Sentences with phrase «n't shadow home secretary»

It wouldn't matter if Grayling wasn't shadow home secretary, which is a job for grown - ups, a brief to be handled carefully by any politician who expects to hold the real job one day.

Not exact matches

Before lunch delegates loyally applauded shadow home secretary Alan Johnson saying: «You do not demonstrate your commitment to civil liberties by failing to protect the most important civil liberty of all; the right to be safe on our streets.»

«Families who have had to leave their homes and will need to have them repaired because of flood damage should not be asked to pay council tax,» shadow communities and local government secretary Hilary Benn said.

«Don't move the party to the left,» shadow home secretary Alan Johnson urged Mr Miliband in an article for the Independent on Sunday newspaper.

Her use of party politics while discussing the topic led to several attacks, not least of all from shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper, who launched a blistering attack on the programme.

He said: «They have a leader who will not sing the national anthem, a shadow chancellor who seems to admire the IRA more than he does the British Army, a shadow foreign secretary who sneers at the English flag and a shadow home secretary who seems to advocate unlimited immigration.

Anyone who could be shadow home secretary one day, and Shami Chakrabarti's best friend the next, is nothing if not open - minded.

The shadow home secretary also pledged to properly centre the right to family life in Labour's immigration policy, saying her party «don't want to break up families from the EU in the way we currently do for non-EU families.»

David Davis would still be the shadow home secretary had he not indulged in the futile exercise of the by - election, a non-event.

The shadow home secretary told reporters ahead of the last of 11 hustings between him and rival David Cameron: «Don't write me off yet.»

And that's not just good for the shadow health secretary, or those who have been fighting for justice for 96 people who went to cheer their side to Wembley and never came home.

Yvette Cooper, the shadow home secretary, has no such worries, but home office issues have not featured prominently in the campaign and she has had a low profile.

However, shadow home secretary Andy Burnham angered many of his colleagues by insisting he would not be part of the walkout.

Yvette Cooper is the only Labour figure who has made it into the coverage today in her capacity as shadow work and pensions secretary, which incidentally can't be doing her profile as a potential shadow chancellor any home.

Following revelations on my blog last week, shadow home secretary Chris Grayling has defended the Conservative Party's use of figures suggesting «significant» rises in violent crime - even though the official source statistics warn they should not be used in that way.

It is a stance that some suggest the shadow home secretary will not countenance, because it would amount to disowning the position of her husband, Ed Balls.

«The government are kidding themselves if they think ID Cards for foreign nationals will protect against illegal immigration or terrorism - since they don't apply to those coming here for less than three months,» said shadow home secretary Dominic Grieve.

But commentators were not convinced with one journalist saying that Abbott had experienced a Natalie Bennett-esque «brainfade» and one former Labour special adviser suggesting that the shadow home secretary must be a Tory secret agent...

«I'm not going to make the normal political speech either as shadow home secretary or as Labour leadership candidate - attacking the Government and setting out an alternative Labour response.

He's fairly right - wing, it has to be said; as shadow home secretary he didn't exactly hold back.

David Davis, the shadow home secretary, later said he had contacted the prime minister in December last year regarding the alleged bugging, though he did not name the MP involved.

This would leave Yvette Cooper, the shadow Home Secretary, as the only «establishment» candidate not from the 2010 intake.

Developments are taking place everyday so you do nt expect the shadow home secretary's post to be vacant or appoint someone temporarily because someone has chosen to leave without even informing his boss until the last minute.

They were shadow home secretary Chris Grayling and shadow transport secretary Theresa Villiers - both, intriguingly, were not given Cabinet posts when the Coalition eventually formed.

Following Ms May's statement to parliament today, shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said: «The Home Secretary claimed she did not authorise the release of her letter to Michael Gove accusing his department of a failure to act to the media or on the Home Office website.

«That's the sort of thing we would see in Tripoli, not London,» former shadow home secretary David Davis complained.

«When the government describes someone as being under close supervision the public has a right to believe that its safety will be protected - this is clearly not true,» said shadow home secretary David Davis.

«The government should not have left this legislation until the last minute before the summer,» shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said.

The former shadow home secretary told BBC1's Question Time programme he was unhappy with the European court of human rights» (EHR) ruling earlier this week that prisoners should not be disenfranchised.

The former shadow home secretary said it showed that IPSA was «out of touch with reality» and he would propose a motion to stop the increase as the «public would not see the point of this», but he would not be drawn on whether he would accept the rise.

Alan Johnson, the former Labour home secretary, has insisted that Jeremy Corbyn is not up to being opposition leader, as the party enters fresh infighting after a shadow cabinet shakeup.

Jeremy Corbyn, the Leader of the Opposition, believes it is essential, with his close ally, the shadow home secretary, Diane Abbott, claiming it would be «outrageous» not to consult Parliament first.

This was echoed by the former shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper, who emphasised on Friday that immigration is «not what this campaign is about — Brexit will not make a difference».

Andy Burnham is definitely not being moved from his post as shadow home secretary, my colleague Frances Perraudin tells me.

Morgan insisted he was not, and accused the shadow home secretary of failing to give «a straight factual answer to this fundamental question».

He does not seem to remember those dangers when it comes to his responsibility as shadow Home Secretary.

Yvette Cooper, the former shadow home secretary, said Labour must not be «paralysed from debating immigration reform either — or our tin ear to the concerns of the country will stop others listening to our case for helping refugees», while former shadow work and pensions secretary Rachel Reeves caused controversy on Tuesday by suggesting the UK could «explode» if concerns about immigration were ignored.

Yvette Cooper, Labour's former shadow home secretary, who spoke at the event to encourage more young voters to register before the new extended deadline, said Corbyn would not privately vote leave.

Yvette Cooper, the former shadow home secretary, told the same event that immigration was «not what this campaign is about.

Later, the shadow home secretary, Diane Abbott, addressed a Windrush rally in Brixton, south London, telling them that the home secretary, Amber Rudd, and May, should not be apologising over the scandal.