Sentences with phrase «labour cabinet colleagues»

Brown's earnings eclipse those of his New Labour Cabinet colleagues, although former chancellor Alistair Darling and ex-justice secretary Jack Straw notched up additional income of # 263,000 and # 183,000 respectively.

Not exact matches

One former Labour cabinet minister criticised the «cocky» attitude of his new colleagues.

And let me pay particular tribute to those parliamentary colleagues who stepped forward in the summer to fill the gaps in the shadow cabinet and ensure that Labour could function as an effective opposition in parliament.

And last year, a Labour councillor was accused of making death threats against one of his former group colleagues, Rania Khan, who now serves in Rahman's cabinet.

And with our zero - based review — a review of every pound spent by government from the bottom up — Rachel Reeves and my Shadow Cabinet colleagues have begun the work of identifying savings so that we can switch resources to Labour's priorities.

«He wants you to believe that the housing crisis in our country can not be fixed in the way that Labour has consistently called for, and even colleagues in his own Cabinet have argued for, by increasing investment to build more housing.

David Miliband tonight issued a lukewarm vote of confidence in the prime minister after two former cabinet colleagues called for a secret ballot by Labour MPs to settle the question of his leadership «once and for all».

«Rarely do you ever see Labour backbenchers stand up to their Cabinet colleagues, but even they have spoken out on the M4.

Jones resigned from Jeremy Corbyn's Shadow Cabinet, along with dozens of her colleagues, in June 2016 and, in calling Corbyn «unelectable», also urged him to resign as Labour leader.

Alongside former cabinet colleague Alan Milburn, Mr Clarke recently launched the 20:20 Vision website designed to «move the debate forward» on the future of the Labour government.

He insists that he isn't the sole survivor of a very different era - shadow cabinet colleagues «like Andy Burnham, Hilary Benn, Rosie Winterton... I'm not sure that the word Blairite is used by them but we're proud of our record» - and says a period of relative tranquillity has set in amongst Labour's J - team.

He also took a thinly - veiled swipe at his shadow cabinet colleagues who had come up with various reasons why Labour lost the Copeland by - election «I thought the loss in Copeland was really serious.

As well as the business secretary's Cabinet colleagues, Labour leader Ed Miliband has also repeated the mantra of supporting the treaty without seemingly feeling a need to explain how it address concerns about the UK's own arms sales.

So when Ed Balls used his conference speech to signal Labour's departure from an unquestioning commitment to HS2, all eyes turned to Adonis, who as a shadow minister for infrastructure is also a shadow cabinet colleague of Mr Balls.

Over recent days we've also heard my shadow cabinet colleagues, Emma Reynolds and Tristram Hunt, talk about how a Labour government will ensure we get the house building we need to strengthen our economy and improve people's quality of life, and about how we raise standards in our schools to ensure our children are equipped to succeed.

With the elevation of Emily Thornberry, the Labour leader's Islington North constituency is now sandwiched in between the constituencies of two of his top shadow cabinet colleagues.

Mr McBride, Gordon Brown's chief spin doctor, has published his memoirs as Labour's conference gets underway, which detail how he briefed against colleagues and cabinet members.

Ten months later he repeated this position in spades in a shadow cabinet meeting: «the shadow chancellor bluntly warned colleagues that even under a Labour government there would have to be serious cuts», perhaps referring to the Coalition's # 30 billion «hit list» being drawn up in the treasury.

«They are supposed to be our representatives yet the Labour dominated Council simply went along with their colleagues in RCT Cabinet.»

He faced a second attempt to launch a leadership challenge by former Cabinet colleagues Geoff Hoon and Patricia Hewitt in January 2010, but the plot failed to gather momentum and Brown remained as both Labour leader and Prime Minister to lead his party into the 2010 General Election.

Despite the misgivings of some cabinet colleagues, the Home Secretary stuck by the government decision to offer the citizens of Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic and five other East European nations unlimited access to the British labour market.

Labour denied reports of a heated telephone conversation between Brown and Clegg, and support among Brown's Cabinet colleagues remained strong, but one backbencher, John Mann, urged Brown to step aside as Labour leader before the party conference in September, arguing that Brown's continued leadership «rules out the credibility of a Lib / Lab pact».

The Prime Minister has rebuffed Cabinet colleagues who suggested that Labour supporters could back Liberal Democrat candidates where such a vote would keep out a Conservative.

Deputy Labour leader Tom Watson has refused to rule out a second EU referendum - just an hour after his shadow cabinet colleague Diane Abbott said the party does not support the policy.

Although my cabinet colleague Jack Straw has agreed to appear with Griffin on 22 October, my argument is not with him, but with the BBC for putting ministers in the impossible position of empty - chairing the Labour party.

He told Channel 4 News: «A former Labour cabinet minister has confirmed to me this week that News International talked to my former colleagues in No 10 Downing Street to ask them whether I would withdraw my aggressive line of questioning.