Sentences with phrase «get shadow cabinet»

«Ed, you're the leader, get a shadow cabinet who'll do that».

Power is an inheritance to them and an entitlement and as long as they retain their safe seats they still get shadow cabinet jobs and dosh to do absolutely nothing other than wait for more morally driven activists to sell ideas that do not exist on doorsteps.

Efford told the Guardian: «Jeremy has got a shadow cabinet that remained loyal and allowed him to perform extremely well during the general election.

Efford told the Guardian on Monday: «Jeremy has got a shadow cabinet that remained loyal and allowed him to perform extremely well during the general election.

Not exact matches

To be frank, I suspect that the chair of the home affairs select committee will be more able to get a public platform and more able to influence policy than a shadow cabinet minister or even the most junior ministers in government.

It's now clear what happens when a shadow Cabinet minister publicly expresses their difference of opinion with the Labour leader: They either get sacked or they get told to shut up, as shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn has been.

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.

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

All those of us who believe in a compassionate, fairer society must get behind Corbyn, McDonnell and the shadow cabinet and make our voices heard on behalf of the 99 %.

The interview got tense when Butler insisted Burnham had vowed to include Corbyn in his shadow cabinet if he became leader.

«Who isn't writing the manifesto», one shadow cabinet member told me, «You've got Cruddas, Angela, Ed himself, Balls and his people, Torsten [Henricson Bell], Stewart [Wood], Harriet wants her say, even Axelrod is chipping in.

«Over the next 24 hours, I will reshape my shadow cabinet and announce a new leadership team to take forward Labour's campaign for a fairer Britain - and to get the best deal with Europe for our people.»

Labour's shadow work and pension secretary Rachel Reeves has asked «when will the PM and IDS [Iain Duncan Smith] get a grip» on Universal Credit, after Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude admitted to ITV News that its implementation had been «pretty lamentable» so far:

Trickett, whose recent article in the New Statesman certainly marks him out as the most left - wing member of the shadow cabinet, will certainly improve the advice Ed gets to hear.

I find it astonishing if you think about the talent you've got around that shadow cabinet table, even around that small circle of people who came out of the last government together — Miliband, Balls, Burnham, Yvette Cooper, I'm not Douglas» biggest fan but you can include him in that list.

More mischievously, former senior advisers to the shadow cabinet were looking at ways they could quickly hang John McDonnell by his own petard, way before George Osborne, sensibly playing a longer game, could get his own dirty hands on him.

While it's unusual for someone seeking to become a Labour PPC to secure the support of three members of the shadow cabinet, Hayes was not alone among the candidates in getting top level backing.

A shadow cabinet member told me, «I've got issues with Ed.

Whereas the shadow Cabinet's for people who still want to get dizzy.»

Faster than one of those members of the shadow cabinet who gets sacked before she knows she has even been appointed.»

But he gets coherence in parts of his shadow cabinet over Trident at a very big price.

The website has grown too, it's now got information on how to vote, a key terms glossary and even a who's who guide to the cabinet and shadow cabinet amongst other things.

«I haven't embarked on this leadership campaign to get a seat in the shadow Cabinet.

Over recent days we've also heard my shadow cabinet colleagues, Emma Reynolds and Tristram Hunt, talk about how a Labour government will ensure we get the house building we need to strengthen our economy and improve people's quality of life, and about how we raise standards in our schools to ensure our children are equipped to succeed.

«Harriet Harman wants half of shadow cabinet to be women Main Now Ed Balls admits Labour got it wrong on Eastern European immigration»

Things have got so bad in the shadow cabinet that ministers are having to double up; Dave Anderson is minding both Scotland and Northern Ireland while Emily Thornberry is now both shadow foreign secretary and shadow minister for Brexit.

The Tory radar sensed danger and the party launched a pre-emptive strike last week: a blitz of speeches on the environment by seven shadow Cabinet members including Mr Cameron, William Hague and George Osborne, who suggested that householders could get «shopping vouchers» worth # 130 a year to recycle their rubbish.

Miliband was trying to take Labour in the right direction and I admire his convictions, but he did not seem to have the courage of them and was unable to get many of his own shadow cabinet on message.

This close to a general election, it's time for all shadow cabinet members to thank their boards for 10 comfortable, well - paid years of outside interests and get their eyes on the prize, full - time.

A member of the shadow cabinet gasped: «I'm amazed he got away with it.»

As I said to a friend last night, it's hard to get excited about a 50:50 shadow cabinet (or more) when all the big jobs are in the hands of men.

If you are arguing that most of the shadow cabinet also got it wrong strategically on the economics of the post crisis state then I'd agree.

«They do try and hold the party together, they do recognise that the Labour party is a broad church, not a religious cult, that you need people of different backgrounds and try and get the best possible talents,» Dugher said, adding that «ultimately [the makeup of the shadow cabinet] will be a decision for Jeremy».

Cameron should get rid of the junior shadow cabinet positions currently occupied by Neville - Jones, Warsi and Shapps.

I personally know around 20 people who will not vote Tory if this egomaniac gets anywhere near the shadow cabinet.

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

For a new MP who has never been in the shadow cabinet, Jess Philips has become remarkably well - known, appearing on Have I Got News for You and publishing a book, «Jess Phillips: Everywoman».

Patrick Wintour has clearly been briefed that Byrne's shadow cabinet position is possibly up for grabs in a future reshuffle, and it's well - known that Miliband is keen to get a grip on the policy review process, potentially with the aim of speeding it up.

Also the focus should be spread around the shadow cabinet that Cameron will keep when they get to power.

Asked about his NEC seat, Leicester South MP Mr Ashworth said: «They're decisions for the leader and the shadow cabinet and I'm not going to get into that today.»

Lord Prescott said the shadow cabinet had «massively failed» to get its message across under his leadership.

Grayling got stuck in and was rapidly promoted, entering Michael Howard's shadow cabinet team as shadow leader of the Commons in 2005 — a post too emollient for his talents (it requires a taste for consensus and conciliation), so he moved on.

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.

When David Davis committed shadow cabinet suicide last year Dominic Grieve briefly got the Home Office portfolio and was — I suspect — soon deemed too gentle, too cerebral even, by Cameron.

Ask the man on the Clapham Omnibus to name four members of the shadow cabinet and I doubt they will be able to get past Cameron, (because he is leader of the party), Hague, (because he was leader of the party and has gravitas) and Osborn, because of an unfortunate incident on an oligarch's yacht.

Or perhaps it was a project done after class, once all the bow - tied bean counters went home, and a handful of renegade engineers and stylists appeared from the shadows and got out their secret keys to the supply cabinet, and built what is, hands down, the most ridiculous, wonderful car of 2011.