Sentences with phrase «from shadow cabinet»

He resigned from the shadow cabinet this week and he is expected to launch a bid to become Mayor of London.

Bottom three adrift as Uncut readers vote on whether there should be relegation from the shadow cabinet

It is being reported that Jon Ashworth is considering resigning from the shadow cabinet and by default the NEC (Him and Angela Eagle are the shadow cabinet representatives on the NEC).

There will also be a presentation from the shadow cabinet office minister Michael Dugher on the «character and conduct» of Cameron's government.

Labour's Tom Watson has resigned from his shadow cabinet role as the party's general election co-ordinator.

It came after the Labour leader was forced to step in after the MP Emily Thornberry resigned from the shadow cabinet for a tweet she posted about the by - election.

She recently speculated that Oliver Heald should be demoted from the shadow cabinet even though he isn't in the shadow cabinet.

But despite the tough action taken against other MPs embroiled in the expenses scandal, Mr Duncan has not been sacked from the shadow cabinet.

From Owen Smith, who was sacked from the shadow cabinet for calling for a referendum on the Brexit outcome

His start could get a lot worse if David Miliband walks away from his shadow cabinet.

Labour's message being drowned out, warns Michael Dugher, who is rumoured to be facing axe from shadow cabinet

She stood down from the shadow cabinet to seek the selection for the Kilmarnock and Loudoun seat, following the announcement from Des Browne MP that he would not stand at the 2010 General election.

Moderate MPs took some action by resigning from the shadow cabinet and passing a no confidence motion.

But it's always sad to lose someone from an ordinary background from the shadow cabinet.

He resigned from the shadow cabinet in September 2015, after the election of Corbyn as Labour leader, because of what he called «substantial policy differences» (one of the great understatements of modern politics).

Andy Burnham and Debbie Abrahams, from the shadow cabinet, then arrived to suggest to the NEC that there should be a two day delay in the leadership election to allow for further negotiations, which was promptly accepted 20 - 12.

Labour insiders believe the list emerged from a team of MPs loyal to Corbyn, who call themselves the «core group», and meet regularly — separately from the shadow cabinet — to discuss policy issues, and strategies for dealing with the divided state of the parliamentary party and shoring up the leader.

«In a phone call to Jeremy, I told him that for these reasons I had lost confidence in his ability to lead the party and he then dismissed me from the shadow cabinet.»

Diane Abbott, the MP who Miliband sacked from the shadow cabinet last year, also offered her support to Miliband yesterday, saying he had kept the party together following its crushing 2010 defeat.

Of those rebels, four, including Labour's business spokesman Clive Lewis, resigned from the shadow cabinet.

Why doesn't Alan Duncan resign from the shadow cabinet and become «full time wise» rather than his current modus operandi which is «full time arrogant»?

Duncan Smith sacked Ann Winterton from the shadow cabinet in 2002.

Ann Winterton was sacked from the shadow cabinet by Duncan Smith in 2002 after she told a joke about an Englishman throwing a Pakistani out of a train that ended with the line: «They are 10 a penny in my country.»

But perhaps the most heart - felt advice of the evening came from Ivan Lewis, who responded to Corbyn sacking him from the shadow cabinet by text message.

He was endured mass resignations from his shadow cabinet with a leadership election now on the horizon.

The survey, carried out between Monday and Thursday as Mr Corbyn came under fire from MPs and suffered several resignations from his shadow cabinet, found 50 % of Labour members support him as leader but 47 % do not.

Chuka Umunna, who briefly joined last year's leadership race himself before pulling out and Chris Leslie, the former shadow chancellorare part of a group working separately from the shadow cabinet, to beef up Labour's economic credibility.

This follows the resignation last week of Jo Stevens from the shadow cabinet and Tulip Siddiq from Labour's front bench.

The right wing MP had previously been sacked from the shadow cabinet after telling a joke about an Englishman throwing a Pakistani out of a train that ended with the line: «They are 10 a penny in my country.»

Jones has previously described Lewis, who recently resigned from the shadow cabinet, as «one of the great hopes for Labour's future».

Speeches lauding the «enormous opportunities» of Brexit would not have been made, and unhelpful remarks from shadow cabinet ministers would not have been tolerated.

Labour's general election coordinator Tom Watson has resigned from the shadow Cabinet.

Since resigning from the shadow cabinet after the election, Mandelson has been pursuing business interests and promoting his revelatory autobiography.

«I told Jeremy Corbyn last night that I no longer had confidence in his leadership and he dismissed me from the shadow cabinet.»

The popular MP declined to stand in 2010 and stepped down from his shadow cabinet role in 2011 for personal reasons.

«She resigned from the shadow cabinet, we had a conversation after she had announced her resignation from the Shadow Cabinet and I would ask her to think for a moment.

Trade unions in Scotland have called for Jim Murphy to step down as leader of Scottish Labour as Neil Findlay who stood against Murphy for the leadership last year with the backing of the Left and almost all trade unions announced his resignation from the shadow cabinet at Holyrood where he held the fair work, skills and training brief.

The en masse resignations from the shadow cabinet, followed by a vote of no confidence from 81 per cent of MPs, shows that Jeremy Corbyn has lost the trust of his peers (or perhaps he never really managed to obtain it in the first place).

Jeremy Corbyn has welcomed back a Labour MP who resigned from the shadow cabinet less than a month ago.

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.

The co-ordinated string of resignations from the shadow cabinet that followed the Brexit vote was designed to pressure Corbyn to resign as leader of the party.

But after rolling mass resignations from the shadow cabinet, which have continued into Tuesday with Pat Glass resigning as shadow education secretary just two days after being appointed, Milband said it was time for Labour to unite around an alternative candidate.

After Corbyn said he had been disappointed with Smith's recent resignation from the shadow cabinet, Smith had a withering response.

Not exact matches

In this new shadow cabinet he moves from finance to natural resources.

Add in a sprinkling of Twitter celebrity John Prescott hammering his shadow Cabinet, a barely - conceal hatred from most of the media and recurring jokes about his centrist nose, and Ed had reasons to be fearful.

Under the current Labour system, the National Policy Forum receives delegates from constituency party associations and has a debate with the shadow Cabinet and affiliates about policy positions.

«My concern steadily grew over what I was hearing from colleagues, such as Heidi, Thangam and Lilian, and what I was seeing at shadow cabinet meetings, where Jeremy tended to read from a prepared script, didn't respond to our questions, and didn't convey any sense of strategic direction or leadership.»

He confirmed that he would stand down as MP for Leigh, but indicated that he would not immediately resign from Jeremy Corbyn's shadow cabinet.

«You can't get away from these two factors,» says a shadow cabinet insider.

And now we have a more explicit outlining of an emerging new Tory constitutional doctrine in an extraordinary Guardian report on Tuesday — based on anonymous briefings from «senior shadow Cabinet members» — that the Conservatives intend to mount a partisan attack on existing constitutional conventions, and the Cabinet Secretary's protocols for handling a hung Parliament, even though a primary motivation for these has been to protect the Monarchy from being dragged into party political controversy.