Sentences with phrase «shadow cabinet members»

«It's odd,» one shadow cabinet member told me in the middle of the week.

But it turns out that she is not the only shadow cabinet member with a penchant for using colourful language to dismiss a key plank of Labour policy.

There's no doubt many shadow cabinet members regard it as a significant intervention.

There is no reference to the topics under discussion or which shadow cabinet members are making speeches.

This includes at least three days of campaigning per shadow cabinet member during recess.

Allowing shadow cabinet members to vote with the government will not undo the damage done in the run up to the vote.

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».

Of the other shadow cabinet members who are potential occupants of the major offices of state, Douglas Alexander, the shadow foreign secretary, is probably the most concerned for the future.

In recent weeks I've met a number of shadow cabinet members who have admitted that their own local Associations were decidedly negative from the grammars schools row until the Blackpool Conference.

The Labour MP and senior shadow cabinet member calls for a constitutional convention to wrest power from the UK's unaccountable, neoliberal elite.

Today pressure was also growing on former Labour shadow cabinet members who had refused to serve under Mr Corbyn to take up duties again.

One shadow cabinet member said: «It's awful.

Under the proposals of an unelected committee chaired by Margaret Beckett, the PLP looks set to abandon a requirement that an incoming Labour PM include elected shadow cabinet members in the new cabinet.

Labour politicians employing family members include shadow cabinet member Kate Osomor and prominent backbenchers Jess Phillips, Caroline Flit and Michael Dugher.

That was despite a last - ditch attempt by shadow cabinet members Diane Abbott and Barry Gardiner for Labour MPs to be allowed to abstain on the crunch vote.

The New Labour lynchpin used an article in the Sunday Mirror newspaper to call on Miliband to give shadow Cabinet members not pulling their weight «the hairdryer treatment and kick»em out».

The Mirror understands Mr Corbyn's team hope to lure at least six former shadow cabinet members back to the fold if he stays as leader

The result of the EU referendum caused discontent among some Labour MPs, and several shadow cabinet members asked for Jeremy Corbyn's resignation over what they saw as his feeble leadership.

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

The sacked shadow cabinet members may well have been genuine Labour men but nither were capable of keeping their mouths shut

Former shadow cabinet member Chris Leslie said Labour had to show in May that it was doing better than under Ed Miliband at the same stage of his leadership.

This month Johnson is viewed negatively by 38 % (with 55 % positive)- making him the least popular shadow cabinet member with LabourList readers.»

Dominic Grieve had argued that the Tories wanting a British bill of rights would have to be quite careful about this at a dinner conversation full of shadow Cabinet members about this.

Many current shadow cabinet members would be unable to stomach serving as junior partners in the great Corbynite project.

The second review is «unofficial», and being conducted by former shadow cabinet member Jon Cruddas.

The sudden appearance of cabinet and shadow cabinet members seeking to ingratiate themselves with the «Northern powerhouses» of Manchester, Sheffield, and Leeds has been a sight to behold.

And there is also a strong desire to be consulted before shadow cabinet members announce «party policy» which has no basis in anything agreed by the party conference or the national policy forum.

It was madness to appoint separate shadow cabinet members to lead on the national policy forum and on the policy review, initially Peter Hain and Liam Byrne but subsequently Angela Eagle and Jon Cruddas.

One shadow cabinet member described the six months of private talks between the unions and Miliband as a rollercoaster.

The hire of a new spin doctor comes as shadow cabinet member Shami Chakrabarti complained about Corbyn's treatment in the media during an interview with Andrew Marr on Sunday morning.

Listen to shadow Cabinet member David Willetts discusses the thinking behind his latest book, The Pinch, in an in - depth interview with politics.co.uk:

By quitting as shadow business secretary, Lewis became the fourth shadow cabinet member to resign rather than vote in favour of the European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill, which authorises the government to trigger article 50.

Earlier in the day shadow cabinet members Keir Starmer, Jon Ashworth and Barry Gardiner criticised Labour's national constitutional committee for being too lenient to Livingstone.

Former shadow cabinet member Lilian Greenwood used the meeting to list the excuses given by senior party figures - including Baroness Chakrabarti - for the Copeland defeat.

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.»

Angela Rayner today became the latest shadow cabinet member to face a grilling from Nick Ferrari on LBC Radio.

Footage emerged of shadow cabinet member Andrew Gwynne hinting that Labour could even switch sides on Brexit if public opinion shifted against leaving.

The move may serve to distance the wealthy leadership of Cameron and Osborne — whose advisers include Steve Hilton, the director of communications, who is paid # 276,000 — from less prosperous shadow cabinet members.

The others are not significantly higher calibre than existing shadow cabinet members so not worth recalling them.

This «farcical moment», in the words of one present, only hardened shadow cabinet members» resolve to force their leader to back down - and he did.

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.

Indeed, a deal of this kind — nothing much doing in the kitchen or the bedroom, but orderly consideration of domestic finances — sounds remarkably like a domestic equivalent of «confidence and supply»: exactly the arrangement that many Tory MPs and two then Conservative shadow cabinet members, Chris Grayling and Theresa Villiers, wanted in the first place.

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».

I have some sympathy with this Luddite shadow cabinet member.

The party's gravest danger, admits a frustrated shadow cabinet member, is irrelevancy.

With accusations that he didn't give 100 % to campaigning for remaining in the EU over the past few months, and resignations coming thick and fast from multiple shadow cabinet members, it's increasingly likely that Jeremy Corbyn will need to stand down as leader of the Labour party.

It cites one anonymous shadow cabinet member as blaming the previous report on «kite - flying» by the well - paid strategist Steve Hilton:

We asked the two relevant shadow cabinet members - Liam Fox for Defence (members» highest spending priority - not for the first time) and Jeremy Hunt for Culture, Media and Sport (members» lowest priority) for their reactions: