Sentences with phrase «shadow cabinet jobs as»

Jeremy Corbyn has promoted a number of his closest allies to top shadow cabinet jobs as he vows to...

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Jeremy Corbyn has appointed an array of new MPs to frontbench Labour jobs as well as handing junior roles to recognisable names such as former shadow cabinet minister Gloria De Piero and Tracy Brabin, who replaced the murdered MP Jo Cox.

Ed Balls is confirmed as Shadow Chancellor; his wife Yvette Cooper takes his job as shadow home secretary; Douglas Alexander takes her former portfolio of shadow foreign secretary; Lima Byrne becomes shadow work and pensions secretary; Tessa Jowell to take on responsibilities shadowing the Cabinet Office, formerly held by Byrne.

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.

As we argued last week, we favour democracy but the 300,000 plus people that put Ed into his job carry more weight with us than the 258 people who isolated him in his shadow cabinet.

Power is an inheritance to them and an entitlement and as long as they retain their safe seats they still get shadow cabinet jobs and dosh to do absolutely nothing other than wait for more morally driven activists to sell ideas that do not exist on doorsteps.

As I said to a friend last night, it's hard to get excited about a 50:50 shadow cabinet (or more) when all the big jobs are in the hands of men.

During the hour - long press conference the Tory leader announced that from December all member of the shadow cabinet would give up their second jobs, and he published a list of shadow cabinet outside interests as of 1 July.

Angela Eagle, in spite of her vote for David Miliband, should probably be seen as being on the centre - left of the shadow cabinet and it is disappointing that she has not been given a policy job.

As a spin doctor he was combative and loyal and, after being elected as an MP in 2010, one of his jobs in Ed Miliband's shadow cabinet involved coordinating party presentatioAs a spin doctor he was combative and loyal and, after being elected as an MP in 2010, one of his jobs in Ed Miliband's shadow cabinet involved coordinating party presentatioas an MP in 2010, one of his jobs in Ed Miliband's shadow cabinet involved coordinating party presentation.

David was offered a shadow cabinet role but opted to leave British politics altogether, taking up a job as the head of the International Rescue charity in New York, avoiding speculation about rivalry with his younger brother that would surely have followed had he stayed around.

Out of the shadow cabinet's heavy hitters, Andy Burnham is untouchable at health, Chuka Umunna is seen as having done a good job maintaining Labour's strained links with business, and any lateral move for Yvette Cooper would have been viewed as a demotion, enraging Ed Balls and his supporters.

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.

He entered the shadow cabinet as chief secretary to the Treasury and has kept the shadow chancellor job given to him by Michael Howard in May 2005.