Sentences with phrase «on former shadow ministers»

But he said it would also put pressure on former shadow ministers to put their differences aside and return to the top team.

Not exact matches

The senior former shadow Cabinet minister was criticised for submitting a # 957 claim for a «pewter finish» on radiators, and # 8,000 for work on his garden.

«Mr Corbyn appointed me and press released this without my knowledge or consent whilst I was in the middle of cancer treatment,» the former shadow arts minister wrote on Facebook.

McDonnell also hit out at former Labour shadow cabinet minister Caroline Flint, after she told the BBC's Sunday Politics programme yesterday that his ambition that the party «hang on» in the recent local elections was not good enough.

He attacked the «lightweight» shadow cabinet and called for the former ministers Alan Johnson and Alistair Darling to be brought back on to the front bench.

But former shadow minister Michael Dugher said Labour was «not on a trajectory to victory» in the next general election, scheduled for 2020 while former shadow chancellor Chris Leslie said Labour should have done much better.

Until her appointment as a shadow minister in October 2010, Abbott appeared alongside former Conservative politician and media personality Michael Portillo on the BBC's weekly politics digest This Week.

The shadow minister also accused the Government of «pivot and distraction» by blaming the decision to scrap landing cards on Labour - despite former Home Secretary Alan Johnson admitting on Thursday that the policy had been signed off under a Labour government in 2009.

The former shadow minister posted: «Today I will be a) swimming with sharks for the Labour party and b) giving statement to police on yet another death threat.

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.

Former shadow cabinet minister Clive Lewis clashed with former Europe minister Caroline Flint, as fellow Labour MP Lisa Nandy stood on the sideFormer shadow cabinet minister Clive Lewis clashed with former Europe minister Caroline Flint, as fellow Labour MP Lisa Nandy stood on the sideformer Europe minister Caroline Flint, as fellow Labour MP Lisa Nandy stood on the sidelines.

Former shadow defence minister James Gray claimed expenses on Remembrance Day wreaths (News of the World)

«There's been too much internal focus here on whether the shadow cabinet is elected or appointed by the leader and so on,» the former shadow Europe minister told Sky News.

The former shadow cabinet ministers have reached a «common understanding» about the best way to take on Mr Corbyn, who won a landslide victory last year, after wrangles over who should stand against him.

Former Gordon Brown aide Mr Ashworth is shadow minister without portfolio and fills one of three valuable shadow cabinet seats on Labour's ruling NEC.

«There are some on the left of the party who may be prevaricating about our membership but actually it's about jobs, growth and the future of our country and we have to make that case,» the former shadow minister told the Andrew Marr Show.

[36] The former shadow minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs, Dr Michael Wooldridge, explained this in the parliamentary debate on the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation Bill 1991: