Sentences with phrase «of shadow cabinet posts»

Mr Corbyn's team do not want to being back wholesale shadow cabinet elections but are considering allowing a small number of shadow cabinet posts to be elected as a peace offering to their divided party.

Not exact matches

Labour sources said that Winterton was sacked at the start of a meeting to discuss a deal that would allow the party's MPs to elect some shadow cabinet posts.

By 9.30 pm on Sunday a further 11 members of the shadow cabinet had left their posts.

Tim Collins A former press secretary to John Major and member of the Downing Street Policy Unit, he was elected MP for Westmorland and Lonsdale in 1997 and held a number of frontbench posts, including a series of roles in the shadow cabinet under three party leaders.

It would be possible if all posts in the shadow cabinet were the same and all contenders were equally capable of performing any of them.

Ed Miliband has dramatically reshaped his shadow cabinet ready for the general election, demoting Blairites and installing women in key posts, however the Labour leader was quickly accused of appeasing the unions with the moves.

The shadow cabinet minister said Damian Bride's claims about Charles Clarke and John Reid were a «post script on the past» and Labour had «learned from those lessons of the past».

But the Labour leader failed to land his first choices for a number of key shadow cabinet posts, according to insider accounts.

McKinnell became the fourth shadow minister — and the first with a shadow cabinet post — to step down in the space of a week following the resignations of Jonathan Reynolds, Kevan Jones and Stephen Doughty.

The party leader will now have to carry out a fresh shadow cabinet reshuffle, just a few months after he filled the posts vacated by a wave of resignations over the summer.

In my earlier post about Gordon Brown's performance at his press conference on CentreRight, I also mentioned that the Prime Minister failed to answer Ben Brogan's question about whether or not he would honour Tony Blair's previous promise to give David Cameron and the shadow cabinet access to the civil service as of the New Year.

However, in order to be taken as a serious government - in - waiting, politics has to come first and I was somewhat concerned recently to hear the following story about a member of the shadow cabinet: he had apparently already told David Cameron that he didn't want a higher profile post than that which he currently holds in advance of the general election, because he didn't want to give up other interests on account of time commitments or potential conflicts of interest involved in a different post.

But our first problem is that much of Labour's frontbenches are empty, as are some shadow cabinet posts.

Apart from the fact that 2 of the four candidates for leader were women, and just over half the shadow cabinet posts are held by women, all women short lists are discriminatory.

Only a handful of the 63 people who quit the shadow cabinet in the summer returned to the fold, but more may take the remaining junior posts yet to be announced.

Jeremy Corbyn has finished a much - anticipated shake - up of his top team by changing just two shadow cabinet posts.

If you are arguing that most of the shadow cabinet also got it wrong strategically on the economics of the post crisis state then I'd agree.

Since she came 35th in the shadow cabinet poll and this is the first junior post to be made public, it is an important signal that Ed Miliband (unlike much of the PLP who elected the shadow cabinet) wants -LSB-...]

Former shadow cabinet member and University of Kent student, Emily Thornberry MP, issued an apology on Twitter after being criticised for the tweet she posted from Rochester & Strood.

Corbyn's restatement of his commitment to uncontrolled immigration comes as he tries to tempt backbenchers to return to fill more than 60 posts in his shadow cabinet vacated by rebel MPs who resigned en masse after the referendum.

Among the casualties of the reshuffle are right - winger Eric Forth, who has been dropped as shadow leader of the Commons - a post which does not appear in the shadow cabinet.

Mr Corbyn suffered the indignity of further shadow cabinet resignations, with shadow education secretary Pat Glass quitting just two days after being appointed to the post saying the situation was «untenable».

She becomes the fourth shadow minister — and the first with a shadow Cabinet post — to step down in the space of a week following the resignations of Jonathan Reynolds, Kevan Jones and Stephen Doughty last week.

Grayling got stuck in and was rapidly promoted, entering Michael Howard's shadow cabinet team as shadow leader of the Commons in 2005 — a post too emollient for his talents (it requires a taste for consensus and conciliation), so he moved on.

Ms Haigh, who has moved from being a shadow Cabinet Office minister to a post in Tom Watson's shadow culture, media and sport team, had even been sent a letter from Mr Corbyn thanking her for staying on the front bench after the wave of resignations which saw scores of senior MPs depart in June.