Sentences with phrase «current shadow chancellor»

Labour delegates were asked if they wanted the current shadow chancellor, or the last Labour man to hold the office in government, to take charge of the party's economic policy.

Another night a majority declares they would stick with the current shadow chancellor.

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He argues that if Balls is to vote for the fiscal rules set out in Osborne's new code on fiscal stability, the shadow chancellor will have to give details of the big tax increases he will have to impose to get the current account into balance.

However, shadow chancellor John McDonnell has said there is no pressing need to change the current system.

They hope that current divisions will hasten his demise following several weeks of negative media coverage for the party, most recently shadow chancellor John McDonnell's astonishing decision to quote from Chairman Mao's Little Red Book.

In 2011, Murnaghan asked then shadow chancellor Alan Johnson to give the current rate of employers» national insurance contributions, something the new minister was unable to answer.