Sentences with phrase «cabinet sources»

«The big issue is the unions,» says one shadow cabinet source.

The shadow cabinet sources were very clear what was going on.

A senior Cabinet source said: «For quite different reasons, Boris and Michael are going to campaign for Remain.

However, senior shadow cabinet sources told the Guardian that the party needs to stop Ukip replicating the success of the SNP with poorer, less well - educated voters in Scotland.

Appearing on Peston on Sunday, Morgan revealed that she had been contacted by an exasperated senior cabinet source who was mounting a concerted effort keep Philip Hammond in 11 Downing Street.

Shadow cabinet sources told The Sunday Times that a peerage would allow the Labour leader to «parachute his hard - left ally into his top team».

One Blairite shadow cabinet source mocked comparisons with a «Clause 4 Moment» but recognised, «The reforms themselves are good.

A senior Liberal Democrat cabinet source said: «There had been a perception that... Clegg realised that this was dribbling into the sand, and he would abandon it.

Senior Lib Dem cabinet sources said Clegg had made a series of painstaking compromises in the bill to win over middle - ground Tory MPs and create maximum consensus.

Cabinet source on Sir John Major: «It is extraordinary hypocrisy from a useless PM whose predictions in the referendum have already been proved wrong and who now wants to overturn the referendum just like Tony Blair»

«Divergence has won,» said one Cabinet source in a sign that the Brexiteers believed they had come out on top.

Israeli Cabinet sources had discussed «improving» national security and the limited scale of the air raids taking place suggested Jerusalem is not prepared to press ahead with a full invasion.

The Brexit inner cabinet rejected the proposal by six to five at a crunch meeting last week, leaving Brexit cabinet sources insisting it was a «dead parrot» and No 10 conceding there were «unresolved issues» that required further work.

Shadow cabinet sources indicate it was only the combined pressure of the leader's office, the shadow cabinet and Labour's disastrous polling on economic trust that forced Ed Balls into making the June statement committing to Tory spending plans for 2015/16.

Some shadow cabinet sources said they would have preferred an absolute Labour commitment to an in / out referendum, but that would have left Miliband open to the accusation — made against the Tories — that he was leaving a question mark over Britain's continued membership of the EU, and so blighting future inward business investment in the UK.

His comments provoked fury from Brexiteers, with one Cabinet source telling the Press Association: «Greg appears to be re-fighting the referendum, this is Project Fear 3.0.

My shadow cabinet source said that the Tory leadership's continued reluctance to talk about immigration combined with the powerful movement within the Conservative Party that worries about infringements of liberty dictated the tactical path that was chosen:

One cabinet source has suggested Theresa May's preferred «Customs Partnership» route forward could be about to be dropped.

«Cabinet sources say David Cameron and other ministers did not disagree with Mr Mitchell's remarks.

But Conservative Party managers have decided to give MPs a free vote on plans to change the rules and bring in a secret ballot, Cabinet sources have revealed.

A Cabinet source accused Downing Street of «silencing Brexiteers while unsubtly putting forward the Business Secretary to make the case for staying in the customs partnership».

One Cabinet source said: «The PM is very angry at the way some ministers have abused the freedom to campaign for Brexit by attacking other parts of Government policy.

A Cabinet source told the paper it had been the «worst Budget build - up in history» and senior journalists did not disagree.

«He was the only one auditioning,» said a cabinet source.

Cabinet sources said when Sajid Javid spoke he was «robust» in his opposition to the idea of a new customs partnership, arguing that it would limit the possibility of the UK striking new trade deals.

John Prescott, the former deputy prime minister, is also sceptical, regarding the issue as a distraction, and some cabinet sources expect as many as 40 Labour MPs to rebel when the amendment is debated on Tuesday as part of the constitutional reform bill.

Cabinet sources have revealed that one idea being developed is to paint Cameron as a leader opposed to a wide - ranging reform of the political system that voters are demanding following the scandal over MPs» expenses.

«Clegg is having a rotten time,» one cabinet source said.

«There is a case for shelving Trident Two, but the number of jobs that go with it is just too great,» said the Cabinet source.

We'd like to do our den in the same fashion — how are the built - in cabinets sourced?