Sentences with phrase «senior labour ministers»

Two senior Labour ministers called yesterday called for a national «Britain Day» to be created to promote pride in our country and prevent communities fracturing under the weight of unprecedented immigration.

I have been privileged to work as PPS to four senior Labour ministers in four government departments and now feel that I can make my best contribution to the Labour effort in parliament by concentrating on helping, as a regular back - bencher, to show that Labour remains sound on matters of Defence.

His approach to local community campaigning is similar to the one which senior Labour ministers such as Liam Byrne are now calling for.

Senior Labour ministers have made overtures to the Liberal Democrats overnight, promising electoral reform.

Some are members of the Commonwealth and the National Liberal Club but one senior Labour minister reckons: «That is an automatic ticket to being slagged off in the diary column of Tribune, when Stephen [Twigg] joined the NLC, it was used as a sign he was going to defect to the Libs.»

One senior Labour minister went as far to call the candidates «out of control» and warned it was time for «Gordon to rein them in».

Not exact matches

With banks refusing in recent days to accept the latest restructuring plan, May's senior ministers met around the clock, under pressure from the Labour Party and unions not to use taxpayer money to prop up the failing company.

Another senior Labour figure, Konrad Mizzi, was appointed energy minister.

A trio of senior ministers have demanded a full discussion on Britain's nuclear policy in the wake of the decision not to debate the issue at this year's Labour conference.

The mission met with President John Dramani Mahama, Vice President Kwesi Amissah - Arthur, Finance Minister Seth Terkper, Bank of Ghana Governor Dr. Abdul - Nashiri Issahaku, Minister of Employment and Labour Relations Haruna Iddrisu, other senior officials, and the donor community.

That is a strong strand of his pitch for the leadership: as the most senior former cabinet minister in the running, he will give Labour the most authoritative voice.

The extraordinary poll will put pressure on the Deputy Prime Minister, who opened his party conference in Glasgow yesterday, to start distancing himself from the Conservatives and open talks with senior Labour figures.»

Former Conservative health minister Nicola Blackwood is to become a senior adviser at Global Counsel, the PR and lobbying firm set up by new Labour architect Peter Mandelson.

As the Guardian has reported, some senior former Labour ministers, including David Blunkett, are also in favour.

The quintet of MPs, headed by Liberal Democrat Paul Tyler and including Mr Cook, Mr Clarke, former Tory minister Sir George Young and senior Labour MP Tony Wright, wants to get the process going again.

Theresa May's personal crusade to expand the number of grammar schools is in serious jeopardy today as senior Tory, Labour and Liberal Democrat MPs unite in an unprecedented cross-party campaign to kill off the prime minister's flagship education reform.

Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, and the Association of Senior Servants of Nigeria have resolved temporarily halt their strike notice until September 20, 2017.

The senior Labour MP also accused the prime minister of prioritising greater immigration controls over the health of the UK economy as she headed towards triggering Brexit early next year.

Senior Labour backbencher and former minister Frank Field said: «If last night's vote heralds the start of Ukip's serious assault into Labour's neglected core vote, all bets are off for safer, let alone marginal seats at the next election.»

«I think it is appalling that, during election week, senior members of the Labour party chose to walk out of government, criticise the prime minister and generally undermine our campaign,» said Mr Martin.

A number of other senior Labour figures also took up senior positions: the trade union leader Ernest Bevin, as Minister of Labour, directed Britain's wartime economy and allocation of manpower, the veteran Labour statesman Herbert Morrison became Home Secretary, Hugh Dalton was Minister of Economic Warfare and later President of the Board of Trade, while A. V. Alexander resumed the role he had held in the previous Labour Government as First Lord of the Admiralty.

But repeated polls suggest that there is no clear candidate among Labour's senior figures who could be guaranteed to turn the party's position around if he or she took over as prime minister.

There is still a prominent Blairite faction within the senior ranks of the Labour Party, with Miliband himself holding Minister for the Third under Blair.

Ed Mlliband is determined to steal a march on David Cameron with his appointments, with a senior Labour source dismissing the government reshuffle as one that has «left failing ministers in place» — Sir George Young, Grant Shapps and Owen Paterson were picked out — and proves the Lib Dem «blind spot towards women.»

The former prime minister is the only remaining senior figure from the New Labour years not to have published his memoirs.

In a sign that Fox's decision to fall on his sword will not mark the end of the furore engulfing the Tories, both Liberal Democrat and Labour politicians stepped up their demands for the prime minister to explain why several senior members of his cabinet were involved in an Anglo - American organisation apparently at odds with his party's environmental commitments and pledge to defend free healthcare.

When Labour got back in in 1997, there was only one person in the cabinet (Margaret Beckett) who'd seen the inside of a red box before, plus only a handful of less senior ministers such as Michael Meacher and John Morris.

The senior backbencher Barry Sheerman, the chairman of the schools select committee, called for a secret ballot of Labour MPs on Brown's future, which he predicted would result in a majority vote for the prime minister to go.

Mr Grayling acquired a reputation for being highly effective in attacking Labour ministers when he was an up - and - coming Conservative MP but has made a series of errors since being elevated to the party's high command and has shown a less sure touch since he was promoted to one of the four most senior posts in the Shadow Cabinet.

[186] The Conservatives gained 38 seats while losing 10, all to Labour, with Employment Minister Esther McVey the most senior Conservative to lose her seat.

In a scathing assessment of the former prime minister, George Bush's last ambassador to London blamed Brown for presiding over a «post-Blair rudderlessness» which prompted senior Labour figures to complain of their despair to the embassy... The diplomatic cables confirm that Barack Obama's allies were irritated by Brown's intense manner: he interrupted a Thanksgiving call to the current president's ambassador to lobby for a Tobin tax on financial transactions in the face of US opposition.»

One senior Labour MP and former minister said that now was the time for figures such as Ed Miliband and Gordon Brown to speak out, but the interventions of arch-Blairites were self - indulgent and unhelpful to the other three candidates.

Despite this, in the last year she has twice been granted entry visas to the UK, held meetings inside the Scottish parliament, and issued credentials to the Labour Party Conference where she has met and put her case to senior government ministers.

Also in his private letter to the prime minister, the senior Tory MP expressed his concern about the threat now posed by the Labour party — and specifically by Jeremy Corbyn's army of activists.

In a wide - ranging interview, the senior Labour MP spoke of her antipathy towards the former Tory prime minister.

And it's good to see a senior Labour Party figure — probably for the first time since Robin Cook was Shadow Minister for Trade and Industry in the early 1990s — make a strong case for industrial policy.

Many senior Labour politicians, most recently the shadow Cabinet Office minister Michael Dugher, spurn all discussion and planning for a coalition post-2015 as defeatist.

The much deferred announcement is due at the end of the month, but some senior vice chancellors last month infuriated the Labour front bench by issuing an open letter opposing the tuition fee cut only days after meeting the shadow higher education minister, Liam Byrne.

Other supporters include Labour MPs Tom Harris and Gerald Kaufman and former senior Tory ministers in the Coalition such as Oliver Heald, Sir Edward Garnier and Bob Neill as well as Sir Peter Tapsell, the Father of the House of Commons.

In a 2009 article on MPs» expenses, we said «senior Labour sources» had predicted that Shahid Malik MP, who had stepped down as justice minister pending an investigation into his renting a flat in his Dewsbury constituency from a local businessman, would not return to government and that the prime minister, Gordon Brown, had «lost confidence in Malik».

The Scottish first minister, Alex Salmond, has hinted he could be open to a coalition between Labour and the Scottish National party (SNP), raising the possibility that he could return to Westminster and take a senior role in the government next May.

While it still remains the likeliest option, some senior Labour figures are advising the Prime Minister to act decisively and to wrong foot the Tories, with 15 April emerging as an alternative date.

That's what will happen if we all keep behaving as we have been for too long — Labour ministers and MPs not fighting back; some senior Labour and trade union colleagues predicting a Tory government; party members sullen and inactive; all of us continuing to behave as if a Tory win is inevitable.

If the SNP had enough seats to form a coalition with Labour and Salmond were an MP, there is a chance he could be given a senior role in the government like Nick Clegg, who became the Liberal Democrat deputy prime minister in 2010.

The extraordinary developments come as the Labour leader's spokesman denied claims made to this newspaper that an emotional Corbyn, 67, had had a «Wednesday wobble» over his position after prime minister's questions last week, and that a senior aide had drawn up a five - point extraction plan for the beleaguered leader.

However, findings of a poll of Labour Party members, who were asked which Cabinet ministers and other senior figures they thought were doing a good job, have been leaked.

The move is a boost for the Prime Minister, as large numbers of Labour MPs - including senior frontbenchers - are now free to vote against their leader without the threat of disciplinary action.

«In 2011, in one of the first major policy announcements of his leadership, Miliband said that Labour would reduce the headline rate to # 6,000, but this did not amount to a manifesto commitment... the policy was resisted by senior figures (said to include Ed Balls, shadow universities minister Liam Byrne, and policy review co-ordinator Jon Cruddas) concerned about the estimated # 2bn cost.

It will chronicle his journey from senior official (and ultimately general secretary) of the Communication Workers Union through to Cabinet minister in the last Labour government, and ending with the party's election defeat in 2010.

In a move that could cause extreme discomfort for ministers, Labour will use a so - called humble address motion on Wednesday to ask for all papers, correspondence and advice on Windrush between ministers, senior officials and advisors from May 2010 until now.