Sentences with phrase «shadow cabinet after»

Jeremy Corbyn has defended promoting Kelvin Hopkins to his shadow cabinet after the Labour MP had been reprimanded over claims of inappropriate behaviour, saying that as far as he knew, «the case had been closed».

Debbie Abrahams has been sacked from Labour's shadow cabinet after an investigation into workplace bullying.

She was made Shadow Minister for Disabled People by Jeremy Corbyn in 2015 and was promoted to the shadow cabinet after last year's general election.

Hilary Benn and Maria Eagle seen as vulnerable as party leader considers ways to tighten grip on shadow cabinet after split over Syria intervention

The pledge follows criticism of Mr Corbyn for appointing now suspended Labour MP Kelvin Hopkins to the shadow cabinet after allegations against him had surfaced.

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.

She was made shadow minister for the disabled by Jeremy Corbyn in 2015 and was promoted to the shadow cabinet after last year's general election.

The right wing MP had previously been sacked from the shadow cabinet after telling a joke about an Englishman throwing a Pakistani out of a train that ended with the line: «They are 10 a penny in my country.»

They attracted criticism from Tooting MP Sadiq Khan, who won promotion to the shadow Cabinet after the 2010 general election and is now shadow justice secretary.

Since resigning from the shadow cabinet after the election, Mandelson has been pursuing business interests and promoting his revelatory autobiography.

The Labour leader was attacked by backbench MPs and even members of his shadow cabinet after the party lost seats in England and Wales and were humiliated in Scotland, where they finished a distant third.

Owen Smith has been sacked from Jeremy Corbyn's shadow cabinet after calling for a new EU referendum.

That has led to suggestions that some MPs will return to the shadow cabinet after their mass walk - out in June.

Not exact matches

The new Labour leader will take over with just under a month before the coalition's spending review is announced on 20 October, and a matter of days after announcing the new shadow cabinet.

After quitting the shadow cabinet, she said: «I have examined my conscience and I have made this personal decision.

After Corbyn said he had been disappointed with Smith's recent resignation from the shadow cabinet, Smith had a withering response.

Backbenchers and political journalists piled the praise on Eagle after today's performance, while a shadow cabinet member suggested that many Labour MPs preferred Eagle's «confrontational» style to Jeremy Corbyn's «calm» approach.

Miliband denied it when I suggested it to him, but that visit to sunny East Street was effectively a relaunch after a dreadful few weeks when he and the party's shadow cabinet big - hitters were invisible.

The shadow defence secretary reacted angrily after the prime minister made a series of claims about members of the shadow cabinet.

Six weeks later, after being asked every week to do so by Maria Eagle when she met him at shadow cabinet meetings (I wasn't a member of the shadow cabinet, only the shadow secretaries of state sit in that meeting), Jeremy finally phoned me.

(Well, it could hardly be less so...) It may be worth bearing in mind that even if Labour are reduced to 120 MPs or so after the election, Lammy will be one of them, and in those circumstances a shoo - in for the shadow cabinet.

But after rolling mass resignations from the shadow cabinet, which have continued into Tuesday with Pat Glass resigning as shadow education secretary just two days after being appointed, Milband said it was time for Labour to unite around an alternative candidate.

Nominations for the shadow cabinet open on 26 September, the day after the new leader is announced.

After topping the shadow cabinet ballot, I would say she's almost certain to be the next leader of the Labour Party.

«In throwing out a Tory who has repeatedly failed to stand up for his constituency, South Suffolk are have not only shown the way for the rest of the country but they have delivered a blow to David Cameron's own credibility after he personally intervened to support Tim Yeo's in his deselection battle,» shadow Cabinet Office minister Jon Ashworth said.

McDonnell also hit out at former Labour shadow cabinet minister Caroline Flint, after she told the BBC's Sunday Politics programme yesterday that his ambition that the party «hang on» in the recent local elections was not good enough.

Labour's shadow work and pension secretary Rachel Reeves has asked «when will the PM and IDS [Iain Duncan Smith] get a grip» on Universal Credit, after Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude admitted to ITV News that its implementation had been «pretty lamentable» so far:

After speculation that he would return to shadow cabinet elections, Corbyn has now confirmed that he would pick his own team, which would ensure that loyalists are close to him.

«She resigned from the shadow cabinet, we had a conversation after she had announced her resignation from the Shadow Cabinet and I would ask her to think for a cabinet, we had a conversation after she had announced her resignation from the Shadow Cabinet and I would ask her to think for a Cabinet and I would ask her to think for a moment.

Former shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna said: «After eight years of Tory misrule, most people thoroughly tired of austerity, a disastrous Brexit negotiation, the Windrush outrage and four cabinet resignations in six months, we should be well ahead and we are not.

The Bristol MP, who stepped down from Jeremy Corbyn's shadow cabinet amid the mass resignations that followed the Brexit referendum, said she felt compelled to come forward after Etemadzadeh was criticised for her account of a recent encounter with Hopkins.

[5][6] Press rumours of a split in the Labour Party had occurred since Jeremy Corbyn's election as leader in 2015; this intensified after pro-EU members of his shadow cabinet resigned in protest of his allegedly weak support for the Remain campaign, leading to a leadership challenge by Owen Smith.

And it's in that role, even after Corbyn's shock election as Labour leader, shadow cabinet resignations, removals and refusals to serve, that Falconer remains, looking ever more like something of a Blairite cuckoo in the Corbyn nest.

In 1976, not long after becoming leader of the Opposition, she was chairing a shadow Cabinet meeting to discuss immigration policy when proceedings were interrupted by a bell.

Lord Prescott's criticism of the shadow Cabinet comes one year after the party held elections to decide the makeup of its frontbench team at its autumn conference.

Former deputy prime minister John Prescott's wrote: «I really hope every member of the shadow cabinet thinks twice before writing for the Sun after that front page.»

And she dismissed the fact Mr Corbyn has scores of empty frontbench roles - with people having to do two shadow cabinet jobs at once - after 64 members of his top team resigned.

One former shadow cabinet member told the Mirror that Mr Corbyn's much - vaunted «olive branch» to MPs after his leadership victory now looked like «an act of war».

Chuka Umunna among shadow cabinet figures to rally to leader's side after critics in Labour question electability

Siddiq said she had made the final decision to resign after Corbyn confirmed to the shadow cabinet on Thursday morning that Labour MPs would be expected to back the article 50 bill and a three - line whip would be imposed.

Despite the tumultuous events of the last week after a string of shadow cabinet resignations, Corbyn appeared to be in high spirits and even stopped to pose for a selfie with one supporter.

Forced into a repeat leadership election after most of his shadow cabinet resigned, he had been overwhelmingly re-elected by the membership, yet still failed to convince the media he was electable.

Ken Clarke's recent return to the shadow cabinet has embarrassed the Conservative leadership after a report surfaced in which he called the party's stance on Europe «a bit silly».

Three shadow cabinet members and one front bencher resigned after imposed a three - line whip on Labour MPs to back triggering Article 50.

David Cameron has promoted Speaker contest runner - up Sir George Young to the shadow Cabinet, after demoting Alan Duncan.

Speaking to Sky News after a tense shadow cabinet meeting during which a number of frontbenchers argued for a free vote, he said: «It will be a clear decision that we want all of our MPs to support the Article 50 vote when it comes up next week.

Ann Winterton was sacked from the shadow cabinet by Duncan Smith in 2002 after she told a joke about an Englishman throwing a Pakistani out of a train that ended with the line: «They are 10 a penny in my country.»

«The best birthday present I could want is the shadow chancellor staying in the shadow cabinet», the prime minister bellowed at Ed Balls, freshly rewrapped and unwrapped after Ed Milband's reshuffling of his Labour team.

Several members of the Tory shadow Cabinet also admitted to drug taking after Ann Widdecombe called for # 100 fines for possession of cannabis in 2000.

«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.