Sentences with phrase «labour shadow foreign secretary»

Labour shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander struck a similar tone, saying: «The recent rocket attacks into southern Israel that have led to this latest response deserve our categorical condemnation but Israel must at all times act in accordance with international law.»

Not exact matches

Rt Rev John Chalmers told the congregation — including Scotland's finance secretary, John Swinney, and Labour's shadow foreign secretary, Douglas Alexander — that there would be no quick fix.

The Commons exchanges also saw Labour backbencher John Woodcock say shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry was «not fit to stand at that despatch box» after she warned many foreign parties were now acting like the Assad regime.

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.

Labour website LabourList said its readers ranked Ms Cooper as the most popular of Mr Miliband's team, with shadow chancellor Ed Balls, shadow education secretary Andy Burnham, shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander and shadow international development secretary Harriet Harman all well - liked.

Here's the line put out by Labour's shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander on the referendum debate.

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.

He dismissed shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry's comments yesterday that Labour would likely vote for the deal even if it only amounted to «blah, blah, blah» and insisted Labour won't support it.

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.

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.

Meanwhile, a number of Corbyn supporters on Twitter also insisted that Labour's low standing under the current leader is a result of what they call the «chicken coup» — a reference to the flurry of resignations that was triggered by Hilary Benn standing down as shadow foreign secretary on 26 June.

Speaking during his speech to the Labour party conference, the shadow foreign secretary admitted that the conflict damaged the party but highlighted the Libyan intervention as evidence that it should not be afraid to become militarily engaged in the future.

A few weeks ago the shadow foreign secretary, Douglas Alexander, delivered what was billed as a groundbreaking speech on Labour's attitude to the EU.

Labour MP Chuka Umunna has said that party leader Jeremy Corbyn's decision to sack shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn is «crazy».

Hilary Benn, Labour's shadow foreign secretary, said it was a «shameful and cowardly poster», while Nicky Morgan, the Conservative education secretary, said: «Using the tragic deaths of innocent people to make a political point is simply shameful.»

Labour's shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander today accused the Prime Minister of a «fairly knee - jerk reaction which... may well have been driven more by politics than by a considered judgment of the needs of the constitution».

Former shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn has spoken to ITV News after his sacking by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.

Labour's narrow lead in the Heywood and Middleton byelection was the result of a «collapse» of the Conservative and Lib Dem vote into support for Ukip, the shadow foreign secretary said.

Douglas Alexander, the shadow foreign secretary and Labour's election co-ordinator, said the party recognises it has work to do to «tackle the alienation that lies at the root of the anger that so many voters feel».

Douglas Alexander, the shadow foreign secretary and Labour's general election strategy chair, has been giving interviews this morning about the byelection results.

However, the shadow foreign secretary, Douglas Alexander, is adamant Labour could not afford to spend the first two years of government wrestling with a referendum on Europe, pointing to the energy it had expended on the near - disastrous no campaign for the Scotland independence vote.

Danny Alexander, the shadow foreign secretary, said Labour was not happy with the status quo but believed from conversations with the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, that reform was possible without the threat of a referendum hanging over talks.

The shadow foreign secretary will today seek to build momentum with a call to turn Labour into a «living, breathing movement for change» when he addresses supporters at a Westminster rally.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan is known to three quarters (74 %) of Britons whilst 60 % have heard of former shadow foreign secretary Hillary Benn (whose sacking triggered Labour's last leadership election).

«Nick Clegg now agrees with Labour's argument on every front,» said shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander.

Labour has neglected the Commonwealth and failed to realise its potential to expand Britain's sphere of influence, shadow foreign secretary William Hague has said.

Labour provided quotes from both Ed Miliband and shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander - both following a similar structure and format.

Alexander, the shadow foreign secretary and Labour's election chief, lost his seat to a 20 - year - old student.

The shadow foreign secretary, tipped for many years to be Labour's next leader but beaten by his younger brother by a margin of just 1.3 % on Saturday, sought to demonstrate his mood with two jokes.

Mhairi Black, who becomes the UK's youngest MP at the age of 20, overturned former shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander's majority of 16,600 in Paisley and Renfrewshire South to win by 5,684 votes - a swing of 27 % from Labour to the SNP.

[188] Their net loss of seats were mainly a result of their resounding defeat in Scotland, where the Scottish National Party took 40 of their 41 seats, unseating key Labour politicians such as shadow Foreign Secretary Douglas Alexander and Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy.

Despite opposition from its left wing the Labour party supported British nuclear weapons but opposed tests, and Labour Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell and shadow foreign secretary Aneurin Bevan agreed with Sandys on the importance of reducing dependence on the American deterrent.

Emily Thornberry, who was sacked as shadow attorney general by former Labour leader Ed Milband, could replace Mr Benn as shadow foreign secretary.

His brother, David, the shadow foreign secretary who is also vying for the Labour crown, said that the higher tax rate should come to an end after five years.

The Labour leader and the shadow foreign secretary will now advocate opposing positions from the frontbench when MPs meet, with Corbyn opening and Benn closing.

Hilary Benn, Labour's shadow foreign secretary, has warned that a Brexit would play into the hands of Vladimir Putin.

Labour's shadow foreign secretary says leaving the EU would play into Russia's hands.

Making her keynote platform speech, the shadow foreign secretary set the foundations for her gag by talking about how she would like to see Labour claiming a few big Tory scalps in the next general election.

Labour was less supportive with shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander saying Mr Cameron was being «forced to backtrack».

Emily Thornberry, the shadow foreign secretary, sought to toughen Labour's stance on Tuesday, making clear on BBC Newsnight that her party was ready to engage in «hand - to - hand combat,» as the legislation makes its way through the House of Commons, a process that could begin as soon as next week.

The political fallout from last week's Syria vote has continued with a Cabinet minister saying the results would be a matter for Ed Miliband's conscience and the shadow foreign secretary admitting he was not comfortable with the position Labour now finds itself in.

An in / out referendum on EU membership under a Labour government is «frankly unlikely», the shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander has said.

The most fervent Brexiter in the cabinet has said he is encouraged by the shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry's suggestion that Labour would vote for an anodyne deal on leaving the European Union.

For Labour, this election could scarcely be more disastrous - crushed in Scotland, rebuffed in Middle England and stripped of some of its most significant figures, including the shadow chancellor Ed Balls and shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander.

William Hague responded by saying Labour must be in a «deserate panic» and attacked Labour's own record on funding: «People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones» the shadow foreign secretary said.

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.

Writing in The Sunday Telegraph, Mr Alexander, Labour's shadow foreign secretary, backs this newspaper's campaign.

Talk turns to Emily Thornberry, Jeremy Corbyn's electoral neighbour in Islington, who has been tipped to replace Hilary Benn as Labour's shadow foreign secretary.

More than half of Labour voters (56 per cent) are pleased with Mr Corbyn's performance while just 25 per cent believe shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn, who was widely lauded for a bravura Commons speech backing military action against Islamic State in Syria, would make a good replacement, rising to 42 per cent among Conservative voters.

Clegg's comments on Iraq came during an exchange with Labour's shadow justice secretary, Jack Straw, who was Tony Blair's foreign secretary when the US - led offensive began.