Sentences with phrase «now shadow foreign secretary»

Things have got so bad in the shadow cabinet that ministers are having to double up; Dave Anderson is minding both Scotland and Northern Ireland while Emily Thornberry is now both shadow foreign secretary and shadow minister for Brexit.

I listened to Cooper, now shadow foreign secretary, on Woman's Hour the other day and was struck by how successfully she's now softened her edges.

Not exact matches

The Commons exchanges also saw Labour backbencher John Woodcock say shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry was «not fit to stand at that despatch box» after she warned many foreign parties were now acting like the Assad regime.

10:15 - And now here's the shadow foreign secretary, Douglas Alexander, who lays out the key objections of the opposition: «We do not believe an in - out referendum... is in the national interest,» he says.

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.

Why would he stifle his conscience and remove his own freedom of speech in order to become a puppet shadow foreign secretary now?

Hague is his friend, he now says after accusing the shadow foreign secretary of a «bizarre autism» in their discussions.

«Nick Clegg now agrees with Labour's argument on every front,» said shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander.

The Labour leader and the shadow foreign secretary will now advocate opposing positions from the frontbench when MPs meet, with Corbyn opening and Benn closing.

The political fallout from last week's Syria vote has continued with a Cabinet minister saying the results would be a matter for Ed Miliband's conscience and the shadow foreign secretary admitting he was not comfortable with the position Labour now finds itself in.

Jeremy Corbyn's warnings on Iraq, Libya and Syria have proved right, and now Iran looks like the next battleground, writes shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry

Offering a referendum on the UK's position over the EU was «not the not right choice for Britain now» said the shadow foreign secretary.

The reshuffle will now be held up because Mr Benn, as shadow foreign secretary, must hold the Tory PM to account on his EU renegotiation.

It ran this article this morning and now the paper's website has published a piece by shadow foreign secretary William Hague, detailing the issues on which he says David Miliband has questions to answer.

So now, just four months on, if he embarks on dramatic changes, sacks those who have publicly disagreed with him, like the shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn, there's a danger it looks like when his own authority is challenged he just can't take it.

Leaving aside the inconvenient fact that even an illegal war isn't necessarily a crime, are we to suppose that Mr Corbyn will now be demanding that Labour's deputy leader, Tom Watson, shadow foreign secretary, Hilary Benn, and shadow justice secretary, Charles Falconer, be added to the fantasy indictment for having supported and voted for the invasion, two (Benn and Falconer) as members of the government at the time?