Sentences with phrase «as shadow housing minister»

Before the 2010 general election he served as shadow housing minister.

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Speaking in the House of Lords during the second reading of the trade union bill on Monday, Labour's Lord Mendelsohn, who is a shadow business minister, said the proposed legislation was a «clear attempt to defenestrate the Labour party's finances», describing it as «extraordinarily partisan, vindictive and selective».

And shrewdly, Cooper, who is also shadow equalities minister, sharply shot the fox of those with fingers poised over the «hypocrite» button, by admitting early on in her speech our politicians» need to put their own house in diverse order as well as advising the private sector, and rest of the public sector.

However shadow housing minister John Healey, who served as Gordon Brown's housing minister, distanced himself from McDonnell's rhetoric in an interview on the Radio 4 Today programme.

One organiser said: «The plan is to make Corbyn's job as leader extremely difficult in the hope of pushing him to resign, with most MPs refusing to serve as shadow ministers, show up on the frontbench in the House of Commons, support him at PMQs or formulate policy under his leadership.»

The Speaker of the House of Commons intervened and asked the prime minister to withdraw a reference to shadow chancellor Ed Balls as a «muttering idiot».

Sayeeda Warsi Having fought Dewsbury in 2005, she was appointed to the shadow cabinet in July 2007 as shadow minister for community cohesion and given a peerage, making her the youngest member of the House of Lords.

But shadow treasury minister Owen Smith said: «We don't think for a moment that the minister has justified this... nor do we think you have justified claims the 50p rate has raised practically nothing at all, as the prime minister slightly curiously told the House earlier today.»

And it is a rich and layered 71 minutes that Potter spends, in black and white, with a group of highly educated and highly dysfunctional people gathering for an intimate dinner party at Janet (Kristen Scott Thomas) and Bill's (Timothy Spall) London house to celebrate Janet's appointment as the shadow minister for health.