Sentences with phrase «shadow cabinet meeting»

It wasn't good enough for the leader to read his position from a typed up script at shadow cabinet meetings discussing the prospect of military action against Isis in Syria or the EU referendum.

Flint's performance prompted speculation from some commentators to question whether the topic had even been discussed in shadow cabinet meetings.

Jeremy Corbyn had been forced to back down once before the start of today's shadow cabinet meeting on Syria, offering Labour MPs a free vote on air strikes against Isis.

AND: Baroness Smith and Lord Bassam (Lords shadow leader and chief whip) have stopped attending shadow cabinet meetings.

At an uneasy shadow cabinet meeting the following day, Labour's senior figures were «completely divided», in the words of one of those present.

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.

No information yet if he remains on the NEC (latest reports are pointing towards that he is until next week shadow cabinet meeting)

«My concern steadily grew over what I was hearing from colleagues, such as Heidi, Thangam and Lilian, and what I was seeing at shadow cabinet meetings, where Jeremy tended to read from a prepared script, didn't respond to our questions, and didn't convey any sense of strategic direction or leadership.»

Then he strikes a more upbeat note for Labour after the party's second - worst defeat since 1918: «What's interesting is that it wasn't a funeral at the shadow cabinet meeting.

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.

In Monday's shadow cabinet meeting, MPs agreed that Corbyn would open Labour's argument in Wednesday's Commons debate by opposing airstrikes while shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn will close the debate with an argument in favour of the government's motion.

In the shadow cabinet meeting prior to the vote accusations were made that Corbyn and his office had handled matters in an inept and needlessly divisive way.

When at a shadow cabinet meeting on 6 July Andy Burnham, the leadership front - runner, cautioned against embracing austerity, Harman acidly replied: «But Andy, we lost that argument.

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.

His office briefed the Guardian on the plan before today's shadow cabinet meeting.

One MP who was present at the shadow cabinet meeting told PoliticsHome that chief whip Nick Brown had confirmed that Abbott had not asked for permission to go home and miss the vote.

Ten months later he repeated this position in spades in a shadow cabinet meeting: «the shadow chancellor bluntly warned colleagues that even under a Labour government there would have to be serious cuts», perhaps referring to the Coalition's # 30 billion «hit list» being drawn up in the treasury.

Labour leader Ed Miliband and his team are holding their shadow cabinet meeting at the aquatics centre in the Olympic park.

«One of the things Ed has been so clear about — and I remember because I was in the shadow cabinet meeting — is he will not tolerate any of that kind of behaviour.

I have not been able to confirm this, but there is meant to be a shadow cabinet meeting at 12 pm today so, with luck, we may get an official announcement before then.

Scottish Tory leader Annabel Goldie was in Westminster today to attend the shadow cabinet meeting - something which she will now be doing on a monthly basis.