Sentences with phrase «shadow cabinet secretary»

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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.

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.

The shadow defence secretary reacted angrily after the prime minister made a series of claims about members of the shadow cabinet.

Six weeks later, after being asked every week to do so by Maria Eagle when she met him at shadow cabinet meetings (I wasn't a member of the shadow cabinet, only the shadow secretaries of state sit in that meeting), Jeremy finally phoned me.

And now we have a more explicit outlining of an emerging new Tory constitutional doctrine in an extraordinary Guardian report on Tuesday — based on anonymous briefings from «senior shadow Cabinet members» — that the Conservatives intend to mount a partisan attack on existing constitutional conventions, and the Cabinet Secretary's protocols for handling a hung Parliament, even though a primary motivation for these has been to protect the Monarchy from being dragged into party political controversy.

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.

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.

He also claimed that Smith had recently said he was «very happy» in the shadow cabinet - moments before he resigned as shadow work and pensions secretary.

Of the other shadow cabinet members who are potential occupants of the major offices of state, Douglas Alexander, the shadow foreign secretary, is probably the most concerned for the future.

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:

Seen as a rising star, she was until recently shadow secretary of state for energy and climate change in Corbyn's shadow cabinet.

She was worried about the shadow health secretary's job security and wanted Miliband to publicly confirm he would continue to keep Burnham in the shadow Cabinet.

«It's a damning indictment of this government that, half way through this parliament, a former Conservative Cabinet minister is still calling for a plan for growth,» shadow chief secretary to the Treasury Rachel Reeves said.

But, while in agreement with Labour's governing body, the National Executive Committee, that Corbyn should be on the ballot paper in the leadership contest, Smith nevertheless decided to resign and oppose his leader when a meeting between Corbyn and the so - called soft left of the shadow cabinet, including shadow energy secretary Lisa Nandy, led to rancour.

Mr Cameron said on Sunday there were many members of his shadow cabinet who attended state schools, including shadow foreign secretary William Hague, shadow defence secretary Liam Fox and party chairman Eric Pickles.

Tories drop immediate cuts, offer Cable Cabinet Treasury position, suggest three - year programme The shadow business secretary, Ken Clarke, today dropped clear hints as to the shape of a Conservative - Liberal Democrat deal to lead the government.

The York MP, Rachael Maskell, who was shadow environment secretary but quit Corbyn's shadow cabinet to vote against the triggering of article 50, has been given a new junior transport role.

Tim Collins A former press secretary to John Major and member of the Downing Street Policy Unit, he was elected MP for Westmorland and Lonsdale in 1997 and held a number of frontbench posts, including a series of roles in the shadow cabinet under three party leaders.

Former shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna said: «After eight years of Tory misrule, most people thoroughly tired of austerity, a disastrous Brexit negotiation, the Windrush outrage and four cabinet resignations in six months, we should be well ahead and we are not.

The SNP may currently have only 54 MPs, but it would also would find it much easier to fill the shadow cabinet posts than Corbyn, who still has many positions, including the Shadow Scottish Secretary, vacant.

They attracted criticism from Tooting MP Sadiq Khan, who won promotion to the shadow Cabinet after the 2010 general election and is now shadow justice secretary.

Following Mr Blair's dismissal, the shadow home secretary David Davis has asked the cabinet secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell to launch a formal inquiry.

With Andy Burnham as shadow home secretary and Hilary Benn as shadow foreign secretary, the five most senior positions in Corbyn's shadow cabinet will be filled by men.

The shadow justice secretary discusses Jeremy Corbyn's leadership, the need to make more of New Labour's record — and fitting in with the shadow cabinet's facial hair trend.

Various members of the shadow Cabinet, including Mr Osborne and foreign secretary William Hague will gather on the main stage on Sunday afternoon to discuss how the current economic climate is affecting homeowners and businesses and reveal the party's plan for a strong economy.

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.

The shadow education secretary has often said he would offer his rival a senior post in his shadow cabinet if he were appointed leader.

William Hague, the shadow Foreign Secretary, and Chris Grayling, the shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, are both being touted as potential shadow Cabinet replacements for Mr Osborne.

Lord Falconer, a surprise appointment to this shadow cabinet having been a key member of the Blair government and a former flatmate of the ex-Prime Minister, quit as Shadow Justice Secretary to take the number of vacant roles in Mr Corbyn's team to 10.

Ed Balls is confirmed as Shadow Chancellor; his wife Yvette Cooper takes his job as shadow home secretary; Douglas Alexander takes her former portfolio of shadow foreign secretary; Lima Byrne becomes shadow work and pensions secretary; Tessa Jowell to take on responsibilities shadowing the Cabinet Office, formerly held by Byrne.

Things have got so bad in the shadow cabinet that ministers are having to double up; Dave Anderson is minding both Scotland and Northern Ireland while Emily Thornberry is now both shadow foreign secretary and shadow minister for Brexit.

But Corbyn has been accused by some shadow cabinet members, most recently Michael Dugher, the shadow culture secretary, of sponsoring a faction rather than acting as a unifying figure in the whole of the Labour party.

Ed Balls, the shadow chancellor, said it was advisable to keep receipts, but other shadow cabinet members tried to play down his remarks, which were condemned as absurd by Iain Duncan Smith, the work and pensions secretary.

They were shadow home secretary Chris Grayling and shadow transport secretary Theresa Villiers - both, intriguingly, were not given Cabinet posts when the Coalition eventually formed.

At present, there are rules governing the process by which the major opposition party consults Whitehall officials, but in practice these amount to cursory discussions between shadow cabinet ministers and permanent secretaries.

Corbyn has handed the four top shadow cabinet posts (leader, shadow chancellor, foreign secretary and home secretary) to men.

Owen Smith, who was shadow work and pensions secretary until his resignation last week, is a more likely challenger to Jeremy Corbyn than Angela Eagle, according to a former senior member of the shadow cabinet.

The Labour leader will be joined by three of his most fiercely loyal shadow cabinet supporters — shadow chancellor John McDonnel, shadow health secretary Diane Abbott, Jo and shadow defence secretary Clive Lewis.

The foreign secretary hit out at Conservative calls for a referendum, saying eight members of the Tory shadow Cabinet had blocked a public vote in the Maastricht treaty.

The intervention is the first major statement from the former shadow home secretary, who was being tipped for the Home Office role during the early stages of last week, when Cabinet position were gradually being filled by the new coalition.

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.

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.

Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood has written to the shadow Cabinet Office minister to say «there has been no contact from officials» with former No 10 policy adviser Patrick Rock since his arrest over allegations linked to child abuse images.

In British politics, the Shadow Home Secretary is the person within the shadow cabinet who «shadows» the Home Secretary; this effectively means scrutinising government policy on home affairs including policing, national security, immigration, the criminal justice system, the prison service, and matters of citizenship.

Several other key shadow cabinet members, including Hilary Benn, the shadow foreign secretary, Lucy Powell, the shadow education secretary, and Maria Eagle, the shadow culture secretary, were listed in the second most disloyal category, «core group negative».

Then there was the shadow cabinet reshuffle where the strongly pro-HS2 Shadow Transport Secretary Angela Eagle was moved to make way for the more sceptical Mary Creagh.

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.

Former Shadow Secretary of State for Defence Clive Lewis has taken on a new role within the shadow cabinet as Shadow Business Secretary.

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.