Sentences with phrase «now shadow minister»

Eyes are also on Gloria De Piero, who backed Liz Kendall for leader and is now shadow minister for young people and voter registration.

Now a shadow minister plunges in the dagger: Tristram Hunt joins Labour revolt... as poll says Miliband is liability 9 November 2014

Since ennobled, he is now shadow minister for welfare reform and is leading for the Conservatives on the Child Poverty Bill, which has its Committee Stage in the Lords next week.

I understand that the invitation for the last meeting was extended to at least two members who are no longer on the NPF (Michael Cashman and Joanne Milligan), and one person at the meeting no longer qualifies (Kate Green was a representative of the PLP (i.e. backbenchers) but is now a shadow minister.

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Now, thanks to tough new mortgage lending and insurance rules announced by federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau in October, some analysts predict that so - called «shadow banking» firms, which operate largely outside the purview of regulators, will see a surge of fresh business from frustrated homebuyers who can't get conventional loans.

Up to now, Champagne has worked in Morneau's shadow, helping develop policy ideas like the finance minister's infrastructure bank and investment hub.

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.

21:52 - Wayne David, the shadow constitutional reform minister, is now speaking.

Labour shadow ministers who sneered at the idea they might offer Proportional Representation to the Libdems, on the eve of the election, will now have to face the fact that only permanent coalition politics or electoral reform can give them a chance to rule in future.

If the whip is now in favour of leaving Nato, of a completely new policy on Trident... I just can not see how many people will be prepared to accept that responsibility,» one shadow cabinet minister said.

Another former Conservative cabinet minister and ex-MP, David Mellor, was even more scathing, describing the Tories under Cameron as «this pale sad shadow of what the Tory party used to be» and warning that it was «ripping itself apart now because of the sense that David Cameron is a prisoner of Nick Clegg and the Lib Dems».

Now shadow Cabinet Office minister Jon Trickett has called on the prime minister had to «come clean» about the full scale and nature of his meetings with donors.

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.

However on this, Maude — now the shadow Cabinet Office minister — admits he «isn't sure» if such plans will be ready in time; Merlin's rollout has been «difficult».

Her lead role on the health portfolio will be taken over by Lord Hunt, a former minister in several departments under the previous Labour government, now shadow deputy leader of the upper house and Labour's spokesman on Lords reform.

He will now be shadow cabinet office minister.

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.

Having impressed David Cameron with his work on police reform he now has responsibility for one of the biggest briefs in the shadow cabinet and is opposing Jack Straw, arguably Gordon Brown's most able Cabinet Minister.

I'm afraid that the world has moved on from the time when a well crafted piece from John Redwood would be enough to send potential Ukip jacks back into their Tory boxes.A party where the old guard of Maude Clarke, Hurd, Heseltine, Gummer, Patten etc clearly now pull the strings of an inexperienced leader just endorses the fear of being conned.What did happen to the Tory policy on fisheries?Why can only backbenchers support BOO whilst shadow (non) ministers and whips are blackmailed into supporting the collective policy of continued EU membership.Why would those seeking disengagement from what even the most active champions of the EU now CONTINUALLY refer to as an experiment vote Conservative?

According to HuffPost UK, the shadow health minister will now be hauled in to face the shadow chief whip and Labour Lords leader Baroness Smith for a «discussion» on the matter.

Most former cabinet ministers will now shadow their old posts, but there are a few notable exceptions, the most obvious being Gordon Brown, who has returned to the backbenches after quitting as Labour leader.

If the whip is now in favour of leaving Nato, of a completely new policy on Trident... I just can not see how many people will be prepared to accept that responsibility,» one shadow cabinet minister told this newspaper.

Back in the Lords Lady Hayter, the deputy Labour leader in the Lords and a shadow Brexit minister, is now winding up for the opposition.

Cue embarrassing questions about whether shadow ministers collected receipts for every odd job or window cleaned and the circumstances in which Ed Miliband's mother seems to have avoided tax on the house in which he now lives.

Jon Trickett, Labour's election coordinator and a shadow cabinet member, agreed with the Liberal Democrats that it now looked like «the coronation of a new Conservative prime minister».

Osborne has acknowledged these concerns by telling shadow ministers that he will now focus more attention on the campaign after delivering the prestigious Mais lecture this week.

Labour's shadow schools minister Kevin Brennan has now written to Mr Gove calling for him to publish the proposals for savings on free schools in full.

Speaking at Energy Storage and Connected Systems, an event hosted last week in London by the national Renewable Energy Association (REA), shadow minister for energy and climate change Alan Whitehead claimed current energy legislation was now «obsolete» in the face of the changes underway in the sector.