Sentences with phrase «at shadow cabinet»

He also took a thinly - veiled swipe at his shadow cabinet colleagues who had come up with various reasons why Labour lost the Copeland by - election «I thought the loss in Copeland was really serious.

When at a shadow cabinet meeting on 6 July Andy Burnham, the leadership front - runner, cautioned against embracing austerity, Harman acidly replied: «But Andy, we lost that argument.

It wasn't good enough for the leader to read his position from a typed up script at shadow cabinet meetings discussing the prospect of military action against Isis in Syria or the EU referendum.

Six weeks later, after being asked every week to do so by Maria Eagle when she met him at shadow cabinet meetings (I wasn't a member of the shadow cabinet, only the shadow secretaries of state sit in that meeting), Jeremy finally phoned me.

«My concern steadily grew over what I was hearing from colleagues, such as Heidi, Thangam and Lilian, and what I was seeing at shadow cabinet meetings, where Jeremy tended to read from a prepared script, didn't respond to our questions, and didn't convey any sense of strategic direction or leadership.»

Not exact matches

Exhibition space has sold out and corporate chiefs are expected to flock to the business forum at party conference, where they can mix with «prominent business leaders and senior shadow cabinet members».

Under Gordon Brown he rose to a ministerial position at the Foreign Office, but back in Opposition he fell well short of the votes required amongst his colleagues to make the shadow cabinet.

Labour sources said that Winterton was sacked at the start of a meeting to discuss a deal that would allow the party's MPs to elect some shadow cabinet posts.

Nick Clegg's remarks about his shadow cabinet's qualities, David Miliband's «Heseltine moment» at the Labour Party Conference, George Bush's «Yo, Blair» and John Major's «bastards» are examples.

Talking to Politics.co.uk last week, Cash said the Tories» attempt to blame Labour was unfair because David Cameron's then - shadow Cabinet had failed to back his campaign to explicitly state the charter of fundamental rights would not apply to UK law at the time.

Corbyn was appearing with the entire shadow cabinet, members of Labour's ruling body and trade union chiefs at an event in central London on Tuesday,

(Another passage in the memo, suggesting a shadow cabinet reshuffle, was removed by Miliband's chief of staff, Tim Livsey, who was furious at the suggestion.)

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.

Even at this point, the shadow cabinet still could not agree on how to tackle the issue.

The Welsh Conservatives were, apparently, prepared to consider this proposal, and David Cameron, the Conservative leader at Westminster, was prepared to allow them to do so, but the shadow cabinet would not hear of it.»

«Looking at the two rows of the shadow cabinet scared me.

[3] Turley resigned in June 2016 as part of a mass shadow cabinet resignation in protest at Corbyn's leadership.

Welfare, Europe, immigration, the economy: these are just some of the areas where the Labour leadership, shadow cabinet, PLP, activists and unions are increasingly at odds.

McDonnell also hit out at former Labour shadow cabinet minister Caroline Flint, after she told the BBC's Sunday Politics programme yesterday that his ambition that the party «hang on» in the recent local elections was not good enough.

I think the best bet for Labour here is for Ed Miliband to do what Harold Wilson did in the 1975 Common Market Referendum - allow Labour MPs, party members and shadow cabinet ministers to campaign for or against, or not at all, depending on their personal preferences.

Next to Corbyn he looks bland, confused (he attacks Corbyn's lack of credibility but offers him a role in the shadow cabinet) and at times desperate.

With Labour backing Lords reform in its manifesto, the shadow cabinet agreed on Tuesday to support the bill when it receives its two - day second reading in the Commons, likely at the beginning of July.

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.

Corbyn needs to create a strong, cohesive, loyal shadow cabinet to fight his corner and sell his policies to the party and the public at large.

Although the motivation behind the move is not directly linked to what many critics have called his poor performance in the job, many Labour figures were admitting relief at the shakeup in Ed Miliband's shadow Cabinet.

The Daily Telegraph reports that at least two thirds of the shadow cabinet would be left unfilled, with as few as 30 MPs willing to work for the Labour leadership frontrunner.

Did he want a strong shadow cabinet colleague who would, on occasion, feel able to speak out against the views of his leader and perhaps the wider shadow cabinet or did he want such a big beast roaming the backbenches, taking potshots at the leadership at will?

If you want more reason for dealing with the political elite's career structure in the Labour party, just look at who represents Yorkshire in Labour's shadow cabinet.

More mischievously, former senior advisers to the shadow cabinet were looking at ways they could quickly hang John McDonnell by his own petard, way before George Osborne, sensibly playing a longer game, could get his own dirty hands on him.

The best news is that Jon Trickett has been appointed as Shadow Minister at the Cabinet Office, attending shadow cabinet (but not vCabinet Office, attending shadow cabinet (but not vcabinet (but not voting).

At the weekend, Mr Findlay also resigned from the Scottish shadow cabinet saying the election had been «a disaster».

His popularity with Labour members was at its height and he regularly topped shadow cabinet elections.

Following the party's decision to support the European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill 2017, at least three shadow cabinet ministers, all representing constituencies which voted to remain in the EU, resigned from their position as a result of the party's decision to invoke Article 50 under the bill.

The shift, agreed by the shadow cabinet, is designed to prevent Labour being portrayed as the anti-referendum party in the European elections in May at a time when hostility to Brussels is gaining public traction.

(And while I understand your position on anonymous sources — it furthers your own poltical agend... sorry, I mean it's the ethical thing to do — could you at least number them so we know if the shadow cabinet member who told you things is the same one as last time, or a different one.

At the heart of the shadow cabinet there will be a group that buys Corbynomics.

The FT says some of the shadow cabinet are looking at John McDonnell as a «brake» on Milne's plans to radically overhaul the top team.

Following Hilary Benn's departure there was a mass resignation of shadow cabinet members and, at the time of writing, the party's MPs have backed a vote of no confidence by an overwhelming margin.

He revealed that he had made a recommendation to the shadow cabinet that there should be a «reasoned amendment» put forward at the second reading.

Dominic Grieve had argued that the Tories wanting a British bill of rights would have to be quite careful about this at a dinner conversation full of shadow Cabinet members about this.

But he gets coherence in parts of his shadow cabinet over Trident at a very big price.

Speaking without notes, and rejecting the dais from which Mr Davis read his speech, Mr Cameron told a packed hall of reporters and MPs at the Royal Academy in London that they would have to «wait and see» on who would be in his shadow cabinet.

Some MPs were relieved that a major direct confrontation between the Corbyn team and his shadow cabinet colleagues was avoided, at least until the final day nuclear showdown.

Jim Murphy, meanwhile, stays in shadow cabinet but moves from defence to international development, a move which can be seen as sideways at best.

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.

Lord Prescott's criticism of the shadow Cabinet comes one year after the party held elections to decide the makeup of its frontbench team at its autumn conference.

«It may just be my imagination» one shadow cabinet minister confided to me «but I was speaking at a fringe meeting and I had the impression there was a guy at the back whose job it was to keep an eye on what I was saying.

Janan Ganesh at The Economist notes the dominance of Brownites on Labour's rejigged frontbench: «The mark of Mr Brown is now stamped all over the upper end of the shadow cabinet.

And she dismissed the fact Mr Corbyn has scores of empty frontbench roles - with people having to do two shadow cabinet jobs at once - after 64 members of his top team resigned.

We have blogged on this frequently at DemocracyFail and hope others will support our call to the shadow cabinet to do whatever needs to be done to prevent this takeover.