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Under a putative timetable proposed by shadow leader of the House Sir George Young last month, the prime minister will call the election on March 29th, the House will adjourn on April 1st and parliament will be dissolved on April 12th.

Speaking in the House of Lords during the second reading of the trade union bill on Monday, Labour's Lord Mendelsohn, who is a shadow business minister, said the proposed legislation was a «clear attempt to defenestrate the Labour party's finances», describing it as «extraordinarily partisan, vindictive and selective».

Labour's shadow secretary of state for housing, John Healey MP, said: «The Prime Minister should be embarrassed to be fronting up these feeble measures first announced a year ago.

And shrewdly, Cooper, who is also shadow equalities minister, sharply shot the fox of those with fingers poised over the «hypocrite» button, by admitting early on in her speech our politicians» need to put their own house in diverse order as well as advising the private sector, and rest of the public sector.

Back in 2007, when Gordon Brown had been installed in Number 10 following the departure of Tony Blair, Theresa May was shadow minister for Women - and on October 11th, she appeared in the house for Business questions.

On the other side of the house, businessman Adam Afriyie, Conservative MP for Windsor, is the shadow innovation minister.

Wayne David, shadow constitutional affairs minister, said: «We are in favour of Lords reform, but the government plans do not set out a stable, coherent long - term relationship between the two houses.

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.

The shadow housing minister, Caroline Flint, proposes housing asbos, banning evicted tenants from living within five miles of their former home.

One organiser said: «The plan is to make Corbyn's job as leader extremely difficult in the hope of pushing him to resign, with most MPs refusing to serve as shadow ministers, show up on the frontbench in the House of Commons, support him at PMQs or formulate policy under his leadership.»

The Speaker of the House of Commons intervened and asked the prime minister to withdraw a reference to shadow chancellor Ed Balls as a «muttering idiot».

Sayeeda Warsi Having fought Dewsbury in 2005, she was appointed to the shadow cabinet in July 2007 as shadow minister for community cohesion and given a peerage, making her the youngest member of the House of Lords.

And the shadow housing minister, John Healey, said: «The Tories have talked of little else but HIPs over the past few years, and this announcement merely highlights the limits of their ambition and concern - pleasing estate agents rather than supporting first time buyers.

And it is a rich and layered 71 minutes that Potter spends, in black and white, with a group of highly educated and highly dysfunctional people gathering for an intimate dinner party at Janet (Kristen Scott Thomas) and Bill's (Timothy Spall) London house to celebrate Janet's appointment as the shadow minister for health.

Lord Watson, the shadow education minister in the House of Lords, told a fringe event at the Labour party conference that the party was in the «early stages» of policy development.

Andy Slaughter, shadow justice minister, was so fulsome in his praise for its work at the report's launch at the House of Commons last week that he joked that his government would be «plagiarising without acknowledgement».

Lord Bach, the shadow justice minister in the House of Lords and former legal aid minister was clear: «I am not impressed by this delay.