Sentences with phrase «labour cabinet member»

Internships are the new rung on the career ladder,» said the former Labour cabinet member Alan Milburn, who chairs the commission.

Recent speakers include some Labour cabinet members, Nick Clegg and David Cameron.

From what we have seen today, from the various outspoken comments delivered by Labour Cabinet members and MPs, it appears it was Labour which brought this morning's Lib - Lab talks to a halt.

Other recent critics have included former Labour Cabinet members Peter Mandelson and Alistair Darling as well as the Institute of Directors and Institute of Economic Affairs.

Others including former Labour cabinet members David Blunkett and Tessa Jowell have also said that they have reached settlements, although News International would not confirm this.

Britain's economy during the 1970s was so weak that Foreign Secretary James Callaghan warned his fellow Labour Cabinet members in 1974 of the possibility of «a breakdown of democracy», telling them: «If I were a young man, I would emigrate.»

The Tory expenses stories may be smaller ticket items than the home «flipping» by Labour Cabinet members but like Mr Jacqui Smith's porn movies and bath plug they produce a more visceral reaction.

Despite the occasional harsh outburst during the 1945 - 1950 parliament from Labour cabinet members such as Nye Bevan that the Tories were «lower than vermin», the election campaign saw something of a change of temper and did not turn into a bitter slanging match.

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).

Not exact matches

The deputy Labour leader wrote in the run - up to a regional Cabinet meeting in Exeter: «This will be a chance for me to hear directly from you as party members in a private meeting to talk about the issues and campaigning activity.

Corbyn was appearing with the entire shadow cabinet, members of Labour's ruling body and trade union chiefs at an event in central London on Tuesday,

Backbenchers and political journalists piled the praise on Eagle after today's performance, while a shadow cabinet member suggested that many Labour MPs preferred Eagle's «confrontational» style to Jeremy Corbyn's «calm» approach.

Labour has tried to park the issue through promising to hold a constitutional convention next year, but shadow cabinet members have struggled in media interviews to give a clear response.

There were no double - acts with members of the shadow cabinet such as Ed Balls, Harriet Harman, or Yvette Cooper — who many see at the Labour leader in waiting.

Labour's shadow cabinet agreed on Monday that MPs would be given a free vote, despite Corbyn's public opposition to strikes, to avert a threatened rebellion by pro-bombing members such as shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn.

The anthem row has been particularly damaging for Corbyn in his first week, with several shadow cabinet members and Labour mayoral candidate Sadiq Khan moved to publicly criticise him.

«Some Shadow Cabinet members want to spell out specific cuts to show Labour is serious about tackling the deficit.

On 24 June 2011, it was reported that Miliband was seeking to change the decades - old rule that Labour's Shadow Cabinet would be elected every two years, instead wanting to adopt a system where he alone had the authority to select its members.

I think the best bet for Labour here is for Ed Miliband to do what Harold Wilson did in the 1975 Common Market Referendum - allow Labour MPs, party members and shadow cabinet ministers to campaign for or against, or not at all, depending on their personal preferences.

Acting Labour leader Harriet Harman said she would offer a «responsible opposition» as ex-Cabinet members began their work in the shadow Cabinet:

He was a member of the Labour Party's Shadow Cabinet from 1986 to 1994, and stood unsuccessfully for the leadership of the party in 1992.

But I would be willing to bet that most of the Labour Party members and union members wish that they had more say in the choice not only of the leader, but of the cabinet as well.

Several members of the Shadow Cabinet who are close to the Labour leader have already tweeted their support for her election bid.

A new liaison committee was established with members of the TUC General Council, the NEC, and the Labour Shadow Cabinet, which gave the unions direct access to policy making.

Policy will be made by Labour members and not the leader, shadow cabinet, or parliamentary party, Jeremy Corbyn has said in a debate with his three leadership rivals organised by the Guardian.

The Labour MP has gone to great lengths to stress that he is one of the most business - friendly members of the shadow cabinet.

[1] The Liberal Party, founded in 1859, were descended from the Whigs, Radicals and Peelites, while the SDP were a party created in 1981 by former Labour members, MPs and cabinet ministers, but also gained defections from Conservatives.

Interesting tally on the Cabinet member front, but the line of the Labour Party is also very important in any hypothetical «what if» scenario.

Mr Smith also announced that Labour MP Kate Green will be the chair of his campaign, while former Shadow Cabinet members Heidi Alexander and Lisa Nandy will be co-chairs.

Why do some shadow cabinet members think now's the time for Labour MPs to engage in a war with the membership

Many serving Labour MPs were parachuted into constituencies at the request of leading members of the last Labour cabinet, including Mandelson himself.

While it's unusual for someone seeking to become a Labour PPC to secure the support of three members of the shadow cabinet, Hayes was not alone among the candidates in getting top level backing.

Caroline Flint is demoted from DCLG to DECC despite being a confident media performer, and one of the few Shadow Cabinet members to openly «get» the need for Labour to widen its appeal to the middle classes in order to win elections.

The Labour leader was attacked by backbench MPs and even members of his shadow cabinet after the party lost seats in England and Wales and were humiliated in Scotland, where they finished a distant third.

He was soon accepted into Prime Minister Asquith's war cabinet, becoming the first Labour Party member to serve in government.

His popularity with Labour members was at its height and he regularly topped shadow cabinet elections.

On the Labour side, for example, prominent non-Corbynites and former Shadow Cabinet members such as Yvette Cooper, Hilary Benn, Mary Creagh and Rachel Reeves will chair committees, while the list of Conservative party chairs and candidates is significantly more liberal and less Eurosceptic than the party leadership, with Tom Tugendhat, Robert Halfon and Nicky Morgan joining fellow Remainers Damian Collins, Sarah Wollaston, Bob Neill and Neil Parish.

Councillor Steve Munby Riverside ward Labour councillor, Cabinet member for highways and neighbourhoods, Liverpool

As Cabinet Member for Education under Labour Mayor John Harrison, Norma helped introduce breakfast clubs into the borough.

He had been a Labour councillor for 25 years when he defected to the Conservatives and has held a number of civic posts including chair of Housing, chair of Planning, chair of Recycling and Waste, Cabinet member for the Environment, deputy leader of the council and Mayor of Ealing.

Six and a half hours after Geoff Hoon and Patricia Hewitt emailed MPs to say a secret ballot of the entire Labour parliamentary party would clear the air of doubts about Gordon Brown's leadership, Miliband — the foreign secretary and likely next Labour leader - made a statement which fell short of the full - throated backing offered by other members of the cabinet.

In the latest instalment of his memoirs, the former business secretary says that three senior members of the cabinet joked last October that Labour should fight a campaign based on three Fs: Futile, Finished, and Fucked.

Des McNulty (born 28 July 1952, Stockport (then Cheshire, England), UK) is a Labour politician, and was a Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Clydebank and Milngavie constituency from 1999 to 2011, serving as Labour's Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning until he was defeated for re-election at the 2011 election.

The sacked shadow cabinet members may well have been genuine Labour men but nither were capable of keeping their mouths shut

[5][6] Press rumours of a split in the Labour Party had occurred since Jeremy Corbyn's election as leader in 2015; this intensified after pro-EU members of his shadow cabinet resigned in protest of his allegedly weak support for the Remain campaign, leading to a leadership challenge by Owen Smith.

The Observer this morning reported that Mr Benn had been calling other members of the Shadow Cabinet to coordinate putting more pressure on the Labour leader.

He resumed the post in 1929 (once again as a member of the cabinet) when Labour returned to office under MacDonald, [7] and held it until 1930, when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Noel - Buxton, of Aylsham in the County of Norfolk.

Catholic Labour MPs, including at least three Cabinet members, had raised concerns with elements of the bill, which is designed to update existing regulations as well as strengthen Britain's position as a research centre.

Labour politicians employing family members include shadow cabinet member Kate Osomor and prominent backbenchers Jess Phillips, Caroline Flit and Michael Dugher.

The Labour MP and senior shadow cabinet member calls for a constitutional convention to wrest power from the UK's unaccountable, neoliberal elite.