Sentences with phrase «by shadow leader»

Under a putative timetable proposed by shadow leader of the House Sir George Young last month, the prime minister will call the election on March 29th, the House will adjourn on April 1st and parliament will be dissolved on April 12th.

Not exact matches

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.

The rival party leaders were joined by Commons speaker John Bercow and shadow foreign secretary (and Leeds MP) Hilary Benn.

Former shadow leader of the House Chris Bryant kicked things off when he rose to ask a question and prefaced it by wishing the Speaker «happy kiss - a-ginger day».

Even Labour, the party with the least understanding of the appropriate limits to state power, is run by a leader who made a special pledge to civil liberties campaigners - even if his shadow home secretary is clearly an unreconstructed authoritarian.

Rayner has now indicated that the answer to that question is a clear yes, with the shadow education secretary telling Nick Robinson that she is capable of being Labour leader - and would not let feminists down by saying otherwise.

The Labour leader responded to 12 departures from his shadow cabinet in 20 hours, by insisting that he would not resign and vowing to stand in any leadership contest.

After the exchange, Campbell tried to reach out to Jeremy Corbyn, by suggesting that the Labour leader might be «more sincere» than his shadow chancellor.

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.

Policy will be made by Labour members and not the leader, shadow cabinet, or parliamentary party, Jeremy Corbyn has said in a debate with his three leadership rivals organised by the Guardian.

Labour leaders and ministers outnumbered Conservative shadow ministers by approximately two to one in 2007.

Current leader Jeremy Corbyn is being challenged by two former members of his shadow cabinet — Angela Eagle and Owen Smith.

«I don't think we can go on having policy made by the leader, shadow cabinet, or parliamentary Labour party.

Attention on contact between the parties» senior figures began this summer with the revelation by shadow chancellor Ed Balls that he has been in frequent contact by text with Lib Dem business secretary Vince Cable, a former SDP politician, who has spent the summer undermining Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg.

It was denied both by Margaret Thatcher, the leader of the Opposition, and byGeoffrey Howe, the shadow Chancellor, in a campaign in which the impact on prices of the Conservative's declared plans to switch from direct to indirect taxation played a significant part.

Chris Williamson, the MP for Derby North who has been one of the Labour leader's most vocal champions, is made a shadow fire services minister, having won back his seat, which was snatched by the Conservatives in 2015.

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.

The special elections on Tuesday for the seats formerly held by Dean G. Skelos and Sheldon Silver, the two state legislative leaders who were forced to depart Albany after being convicted on corruption charges last year, were supposed to be a test of how long a shadow corruption could cast on a race.

The Labour leader was attacked by backbench MPs and even members of his shadow cabinet after the party lost seats in England and Wales and were humiliated in Scotland, where they finished a distant third.

Over the last two days, the Labour leader used a party political broadcast and a speech by his shadow home secretary to unveil a raft of them on immigration.

Former shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn has spoken to ITV News after his sacking by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.

The pair's potential was spotted by Labour leader Neil Kinnock who promoted them into his shadow cabinet.

In Scotland the campaign was ably led by Scottish leader Johann Lamont MSP, deputy Anas Sarwar MP, and shadow Scottish secretary Margaret Curran MP.

[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.

Mr Cameron met the Chinese leader for 45 minutes on Sunday morning, accompanied by shadow foreign secretary William Hague and shadow chancellor George Osborne.

In the must - read piece, political correspondent Jim Pickard quotes two insiders on the roles played by the shadow chancellor and the Labour leader.

In an explosive article for the Labour Briefing website published on Sunday night, the shadow chancellor said an attempt to take down the leader was «being perpetrated by an alliance between elements in the Labour Party and the Murdoch media empire».

In 1976, not long after becoming leader of the Opposition, she was chairing a shadow Cabinet meeting to discuss immigration policy when proceedings were interrupted by a bell.

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

McGovern also insists that the Labour leader does not support the stance taken by the shadow chancellor.

Now, the former shadow transport secretary claims she was told to «f *** off» by her own local party members in Nottingham after explaining why she was backing Owen Smith to be Labour leader.

The shadow foreign secretary, tipped for many years to be Labour's next leader but beaten by his younger brother by a margin of just 1.3 % on Saturday, sought to demonstrate his mood with two jokes.

Harriet Harman is Leader of the House and is shadowed by Theresa May for the Tories.

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).

«While some of the Senate Democratic leaders are ready and willing to negotiate in good faith, the public comments by other Senate Democratic officials and leadership of the Working Families Party have cast a dark shadow over serious discussions,» a source close to the conference said.

On 8 October 2013, Abbott was sacked as shadow public health minister in a reshuffle by Labour leader Ed Miliband, [29] and replaced as Shadow Public Health Minister by Luciana Berger.

Emily Thornberry, who was sacked as shadow attorney general by former Labour leader Ed Milband, could replace Mr Benn as shadow foreign secretary.

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.

The Scottish Labour leader spoke out as the Labour leader was hit by a fresh wave of shadow ministerial resignations as attempts to unseat him intensified.

His mishap was highlighted by Angela Eagle, shadow leader of the Commons, who told MPs: «Mr Gove hasn't had the most auspicious of starts.

MPs were last night still desperately trying to broker a deal to ensure only one of Mr Smith and Ms Eagle fights Mr Corbyn - possibly by putting them on a joint ticket as leader and shadow chancellor.

Her lead role on the health portfolio will be taken over by Lord Hunt, a former minister in several departments under the previous Labour government, now shadow deputy leader of the upper house and Labour's spokesman on Lords reform.

The Labour leader will be joined by three of his most fiercely loyal shadow cabinet supporters — shadow chancellor John McDonnel, shadow health secretary Diane Abbott, Jo and shadow defence secretary Clive Lewis.

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.

But Labour was having managerial problems of its own, with commentators bemused by a demand from Ed Miliband's office that all shadow ministerial statements are cleared with Ed Balls and the party leader.

The party leader will now have to carry out a fresh shadow cabinet reshuffle, just a few months after he filled the posts vacated by a wave of resignations over the summer.

On Monday Len McCluskey, the leader of the Unite union and one of Corbyn's staunchest supporters, suggested the Labour leader and John McDonnell, his shadow chancellor, would feel obliged to step down if there was no change in opinion polls currently showing Labour lagging behind by about 12 points.

To Labour laughter, he added: «This must be the only tax change in history when the people proposing it — the opposition leader and the shadow chancellor — will know by name almost all of the potential beneficiaries.

Mr Watson first revealed he favoured a shake - up of Labour Party rules last month, saying former leader Ed Miliband had made a «terrible error of judgment» by ditching the electoral college system and shadow cabinet elections.

Apart from the fact that 2 of the four candidates for leader were women, and just over half the shadow cabinet posts are held by women, all women short lists are discriminatory.