12,500 allowance despite having a family home 45 minutes away.

Former deputy prime minister John Prescott's wrote: «I really hope every member of the shadow cabinet thinks twice before writing for the Sun after that front page.»

Lord Falconer, a surprise appointment to this shadow cabinet having been a key member of the Blair government and a former flatmate of the ex-Prime Minister, quit as Shadow Justice Secretary to take the number of vacant roles in Mr Corbyn's team to 10.

- With his huge vote, John Healey, a former Treasury minister, might be a good outside bet for shadow chancellor, though his background as a former TUC official may not help his chances.

Until her appointment as a shadow minister in October 2010, Abbott appeared alongside former Conservative politician and media personality Michael Portillo on the BBC's weekly politics digest This Week.

Former financial journalist who entered parliament in 1997 as MP for Ashford, Damian Green has been shadow minister for immigration since 2005