Sentences with phrase «labour shadow home secretary»

Labour shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has accused Theresa May of breaking the ministerial code, and called on her to explain her conduct.

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She had served as work and pensions secretary during the final years of the New Labour government; after that she has been shadow minister for women and equalities, shadow foreign secretary and shadow home secretary.

With Jeremy Corbyn and shadow home secretary Diane Abbott implacably opposed to any restrictions on immigration, it has been left to some of Cooper's party colleagues — most notably Andy Burnham and Hilary Benn — to make the Labour case for controls.

However, the speech came just hours after shadow home secretary Andrew Lansley told The Times that a Conservative government would only guarantee «small increases» to the NHS budget in comparison to Labour.

Some disgruntled Labour insiders said the full circle would really have come if Abbott was home secretary rather than shadowing the job.

13:23 - I'm hearing that Yvette Cooper, shadow home secretary, will open in the phone - hacking debate, followed by Dominic Grieve, attorney general, for the government, and then probably Chris Bryant, the Labour MP and phone - hacking victim, who called for the debate.

Even Labour, the party with the least understanding of the appropriate limits to state power, is run by a leader who made a special pledge to civil liberties campaigners - even if his shadow home secretary is clearly an unreconstructed authoritarian.

Read shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper's speech to the 2011 Labour party conference in Liverpool here.

In 1992, Labour published its Right to Information Bill: shadow home secretary Roy Hattersley promised that it would be the first piece of legislation introduced by a new Labour government.

The shadow home secretary also pledged to properly centre the right to family life in Labour's immigration policy, saying her party «don't want to break up families from the EU in the way we currently do for non-EU families.»

The latest opinion poll blow for Labour comes after shadow home secretary Diane Abbott predicted yesterday that her party would catch up with the Tories in 2017.

Hague agreed to make a statement to MPs after the former shadow home secretary David Davis and the Labour chairman of the Commons home affairs select committee, Keith Vaz, raised serious concerns about the GCHQ disclosures.

They were joined by Jeremy Corbyn, shadow home secretary Andy Burnham, and veteran Labour MP Dennis Skinner, who said an inquiry would reveal that «what we suspected at the time is true».

Mr Corbyn hit out at the abuse targeted at women Labour MPs including Luciana Berger and shadow home secretary Diane Abbott.

Labour's shadow home secretary, Yvette Cooper, said security services did require powers to get information to stop extremist acts, but said «strong powers need to be backed by strong checks and balances».

A former home secretary and shadow chancellor, Alan Johnson is the Labour leadership candidate who never quite was.

Responding for Labour, shadow home secretary Diane Abbott said: «The Windrush generation was my parents» generation.

Labour's shadow home secretary Diane Abbott will ask the Home Office to make a statement on the government's handling of the Windrush scandal this afternoon in the House of Commhome secretary Diane Abbott will ask the Home Office to make a statement on the government's handling of the Windrush scandal this afternoon in the House of CommHome Office to make a statement on the government's handling of the Windrush scandal this afternoon in the House of Commons.

In a speech at the IPPR think tank in London, shadow home secretary Diane Abbott said the closures would happen if Labour got into power.

The shadow home secretary was repeatedly asked about Labour's position on the deportation of illegal immigrants by Good Morning Britain presenter Piers Morgan.

Over the last two days, the Labour leader used a party political broadcast and a speech by his shadow home secretary to unveil a raft of them on immigration.

Diane Abbott, the shadow home secretary, is to announce a Labour policy pledge on Wednesday to end «family break - up through the immigration system».

Yvette Cooper is the only Labour figure who has made it into the coverage today in her capacity as shadow work and pensions secretary, which incidentally can't be doing her profile as a potential shadow chancellor any home.

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The shadow home secretary claimed the Tories have been «disgraceful» on the issue of immigration in a speech at the Labour party's conference in Brighton on Sunday.

But the shadow Home Secretary, a loyal ally of the Labour leader, indicated the party would soon regain ground now that the rebellion in the party's ranks has failed.

But commentators were not convinced with one journalist saying that Abbott had experienced a Natalie Bennett-esque «brainfade» and one former Labour special adviser suggesting that the shadow home secretary must be a Tory secret agent...

The shadow home secretary and Labour leadership contender called for the UK to be true to its values and history by taking in more refugees.

«I'm not going to make the normal political speech either as shadow home secretary or as Labour leadership candidate - attacking the Government and setting out an alternative Labour response.

Yesterday shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper told the Labour party conference in Manchester: «Once again it's one rule for the Cabinet, another for the plebs.

There was also support from shadow home secretary Andy Burnham who said he had no intention of taking part in a coup against the Labour leader

However, some Labour figures are talking about a possible role as shadow home secretary.

The shadow minister also accused the Government of «pivot and distraction» by blaming the decision to scrap landing cards on Labour - despite former Home Secretary Alan Johnson admitting on Thursday that the policy had been signed off under a Labour government in 2009.

The Clegg initiative by coincidence comes the day after Labour fully joined the debate for the first time when Yvette Cooper, the shadow home secretary, called for a thorough overhaul of the way in which UK intelligence agencies are held to account.

The shadow home secretary and former leadership contender told the Labour Party conference: «It is time for me to turn my full focus to Greater Manchester.

Until Emily Thornberry's tweet came along and ruined Labour's week, the top story for the opposition was shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper's big speech on immigration.

The shadow home secretary's comments suggest that allies of Corbyn are fearing a renewed effort by Labour rebels to challenge him for the leadership if the party loses seats in local elections.

The first big dividing lines of the Labour leadership contest opened up on Thursday when Yvette Cooper, the shadow home secretary, refused to accept that Labour had spent too much prior to the 2007 banking crisis, making the economy more vulnerable when the crash came.

The shadow home secretary, Andy Burnham, called on Conservatives to vote with Labour on the motion, which asked the government to «commit today that EU nationals currently living in the UK shall have the right to remain».

A Labour government would dismantle Theresa May's hostile environment policy and remove requirements on landlords, banks and employers to act as defacto immigration enforcement officers, the shadow home secretary will say.

In a speech on immigration in the wake of the Windrush scandal, the shadow home secretary said Labour would scrap minimum income requirements for spouses to join partners in the UK and always allow children to do so.

Alan Johnson, the former Labour home secretary, has insisted that Jeremy Corbyn is not up to being opposition leader, as the party enters fresh infighting after a shadow cabinet shakeup.

So the move of Diane Abbott up to the home secretary brief and promotion of Emily Thornberry to shadow foreign (incidentally, the first time a Labour shadow cabinet has seen an even gender split in the «great offices of state» as well as the elevation of a black woman to such a position) ensures that at the very top there's a unanimity of opinion.

But the plan was foiled when shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper tabled a Labour amendment supporting the extension of civil partnerships as long as a consultation on the plans took place immediately rather than in five years.

Labour sources have suggested the possibility that the shadow home secretary, Andy Burnham, could swap positions with Benn, leaving both of them more likely to agree with the leadership on their respective briefs.

Shadow cabinet ministers including the deputy Labour leader, Tom Watson, and the shadow home secretary, Andy Burnham, defended Dugher, saying he was a strong campaigner who was vital for winning back working class Labour support in the north of England.

It comes after a survey revealed Labour's shadow home secretary Ms Abbott receives one third of all the abuse sent to British politicians.

Andy Burnham, the shadow home secretary, had earlier said there was a «very real prospect» of Britain crashing out of the EU because the remain camp was failing to reach beyond Hampstead to traditional Labour voters in its northern heartlands such as Hull.

The Labour leader (right today) kept his seat when Mr Javid made his challenge but shadow home secretary Diane Abbott (centre) intervened to insist Labour opposed the abuse

Appointed shadow home secretary, Prior urged Heath to submit himself to early re-election as leader, but he demurred and the delay until February 1975, following the more decisive second Labour election victory in October 1974, proved fatal and sealed Thatcher's triumph.