Sentences with phrase «shadow cabinet meeting on»

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.

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.

Not exact matches

Though the eight - hour meeting failed to resolve the main issue of how to choose the shadow cabinet, it did help to clear the air on one other matter.

Hours earlier, Corbyn had faced a ferocious meeting of his shadow cabinet in which he had been forced to surrender into giving them a free vote on war in Syria.

But, while in agreement with Labour's governing body, the National Executive Committee, that Corbyn should be on the ballot paper in the leadership contest, Smith nevertheless decided to resign and oppose his leader when a meeting between Corbyn and the so - called soft left of the shadow cabinet, including shadow energy secretary Lisa Nandy, led to rancour.

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

Now shadow Cabinet Office minister Jon Trickett has called on the prime minister had to «come clean» about the full scale and nature of his meetings with donors.

«It may just be my imagination» one shadow cabinet minister confided to me «but I was speaking at a fringe meeting and I had the impression there was a guy at the back whose job it was to keep an eye on what I was saying.

A crunch meeting of Labour chiefs broke up tonight with no decision on whether the shadow cabinet should be elected by MPs.

Hodges reveals that one shadow cabinet minister believed they were being spied on by «someone working for the leader» as they spoke at a fringe meeting.

Allowing MPs to elect the shadow cabinet has huge support among the Parliamentary Labour Party, and the idea will be debated at their weekly meeting when the Commons returns on Monday.

Ed Miliband visited Caerphilly on Friday and took his shadow cabinet to meet First Minister Carwyn Jones's.

In an interview with the Guardian, the party leader also said a report on the byelection defeat would be delivered to the shadow cabinet and the national executive committee meetings on Tuesday as the row over the causes drew in the party's deputy leader and leader of Unite.

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.

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