Sentences with phrase «gay shadow environment secretary»

Speaking at the Cato Institute in Washington beside Maggie Gallagher, president of the National Organisation for Marriage, which opposes same - sex marriage, Nick Herbert, Britain's openly - gay shadow environment secretary, urged right wingers to bring gay groups into the fold.

Mr Herbert, the openly gay shadow environment secretary, declared that he was «living proof» the party had changed and that the battleground had moved: «Gay people are not the property of the Labour Party,» he declared.