Sentences with phrase «shadow cabinet jobs»

Power is an inheritance to them and an entitlement and as long as they retain their safe seats they still get shadow cabinet jobs and dosh to do absolutely nothing other than wait for more morally driven activists to sell ideas that do not exist on doorsteps.

And she dismissed the fact Mr Corbyn has scores of empty frontbench roles - with people having to do two shadow cabinet jobs at once - after 64 members of his top team resigned.

Jeremy Corbyn has promoted a number of his closest allies to top shadow cabinet jobs as he vows to...

Somewhat surprisingly, the deputy leadership runner - up was not offered a shadow cabinet job.

Alan Johnson launched a staunch defence of the Labour government's track record on civil liberties today, in a speech which all but removed him for the running for a shadow Cabinet job.

«Senior Tory Caroline Spelman is set to keep her shadow cabinet job after a report into the «Nannygate» affair found her guilty only of inadvertent breaches of Commons rules.

After being in Parliament for less than two years, she holds a pretty senior shadow cabinet job and is being mentioned as the possible next Labour leader.

The only Scottish Tory MP, Mr Mundell quickly landed a shadow cabinet job after entering Parliament in May.

Not exact matches

Lammy says he was offered a job in Ed Miliband's shadow cabinet but turned it down.

Jeremy Corbyn has plugged the gaps in his shadow cabinet by handing out jobs to three low profile...

That's my job and it's the job of the shadow Cabinet.

A spokesperson for Iain Duncan Smith today said that Byrnes's figures were «nonsense» and accused him of a «last - ditch attempt to keep his job in the shadow cabinet» following rumours that he is to be lose his job in a forthcoming reshuffle.

He stayed in my shadow cabinet not because he is a friend, not because we are godfathers to each other's children but because he is the right person to do the job.

Although the motivation behind the move is not directly linked to what many critics have called his poor performance in the job, many Labour figures were admitting relief at the shakeup in Ed Miliband'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.

Watson said it was «yet to be determined» if the party would ultimately end up splitting in the event of a Corbyn victory, but one of the jobs of a new deputy leader would be to help unite the shadow cabinet and backbenchers in an effort to stop this happening.

Jeremy Corbyn has appointed an array of new MPs to frontbench Labour jobs as well as handing junior roles to recognisable names such as former shadow cabinet minister Gloria De Piero and Tracy Brabin, who replaced the murdered MP Jo Cox.

Mr Cameron also rejected the argument too many members of his shadow Cabinet have jobs outside politics, making it appear that they are not ready to form a government.

We'll soon see how the demoted react, but for now they are still in jobs and, mostly, in the shadow cabinet.

Tim Farron has named his shadow cabinet team but is no job for Nick Clegg.According to the Lib Dems...

They point with some glee to the fact that both held senior jobs in Miliband's shadow cabinet.

«It may just be my imagination» one shadow cabinet minister confided to me «but I was speaking at a fringe meeting and I had the impression there was a guy at the back whose job it was to keep an eye on what I was saying.

The indications coming out of John McDonnell and Jeremy Corbyn yesterday were that the shadow ministers would be able to keep their jobs, with McDonnell suggesting that defiance of a three - line whip only mandated the resignation of a Shadow Cabinet member and Corbyn stressing that he is «very lenient».

With Burnham applying for a job in Corbyns shadow cabinet & Kendall, Cooper & Madleson plotting to sabotage The Election any solidarity among the anti-Corbyn forces is falling apart.

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.

This is the man who sulked when he lost the last leadership contest and refused to take a job in the shadow cabinet.

Clegg dismissed him for the key Environment job by saying the shadow cabinet needed someone «more emotionally intelligent».

Labour must pick its next leader from the emerging generation of MPs and long - term shadow cabinet favourites for the job should stand aside, a former cabinet minister has said.

Ed Balls has called on his party to offer a clear «Labour alternative» to the coalition government's programme of spending cuts, as he made his pitch for a senior job in the shadow Cabinet.

As we argued last week, we favour democracy but the 300,000 plus people that put Ed into his job carry more weight with us than the 258 people who isolated him in his shadow cabinet.

She tweeted that it had «been an honour to serve in shadow cabinet doing a job I love.

After David Cameron confirmed that he would instruct frontbenchers to vote for a 1.9 % pay increase for MPs Ben Brogan asked a tough question about the fact that half of his shadow cabinet was pursuing outside paid jobs.

As I said to a friend last night, it's hard to get excited about a 50:50 shadow cabinet (or more) when all the big jobs are in the hands of men.

In his eighty - second year, Paul Flynn has finally taken his place in the shadow cabinet with not one but two jobs.

During the hour - long press conference the Tory leader announced that from December all member of the shadow cabinet would give up their second jobs, and he published a list of shadow cabinet outside interests as of 1 July.

The nominations for the shadow cabinet will kick off from the Sunday of conference, with the coronation of the leader likely to be a side show to those MPs plotting and scheming to ensure they make the final shoot out for the big jobs.

Corbyn's job was to execute the decisions taken by the shadow cabinet, in the PLP, where over 200 of our MPs backed the remain campaign, by the trade unions, and at annual conference, which voted to back the remain position.

Angela Eagle, in spite of her vote for David Miliband, should probably be seen as being on the centre - left of the shadow cabinet and it is disappointing that she has not been given a policy job.

It is understood there are still more shadow junior ministerial announcements to come but the shadow cabinet movements are now concluded, with 17 women and 14 men in top jobs.

As a spin doctor he was combative and loyal and, after being elected as an MP in 2010, one of his jobs in Ed Miliband's shadow cabinet involved coordinating party presentation.

That raised eyebrows from former shadow Cabinet colleague Philip Hammond, now defence secretary, who said it could be difficult for Evans to remain in the job.

David was offered a shadow cabinet role but opted to leave British politics altogether, taking up a job as the head of the International Rescue charity in New York, avoiding speculation about rivalry with his younger brother that would surely have followed had he stayed around.

Out of the shadow cabinet's heavy hitters, Andy Burnham is untouchable at health, Chuka Umunna is seen as having done a good job maintaining Labour's strained links with business, and any lateral move for Yvette Cooper would have been viewed as a demotion, enraging Ed Balls and his supporters.

He entered the shadow cabinet as chief secretary to the Treasury and has kept the shadow chancellor job given to him by Michael Howard in May 2005.

Jeremy Corbyn did, just 36 hours ago, want new faces in those jobs after bust - ups over nuclear weapons and military action in Syria, but this morning it would be a big surprise to his shadow cabinet - even though this might be a disappointment to some of his supporters - if he did go ahead with making the changes.

Last night Mr Corbyn finally filled all his shadow cabinet posts following a mass walkout last week — but had to give several MPs more than one job.