Sentences with phrase «shadow cabinet meetings»

AND: Baroness Smith and Lord Bassam (Lords shadow leader and chief whip) have stopped attending shadow cabinet meetings.

Flint's performance prompted speculation from some commentators to question whether the topic had even been discussed in shadow cabinet meetings.

It wasn't good enough for the leader to read his position from a typed up script at shadow cabinet meetings discussing the prospect of military action against Isis in Syria or the EU referendum.

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.

«My concern steadily grew over what I was hearing from colleagues, such as Heidi, Thangam and Lilian, and what I was seeing at shadow cabinet meetings, where Jeremy tended to read from a prepared script, didn't respond to our questions, and didn't convey any sense of strategic direction or leadership.»

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.

When at a shadow cabinet meeting on 6 July Andy Burnham, the leadership front - runner, cautioned against embracing austerity, Harman acidly replied: «But Andy, we lost that argument.

In 1976, not long after becoming leader of the Opposition, she was chairing a shadow Cabinet meeting to discuss immigration policy when proceedings were interrupted by a bell.

His office briefed the Guardian on the plan before today's shadow cabinet meeting.

Jeremy Corbyn had been forced to back down once before the start of today's shadow cabinet meeting on Syria, offering Labour MPs a free vote on air strikes against Isis.

Speaking to Sky News after a tense shadow cabinet meeting during which a number of frontbenchers argued for a free vote, he said: «It will be a clear decision that we want all of our MPs to support the Article 50 vote when it comes up next week.

Ten months later he repeated this position in spades in a shadow cabinet meeting: «the shadow chancellor bluntly warned colleagues that even under a Labour government there would have to be serious cuts», perhaps referring to the Coalition's # 30 billion «hit list» being drawn up in the treasury.

Labour leader Ed Miliband and his team are holding their shadow cabinet meeting at the aquatics centre in the Olympic park.

«One of the things Ed has been so clear about — and I remember because I was in the shadow cabinet meeting — is he will not tolerate any of that kind of behaviour.

Scottish Tory leader Annabel Goldie was in Westminster today to attend the shadow cabinet meeting - something which she will now be doing on a monthly basis.

No information yet if he remains on the NEC (latest reports are pointing towards that he is until next week shadow cabinet meeting)

Not exact matches

Labour sources said that Winterton was sacked at the start of a meeting to discuss a deal that would allow the party's MPs to elect some shadow cabinet posts.

She invited previously shunned shadow cabinet political advisers to meet - and - greet in the leader's boardroom.

Though the eight - hour meeting failed to resolve the main issue of how to choose the shadow cabinet, it did help to clear the air on one other matter.

Hours earlier, Corbyn had faced a ferocious meeting of his shadow cabinet in which he had been forced to surrender into giving them a free vote on war in Syria.

The new - look shadow cabinet has held an awkward first meeting in which Jeremy Corbyn was overheard...

Although he is not a member of the shadow cabinet, Mr Cameron told the meeting of the 1922 Committee last night that Mr Clarke would speak from the front bench «from time to time».

Corbyn and his team are meeting possible candidates for a return to the shadow cabinet in the coming weeks.

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.

Now shadow Cabinet Office minister Jon Trickett has called on the prime minister had to «come clean» about the full scale and nature of his meetings with donors.

The party is currently meeting in Liverpool where it passed its Refounding Labour motion, giving Mr Miliband the chance to choose his own shadow Cabinet.

The new - look shadow cabinet has held an awkward first meeting in which Jeremy Corbyn was overheard expressing concerns about letting the TV cameras film the event.

«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.

A crunch meeting of Labour chiefs broke up tonight with no decision on whether the shadow cabinet should be elected by MPs.

A spokesman for Mr Corbyn insisted the issue of shadow cabinet elections will still be discussed in a special meeting of party chiefs next month to agree the wider rule changes.

By voting to elect all shadow cabinet members against the advice of former Ministers like Jack Straw and Phil Woolas and most speakers at the PLP meeting other than Frank Dobson, Labour MPs voted to be treated as more than just voting fodder.

I suggested that Jon Cruddas, who is leading the shadow cabinet policy review, should be invited to NEC meetings, so that his review is integrated with other party structures.

Fellow Labour MPs have dubbed it the «G10» — a grouping that grew out of those who refused to serve in Corbyn's shadow cabinet — and is said to meet regularly, before the weekly gathering of the parliamentary Labour party.

As I reported last week, there was outrage when Corbyn wrote to MPs opposing air strikes without first informing the shadow cabinet (I'm told that my account of that meeting was also raised).

And Corbyn has met his pledge of a 50 % female shadow cabinet.

Hodges reveals that one shadow cabinet minister believed they were being spied on by «someone working for the leader» as they spoke at a fringe meeting.

At the meeting, the shadow cabinet minister complained that radical suggestions put forward by his working groups had been «parked» and replaced with «cynical nuggets of policy to chime with our focus groups and press strategy».

The Guardian understands that Corbyn is considering convening an extra meeting of the shadow cabinet later this week to discuss the issue, which risks exacerbating the rift between MPs in post-industrial seats where there are profound concerns about immigration and those in constituencies that voted remain.

Allowing MPs to elect the shadow cabinet has huge support among the Parliamentary Labour Party, and the idea will be debated at their weekly meeting when the Commons returns on Monday.

«Owen Smith was in the shadow cabinet until two weeks ago and he came to see me to say he was very happy in the shadow cabinet and wanted to stay there and then left the meeting and resigned which was a slightly odd thing to do,» said the Labour leader.

Ed Miliband visited Caerphilly on Friday and took his shadow cabinet to meet First Minister Carwyn Jones's.

Labour insiders believe the list emerged from a team of MPs loyal to Corbyn, who call themselves the «core group», and meet regularly — separately from the shadow cabinet — to discuss policy issues, and strategies for dealing with the divided state of the parliamentary party and shoring up the leader.

That is why I support the reintroduction of shadow cabinet elections and hope they are agreed at this afternoon meeting of the party's executive committee.

The emails from party members will be examined by the party's national policy forum (NPF), which meets this weekend in Leeds, and whose members include the shadow cabinet and trade union leaders.

However party rules state he can only do so via a vote of the whole shadow cabinet.It appears a final decision will be made by the new - look shadow cabinet when it meets for the first time next week.

There are major question marks about Corbyn's political competence, particularly that he regularly reads out statements at decisive meetings including the SHadow Cabinet, which he then is unable to defend.

«So I say quite clearly to Jeremy I am willing to serve in his shadow cabinet if he meets us part way.

A delegation of shadow cabinet ministers, led by the shadow home secretary, Andy Burnham, also failed to secure a meeting with Corbyn last Thursday to try to negotiate a resolution.

When we meet, her fast - tracking into frontline politics by David Cameron - via a recently announced seat in the House of Lords - is being talked up by her minders as the stuff of history: Warsi is the first Muslim to sit in either the cabinet or the shadow cabinet, and when she takes her seat in the Lords, she will be the youngest non-hereditary peer.

Cameron, who met his 305 fellow Tory MPs last night, consulted the shadow cabinet at 2 pm yesterday.