Sentences with phrase «as shadow leader»

Grayling got stuck in and was rapidly promoted, entering Michael Howard's shadow cabinet team as shadow leader of the Commons in 2005 — a post too emollient for his talents (it requires a taste for consensus and conciliation), so he moved on.

Among the casualties of the reshuffle are right - winger Eric Forth, who has been dropped as shadow leader of the Commons - a post which does not appear in the shadow cabinet.

Flynn, a reluctant shadow cabinet appointee, is also doubling up as shadow leader of the Commons.

Other significant moves included the return of former frontbencher John Healey to the shadow housing brief, and the appointment of disgraced Keith Vaz's sister Valerie as shadow leader of the House of Commons.

Bryant resigned as shadow leader of the House of Commons in June.

Alan Duncan, whose parliamentary career has been much less entertaining since his excellent role as shadow leader of the Commons, now looks far too grown - up as he answers questions.

Not exact matches

For instance, he throws out the old canard about women conspiring to form a «shadow government» behind the scenes in order to function as illicit leaders in the congregation.

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

After years in the shadow of Zlatan Ibrahimovic, the long - haired forward finally got the chance to impose himself as a true leader last season.

he looks a shadow of the player he was, he seemed to stroll around the pitch on Sunday, and to me his thoughts are definitely elsewhere.Some people say he is worried about his continuous hamstring problems, but I am not so sure.We all know he wants to go back to Barca, but they are heavily in debt and don't have ready cash to pay up front.Cesc, is and has never been vocal, nor is he a leader in the sense Adams or Viera were.Do we have a player who doesn't really want to be at the Arsenal, as surely this saga shouldn't go on into next season.So much of our play goes through him and I am wondering if that is such a good idea anymore.Any thoughts?

It's now clear what happens when a shadow Cabinet minister publicly expresses their difference of opinion with the Labour leader: They either get sacked or they get told to shut up, as shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn has been.

There were no double - acts with members of the shadow cabinet such as Ed Balls, Harriet Harman, or Yvette Cooper — who many see at the Labour leader in waiting.

Following Ed Miliband's election as leader, she returned to her role as Deputy Leader, shadowing Nick Clegg as Deputy Prime Minister and with the title of Deputy Leader of the Opposleader, she returned to her role as Deputy Leader, shadowing Nick Clegg as Deputy Prime Minister and with the title of Deputy Leader of the OpposLeader, shadowing Nick Clegg as Deputy Prime Minister and with the title of Deputy Leader of the OpposLeader of the Opposition.

Sadiq Khan, who managed Miliband's successful leadership campaign, was appointed Shadow Justice Secretary and Shadow Lord Chancellor, and continuing Deputy Leader Harriet Harman continued to shadow Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, as well as being made Shadow International Development Secretary.

The co-ordinated string of resignations from the shadow cabinet that followed the Brexit vote was designed to pressure Corbyn to resign as leader of the party.

In September 2015, the newly elected Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn appointed Turley as shadow civil society minister in his first shadow cabinet.

The new leader's close ally, George Osborne, remains shadow chancellor and Francis Maude holds on to his position as party chairman.

This is said to have resulted in policy director Andrew Fisher drawing up a plan under which Corbyn would have stood down as leader in return for staying in the shadow cabinet.

As Jeremy Corbyn looks set to be remain in place as Labour leader, moderate MPs are keeping themselves busy outside of his shadow cabineAs Jeremy Corbyn looks set to be remain in place as Labour leader, moderate MPs are keeping themselves busy outside of his shadow cabineas Labour leader, moderate MPs are keeping themselves busy outside of his shadow cabinet.

Acting Labour leader Harriet Harman said she would offer a «responsible opposition» as ex-Cabinet members began their work in the shadow Cabinet:

Meanwhile, a number of Corbyn supporters on Twitter also insisted that Labour's low standing under the current leader is a result of what they call the «chicken coup» — a reference to the flurry of resignations that was triggered by Hilary Benn standing down as shadow foreign secretary on 26 June.

And partly from a willingness to meet halfway from both sides, including the shadow ministerial teams, for which Angela Eagle, and also Ed Miliband as leader, deserve credit.

Labour's shadow chancellor John McDonnell has again dismissed the idea of Jeremy Corbyn stepping down as Labour leader, calling for calm among Labour MPs, following what he called «mass hysteria» throughout British politics in the wake of the EU referendum result.

Trade unions in Scotland have called for Jim Murphy to step down as leader of Scottish Labour as Neil Findlay who stood against Murphy for the leadership last year with the backing of the Left and almost all trade unions announced his resignation from the shadow cabinet at Holyrood where he held the fair work, skills and training brief.

The second is the one that has not yet taken place, but which Ed failed to prevent when he chickened out of removing Ed Balls as shadow chancellor (and, more importantly, as the sort of shadow leader that Gordon Brown was under Blair's leadership).

More attention has been paid to the pugnacious shadow health secretary, Andy Burnham, who has been tipped as a possible future leader.

When then leader William Hague departed, his successor Iain Duncan Smith appointed May as shadow Secretary of State for transport.

The double whammy gave opposition leader Ed Miliband plenty too work with as he attacked the Mr Cameron for allowing a «shadow of sleaze» to hang over Westminster

Mr Miliband has made a confident start as Opposition leader, while Alan Johnson has confounded sceptics with a sure - footed debut as shadow Chancellor.

Outbursts by prominent Tories — for instance, by his shadow home secretary, Chris Grayling — have fuelled scepticism that the Conservative party is anything like as modernised as the leader protests.

Jon Lansman, the leader of Momentum, spoke out as party sources said that up to ten shadow cabinet members are set to quit today.

Former shadow work and pensions secretary Mr Smith - who quit the Labour frontbench along with more than 60 of his colleagues - today vowed to be a «radical, credible» alternative to Mr Corbyn as leader.

Former shadow minister Chuka Umunna - once a favourite to replace Ed Miliband as Labour leader - has dismissed reports that he was being lined up to challenge Mr Corbyn before the next general election.

Standing at the back of the chamber, Labour MPs Chris Evans and Toby Perkins - who stood down as shadow Armed Forces minister this morning - could be seen shouting «resign» in their leader's direction.

[5][6] Press rumours of a split in the Labour Party had occurred since Jeremy Corbyn's election as leader in 2015; this intensified after pro-EU members of his shadow cabinet resigned in protest of his allegedly weak support for the Remain campaign, leading to a leadership challenge by Owen Smith.

In the days after the Budget, unease grew as Harriet Harman, the party's acting leader, and Chris Leslie, the shadow chancellor, signalled that Labour would not oppose Conservative policies such as the 1 per cent cap on public - sector pay rises for four years and the reduced benefit cap of # 20,000 (# 23,000 in London).

Lib Dem shadow leader of the house David Heath said: «Jack Straw has fallen foul of a Tory party professing a desire for reform but doing all they can to frustrate the means, as well as the jurassic elements in his own party who are no more interested in reform.»

He re-emerged when Harriet Harman, Labour's interim leader after the 2015 general election, appointed Falconer as her shadow justice secretary.

And it's in that role, even after Corbyn's shock election as Labour leader, shadow cabinet resignations, removals and refusals to serve, that Falconer remains, looking ever more like something of a Blairite cuckoo in the Corbyn nest.

Labour leader Ed Miliband issues a statement as he reshuffles his shadow Cabinet, following the resignation of shadow chancellor Alan Johnson:

David Heath, with his busy schedule as the Lib Dems» shadow leader of the House, was unable to give politics.co.uk an in - depth interview about his bill.

Lewis - who quit the shadow cabinet last month rather than vote in favour of the government's Brexit bill - said it was «flattering» to be «touted as a future leader».

Her comments come as Corbyn has said that policy will be made by Labour members and not the leader, shadow cabinet, or parliamentary party.

As for the shadow cabinet members at risk, it's unlikely that Corbyn would be affected (Zoopla values his home at # 639,000), but the leader's north London neighbours Emily Thornberry and Diane Abbott could be.

May first joined the Tory frontbench in 1999 as shadow education secretary when William Hague was the party leader.

It seems then that Seema's query is why someone in the shadow cabinet leader's office had the key to a / all the room / s of the shadow cabinet (with further confusion caused by the resignation and that for some reason she was not able to vacate the shadow cabinet room / area as expected).

Angela Eagle, the present Shadow Leader of the House could then shadow a substantial spending department; she should replace the lacklustre Stephen Twigg as Shadow Education Secretary.

[188] Their net loss of seats were mainly a result of their resounding defeat in Scotland, where the Scottish National Party took 40 of their 41 seats, unseating key Labour politicians such as shadow Foreign Secretary Douglas Alexander and Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy.

It stood to reason then, that Corbyn would want to bring his own people into the shadow cabinet, to bolster his position as leader.

More than 50 shadow ministers have resigned as part of the coup against Mr Corbyn, the most recent being Lyn Brown and Kevin Brennan, as the rebels try to make it impossible for the leader to operate an effective opposition.