Sentences with phrase «shadow cabinet table»

I find it astonishing if you think about the talent you've got around that shadow cabinet table, even around that small circle of people who came out of the last government together — Miliband, Balls, Burnham, Yvette Cooper, I'm not Douglas» biggest fan but you can include him in that list.

«Around the shadow cabinet table there are four of us with beards.

Ed must genuinely have hoped to have his big brother back around the shadow cabinet table after the bitterness which marred the later stages of the leadership contest — and the narrow outcome which must have shocked him almost as much as it did his defeated.

Having sat around that shadow cabinet table, he'd impressed me from day one: smart, capable, radical, knew his own mind but open to listening, able to persuade and able to build a team.

Many weeks ago, Labour leadership contender David Miliband proposed an election for the role of party chair as a step towards ensuring that there's a voice for party members at the shadow cabinet table.

The big discussion, and possibly the most controversial, that members need to have a voice in is about whether a «members champion» at the shadow cabinet table should be a post that's open to MPs to fill.

A defence policy review under such chairmanship, now without the restraint of a defence spokesman with a different view, makes it even less likely that the moderates still sitting round the shadow cabinet table can ultimately live with the outcome.