Sentences with phrase «by shadow cabinet ministers»

It's an independent group within the party but supported by shadow cabinet ministers, Nick Herbert and Greg Clark, who both attended last night's launch party.

Digital currencies were also lauded by a shadow cabinet minister from the opposition Labour Party, Chi Onwurah, two weeks ago.

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It was made worse by the fact that that someone was a senior shadow cabinet minister who I have quite a large crush on.

One shadow minister told PoliticsHome: «By writing a letter to Labour MPs opposing military action, Jeremy Corbyn has declared war on his own Shadow Cabinet.»

The Labour party is acknowledging that it will be outspent by the Conservatives by a margin of three to one in next year's general election but believes it will be able to «out - body» the Tories on the ground with a new generation of grassroots activists, shadow cabinet minister Gloria De Piero has said.

One MP said the effort was hopeless and the former shadow cabinet ministers should realise they are making matters worse by setting themselves up to look like Blairite plotters.

Some shadow cabinet ministers have suggested that the counter-claims of bullying centre on Corbyn's chief of staff, Karie Murphy, which was strongly denied by the leader's office.

She was made shadow minister for the disabled by Jeremy Corbyn in 2015 and was promoted to the shadow cabinet after last year's general election.

At present, there are rules governing the process by which the major opposition party consults Whitehall officials, but in practice these amount to cursory discussions between shadow cabinet ministers and permanent secretaries.

Of course, the ministers attending come from the department involved and are matched by the shadow cabinet frontbenchers that parallel them, and this brings a certain degree of different expertise to each discussion.

Hodges reveals that one shadow cabinet minister believed they were being spied on by «someone working for the leader» as they spoke at a fringe meeting.

At the meeting, the shadow cabinet minister complained that radical suggestions put forward by his working groups had been «parked» and replaced with «cynical nuggets of policy to chime with our focus groups and press strategy».

Jon Ashworth, the shadow cabinet minister, accused the Tories of seeking to rig the political system with planned cuts to «Short money» and new rules to discourage donations by trade union members.

«There's been too much internal focus here on whether the shadow cabinet is elected or appointed by the leader and so on,» the former shadow Europe minister told Sky News.

Labour cabinet members and ministers outnumbered Conservative shadow cabinet and ministers by approximately two to one (90 vs 46) in 2007; in 2012, Conservative cabinet members and ministers outnumbered their Labour counterparts by more than four to one (67 to 15).

Labour needs to set out clear ideas over the coming months in order to persuade voters who are not yet convinced by the party, a shadow cabinet minister has said.

Labour prime ministers don't have cabinets elected in that way: so by what logic should the shadow cabinet?

A delegation of shadow cabinet ministers, led by the shadow home secretary, Andy Burnham, also failed to secure a meeting with Corbyn last Thursday to try to negotiate a resolution.

She was made Shadow Minister for Disabled People by Jeremy Corbyn in 2015 and was promoted to the shadow cabinet after last year's general election.

Some 49 Labour MPs joined a group including the SNP and Liberal Democrats in voting in support of the amendment tabled by former shadow cabinet minister Chuka Umunna.

Jon Trickett, the shadow cabinet office minister, said the Electoral Commission needed to have all the resources and power available to complete its inquiry into spending by Vote Leave, and referenced the roles of Johnson and Michael Gove in its campaign.