Sentences with phrase «labour cabinet minister»

The former Labour cabinet minister said the process was capable of causing environmental risks, but with careful monitoring these may be overcome.

Plus a review of the newspapers with comment editor of The Times Tim Montgomerie, former Labour cabinet minister Tessa Jowell and chief executive of Save the Children Justin Forsyth.

Milburn, a former Labour cabinet minister, also criticised the failure of some local authorities — Portsmouth and Bracknell Forest — to send a single child on free school meals to top universities.

Speaking to the Guardian, Alan Milburn, the former Labour cabinet minister who chairs the government's social mobility commission, has said that grammars lead to social selection and warned that in England's current 163 selective state schools pupils were four or five times more likely to come from independent prep schools than from the most disadvantaged backgrounds.

Former Labour Cabinet minister Jim Murphy has confirmed he will stand for the leadership in Scotland, but the prominent Blairite may struggle to pick up union support and is expected to face a stiff challenge from Left - wingers.

The former Labour cabinet minister Lord Reid, a no campaigner, said the public had delivered a resounding rejection of AV and warned the Liberal Democrats not to look for any «backdoor» introduction of voting reform.

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.

The former Labour Cabinet minister says moderate party members must seize it back from «middle class» left - wingers who see winning elections as a betrayal of their principles.

Former Labour cabinet minister Tony Benn said a contest was needed to give party members and the trade unions a chance to vote when Mr Blair finally steps down.

Made a CBE in 1997, Howard edited the diaries of former Labour cabinet minister Richard Crossman, and wrote biographies of Mr Crossman and Conservative chancellor and home secretary «Rab» Butler.

Former Labour Cabinet minister Lord Adonis quit his job as government infrastructure tsar in protest at Brexit, which he is determined to «sabotage».

The former Labour cabinet minister Jack Straw is to stand down as an MP at the next election.

Yvette Cooper, the former Labour cabinet minister, called for a cross party commission as the «best chance of a sustainable deal».

Ed Miliband has projected a «confused» message on business, according to the former Labour cabinet minister Lord Mandelson.

Speaking on Andrew Marr's Sunday morning programme, George Osborne announced that former Labour Cabinet minister John Hutton will be leading a review into public sector pensions.

This morning the former Labour Cabinet Minister, Lord Hutton of Furness, has published the final report of his Independent Public Services Pension Commission - a task he was given by George Osborne at the time of the emergency Budget last year.

Former Labour cabinet minister Dame Tessa Jowell (pictured) has died after a year - long fight with brain cancer.

Lord Adonis, the former Labour Cabinet minister who was brought in by Cameron last year to lead the National Infrastructure Commission, gave a scathing report on the Government's dithering.

A dedicated research fund named after the former Labour cabinet minister was announced and will focus on research into new treatments to tackle the disease.

May, who has announced that funding for brain cancer research would be doubled and better diagnostic tests rolled out to all NHS hospitals in tribute, said the former Labour cabinet minister's dignity and courage were «as humbling as they were inspirational», adding: «Even at what must have been some of her most difficult moments, her compassion for others shone through.»

A message of support has been read to the crowd in Trafalgar Square from former Labour cabinet minister Peter Hain.

Former European commissioner and Labour cabinet minister Peter Mandelson said: «As ever on Europe, it's not that Cameron is necessarily wrong on the issues, but he has no workable strategy to achieve his ends.

Former Labour cabinet minister praised for Sure Start, London Olympics and campaigning for cancer research

Former Labour cabinet minister Peter Hain told the Guardian he felt intervening in Syria would be «very dangerous».

Lord Jenkins, a former Lib Dem leader in the Lords, and before that leader of the SDP, and a Labour Cabinet minister, had a famous difficulty in not being able to pronounce the letter «R».

In a major blow to No 10, Alan Milburn, the former Labour cabinet minister who chairs the government's social mobility commission, said that he and all three of his fellow commissioners were walking out — including a leading conservative, Gillian Shephard.

The first person to take advantage of the reforms was Labour MP Tony Benn, who had inherited a peerage on the death of his father, former Labour cabinet minister, the first Viscount Stansgate.

The former Labour cabinet minister who was diagnosed with a glioblastoma multiforme brain tumour in May last year, suffered a haemorrhage on Friday, and had been in a coma until her death on Saturday, a spokesman for the family said.

Former Labour cabinet minister Tony Benn contested no fewer than four by - elections during his career, topping the poll on each occasion: Bristol South East in 1950, 1961 and 1963, and Chesterfield in 1984.

Last year, former Labour cabinet minister Alan Johnson told The Times Corbyn was «totally incompetent and incapable of being the leader of a political party».

Claim: The Telegraph says the former Labour cabinet minister over-claimed on her mortgage by more than # 8,000 between 2004 and 2006.

The former Labour cabinet minister has been widely expected to take over from Boaden and his political background has led Tories including John Whittingdale, the former culture secretary, and Damian Collins, a member of the culture select committee, to argue that his appointment could jeopardise the BBC's impartiality.

The two lobbyists were introduced by former Labour cabinet minister David Blunkett - a close personal friend of Tebbit.»

The widely - respected former Labour cabinet minister Alan Johnson has already criticised Corbyn, telling the BBC last month:

Former Labour cabinet minister Douglas Alexander has landed a new job as an adviser to U2 frontman...

Former Labour cabinet minister Douglas Alexander has landed a new job as an adviser to U2 frontman Bono.

Among those elected to the National Union of Students executive on the «Broad Left» ticket of Labour, Liberals and Communists was Charles Clarke, a future Labour cabinet minister.

Another Labour cabinet minister admits he is happy to work with Liberal Democrats as PM's aides move to quash exit rumours

Jo Coburn spoke about the fortunes of each party with former Labour Cabinet minister Hazel Blears, Liberal Democrat Stephen Lloyd, Conservative Stuart Andrew, and UKIP's Nigel Farage who has previously stood in the seat and was seen in a Daily Politics film about the constituency.

Britain's partners in Europe, notably Germany, are increasingly losing interest in the government's «foot stamping demands» for a renegotiated relationship, according to former Labour cabinet minister Lord Mandelson.

Former Labour Cabinet minister Caroline Flint claimed at the weekend that Momentum could «destroy» the Labour party.

The amendment is supported by more than 100 MPs, including the former Labour cabinet minister Hazel Blears.

That Labour cabinet minister is right.

He says ministers in Cardiff should follow the recommendation of a report by former Labour cabinet minister Lord Adonis.

The controversial diaries of Richard Crossman, a Labour cabinet minister under Harold Wilson, provided a key inspiration.

The theme of coalitions continues in David Lloyd George: The Great Outsider (Little, Brown # 25) by Roy Hattersley, former Labour cabinet minister.

In the words of Charles Clarke, a former Labour Cabinet minister: «The quality of political leadership is important.

Those arguments are unlikely to stop former Labour Cabinet minister John Hutton, who was appointed on Sunday as the chair of an independent commission on public sector pensions.

In the Palace of Westminster I run into a former Labour cabinet minister.

The untimely death from cancer of former UK Labour cabinet minister, Dame Tessa Jowell, has triggered a wave of tributes from across the political spectrum.