Sentences with phrase «labour shadow secretary»

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Labour's shadow transport secretary, Andy McDonald, accused the government of «taking people for a ride.»

«It is deeply concerning that the size of the Army has fallen yet again on this Government's watch,» Nia Griffith, Labour's shadow defence secretary, said on Thursday.

Labour's shadow Culture Secretary Maria Eagle has said Culture Secretary John Whittingdale should stop making press regulation decisions following the revelation he had a relationship with a prostitute.

James Mildred was speaking after Labour's newly appointed shadow health secretary Heidi Alexander said in an interview with the Mirror that she supports...

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.

Sustain has welcomed commitments from shadow Health Secretary Jon Ashworth that a future Labour Government would introduce legal standards for hospital food, extend the sugary drinks tax and ban junk food advertising during family TV, for the benefit of the nation's health.

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's shadow defence secretary Jim Murphy said the report showed that decisions had been «stitched up» to meet the government's spending plans rather than Britain's security needs.

Andrew Lansley, shadow health secretary, said: «If we are to avoid stigmatising children after being weighed then there needs to be sympathetic follow - up care but Labour have failed to address the chronic shortage of school nurses.»

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.

The shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley said: «Doctors at the heart of our services are not only suffering poor morale but have now lost confidence in Patricia Hewitt and Labour's stewardship of the NHS.»

Here's shadow business secretary, the dashing Chuka Umunna: «Labour has led calls for a British Investment Bank since last year.

Therefore Labour will accept the Government's amendment,» said shadow Brexit secretary Keir Starmer.

Ivan Lewis MP, Labour's shadow culture, media and sport secretary, responded: «Jeremy Hunt's handling of this issue continues to raise concerns about the transparency of the process and his impartiality.

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.

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.

Last weekend shadow business secretary Rebecca Long - Bailey claimed Labour wanted to «have it's cake and eat it» re Brexit.

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

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

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.

This feels like a swipe at his rival candidates, in particular Labour's shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan.

At the same conference, the Conservative shadow chief secretary, Philip Hammond, floated ideas about matching benefit rates to the needs of local labour markets.

Most damagingly for Gove, some of the failures of the school directly correlate to concerns raised about free schools by new Labour shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt.

In a reversal of scenes from last year, when the Conservatives attacked Labour for being unprepared for the extreme weather conditions, shadow transport secretary Maria Eagle attacked her government counterpart, Philip Hammond for not organising a better government response to the snow.

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.

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.

Andy Burnham, Labour's shadow education secretary, calls on the government not to betray trust of young people and create a «lost generation»:

Labour shadow education secretary Stephen Twigg commented: «Michael Gove must intervene to ensure that all schools obey their duties under the Equality Act.

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.»

Labour will not undo Michael Gove's school reforms, many of which have been «successful» the shadow education secretary admits.

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.

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.

And shadow Brexit Secretary Keir Starmer's ears must be burning when his judgement that May's plans «fall short of hard Brexit» was slated by Labour MPs on the non-Corbyn wing of the quarrelsome party.

Rayner has now indicated that the answer to that question is a clear yes, with the shadow education secretary telling Nick Robinson that she is capable of being Labour leader - and would not let feminists down by saying otherwise.

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.

Adonis has also been highly critical of his own party's stance on Brexit, urging the shadow Brexit secretary Keir Starmer's team to advocate remaining in the single market, and suggesting Labour would eventually end up backing a second referendum.

Tom Watson, the shadow culture secretary and deputy Labour leader, has put out a statement following the vote against a Leveson two inquiry accusing the government a «shameless capitulation to press barons».

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.

Labour Party spokesman said that «she has been relieved of her post as shadow work and pensions secretary.»

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.

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».

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.

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.

A group of 53 Labour MPs, led by shadow Brexit secretary Keir Starmer, have sent a letter organised by the campaign group Open Britain demanding a «rigorous and publicly available cost - benefit analysis» to demonstrate why it would be the best option.

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.»

Labour's Jonathan Ashworth, the shadow health secretary, highlighted news this week that the Royal Marsden foundation trust predicted it would receive an income of # 210m over two years from providing private healthcare.

Labour's shadow communities secretary, John Denham, said: «The fund helped areas which saw rapid changes in population from migration.