Sentences with phrase «new shadow chancellor»

Labour's new shadow chancellor John McDonnell managed to deliver his maiden conference speech without causing a run on the financial markets.

Speaking to journalists yesterday afternoon, Labour's new shadow chancellor Chris Leslie repeatedly turned down opportunities to oppose, or even criticise, most of Osborne's key decisions.

New shadow chancellor Ed Balls comments on the government's lack of progress in securing a deal to get banks lending again:

Labour's new shadow chancellor Alan Johnson has opted to avoid a decisive break with the party's approach to spending cuts, in his first major speech in the job.

Instead, lining up in the centre for Labour were acting leader Harriet Harman and new shadow chancellor Chris Leslie.

At a conference event this week the new shadow chancellor said the party needed to become a «resistance movement».

Today he tells the Financial Times that he will be «the most business - friendly mayor of all time,» and outlines why he is opposed to a number of tax - raising proposals by the new shadow chancellor John McDonnell.

Questions about the leader's judgement aside, the new line - up - including Ed Balls as the new shadow chancellor and his wife, Yvette Cooper, taking on the home affairs portfolio - is now settling into its first day in the job.

Tory deputy chairman Michael Fallon comments on Labour's record on bank regulation and the party's new shadow chancellor, Ed Balls:

Nigel Dodds, DUP leader, who looks so angry he might cry, attacks McDonnell, the new shadow chancellor, for his comments on the IRA.

The leader of the opposition and his new shadow chancellor gave a magnificent display of unity this lunchtime.

George Osborne and Alan Johnson's first clash saw the pair united in a desire to deprecate the same person - the new shadow chancellor.

In an interview with the Observer, John McDonnell, the new shadow chancellor, said both he and Corbyn knew they would be hit with a «tsunami» of negative press attention but believed they could withstand it.

Chris Leslie, the new shadow chancellor, says it has been a «very bruising week» but that Labour now needs to give people a «sense of trust».

Is this an argument to ease the spending squeeze, as Ed Balls, the new shadow chancellor, is urging?