Sentences with phrase «elected shadow cabinet»

Since she came 35th in the shadow cabinet poll and this is the first junior post to be made public, it is an important signal that Ed Miliband (unlike much of the PLP who elected the shadow cabinet) wants -LSB-...]

The fact is that the parliamentary party elected a shadow cabinet that has failed to give Ed the support he deserves and the backing for change for which he has a mandate.

Under the proposals of an unelected committee chaired by Margaret Beckett, the PLP looks set to abandon a requirement that an incoming Labour PM include elected shadow cabinet members in the new cabinet.

In the event, the PLP voted to retain elections for all shadow cabinet members and to elect the Chief Whip separately (a post previously appointed from amongst elected shadow cabinet members).

With a new leader and a freshly elected shadow cabinet, it would be natural to draw a line under past actions and concentrate all our attentions on future policy.

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.

By voting to elect all shadow cabinet members against the advice of former Ministers like Jack Straw and Phil Woolas and most speakers at the PLP meeting other than Frank Dobson, Labour MPs voted to be treated as more than just voting fodder.

Allowing MPs to elect the shadow cabinet has huge support among the Parliamentary Labour Party, and the idea will be debated at their weekly meeting when the Commons returns on Monday.

But when it is in opposition, Labour MPs elect the shadow cabinet ministers, which may allow for some unexpected figures to reach the front rank.

Who elects the shadow cabinet currently?

MPs have a duty to show this is not the view of PLP and act before its too late by reinstating the rule by which the MPs elect the shadow cabinet.

Not exact matches

Yes, he has an interesting biography but he was only elected in 2010, has never held even a shadow cabinet post and has no big following in the party or union backing.

Despite only getting elected last year Sheppard has become one of the most recognisable SNP faces in SW1, his role as shadow cabinet minister giving him license to roam across the broadcast studios.

In September 2015, the newly elected Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn appointed Turley as shadow civil society minister in his first shadow cabinet.

When Jeremy was elected he invited everybody who was in the existing shadow cabinet to come and play a role including people like Caroline Flint and others.

He is expected to use the membership to help him shape policy and perhaps even contribute to electing people to the shadow cabinet.

11 of the 47 elected Chairs were previously, or subsequently, members of the Cabinet or shadow Cabinet which suggests they may not be quite the maverick outsiders that some analyses of the select committee system have suggested.

Tim Collins A former press secretary to John Major and member of the Downing Street Policy Unit, he was elected MP for Westmorland and Lonsdale in 1997 and held a number of frontbench posts, including a series of roles in the shadow cabinet under three party leaders.

Could you elaborate on why having the members electing part of the shadow cabinet is a bad idea?

A crunch meeting of Labour chiefs broke up tonight with no decision on whether the shadow cabinet should be elected by MPs.

Ahead of a leadership hustings debate at the Local Government Association conference this week, Mr Miliband even pledged to invite Labour's local government leader, at present David Sparks, into the shadow cabinet if he is elected party leader.

So does the number of women elected or appointed to positions of responsibility within Parliament, whether as Cabinet members, shadow ministers or select committee chairs.

But we're intensely relaxed about the presence of David Miliband in the shadow cabinet, we believe in an inclusive leadership, provided that it's in a shadow cabinet committed to change — the basis on which Ed was elected.

As a result, many ministers had been in place not just since the government was elected in 2010, but had covered the portfolio in Cameron's shadow cabinet or even earlier; Andrew Lansley had covered the health brief since 2004, when Michael Howard led the Conservatives in opposition.

Mr Corbyn's team do not want to being back wholesale shadow cabinet elections but are considering allowing a small number of shadow cabinet posts to be elected as a peace offering to their divided party.

But senior frontbenchers say the price of working with Mr Corbyn would be the return of shadow cabinet elections, giving MPs the power to elect a substantial number of Labour's top team.

«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.

Peace offerings being discussed include allowing Labour MPs to elect several members of the shadow cabinet, and appointing staffers to the leader's office who are respected by rebel MPs in an effort to improve relations.

Many will argue that keeping the post but abolishing elections represents a reduction in accountability — Labour's leaders (though not, it seems, its shadow cabinet or cabinet) should be directly elected.

Given that Corbyn wants party members to have more seats on the NEC (to extend his power there), and MPs want at least some shadow cabinet members to be elected, it is not hard to see how some sort of deal could be struck.

Corbyn has proposed that the shadow cabinet be selected on a tripartite basis: a third elected by members, a third by MPs and a third appointed by the leader.

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

As a spin doctor he was combative and loyal and, after being elected as an MP in 2010, one of his jobs in Ed Miliband's shadow cabinet involved coordinating party presentation.

His ideas for rebuilding the Labour movement include an elected party chair and a voice for Labour councillors in the shadow cabinet.

The shadow cabinet may be wholly elected, or have all, half or one - third of its members appointed by the leader;

Notwithstanding the many qualities of Jon Cruddas and the excellent work carried out by other MPs — for example Gisela Stuart and Stella Creasy — in being effective voices for their members and communities and outstanding campaigners, it is, after all, only MPs who currently have the opportunity to be elected to the shadow cabinet.

Evans was originally elected to parliament in 1992 and served in the shadow Cabinet before becoming deputy Speaker in 2010.

Johnson's assessment came as the chairman of the parliamentary party, John Cryer, condemned Corbyn's controversial shake - up of his top team during a period when the leader's office had been in talks about the shadow cabinet being elected in part by MPs.

Newsnight has learnt from more than one source that Liam Byrne claims to have approached all but nine of the 256 MPs of the Parliamentary Labour Party in his efforts to get elected to the shadow cabinet.