Sentences with phrase «agreed shadow chancellor»

Yes agreed shadow chancellor is far more important than deputy so candidates should tell us who they want.

Not exact matches

But she has privately agreed to allow Balls to go for the job of shadow chancellor, too, and has backed his position on the deficit in public.

Because of all this, there seems little realistic option but to agree to a free vote (which the leader's chief ally, the shadow chancellor John McDonnell, favours anyway).

While much blame can be placed on Labour's regulatory system for both the banking crisis and abuses that are regularly unfolding before the eyes of an incredulous public, the chancellor's focus today should have remained on the reputation of the City being «at stake» - as put to him by shadow chief secretary to the Treasury Rachel Reeves - and a culture change, something that all parties agree to be critical.

Of course, they don't agree on every detail of every policy, but I think it's good to have that debate between the shadow chancellor and the leader of the party.

It wasn't good enough for the leader to routinely defer to his shadow chancellor when confronted with a difficult decision — a shadow chancellor who on three separate occasions undermined my efforts to agree collective positions on health matters.

Whilst I agree that Ken Clarke is a formidable chappie, his appointment as shadow chancellor or other EU - relevant frontbench post would bring the topic very much to the forefront again, thus negating any advantage from so doing.