Sentences with phrase «members of his shadow cabinet after»

The Labour leader was attacked by backbench MPs and even members of his shadow cabinet after the party lost seats in England and Wales and were humiliated in Scotland, where they finished a distant third.

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The shadow defence secretary reacted angrily after the prime minister made a series of claims about members of the shadow cabinet.

Six weeks later, after being asked every week to do so by Maria Eagle when she met him at shadow cabinet meetings (I wasn't a member of the shadow cabinet, only the shadow secretaries of state sit in that meeting), Jeremy finally phoned me.

[5][6] Press rumours of a split in the Labour Party had occurred since Jeremy Corbyn's election as leader in 2015; this intensified after pro-EU members of his shadow cabinet resigned in protest of his allegedly weak support for the Remain campaign, leading to a leadership challenge by Owen Smith.

Former deputy prime minister John Prescott's wrote: «I really hope every member of the shadow cabinet thinks twice before writing for the Sun after that front page.»

And she dismissed the fact Mr Corbyn has scores of empty frontbench roles - with people having to do two shadow cabinet jobs at once - after 64 members of his top team resigned.

One former shadow cabinet member told the Mirror that Mr Corbyn's much - vaunted «olive branch» to MPs after his leadership victory now looked like «an act of war».

Several members of the Tory shadow Cabinet also admitted to drug taking after Ann Widdecombe called for # 100 fines for possession of cannabis in 2000.

After the leadership contest, we were told that it would come before the spending review, and then this morning, a member of the shadow Cabinet said on the radio, «We are not going to do an alternative to the spending review».

Members of Labour's shadow cabinet have praised Barking and Dagenham Council for a scheme which involves naming new roads after service men and women killed in action.

The Rushcliffe MP made representations to Legg's team last week after receiving the highest repayment request of any member of the shadow cabinet

After his role in the Crewe and Nantwich by - election campaign - following a successful masterminding of our local government advances - Eric shot to near the top of our regular shadow cabinet league table of members» satisfaction.

The Labour leader, who was left reeling after his decision to sack the shadow foreign secretary, Hilary Benn, was followed by the resignations of 11 senior shadow cabinet members, said he would not «betray the trust» of the people who voted for him by stepping down.

Notwithstanding the many qualities of Jon Cruddas and the excellent work carried out by other MPs — for example Gisela Stuart and Stella Creasy — in being effective voices for their members and communities and outstanding campaigners, it is, after all, only MPs who currently have the opportunity to be elected to the shadow cabinet.

Former shadow cabinet member and University of Kent student, Emily Thornberry MP, issued an apology on Twitter after being criticised for the tweet she posted from Rochester & Strood.

His supporters say much of the frenzied speculation around the reshuffle was whipped up by their opponents, rather than Mr Corbyn himself, but I understand he did want to make the changes and after members of the shadow cabinet made it plain that they would resist him extremely strongly, it seems he will not.