Sentences with phrase «asked shadow education secretary»

asked shadow education secretary Stephen Twigg.

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A number of Labour MPs, including Cruddas and former shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt, have warned that if the party is to successfully kick - start a debate on identity and community, it is also going to have to ask some tough questions about its relationship with «Englishness».

I'd say, for example, that there is a good chance that whoever is shadow education secretary next time Michael Gove faces his Labour opposite number, will be asked: Is what you are saying party policy on academies or what Andy Burnham has said?

Asked whether he would agree with giving financial regulation back to the Bank of England, as George Osborne, proposes, the shadow education secretary replied:

The figures come from a parliamentary question asked by Lucy Powell, who stepped down as shadow education secretary in June 2016.

In the Commons, Mr Gove was asked by shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt to confirm the claim.

The question about spending on the new format was asked by Labour's former shadow education secretary, Lucy Powell.