Sentences with phrase «senior shadow ministers»

A host of senior shadow ministers have said Britain must follow a «soft Brexit» by retaining full access to and the benefits of the single market and customs union.

Shadow business secretary, Alan Duncan, was typically robust in his defence of senior shadow ministers retaining outside interests:

It's very rare to have two senior shadow ministers directly contradicting themselves in public.

Senior shadow ministers are making it clear that Cameron, who intends to lead a minority government if the Tories fail to win a parliamentary majority, is prepared to ignore the rules.

Abbott isn't fit to be an MP, let alone a senior shadow minister.

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.

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

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

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.

An offensive against Mr Corbyn since the EU referendum has seen more than 50 shadow ministers quit, a decisive vote of no confidence in the leader and a string of senior figures call on him to step down.

«The Tories have raked in over # 1 million from private dinners with David Cameron and senior ministers in the last quarter,» shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan said.

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.

Janet Finch - Saunders, the Welsh Conservatives» shadow minister for local government, said: «These reports are further evidence of the need for a Wales - wide review of senior pay in Welsh local authorities, which is out of control and failing to deliver value for money for hardworking families.»

«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.

And speaking in the Commons a number of senior Labour MPs, including former shadow chancellor Chris Leslie and shadow Europe minister Pat McFadden, questioned his views about counter-terror tactics and the response to Islamist extremism.

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.

Glass, who is the MP for North West Durham and a former senior local education authority worker, most recently served as shadow Europe minister in Jeremy Corbyn's frontbench team.