Sentences with phrase «as shadow culture secretary»

Michael Dugher, who has just been sacked as shadow culture secretary, is one of the many figures who got to the top of the Labour party after starting out as a Whitehall special adviser.

Michael has shown great passion and dedication to his brief as shadow culture secretary.

There was furious backlash in the Labour party after Jeremy Corbyn sacked Michael Dugher from his job as shadow culture secretary.

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The peccadilloes of the ruling classes have long been of fascination and as shadow secretary for media culture and sport, Chris Bryant, has written, sex scandals of all sorts — including adultery, homosexuality (when illegal) and murder — have gone hand - in - hand with political power for centuries.

The return of Rebekah Brooks to run Rupert Murdoch's UK newspaper operation has been described as «two fingers up to the British public» by the shadow culture secretary, in a strikingly aggressive intervention.

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.

Ivan Lewis, Labour's shadow culture, media and sport secretary, welcomed the government's announcement as a «step forward».

In his Labour conference speech, shadow culture secretary Michael Dugher attempted to position Labour as the saviour of the broadcaster.

But Corbyn has been accused by some shadow cabinet members, most recently Michael Dugher, the shadow culture secretary, of sponsoring a faction rather than acting as a unifying figure in the whole of the Labour party.

It fell to ex shadow culture secretary Maria Eagle to explain to Mr Corbyn that as Labour leader it was within his power to reappoint her.

They include Chi Onwurah, the former minister for culture and the digital economy, who wrote that it was «statistically interesting to say the least» that Labour's leader had made life difficult for two of the very few minority ethnic female MPs; and Pat Glass, who resigned as shadow education secretary in June two days after being appointed, in protest over Corbyn's leadership.

As well as replacing Eagle, Corbyn sacked his shadow culture secretary, Michael Dugher, and shadow Europe minister, Pat McFadden, for what Labour sources said were displays of «incompetence and disloyalty»As well as replacing Eagle, Corbyn sacked his shadow culture secretary, Michael Dugher, and shadow Europe minister, Pat McFadden, for what Labour sources said were displays of «incompetence and disloyalty»as replacing Eagle, Corbyn sacked his shadow culture secretary, Michael Dugher, and shadow Europe minister, Pat McFadden, for what Labour sources said were displays of «incompetence and disloyalty».

He moved Maria Eagle, who supports Trident, from her role as shadow defence secretary to shadow culture secretary in his January reshuffle, installing Thornberry instead.

Tom Watson, the Labour deputy leader and shadow culture secretary, wrote to Hancock asking him to recuse himself from any policy discussions about the Evening Standard or its commercial interests given his history of working as Osborne's chief of staff.

It's unlikely though that he'll go as far as his former shadow culture secretary Ivan Lewis, who suggested at Labour Party conference last year that a register of journalists should be considered, where people can be «struck off» if they commit a serious error or offence.

With a series of allegations faced by some Labour MPs, as well as a number of Conservatives, Corbyn has been under pressure to explain why he made Hopkins shadow culture secretary in 2016 after complaints from a party activist.

MPs rallied round the former shadow culture secretary as he blasted Jeremy Corbyn saying: «I took a decision to speak out and I paid a price.»

Dominic Grieve, the Conservative shadow home secretary highlights one popular criticism: «The Act has attracted a huge amount of public hostility and helped to create a rights culture which has been seen by many people as forcing the state to make concessions to the undeserving... public bodies routinely hide behind the Act to hide their own incompetence.»