Sentences with phrase «senior shadow cabinet»

After being in Parliament for less than two years, she holds a pretty senior shadow cabinet job and is being mentioned as the possible next Labour leader.

The Labour leader, who was left reeling after his decision to sack the shadow foreign secretary, Hilary Benn, was followed by the resignations of 11 senior shadow cabinet members, said he would not «betray the trust» of the people who voted for him by stepping down.

Within hours, eleven senior shadow cabinet members had quit

Liam Fox has apparently been in a bit of a sulk ever since he made way for William Hague and David Davis didn't, and was alleged to be the un-named «senior shadow cabinet member» responsible for some divisive off - the - record briefings last year.

The Labour MP and senior shadow cabinet member calls for a constitutional convention to wrest power from the UK's unaccountable, neoliberal elite.

However, most of the 35 already occupy senior shadow cabinet positions.

As a senior shadow cabinet minister put it to me, we have show that Britain is still capable of (and needs!)

And now we have a more explicit outlining of an emerging new Tory constitutional doctrine in an extraordinary Guardian report on Tuesday — based on anonymous briefings from «senior shadow Cabinet members» — that the Conservatives intend to mount a partisan attack on existing constitutional conventions, and the Cabinet Secretary's protocols for handling a hung Parliament, even though a primary motivation for these has been to protect the Monarchy from being dragged into party political controversy.

It was made worse by the fact that that someone was a senior shadow cabinet minister who I have quite a large crush on.

Exhibition space has sold out and corporate chiefs are expected to flock to the business forum at party conference, where they can mix with «prominent business leaders and senior shadow cabinet members».

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.

Some concessions to MPs are necessary — it's impossible to run a shadow cabinet and hold the government to account in parliament in the face of a mass boycott by senior MPs — but there are ways to shore up power for the future.

The bitter cup of defeat was tasted by Labour's senior ranks when they made their way to the shadow cabinet room in the House of Commons.

However, senior figures in the party have warned that hundreds of Labour MPs would refuse to serve under Corbyn, leaving him unable to form a shadow cabinet.

Senior MPs told the Guardian Corbyn and his team were already holding «interviews» with potential recruits to the shadow cabinet, though there have been disputes about the «terms and conditions», including whether Corbyn's allies can vet new shadow ministers» political advisers.

More mischievously, former senior advisers to the shadow cabinet were looking at ways they could quickly hang John McDonnell by his own petard, way before George Osborne, sensibly playing a longer game, could get his own dirty hands on him.

With Andy Burnham as shadow home secretary and Hilary Benn as shadow foreign secretary, the five most senior positions in Corbyn's shadow cabinet will be filled by men.

Rather, it is «for shadow cabinet and front bench spokespeople, political advisers and party staff,» suggesting that Corbyn is keen for some of his own senior advisers to be more active on the airwaves.

They point with some glee to the fact that both held senior jobs in Miliband's shadow cabinet.

Another frontbencher also told the BBC: «There will be resignations among senior members of the shadow cabinet over this.»

The most senior gay member of the shadow Cabinet will visit the Tories» European partners to push for homosexual equality.

In response to the division over policy it was not only some in Corbyn's inner circle who told him that he needed to appoint senior figures to his shadow cabinet who agreed with him.

«The shadow cabinet is bracing itself for a «revenge reshuffle» in the aftermath of Labour's victory in the Oldham byelection, with key senior figures voicing fears they will be sacrificed by Jeremy Corbyn to kill dissent.»

He's faced challenges more centrist leaders wouldn't have — beginning with the preemptive, public refusal of several senior MPs to serve in his shadow cabinet.

The shadow education secretary has often said he would offer his rival a senior post in his shadow cabinet if he were appointed leader.

That was what «a senior member of Mr Cameron's shadow cabinet» told last Monday's Daily Telegraph about the Tory leader's visit to a Norwegian glacier (for which Mr Cameron left London this afternoon).

Senior Labour MP Emily Thornberry has resigned from Ed Miliband's shadow cabinet after being accused of snobbery when she tweeted a picture of a house decked out in St George's flags.

Owen Smith, who was shadow work and pensions secretary until his resignation last week, is a more likely challenger to Jeremy Corbyn than Angela Eagle, according to a former senior member of the shadow cabinet.

Ed Balls has called on his party to offer a clear «Labour alternative» to the coalition government's programme of spending cuts, as he made his pitch for a senior job in the shadow Cabinet.

«Senior Tory Caroline Spelman is set to keep her shadow cabinet job after a report into the «Nannygate» affair found her guilty only of inadvertent breaches of Commons rules.

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 argument goes that senior figures need to be allowed to return with dignity, and that the shadow cabinet should therefore be chosen by MPs rather than comprise Corbyn's own picks.

But senior frontbenchers say the price of working with Mr Corbyn would be the return of shadow cabinet elections, giving MPs the power to elect a substantial number of Labour's top team.

With the shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, expected to stay in place and Emily Thornberry likely to retain the foreign affairs brief, the four most senior positions in the shadow cabinet will all be held by London MPs.

Out of desperation I called a senior Labour source about whether we can expect the new - look shadow cabinet tonight.

Under the supposed extraction deal — allegedly sketched out last Wednesday by Corbyn's director of policy, Andrew Fisher — Corbyn would have stood down as leader in return for staying in the shadow cabinet, senior Labour sources claimed.

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.

One member of the shadow cabinet and another senior frontbencher have described the power of the kitchen cabinet around Mr Cameron.

Jeremy Corbyn has come under intense pressure to take some personal responsibility for Labour's historic byelection defeat in Copeland from senior party figures, including trade union leaders and even members of his own shadow cabinet.

A senior member of the shadow cabinet has told ConservativeHome that the Damian Green affair had important lessons for the next steps of Tory strategy.

Ms Haigh, who has moved from being a shadow Cabinet Office minister to a post in Tom Watson's shadow culture, media and sport team, had even been sent a letter from Mr Corbyn thanking her for staying on the front bench after the wave of resignations which saw scores of senior MPs depart in June.