Sentences with phrase «like labour ministers»

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Labour shadow minister Gloria de Piero said: «No one should use deeply offensive language like this,» while Helen Grant, the government's sports and equalities minister, described the remarks as «completely unacceptable and very disappointing.»

Through the course of the conversations, I and my colleague Dan Jarvis - Labour's shadow minister for the arts and creative industries — have been having with people in the industry it's clear that there are some themes emerging about what our vision should look like and I want to hear from you about what you think.

Labour MPs cheered like happy children at Prime Minister's Questions.

Neither the Prime Minister nor the Chancellor has published their full tax return like myself or the Leader of the Labour Party.

Shadow justice minister Andy Slaughter said: «Labour have pledged to reverse the prisoner book ban and now it looks like the High court agree.

Shadow Cabinet minister Michael Dugher said Labour needed to stop acting like a «think - tank» and spend more time talking about issues the public cares about.

There had been speculation Sturgeon would get a tougher ride, Labour having learnt its lessons from two lively Scottish leaders» debates in which the first minister was treated more like an incumbent than an insurgent.

The prime minister has bowed to pressure from the Labour party, Boris Johnson and figures like Baroness Tanni Grey - Thompson and Colin Moynihan, the outgoing head of the British Olympic Association, to give the stars of London 2012 their own honours list.

«Labour's tactic of sending in the heavies from London to work over the SNP has not only totally compromised [first minister Jack] McConnell's election strategy but it has demonstrated that they, like him, lack confidence in his ability to lead,» Mr Salmond said.

Mr Cameron has just described the allegations being made as «shocking» and said it was «appalling» to hear former Labour ministers «trading off their power» and describing themselves as being like «a cab for hire».

Unfortunately for Labour, my impression is that if you do seriously analyse the requirements for a good prime Minister, I suspect that one answer comes up very much like David Cameron (but not Nick Clegg).

Jeremy claims credit for overturning some Tory policies since September, when the truth is that he had little to do with any of it and the credit should go to individual ministers like Owen Smith and their teams, as well as to Baroness Smith and the Labour Lords, who have worked tirelessly and effectively with apparently little involvement from Jeremy or his office.

While in power, Labour ministers liked nothing more than to lecture Europeans on anything from waging wars to managing markets.

While even though Labour politicians talk warmly about the Lib Dem man, there are many in Farron's own party who will ask Stephen Tall's question of «does this guy look like a future deputy prime minister?»

Labour peers tweeted last night about the novelty of voting with diehard Tory grandees like Brian Mawhinney and ex-social security minister Tony Newton.

Ms Eagle told the BBC that Labour's current policy is in favour of retaining a nuclear deterrent, adding: «I don't think that a potential prime minister answering a question like that, in the way in which he did, is helpful.»

On Monday, the Labour leader must act like a prime minister, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has been careful to avoid making any cross-party appeals during the campaign, repeatedly insisting that he would like to see very different reforms to the EU to those negotiated by the prime minister.

Disraeli once compared the government of his day to exhausted volcanoes but, said Hague, Labour ministers looked like a «decomposing political muckheap.»

In a letter to Sir Hayden last month, former minister Stephen Byers - a Blairite Labour MP - said even to a moderniser like him, the proposal was unworkable.

In public he would attack enemies like the «old boy network» and the «elitism» of Oxbridge while in private promising to be a more traditional Labour prime minister once he took over.

Only 12 per cent like the party but not the Prime Minister, suggesting Labour's problems go much deeper than its leader.

At the end of a week in which two former Labour first ministers expressed grave concerns about the future of the party, Lamont accused colleagues of trying to run Scotland «like a branch office of London».

[7] This was the second time David Cameron had attacked her during Prime minister's questions; on his debut as Leader of the Opposition on 7 December 2005 she was singled out by Cameron when he said «That's the problem with these exchanges — the chief whip on the Labour side shouting like a child.

20 days ago, David Cameron announced that he would be stepping down as Prime Minister and we faced the prospect of a General Election, against a Party led by some of the most right wing Tories ever, and with UKIP buoyed by huge Leave votes in our Labour heartlands, including in places like Clifton.

in the great 1945 Labour Governement letting ministers deliver the results like the helth service that we still cherish today.

If the SNP had enough seats to form a coalition with Labour and Salmond were an MP, there is a chance he could be given a senior role in the government like Nick Clegg, who became the Liberal Democrat deputy prime minister in 2010.

Amongst Labour's own supporters only 16 % thought Miliband had the right policies and the right look / sound, 5 % of Labour supporters thought he had the right look / sound but the wrong policies, 59 % of Labour supporters thought he had the right policies but didn't look or sound like a possible Prime Minister.

The former Labour prime minister Tony Blair joined the inquest, saying: «It is right to be worried when a party like Ukip comes first in the European election, it would be foolish not to be.

It's a deal that's been welcomed by the Prime Minister, the UK Government and Welsh Government figures but has been condemned as «a Labour - Tory stitch - up like no other» by the leader of Plaid Cymru.

Former Minister, David Lammy MP is an admirer, and he wrote about Blue Labour for Labour Uncut: «It understands that when people see their job become more insecure, when they see their family less and when they feel they no longer know their neighbours, this doesn't always feel like progress.

I'd almost forgotten what New Labour ministers used to be like.

Jon Trickett, Labour's election coordinator and a shadow cabinet member, agreed with the Liberal Democrats that it now looked like «the coronation of a new Conservative prime minister».

Instead of building a campaign around Labour's strengths, the Prime Minister was treated as a liability in the early weeks, wheeling him around like a minor royal, having cups of tea with hand picked voters to generate photo - ops for local newspapers.

Labour has transformed into a «Moonie - like sect» under Jeremy Corbyn's leadership, according to one of the party's former ministers.

Serota recalls a few cabinet ministers coming in and out of the house but says his mother was never at the heart of the Labour Party in that sense, «although she was active in the Hampstead party in the 50s, so she did know people like Gaitskell and Greenwood».