Sentences with phrase «from shadow secretary»

Before 1997, Tony Blair ostensibly promoted Robin Cook from shadow secretary for state for trade and industry to shadow foreign secretary in a bid to sideline him from shaping economic policy.

He wrote: «This from the shadow secretary of state for Wales?

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Sustain has welcomed commitments from shadow Health Secretary Jon Ashworth that a future Labour Government would introduce legal standards for hospital food, extend the sugary drinks tax and ban junk food advertising during family TV, for the benefit of the nation's health.

Also during PMQs, May showed that she was riled by Emily Thornberry when she attacked the shadow foreign secretary for shouting «from her normal sedentary position».

«If it is the case that pupils from the same year group have been marked more harshly if they entered later, that would be patently unfair,» shadow education secretary Stephen Twigg declared earlier.

The headline news from Jeremy Corbyn's latest reshuffle is that Diane Abbott has been promoted to shadow home secretary.

Her use of party politics while discussing the topic led to several attacks, not least of all from shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper, who launched a blistering attack on the programme.

Mr Balls contrasted the approach with that from Michael Gove, shadow schools secretary, whose plan for free schools set - up by parent and community groups, has proved popular among many voters.

The shadow foreign secretary said: «The Brexit train is threatening to pull away from the station with Nigel Farage, Boris Johnson and Michael Gove in charge, taking us down a track that can only lead to disaster.»

One party official is quoted as saying that the shadow foreign secretary believes Mr Cameron's promise to withdraw from the EPP within a year is not possible.

In a reversal of scenes from last year, when the Conservatives attacked Labour for being unprepared for the extreme weather conditions, shadow transport secretary Maria Eagle attacked her government counterpart, Philip Hammond for not organising a better government response to the snow.

The Liberal Democrat most under threat from the shadow of scandal this year was energy and climate change secretary Chris Huhne, who faces a police investigation over newspaper allegations that he tried to dodge speeding points on his licence.

Today, the manner in which Unite now dominates the trade union landscape means many general secretaries feel pressure to find ways of stepping out from the super-union's shadow.

The shadow home secretary also pledged to properly centre the right to family life in Labour's immigration policy, saying her party «don't want to break up families from the EU in the way we currently do for non-EU families.»

Now that approach is being comprehensively abandoned with a speech from shadow education secretary Stephen Twigg at the Royal Society of Arts.

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.

Those who suggested he would endorse David Miliband before voting closed on 22 September, or offer his second preference to the former foreign secretary in return for a guarantee of the shadow chancellorship, were victims of spin from the Mili - D camp.

Lisa Nandy, who stepped down as shadow energy secretary on Tuesday, said bullying, intimidation, harassment and death threats had been «unleashed against MPs from the right to the left 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.

The English Democrats fielded a candidate, Joanne Robinson, in the by - election caused by the resignation of former shadow home secretary David Davis from the House of Commons.

Labour's Jonathan Ashworth, the shadow health secretary, highlighted news this week that the Royal Marsden foundation trust predicted it would receive an income of # 210m over two years from providing private healthcare.

Labour's shadow communities secretary, John Denham, said: «The fund helped areas which saw rapid changes in population from migration.

«This is astonishing criticism from the government's own spending watchdog,» shadow defence secretary Jim Murphy said.

Among those benefiting from the controversial plans to raise the tax threshold to # 2million are shadow chancellor George Osborne, foreign secretary William Hague and Mr Cameron.

Corbyn spoke passionately of his opposition to war but only a little later, Benn, shadow foreign secretary, stood up from the same bench to give the speech of his life in support of the attacks.

«The question is, if academy status is so good for the school, why does the Secretary of State need to withhold the names of those who have been successful, effectively encouraging them to skulk in the shadows keeping vital information from those who will be directly affected by the change?

«This incentivises an early exit from the franchise as premium payments rise and the recent history of the company heightens concerns that this is a very real possibility, not least when the penalty for terminating the franchise is a fraction of these amounts,» shadow transport secretary Maria Eagle wrote in a letter to Greening yesterday.

The speech was a far cry from the more moderate, civil libertarian musings of the shadow home secretary at a Liberty fringe event last night.

Adults who rebuke unruly youngsters will be given added protection from prosecution under a return to «common sense» policing, Dominic Grieve, the shadow Home Secretary, has said.

But shadow foreign secretary William Hague has demanded an explanation from the Foreign Secretary David secretary William Hague has demanded an explanation from the Foreign Secretary David Secretary David Miliband.

A letter from Smith and the shadow welfare secretary, Debbie Abraham, to the Northern Ireland secretary, James Brokenshire, warns: «This measure is being introduced in the absence of a functioning executive in Northern Ireland... To impose such changes from Westminster, especially through the back door of a statutory instrument without scrutiny even by committee, is completely at odds with principles of the devolution settlement as agreed under the Good Friday agreement and subsequent agreements, including Fresh Start.»

She will apparently be joined by former shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn as she launches her bid, who was sacked from his post recently after saying he had no confidence in Mr Corbyn.

Mr Corbyn is facing a challenge from the former shadow business secretary, Angela Eagle, who will put her name forward to contest the leadership tomorrow.

The final day of campaigning on Wednesday continued to emphasise counter-terrorism policy after last weekend's attack in London, highlighting the absence of the shadow home secretary, Diane Abbott, from the political frontline.

The shadow health secretary, Heidi Alexander, had to stage a physical sit - in outside Corbyn's office in order to get a decision from him on Labour party policy on the NHS.

The comments from Andy Burnham, the shadow health secretary, leave Nick Clegg's party politically isolated over its controversial decision to withdraw support for the Medical Innovation Bill.

The former shadow pensions secretary will take on Eagle, who was previously shadow business secretary, in a parliamentary Labour party (PLP) hustings on Monday, as the two challengers vie for support from MPs and MEPs before Wednesday's deadline for nominations.

He will now face a formal leadership challenge from Ms Eagle, the former shadow business secretary.

«Since fees were introduced, the evidence has shown that although there has been widening participation, students from some backgrounds are not attending the best universities, as I said to the shadow Secretary of State.

The shadow energy secretary said New Labour had become «ideologically beached» because it was haunted by old ghosts from the past, when the party was viewed as tax - raising and anti-American.

Such a challenge would come from former shadow business secretary Angela Eagle or former shadow work and pensions secretary Owen Smith.

His remarks are supplemented by a warning from the shadow foreign secretary, Douglas Alexander, that Cameron is in danger of putting a long - term question mark over the UK's relations with its largest trading partner at a time when the country is desperate to secure growth.

Last week, the shadow business secretary, Chuka Umunna, said he had been discussing with European counterparts how to limit immigration from EU countries to people with good skills and firm job offers.

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Danny Alexander, the shadow foreign secretary, said Labour was not happy with the status quo but believed from conversations with the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, that reform was possible without the threat of a referendum hanging over talks.

High - profile members of that profession ejected from their Commons seats on May 7 included business secretary Vince Cable, pensions minister Steve Webb, schools minister David Laws and — in a small - hour moment that signalled the turning tide — shadow chancellor Ed Balls.

He says that people are right to be worried about health and then he starts to quote from something the shadow health secretary said yesterday.

«Watering down people's rights at work by doubling the service requirement to claim for unfair dismissal from one to two years is not a substitute for a credible plan for growth,» shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna said.

His comments provoked outrage from the Conservatives, and shadow home secretary David Davis said it looked like «deliberate negligence on the part of the Home Office».

They attracted criticism from Tooting MP Sadiq Khan, who won promotion to the shadow Cabinet after the 2010 general election and is now shadow justice secretary.