Sentences with phrase «after shadow home secretary»

The Conservatives voted against the bill after shadow home secretary David Davis criticised it as a step towards more centralised government control.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

The shadow home secretary also proposed a habitual residence test for jobseekers» allowance, controls on EU movement after the accession of Bulgaria and Romania and, worst of all, arrest powers for UKBA — easily the most incompetent, heartless and cack - handed division of government.

The final day of campaigning on Wednesday continued to emphasise counter-terrorism policy after last weekend's attack in London, highlighting the absence of the shadow home secretary, Diane Abbott, from the political frontline.

But shadow home secretary David Davis warned that the revelation - which comes six years after the problem was first raised with the DWP - showed a «massive administration failure».

«This is a shocking revelation given Tony Blair's insistence that this group should be proscribed and after illegal immigrant workers were discovered working in the Home Office,» said shadow home secretary David DaHome Office,» said shadow home secretary David Dahome secretary David Davis.

The Clegg initiative by coincidence comes the day after Labour fully joined the debate for the first time when Yvette Cooper, the shadow home secretary, called for a thorough overhaul of the way in which UK intelligence agencies are held to account.

After he was elevated from shadow attorney general to shadow home secretary in 2008, a surprise appointment as David Davis's successor, he had dinner with Rebekah Brooks; her horror at his position on the convention, relayed to Andy Coulson, is said to have been responsible for his losing the job, although Brooks denies it.

The shadow home secretary went home after falling ill - two hours before MPs voted on the Government's plans to formally begin the two - year Brexit process.

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.

Some MPs have spoken of their frustration at the handling of the affair by the leadership, in a further sign of disquiet over Miliband just three weeks after 20 shadow ministers were said to be ready to oust their leader if former home secretary Alan Johnson was willing to step in.

It comes after a survey revealed Labour's shadow home secretary Ms Abbott receives one third of all the abuse sent to British politicians.

Abbott, the shadow home secretary, and Barry Gardiner, shadow trade secretary, are understood to have been pushing the Labour frontbench to abstain on Wednesday's vote if the bill emerges unamended after three days of debate.

It comes as the shadow home secretary Diane Abbott visits the facility today after a year of requesting access.