Sentences with phrase «own shadow housing minister»

But shadow housing minister Alison Seabeck said the government's policy changes would make it harder, not easier, for people to buy a house.

Tony Lloyd, the former Stretford MP who stepped down to become Greater Manchester police and crime commissioner and was later beaten by Andy Burnham for the nomination to be Greater Manchester mayor, has been made a shadow housing minister.

«The IPPR proposals are a welcome contribution to the debate and we will give the recommendations careful consideration,» shadow housing minister Jack Dromey said.

But shadow housing minister Grant Shapps doubted whether Ms Flint's proposals would be legally enforceable, pointing out ministers and local councils have a statutory duty to house homeless families with children.

Before the 2010 general election he served as shadow housing minister.

However shadow housing minister John Healey, who served as Gordon Brown's housing minister, distanced himself from McDonnell's rhetoric in an interview on the Radio 4 Today programme.

Jack Dromey, Labour's shadow housing minister, rules it out emphatically.

But if evidence were needed to prove that no such rule exists, it has just arrived in my inbox - the picture on the right of shadow housing minister, Grant Shapps.

Lib Dem shadow housing minister John Shipley said: «This white paper is utterly vacuous.

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

Shadow Ministers, not shadow cabinet members (I think from press reports shadow policing minister Lyn Brown, shadow foreign office minister Catherine West, shadow transport minister Daniel Zeichner, shadow housing minister Andy Slaughter and I am not sure Dr Rupa Huq, the shadow home office minister, resigned just before)

Last week it was the turn of shadow housing minister Grant Shapps.

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.

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But every previous former EU commissioner has been appointed to the Lords, and it is common for ministers and shadow ministers to be appointed from the Upper House.

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.

Claim: The shadow work and pensions minister - who owns 24 houses - claimed over # 100,000 in allowances, the Daily Telegraph said.

The shadow Health minister gave an interview to The House magazine last week in which she said there was a role for the private sector in the NHS and that «what matters is what works».

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.

The shadow minister for international development «flipped» his second home from London to Gloucestershire, before buying a # 2.75 million house, the Daily Telegraph said.

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.

Gloria Di Piero is the shadow cabinet minister for women and equalities and Emma Reynolds moves to housing.

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.

Francis Maude, shadow Cabinet minister, being denied a mortgage interest payment on a family home in Sussex, and then buying a flat two years later just a minutes walk away from a house he already owned.

Tensions within the coalition about plans to cap housing benefit were raised yesterday in a standoff between Mr Clegg and shadow justice minister Chris Bryant.

The shadow justice secretary, Lord Chancellor and minister for London admitted the Labour «did not build enough housing» while in power for 13 years.

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».

Cue embarrassing questions about whether shadow ministers collected receipts for every odd job or window cleaned and the circumstances in which Ed Miliband's mother seems to have avoided tax on the house in which he now lives.

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.

But shadow treasury minister Owen Smith said: «We don't think for a moment that the minister has justified this... nor do we think you have justified claims the 50p rate has raised practically nothing at all, as the prime minister slightly curiously told the House earlier today.»

Geoffrey Clifton - Brown: The shadow minister for international development «flipped» his second home designation from London to his Gloucestershire home, before buying a # 2.75 m house, the Telegraph said.

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.