Sentences with phrase «on shadow cabinet elections»

«I'm not keen on shadow cabinet elections in the form that they were before,» he said.

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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 called delays on the decision over shadow cabinet elections a «missed opportunity» and said he hoped de-selection of critical MPs would not happen.

This «democratic revolution» could entail democratic elections for shadow cabinet positions and digital consultations for members on policy.

The Labour party is acknowledging that it will be outspent by the Conservatives by a margin of three to one in next year's general election but believes it will be able to «out - body» the Tories on the ground with a new generation of grassroots activists, shadow cabinet minister Gloria De Piero has said.

A shadow cabinet election would have provided some sort of mandate, at least on behalf of the parliamentary party.

Burnham called on Corbyn to agree to shadow cabinet elections amid a clamour from MPs that they would offer people a dignified way back to the shadow cabinet and help him to fill the rest of his frontbench team.

Corbyn, who said that he would seek an inclusive shadow cabinet if he won by reviving the tradition of elections to the shadow cabinet, intends to focus the remaining weeks of the campaign on his plan to end what he has called «variations of austerity» from the main parties.

ConservativeHome has learnt that the shadow cabinet (some of them pictured on the right) has pledged the equivalent of 340 campaigning days to the local and mayoral elections over the next few weeks.

He was endured mass resignations from his shadow cabinet with a leadership election now on the horizon.

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.

This close to a general election, it's time for all shadow cabinet members to thank their boards for 10 comfortable, well - paid years of outside interests and get their eyes on the prize, full - time.

Mr Watson said the party had been put on election footing and insisted that Mr Corbyn had made clear he did not want to «punish» MPs who refused to serve in the shadow cabinet.

Ready for the local elections with the leader of Labour's councillors sitting in the shadow cabinet and the Leaders of Labour in Wales and Scotland sitting on the NEC.

Efford told the Guardian on Monday: «Jeremy has got a shadow cabinet that remained loyal and allowed him to perform extremely well during the general election.

Sean, I'd question that, as Ed miliband was asked during the election on the BBc did he think the last labour governwmnt should have started cutting quicker, to which he said no, and in all fairness to The shadow cabinet, from Yvette Cooper to Andy B and Liz K, all saying after the election was over, they had said behind the scenes to Ed, that labour should have admitted to have cut quicker.

According to the Observer, senior members of Labour's shadow cabinet want Ed Miliband to commit Labour at the next election to an in - out referendum on the European Union.