Sentences with phrase «labour minister tells»

Former Labour minister tells British Chambers of Commerce conference that leaving EU would erode ability to trade abroad

«The Woolas debacle has rendered null and void our line on Coulson,» a former Labour minister tells me.

Not exact matches

A Labour source told me last night that a «massive offensive» is beginning today against the Tories on party funding; of course prime minister's questions provides the stage for Miliband to mount this attack.

With Labour leader Ed Miliband now issuing no - holds - barred attacks on Mr Murdoch and the prime minister firing a warning shot across the bows this morning by telling reporters he would have accepted Rebekah Brokes» resignation, the last thing the media mogul needed was a negative impact on his business efforts, especially after he took the drastic step of closing the News of ten World yesterday.

Talking to a shadow minister recently about the PLP, he told me: «The political gravity of the Labour Party is entirely centred around the 2010 intake.»

Labour former Europe Minister Keith Vaz told the BBC the British people had voted with their «emotions» and rejected the advice of experts who had warned about the economic impact of leaving the EU.

It's now clear what happens when a shadow Cabinet minister publicly expresses their difference of opinion with the Labour leader: They either get sacked or they get told to shut up, as shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn has been.

Not exactly, a Labour shadow minister told me.

After coming under pressure from Labour and Liberal Democrats, he told MPs at Prime Minister's Questions last week that he was ready to consider taking in refugees in cases of extreme hardship.

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 Labour leader had told ministers that their decision to axe Leveson had been «contemptible» and it was a «matter of honour about the promises we made» to the victims of phone hacking.

Labour MPs from west London told the Guardian that a new strategy will target cabinet ministers individually, the most «significant» of whom would be the business secretary, Peter Mandelson.

John Prescott, the Deputy Prime Minister, told the BBC that he was «not happy» he found out about the millions loaned to the Labour Party by reading it in the papers but insisted the loans would later appear in the party's audited accounts.

It was when he made the extraordinary claim that he knew nothing about three crucial reports that had been commissioned from international experts by Labour Minister Lord Darzi (and not the Chief Medical Officer, as Nicholson told the Committee) to celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the NHS.

Housing minister Yvette Cooper told the Daily Politics today that Hayden Phillips must recognise the «historical tradition» of Labour and its affiliated organisations, and said there was likely to be «strong hostility» to any attempt to change that.

Nevertheless, given their relative roles in this long - running scandal, it was grotesque to see the prime minister tell the Labour MP that «on this issue he's got it wrong time and time and time again».

This week's figures showed youth unemployment has risen to 1,042,000, but deputy prime minister Nick Clegg told MPs in prime minister's questions this Wednesday that youth unemployment had risen by 40 % under Labour.

The former work and pensions secretary, whose resignation from the cabinet and criticism of Gordon Brown last June nearly toppled the prime minister, has told his constituency Labour party in Stalybridge and Hyde he will be standing down as their MP but that his decision is personal and, after 20 years in the Westminster political system, no reflection on Labour's chances at the next general election.

Fellow Tory MP Dominic Raab, a former justice minister, added: «The public will be shocked to learn that Labour's deputy leader in Brussels is telling the EU it doesn't need to respect the referendum result, and is manoeuvring to engineer its reversal.

A visibly angry Deputy Prime Minister told Chris Bryant, Labour's shadow minister for constitutional reform, that his comments were «outrageous» and «deeply offensive to people who have witnessed ethnic cleansingMinister told Chris Bryant, Labour's shadow minister for constitutional reform, that his comments were «outrageous» and «deeply offensive to people who have witnessed ethnic cleansingminister for constitutional reform, that his comments were «outrageous» and «deeply offensive to people who have witnessed ethnic cleansing».

Former prime minister Sir John Major told Channel 4 News: «The debt we have been left - I don't think people realise how serious is the problem the Labour party have left us.

Another Labour MP told PoliticsHome: «There's as much chance of a Virgin Trains sandwich becoming Prime Minister as Jeremy Corbyn.»

«UK immigration officials have been on the receiving end of a four - letter outburst by former Home Office minister», the hon. Member for Slough, who «told a conference of a Labour think tank that the job could corrupt «even quite good and moral» people.»

«It will swing the PLP [parliamentary Labour party] against Gordon, because it will resuscitate memories of Damian McBride,» the minister told the Guardian.

• Paul Tucker, the deputy governor of the Bank of England, has told MPs that Labour ministers did not try to get him to get Barclays to lower its Libor rates.

Lord Andrew Adonis, former SDP councillor, turned Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate, former speechwriter to Paddy Ashdown and latterly a New Labour Minister has told The Observer that he is right behind Ed Miliband's «party reform plans».

One person who was approached to join the fledgling organisation was told Euan Blair was on its board, and his father, the former Labour prime minister, had been helpful in recommending potential donors.

The prime minister told Labour's national executive committee this morning he wanted to use the heavy attention attracted to the donations case to force through a shake - up of the current system.

Osborne therefore dutifully failed to tell Cabinet of his decision, gave ministers «Labour hypocrisy» attack lines just hours before the announcement» and packed off an under - briefed junior minister to face the Jeremy Paxman monstering machine.

One Tory minister told the Sun his wife was so angry at the proposal that she was planning to vote Labour.

In the latest intervention, Harriet Harman, the constitutional affairs minister and deputy Labour leadership candidate, told the New Statesman: «You can either be against discrimination or you can allow for it.

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

A source also told the Herald that the ex-cabinet minister has considered quitting the party because of concerns about Jeremy Corbyn's leadership and that an MSP was dispatched by the Labour party to persuade Murphy to reconsider.

«After 60 per cent votes for sure fire election losers, IRA - supporting Shadow Chancellors and Scottish Labour unnecessarily splitting the party on issues over which it has no responsibility, we have a Shadow Minister telling «Stop the War» — a madcap coalition of trots, Islamists and anti-west fury chimps — that Labour will consult them on how it will vote on Syria.

One shadow minister told PoliticsHome: «By writing a letter to Labour MPs opposing military action, Jeremy Corbyn has declared war on his own Shadow Cabinet.»

Shadow Treasury minister Rachel Reeves told the Today programme: «Most of the money that the Labour party receives comes from ordinary donations.

There was no immediate response from Jeremy Corbyn but one of the Labour leader's biggest supporters in the media, Paul Mason told the prime minister: «You are not really helping us understand WTF you actually want!»

He told the prime minister to come join Labour's opposition day debate on tax credits next week.

«With this prime minister a veto is not for life, it's just for Christmas,» Ed Miliband told the chamber, to raucous laughter from the Labour benches.

The comments, made at a Jewish Chronicle event in London on Monday evening, drew a furious response from a Labour source who told HuffPost UK: «The idea of Jeremy Corbyn being Prime Minister and implementing policies that actually benefit the people terrifies the establishment.

Labour leadership favourite Jeremy Corbyn would make the UK «less secure» as he has «absolutely the wrong approach» to foreign policy, Prime Minister David Cameron has told ITV News.

Mr Balls said he would also be telling Labour ministers to expect a 5 % pay cut if they were in government because «every Labour minister will have to be focused on value for money and the difficult decisions to get the deficit down».

I was the Labour backbencher who told the Prime Minister when he called me on Wednesday that he had a 50/50 chance of surviving until Tuesday.

But Ms Cooper — who is now the chair of the Commons Home Affairs Committee — hit back, telling the Prime Minister: «Do not try to hide behind me or the Labour Party when she was warned repeatedly of the damage her obsession with her net migration target was doing.

For the benefit of Labour Members, the Deputy Prime Minister, the Justice Secretary, the Prime Minister and Government Back Benchers, will the Chancellor tell the House what is today's policy on child benefit?»

Lord Prescott has criticised Tony Blair's intervention in the Labour leadership contest, telling the former prime minister to «calm down».

One shadow minister told PoliticsHome: «Jeremy has shown this morning that he doesn't care about the Labour party and, more importantly, the country.

Shadow minister Tulip Siddiq has resigned from the Labour frontbench, telling the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, that she could not reconcile herself to the party's three - line whip to vote for triggering article 50.

It is also telling that one fifth of Labour voters say they disapprove of David Cameron as Prime Minister, but would still prefer him to Ed Miliband.

Alistair Campbell, who worked with former Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair during the late 90s, has told the BBC that the Labour Party is a «laughing stock», and has turned into a «cult».