Sentences with phrase «labour shadow cabinet»

Angela Eagle, the former Labour shadow cabinet minister and leadership contender, described the offer as a «Hobson's choice», meaning MPs could face a choice in two years» time between hard Brexit and no deal at all.

Today pressure was also growing on former Labour shadow cabinet members who had refused to serve under Mr Corbyn to take up duties again.

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.

He said: «The Labour shadow cabinet must now act to save the party and for the sake of the country.

And in evidence that the Conservatives are serious about «knowing the enemy», Conservative voters are more likely to correctly identify the Labour shadow cabinet than Labour voters.

With its acceptance of Tory spending plans, adoption of the language of division, i.e. «scourgers», «shirkers» etc. and Jim Murphy's plans for «humanitarian» war in Africa (delivered in a speech to the right - wing Henry Jackson Society), the current Labour shadow cabinet is all but indistinguishable from the Tories.

Yvette Cooper and Ed BallsThe most prominent partnership in Parliament: both are in the Labour shadow cabinet.

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.

Not exact matches

The new Labour leader will take over with just under a month before the coalition's spending review is announced on 20 October, and a matter of days after announcing the new shadow cabinet.

«Labour and the shadow cabinet have been seen as a London and metropolitan party, but that's not where Labour's history is,» she says.

He's back in the shadow cabinet, but where is he in the Labour Party?

Labour sources said that Winterton was sacked at the start of a meeting to discuss a deal that would allow the party's MPs to elect some shadow cabinet posts.

A New Statesman interview with Harriet Harman yesterday revealed the interim labour leader was angling for a seat on the shadow Cabinet once a new head was chosen.

Under the current Labour system, the National Policy Forum receives delegates from constituency party associations and has a debate with the shadow Cabinet and affiliates about policy positions.

Rumours of a shadow Cabinet reshuffle are continuing to overshadow Labour's party conference in Liverpool.

Nick Clegg's remarks about his shadow cabinet's qualities, David Miliband's «Heseltine moment» at the Labour Party Conference, George Bush's «Yo, Blair» and John Major's «bastards» are examples.

Talking to Politics.co.uk last week, Cash said the Tories» attempt to blame Labour was unfair because David Cameron's then - shadow Cabinet had failed to back his campaign to explicitly state the charter of fundamental rights would not apply to UK law at the time.

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,

Smith also told his rival he would not take a shadow cabinet post under his leadership because it would be «futile» with nobody listening to Labour.

Announcing his new - look team, Corbyn said: «I'm pleased to announce appointments to Labour's shadow cabinet.

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.

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.

Until Labour come to terms with their legacy and unveil a convincing set of new policies Ed Miliband and the shadow cabinet are always going to struggle when attacking the Conservatives.

Miliband's announcements represent a victory in the shadow Cabinet for shadow health secretary Andy Burnham, who had been calling for Labour to integrate health and social care.

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.

And let me pay particular tribute to those parliamentary colleagues who stepped forward in the summer to fill the gaps in the shadow cabinet and ensure that Labour could function as an effective opposition in parliament.

For a start, the next Labour leader will have only 13 days to agree a policy on spending cuts: the new shadow cabinet won't be announced until 7 October, while the forthcoming Comprehensive Spending Review, which will reveal the biggest cuts to public expenditure since the 1930s, is scheduled for 20 October.

(Well, it could hardly be less so...) It may be worth bearing in mind that even if Labour are reduced to 120 MPs or so after the election, Lammy will be one of them, and in those circumstances a shoo - in for the shadow cabinet.

But after rolling mass resignations from the shadow cabinet, which have continued into Tuesday with Pat Glass resigning as shadow education secretary just two days after being appointed, Milband said it was time for Labour to unite around an alternative candidate.

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.

In Monday's shadow cabinet meeting, MPs agreed that Corbyn would open Labour's argument in Wednesday's Commons debate by opposing airstrikes while shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn will close the debate with an argument in favour of the government's motion.

In September 2015, the newly elected Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn appointed Turley as shadow civil society minister in his first shadow cabinet.

Inside the Westminster offices of the 50 or so Labour MPs who are preparing to stand for the shadow cabinet, frantic plotting and planning is under way.

The bitter cup of defeat was tasted by Labour's senior ranks when they made their way to the shadow cabinet room in the House of Commons.

The Labour leader responded to 12 departures from his shadow cabinet in 20 hours, by insisting that he would not resign and vowing to stand in any leadership contest.

Welfare, Europe, immigration, the economy: these are just some of the areas where the Labour leadership, shadow cabinet, PLP, activists and unions are increasingly at odds.

But as last week showed, instead of providing the central plank of Labour's policy offer, it's this agenda that is now creating a major fissure within the shadow cabinet.

After topping the shadow cabinet ballot, I would say she's almost certain to be the next leader of the Labour Party.

As Jeremy Corbyn looks set to be remain in place as Labour leader, moderate MPs are keeping themselves busy outside of his shadow cabinet.

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:

Jeremy Corbyn has welcomed back a Labour MP who resigned from the shadow cabinet less than a month ago.

«Over the next 24 hours, I will reshape my shadow cabinet and announce a new leadership team to take forward Labour's campaign for a fairer Britain - and to get the best deal with Europe for our people.»

With Labour backing Lords reform in its manifesto, the shadow cabinet agreed on Tuesday to support the bill when it receives its two - day second reading in the Commons, likely at the beginning of July.

Labour's shadow work and pension secretary Rachel Reeves has asked «when will the PM and IDS [Iain Duncan Smith] get a grip» on Universal Credit, after Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude admitted to ITV News that its implementation had been «pretty lamentable» so far:

Trade unions in Scotland have called for Jim Murphy to step down as leader of Scottish Labour as Neil Findlay who stood against Murphy for the leadership last year with the backing of the Left and almost all trade unions announced his resignation from the shadow cabinet at Holyrood where he held the fair work, skills and training brief.

Four shadow cabinet ministers resigned so they could be among the 47 Labour MPs to vote against Brexit.

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.