Sentences with phrase «labour shadow minister»

Labour shadow minister refuses FIVE times to say if party condemns illegal general strikes in car crash interview

Labour shadow minister Ian Austin, who was a parliamentary private secretary to Gordon Brown when he was PM, and was often involved in preparations for PMQs, said to me last week: «can you imagine Gordon Brown, Tony Blair, John Major or Margaret Thatcher not knowing about a key measure in their own reforms»?

Harman was offered support by Labour shadow minister Chi Onwurah, who said: «I remember those kind of jokes in 1980s Imperial College rag mag.

Labour shadow minister Chuka Umunna has said there is «tension» between the Labour party membership and the parliamentary party under the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn.

A Labour shadow minister has publicly backed a referendum on the final Brexit deal - in direct defiance of Jeremy Corbyn's position.

I seem to remember a certain Woolas being barred from parliament for lies by a court, appeal overturned by another court and yet was installed as a labour shadow minister.

Not exactly, a Labour shadow minister told me.

A Labour shadow minister is facing an internal party investigation after it was alleged that he swore at a colleague.

One Labour shadow minister described him as «damaged goods».

Labour shadow minister Gloria de Piero said: «No one should use deeply offensive language like this,» while Helen Grant, the government's sports and equalities minister, described the remarks as «completely unacceptable and very disappointing.»

But it's a better look than Labour shadow ministers disagreeing openly with each other.

Labour shadow ministers who sneered at the idea they might offer Proportional Representation to the Libdems, on the eve of the election, will now have to face the fact that only permanent coalition politics or electoral reform can give them a chance to rule in future.

And those Labour shadow ministers who think the return to cosy lunches with Rebekah Brooks and the top brass at Wapping mean you are somehow special?

I don't agree with his views on academies or free schools but the issue of apprenticeships and the lack of leadership shown by government departments on this is the type of issue that Labour shadow ministers should be shouting about wherever they can.

Not exact matches

Elsewhere at the conference, the shadow hancellor promised to cut ministers» pay by 5 % and to reduce child benefits in real terms if Labour wins next year's general election.

The Labour party appointed Seema Malhotra as the first - ever shadow minister to tackle violence against women and girls, and the Archbishop of Canterbury vocalised his backing for Christian charity Restored, which is equipping the Church to tackle gender - based violence.

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.

«Our environment is deteriorating when it should be improving,» Labour shadow environment minister Barry Gardiner said today.

«This powerful intervention from doctors and health professionals underlines the compelling case for protecting children from smoking in cars,» Labour shadow public health minister Luciana Berger said.

But he remains shadow London minister and it is in this capacity that Khan is taking a central role in campaigning across Labour's 12 target seats in the city.

What is racist however is to say that «we have a problem with Pakistani men raping white girls», as Labour's Sarah Champion did before resigning as shadow equalities minister.

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.»

Through the course of the conversations, I and my colleague Dan Jarvis - Labour's shadow minister for the arts and creative industries — have been having with people in the industry it's clear that there are some themes emerging about what our vision should look like and I want to hear from you about what you think.

Labour, which usually attacks from the right when it comes to immigration, also criticised the vans, with shadow immigration minister Chris Bryant branding them «ill - judged».

«After her big idea to cram more toddlers into the same nurseries had to be dropped, Liz Truss has had to resort to stealing Labour ideas from 2005,» shadow children's minister Sharon Hodgson said.

Labour's shadow minister without portfolio Jon Ashworth said: «We had warm words from the Prime Minister yesterday on the need for her Government to stand up for more than just a privileminister without portfolio Jon Ashworth said: «We had warm words from the Prime Minister yesterday on the need for her Government to stand up for more than just a privileMinister yesterday on the need for her Government to stand up for more than just a privileged few.

«It is simply not good enough that forty years after the Equal Pay Act women still don't earn equal pay for equal work, and despite doing better at school and university more women end up in lower skilled and lower paid jobs than men,» Labour's shadow minister for women and equalities, Gloria De Piero said.

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.

Cathy Jamieson is the Labour MP for Kilmarnock and Loudoun and a shadow Treasury minister

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The shadow justice minister made the audacious claim: «Labour did campaign, as everyone knows, passionately, for a remain and reform agenda.»

The concern about the neglect of the English issue was echoed by Jamie Reed, the shadow health minister who wrote in Progress magazine: «It is in the peripheral areas outside of our major conurbations all over England where the next Labour government must concentrate its efforts.»

The Treasury minister Sajid Javid upped the stakes, quoting back at Labour the shadow work secretary Liam Byrne's conference speech two years ago, when he said: «Let's face the tough truth — that many people on the doorstep at the last election felt that too often we were for shirkers, not workers.»

Among the speakers due to address the rally is Labour MP and shadow city minister Richard Burgon, who will explain his opposition to the bombing before the protesters march to both Labour and Conservative headquarters, which are nearby.

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

But shadow minister Toby Perkins» online outburst in September — «You Tories never understand how much we hate you» — was perhaps a tiny hint that Labour MPs are party people above all.

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.

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.

Labour also seized on the u-turn with shadow business secretary Clive Lewis saying: «The prime minister announced she is ditching her flagship policy to put workers on company boards - just one month after committing to it.

According to Pat McFadden, the shadow Europe minister, and a figure close to Blair, defeat flowed from Ed Miliband «turning the page on New Labour» and his failure to appeal to «the aspirational family that wants to do well».

Labour's policy on Brexit has been thrown into fresh confusion after two shadow ministers said a Norway - style trading partnership is not «off the...

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:

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

The former shadow education minister Tristram Hunt had a decidedly mixed 2015, but he recently talked pretty powerfully at the Fabian Society about the politics of inequality, Labour's frayed bond with working - class voters and the necessity of reinventing the party's belief in redistribution.

Labour leaders and ministers outnumbered Conservative shadow ministers by approximately two to one in 2007.

At the same time as Labour prepares to attack the party head - on, Ed Miliband and his shadow ministers have been referring disparagingly to a «Westminster elite» that must get back in touch with public concerns over the last week.

Observers hope it will seal a long and arduous peace process between republicans and unionists,» Vernon Coaker, Labour's shadow minister for Northern Ireland said.

The Labour shadow health minister said the party was danger of entering into a «downward spiral» with the Tories on immigration, after Australian election strategist Lynton Crosby joined David Cameron's team.

Labour studiously avoided making any comment on the core proposal of the report, although shadow Home Office minister Diana Johnson said she would «study it thoroughly».

«The VAT rise in January was the wrong tax at the wrong time,» shadow Treasury minister Angela Eagle, who will speak for Labour, wrote to Lib Dem MPs.