Sentences with phrase «many shadow cabinet»

There is a need to strengthen democracy within the party... That includes proposals for elections to the shadow cabinet.

VICTORIA — New Democrat leader John Horgan has promoted Vancouver - Mount Pleasant MLA Melanie Mark within the official opposition shadow cabinet.

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

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will establish «a shadow cabinet» ahead of the general elections in 2019.

Exhibition space has sold out and corporate chiefs are expected to flock to the business forum at party conference, where they can mix with «prominent business leaders and senior shadow cabinet members».

More likely is a boycott of the shadow cabinet.

Under Gordon Brown he rose to a ministerial position at the Foreign Office, but back in Opposition he fell well short of the votes required amongst his colleagues to make the shadow cabinet.

It's hard to imagine this happening in a party led by Angela Rayner or Rebecca Long - Bailey, two working class women in the shadow cabinet.

A prime minister toppled, a vote to leave the European Union, a shadow cabinet in open revolt against its leader.

The new Labour leader will take over with just under a month before the coalition's spending review is announced on 20 October, and a matter of days after announcing the new shadow cabinet.

«Labour and the shadow cabinet have been seen as a London and metropolitan party, but that's not where Labour's history is,» she says.

He's back in the shadow cabinet, but where is he in the Labour Party?

The senior former shadow Cabinet minister was criticised for submitting a # 957 claim for a «pewter finish» on radiators, and # 8,000 for work on his garden.

The only thing that can kill omnigate now is the forthcoming holidays of the shadow Cabinet.

After quitting the shadow cabinet, she said: «I have examined my conscience and I have made this personal decision.

In an article for the New Statesman, the shadow chancellor accused his former shadow cabinet colleague of echoing the tactics of the unsuccessful EU Remain campaign.

«The big issue is the unions,» says one shadow cabinet source.

With no - one able to predict the election result, the Westminster rumour mill is dominated by discussion of shadow Cabinet appointments.

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.

Labour sources said that Winterton was sacked at the start of a meeting to discuss a deal that would allow the party's MPs to elect some shadow cabinet posts.

Many current shadow cabinet members would be unable to stomach serving as junior partners in the great Corbynite project.

A New Statesman interview with Harriet Harman yesterday revealed the interim labour leader was angling for a seat on the shadow Cabinet once a new head was chosen.

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.

Rumours of a shadow Cabinet reshuffle are continuing to overshadow Labour's party conference in Liverpool.

It was made worse by the fact that that someone was a senior shadow cabinet minister who I have quite a large crush on.

Nick Clegg's remarks about his shadow cabinet's qualities, David Miliband's «Heseltine moment» at the Labour Party Conference, George Bush's «Yo, Blair» and John Major's «bastards» are examples.

And the lure of shadow cabinet elections - which Corbyn has promised to re-introduce - could well prove irresistible to a number of junior ministers and wannabe ministers.

David Cameron is taking the shadow cabinet to Scotland today, as the Conservatives unofficially kick - off their campaign for May's Scottish elections.

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

One Blairite shadow cabinet source mocked comparisons with a «Clause 4 Moment» but recognised, «The reforms themselves are good.

The new leader continues to earn what can politely be called mixed reviews, while the cry «Where is the shadow cabinet?»

«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.»

Kerry McCarthy has become the latest MP to speak out about her time in the shadow cabinet, saying that Jeremy Corbyn often failed to answer her questions and indicating that his office tended to ignore everything she did.

Talking to Politics.co.uk last week, Cash said the Tories» attempt to blame Labour was unfair because David Cameron's then - shadow Cabinet had failed to back his campaign to explicitly state the charter of fundamental rights would not apply to UK law at the time.

Corbyn was appearing with the entire shadow cabinet, members of Labour's ruling body and trade union chiefs at an event in central London on Tuesday,

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.

The second review is «unofficial», and being conducted by former shadow cabinet member Jon Cruddas.

Lammy says he was offered a job in Ed Miliband's shadow cabinet but turned it down.

Smith also told his rival he would not take a shadow cabinet post under his leadership because it would be «futile» with nobody listening to Labour.

«Clearly Cameron is standing up for the wrong people,» shadow Cabinet Office minister Jon Trickett said.

Announcing his new - look team, Corbyn said: «I'm pleased to announce appointments to Labour's shadow cabinet.

Yes, he has an interesting biography but he was only elected in 2010, has never held even a shadow cabinet post and has no big following in the party or union backing.

John Trickett, shadow Cabinet Office minister, comments on the Bureau of Investigative Journalism lobbying sting operation.

Corbyn's position is finally settled even if the thorny issue of shadow cabinet elections is not.

Instead the strategic choice open to the rebels now, given that they are not going to form a separate party, is to co-operate as much as possible with the Corbyn leadership for the next year, including becoming part of the new shadow cabinet.

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.

Earlier this year, the previously - loyal Corbynite quit the shadow cabinet rather than vote in favour of the government's Brexit bill.

His botched handling of his shadow cabinet reshuffle and the series of resignations that have followed this morning, will completely overshadow any positive coverage he might otherwise have received for his performance today.

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.

Backbenchers and political journalists piled the praise on Eagle after today's performance, while a shadow cabinet member suggested that many Labour MPs preferred Eagle's «confrontational» style to Jeremy Corbyn's «calm» approach.