Sentences with phrase «said shadow international development secretary»
«Today's report makes clear that DfID needs urgently to improve its performance in conflict zones like Iraq and Afghanistan,» said shadow international development secretary Andrew Mitchell.
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Labour website LabourList said its readers ranked Ms Cooper as the most popular of Mr Miliband's team, with shadow chancellor Ed Balls, shadow education secretary Andy Burnham, shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander and shadow international development secretary Harriet Harman all well - liked.
Kate Osamor, the shadow international development secretary, said: «The Tories have been cutting the aid budget by stealth for years, and they are now arguing over whether to go even further by abandoning the international definition of aid.
«At the moment this a concept of neither meaning nor effect for the millions of people languishing in terror in Darfur,» said Andrew Mitchell, shadow secretary of state for international development.
Speaking to the Huffington Post, the Birmingham Yardley MP added that others had told her «they had always wanted to say that» to Abbott, who was recently made shadow international development secretary (and is reported to have had a brief romantic relationship with Corbyn in the 1970s).
Abbott, the shadow international development secretary and a staunch supporter of Corbyn, said some of her colleagues had been planning to launch a coup for months, whatever the result in the EU referendum.