Sentences with phrase «shadow cabinet member said»

One shadow cabinet member says: «The old divide between Left and Right is gone.

As part of the fallout, some shadow cabinet members say they were crowded out of a campaign that failed to project Labour as a team that includes strong women such as Harriet Harman and Yvette Cooper.

As part of the fallout, some shadow cabinet members said they were crowded out of a campaign that failed to project Labour as a team that includes strong women such as Harriet Harman and Yvette Cooper.

Not exact matches

«It's supposed to be our answer to the fundamental question — what do you do as a party of the Left when there's no money left», said one shadow cabinet member.

«Who isn't writing the manifesto», one shadow cabinet member told me, «You've got Cruddas, Angela, Ed himself, Balls and his people, Torsten [Henricson Bell], Stewart [Wood], Harriet wants her say, even Axelrod is chipping in.

Acting Labour leader Harriet Harman said she would offer a «responsible opposition» as ex-Cabinet members began their work in the shadow Cabinet:

Policy will be made by Labour members and not the leader, shadow cabinet, or parliamentary party, Jeremy Corbyn has said in a debate with his three leadership rivals organised by the Guardian.

Former shadow cabinet member Michael Dugher — who was sacked by Mr Corbyn last year — said: «There should be alarm bells ringing.

Mr Cameron said on Sunday there were many members of his shadow cabinet who attended state schools, including shadow foreign secretary William Hague, shadow defence secretary Liam Fox and party chairman Eric Pickles.

Jon Lansman, the leader of Momentum, spoke out as party sources said that up to ten shadow cabinet members are set to quit today.

«David Cameron wrote to him in October urging major reforms to party funding and a cap on donations, Gordon Brown refused because he didn't want to give up on the multi-million pound financing from the trade unions,» shadow Cabinet member Chris Grayling said.

In an email to shadow cabinet members last night, Milne said: «David's main role is to liaise between the leader's office media team, you and your staff... and to ensure media and communications are integrated across the different parts of the operation.»

Her comments come as Corbyn has said that policy will be made by Labour members and not the leader, shadow cabinet, or parliamentary party.

Many other shadow cabinet members are said to have made it clear that they would not leave the room until Corbyn had backed down, while Hilary Benn complained about being silenced and suggested he would have to speak from the backbenches.

Mr Corbyn could move to appoint his own shadow cabinet, slighting MPs who wanted a say on its members as a price for a truce

He said in November 2011: «I don't think there's a single member of the shadow cabinet who'd find it easy to sit down with Nick Clegg... What Clegg did last year was so shocking.

Ed Balls, the shadow chancellor, said it was advisable to keep receipts, but other shadow cabinet members tried to play down his remarks, which were condemned as absurd by Iain Duncan Smith, the work and pensions secretary.

Former shadow cabinet member Anglea Eagle has also said she has «the support to run and resolve this impasse», and that she will do if Mr Corbyn «does not take action soon».

The foreign secretary hit out at Conservative calls for a referendum, saying eight members of the Tory shadow Cabinet had blocked a public vote in the Maastricht treaty.

After the leadership contest, we were told that it would come before the spending review, and then this morning, a member of the shadow Cabinet said on the radio, «We are not going to do an alternative to the spending review».

Efford said he would support any moves by Corbyn to reach out to potential new shadow cabinet members if roles in his team became free.

Labour members who make «disgusting» anti-Semitic remarks should be expelled and the party should adopt a «zero tolerance» approach to the problem, a shadow cabinet minister has said.

And shadow cabinet members from Corbyn down are even following more conventional rules about what they say in relation to contentious issues: McDonnell refused my invitation to support illegal public sector pay strikes on my show yesterday, for example.

Allies of Jeremy Corbyn say he they are nervous about him using his platform to launch a future leadership bid, and he is being accompanied by other members of the shadow cabinet on visits to keep an eye on him.

The Labour leader, who was left reeling after his decision to sack the shadow foreign secretary, Hilary Benn, was followed by the resignations of 11 senior shadow cabinet members, said he would not «betray the trust» of the people who voted for him by stepping down.

«Gordon Brown leading a union - financed election campaign,» says one shadow Cabinet member.

His supporters say much of the frenzied speculation around the reshuffle was whipped up by their opponents, rather than Mr Corbyn himself, but I understand he did want to make the changes and after members of the shadow cabinet made it plain that they would resist him extremely strongly, it seems he will not.

«This impressive group of Republican Cabinet members and presidential economic advisers shows how bipartisan progress on climate change is possible outside the electoral shadow of the fossil fuel industry's political bullying,» Whitehouse said.