Sentences with phrase «of shadow cabinet»

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has nominated the party's former longstanding general secretary Iain McNicol, veteran campaigner and ex-councillor Martha Osamor - whose daughter Kate is a member of the shadow cabinet - and socialist author and activist Pauline Bryan.

Its inevitable that members of the shadow cabinet are going to kick back as cuts are imposed on their budgets by Ed Balls.

Ask the man on the Clapham Omnibus to name four members of the shadow cabinet and I doubt they will be able to get past Cameron, (because he is leader of the party), Hague, (because he was leader of the party and has gravitas) and Osborn, because of an unfortunate incident on an oligarch's yacht.

Unfortunately, too many members of the shadow cabinet seem to think that moral outrage at the Tories, for being Tories, will be enough.

Listed below are the net satisfaction ratings for 27 members of the shadow cabinet.

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.

We've already published the results from the April survey that showed rising member satisfaction with David Cameron and for most of the shadow cabinet.

[Shadow chancellor John] McDonnell and a small number of shadow cabinet members are the only ones keeping Corbyn in office.

Members of the shadow cabinet will instead trumpet three key messages over the weekend: that the Tories are best placed to stabilise the economy, with a credible plan to cut the fiscal deficit; that they embrace aspiration and opportunity for all; and that society needs to change.

A senior member of the shadow cabinet has told ConservativeHome that the Damian Green affair had important lessons for the next steps of Tory strategy.

But it's likely, in fact, that the next 24 hours will see fewer of the shadow cabinet shoved out, and more just shuffled around.

The Sunday Times reported (paywall) that up to half of the shadow cabinet were likely to be in favour of action when the prime minister puts his proposal to a Commons vote.

Based on his performance in May, Alexander was the eighth hardest working member of the shadow cabinet.

Labour sent all its chiefs, from Jeremy Corbyn and Jon Lansman to most of the shadow cabinet, and celebrities like Owen Jones, to campaign in Westminster.

Mr Cameron said he was «really proud» of his shadow cabinet team: «I'm proud of the fact that we work together, that we work with each other.

(Andy is not top of the shadow cabinet rankings by a -LSB-...]

Out of the shadow cabinet's heavy hitters, Andy Burnham is untouchable at health, Chuka Umunna is seen as having done a good job maintaining Labour's strained links with business, and any lateral move for Yvette Cooper would have been viewed as a demotion, enraging Ed Balls and his supporters.

Shadow Security Minister Dame Pauline Neville - Jones is, according to the monthly ConservativeHome survey of grassroots members, the most popular female member of the shadow cabinet.

* 10 am: A member of the shadow cabinet has emailed me to cast doubt on the accuracy of the NotW table - pointing out that - at least in his case - the change largely reflects boundary changes.

Mr Corbyn said this was the most ever of any shadow cabinet or cabinet.

If we enter an election campaign with most of the shadow cabinet having been in position for years our result will be much better.

There might still be some minor changes around the edges of the shadow cabinet, but nothing on the scale that was planned just a few days ago.

Attack on all fronts, using as many members of the shadow cabinet as possible and give David Cameron a rest.

The graphic on the right from the NotW (click to enlarge) shows that membership is falling in the Associations of all shadow cabinet members.

The Labour leader's reshuffle of his shadow Cabinet has so far taken nearly two days, enough time to watch Shakespeare's play 24 times.

Not all members of the shadow Cabinet were implicated.

One member of the shadow cabinet and another senior frontbencher have described the power of the kitchen cabinet around Mr Cameron.

They included 11 out of 28 Commons members of the shadow cabinet, six junior shadow ministers and three whips including the deputy chief whip, Alan Campbell.

Their valiant attempt to involve themselves in the selection of the shadow cabinet has, predictably, been paid only lip - service by the leadership.

In defiance of the shadow cabinet's collective support for triggering article 50, Roger Liddle, a former special adviser on Europe to Blair and now a peer, said Corbyn had failed to fight plans for a hard Brexit and instead marched his MPs through the division lobbies to vote for it.

A wave of shadow cabinet ministers resigned in protest at Corbyn's leadership, accusing him of not doing enough to convince Labour voters to vote Remain.

Miliband is also under pressure to give a bigger role to other members of the shadow cabinet, and to do more to sort out decision - making structures in the leader's office.

One's first reaction to Ed Miliband's abolition of shadow cabinet elections is that this is a step away from party democracy.

Eleven of the 28 members of the shadow cabinet, including Benn and Eagle, voted in favour of extending airstrikes against Islamic State to Syria, a move Corbyn strongly opposed.

Unsourced briefings to several newspapers over Christmas, attributed to people in Corbyn's camp, claimed that members of the shadow cabinet — including Dugher, as well as the shadow foreign secretary, Hilary Benn, and the shadow defence secretary, Maria Eagle — could be removed as revenge for siding with the government over the question of whether to extend airstrikes against Isis to Syria.

There are many members of the shadow cabinet who have reservations about Jeremy Corbyn's politics, but no one expressed them as openly as Michael Dugher did before he was sacked this morning.

We have seen all of the shadow cabinet - as they will be - here, and we have been dealing with an enormously popular constituency MP and yet we have prevailed.»

The reshuffle risks deepening rifts in the party and some Labour MPs have been keen to point out that Corbyn began his leadership promising to allow members of his shadow cabinet to express differing views.

Allies of Jeremy Corbyn say he they are nervous about him using his platform to launch a future leadership bid, and he is being accompanied by other members of the shadow cabinet on visits to keep an eye on him.

I am quite sympathetic to his ignoring and treating badly some of the right wing idiots but he also treats some of the front bench, and even some of the shadow cabinet, like this.

A delegation of shadow cabinet ministers, led by the shadow home secretary, Andy Burnham, also failed to secure a meeting with Corbyn last Thursday to try to negotiate a resolution.

The prospect of a reshuffle has triggered alarm among some of the more centrist members of the shadow cabinet.

She said she found her leader «decent, principled and kind», but added: «However, it is increasingly clear that your position is untenable and that you are unable to command the support of the shadow cabinet, the parliamentary Labour party, and most importantly the country.»

You know if he wanted me out of the shadow cabinet tomorrow I wouldn't be unhappy.»

Rumours that the Labour leader will begin a «revenge reshuffle» of his shadow cabinet in the new year have drowned out the party's attacks on the Conservative government, the shadow culture secretary Michael Dugher has said, in a jibe at Jeremy Corbyn's aides.

Jeremy Corbyn, who opposes Trident, is heading for a battle with much of his shadow cabinet, MPs and trade unions over the issue but the Labour leader is likely to have the support of grassroots members.

Angela Eagle, in spite of her vote for David Miliband, should probably be seen as being on the centre - left of the shadow cabinet and it is disappointing that she has not been given a policy job.

«They do try and hold the party together, they do recognise that the Labour party is a broad church, not a religious cult, that you need people of different backgrounds and try and get the best possible talents,» Dugher said, adding that «ultimately [the makeup of the shadow cabinet] will be a decision for Jeremy».

No great movements in the latest rankings of the shadow cabinet, as voted by the grassroots.

Grant is not a full member of shadow cabinet Mike although like David Lidington he attends.