Sentences with phrase «labour policy chief»

Jon Cruddas, the Labour policy chief, is widely thought to view euroscepticism as part of his Blue Labour agenda and even figures like Chuka Umunna have expressed support for an In / Out referendum to settle the issue (I should know - he knocked on my door at election time and told me so).

Labour policy chief Jon Cruddas has described the Baroness as «a class act and going from strength to strength».

Not exact matches

In September, 2012 he retired from a long career as Chief Economist and Director of Social and Economic Policy with the Canadian Labour Congress.

Chief lobbyist Pascal Kerneis told a meeting on EU investment policy in 2011: «Industry will oppose any deal in which investment protection is traded off against public policy objectives, including human and labour rights.»

Former chief government drug advisor David Nutt was sacked by then - home secretary Alan Johnson in 2009 after he criticised Labour's drug policy.

Labour is distancing itself from a proposal by the party's policy review chief Jon Cruddas that benefit claimants could be forced to give their children the MMR vaccination - or face losing their payouts.

Prominent Livingstone City Hall alumni, Simon Fletcher and Neale Coleman, now occupy central roles in Jeremy Corbyn's office as chief of staff and head of policy and rebuttal while the former Mayor is co-chair of Labour's defence review.

Jon Cruddas, the Labour party's new policy chief, told the Observer that he hoped to involve leading members of Progress in his policy review.

Christopher Graffius, BASC's acting chief executive, said: «It's worth noting that this announcement is not a final policy and that Labour recognises the importance of consulting on its proposals to avoid unintended consequences.

Richard Ali, Chief Executive of BASC said: «BASC hopes that Ms McCarthy, despite the positions she has taken in the past, will approach her new post of the basis of evidence based policy and the principles of better regulation introduced by the last Labour government.

It was also claimed that Corbyn policy chief Andrew Fisher - who has played a key role in drawing up the manifesto - left a copy of the draft document lying on his desk in Labour's open plan office yesterday.

Ed Balls» former policy chief has questioned how John McDonnell will achieve a radical alternative to austerity after the shadow chancellor's speech to the Labour conference.

Labour's head of policy and rebuttal Neale Coleman has left his post in the leader's office after clashing with communications chief Seumas Milne.

Speaking to the BBC's business editor Kamal Ahmed, Mr Miliband also responded to a secret recording of the party's policy chief, John Cruddas, in which he criticises the Labour leader and the direction of the party.

When audience members at the fringe suggested that there were serious policy differences between Labour and the Lib Dems — such as the attitudes of the two parties towards civil liberties — Campbell's fellow panelist, former Labour home secretary Charles Clarke, joked that he was «surveillance master in chief».

Seema Malhotra, the shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, went on the Daily Politics with Andrew Neil immediately after the speech and endured a painful dissection of Labour's missing policy detail.

Liam Byrne, Labour's Chief Secretary to the Treasury, agreed with the economists about David Cameron's tax policy.

Ed Balls is to launch a bid to bolster Labour's credibility with business by promising to keep a low rate of corporation tax and attract long - term investors to Britain, as he brushed off criticism from the policy chief Jon Cruddas that a «profound dead hand» within the party is blocking bold reforms.

Plans to make unemployed benefit claimants work harder to find a job will be unveiled by Labour «s policy review chief, Liam Byrne, on Monday.

Labour has created a sophisticated new social media tool that will allow it to target individual voters with tailored policy messages, the party's campaigns chief has told the Guardian.

Tom Watson, the Labour deputy leader and shadow culture secretary, wrote to Hancock asking him to recuse himself from any policy discussions about the Evening Standard or its commercial interests given his history of working as Osborne's chief of staff.

Thus McDonnell is the first Labour Treasury chief in a generation to recognise that, in a period of acute stagnation or financial collapse, fiscal and monetary policy become fused.