Sentences with phrase «shadow cabinet minister»

Digital currencies were also lauded by a shadow cabinet minister from the opposition Labour Party, Chi Onwurah, two weeks ago.

Angela Eagle, the former Labour shadow cabinet minister and leadership contender, described the offer as a «Hobson's choice», meaning MPs could face a choice in two years» time between hard Brexit and no deal at all.

The current shadow cabinet minister with responsibility for this issue, Nick Herbert, Shadow Secretary of State for Justice, doesn't go as far but in a statement issued to ConservativeHome opens the door to a manifesto promise:

A shadow Cabinet minister lashed out at Len McCluskey today after the union baron accused moderate Labour MPs of using the anti-Semitism row to hammer Jeremy Corbyn.

Some 49 Labour MPs joined a group including the SNP and Liberal Democrats in voting in support of the amendment tabled by former shadow cabinet minister Chuka Umunna.

He dismissed suggestions from former shadow cabinet minister Owen Smith, who is thought to be considering his own leadership bid, that he would split the party.

If the whip is now in favour of leaving Nato, of a completely new policy on Trident... I just can not see how many people will be prepared to accept that responsibility,» one shadow cabinet minister told this newspaper.

Former shadow cabinet minister Heidi Alexander has announced she will stand down as an MP to take up the role of London's deputy mayor for transport.

Labour needs to set out clear ideas over the coming months in order to persuade voters who are not yet convinced by the party, a shadow cabinet minister has said.

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.

But supporters of Mr Smith say the campaign group Save Labour have encouraged thousands to sign up and vote for the former shadow Cabinet Minister.

Jon Ashworth, the shadow cabinet minister, accused the Tories of seeking to rig the political system with planned cuts to «Short money» and new rules to discourage donations by trade union members.

This should certainly end his career as a shadow cabinet minister and an MP too.I hope that Grayling will quickly be able to prove that the Mirror is wrong.

Shadow Chancellor George Osborne and the shadow cabinet minister in charge of the party's preparations for government, Francis Maude, «will also publish a dossier entitled «It's your money» detailing examples of wasteful spending - including the billions spent on the NHS super computer, ID cards, refurbishing the Ministry of Defence and Government consultants.»

At the meeting, the shadow cabinet minister complained that radical suggestions put forward by his working groups had been «parked» and replaced with «cynical nuggets of policy to chime with our focus groups and press strategy».

Francis Maude, shadow Cabinet minister, being denied a mortgage interest payment on a family home in Sussex, and then buying a flat two years later just a minutes walk away from a house he already owned.

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.

Former shadow cabinet minister Clive Lewis clashed with former Europe minister Caroline Flint, as fellow Labour MP Lisa Nandy stood on the sidelines.

Gloria Di Piero is the shadow cabinet minister for women and equalities and Emma Reynolds moves to housing.

«It's already on Twitter,» said one shadow cabinet minister.

The Labour party is acknowledging that it will be outspent by the Conservatives by a margin of three to one in next year's general election but believes it will be able to «out - body» the Tories on the ground with a new generation of grassroots activists, shadow cabinet minister Gloria De Piero has said.

«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.

Alan Duncan, an openly - gay shadow cabinet minister, has accused Labour «stirring up hatred and division» ahead of this year's Gay Pride.

The shadow cabinet minister also argued that universal free school meals would end the stigma around children not paying for lunch.

The shadow cabinet minister said Damian Bride's claims about Charles Clarke and John Reid were a «post script on the past» and Labour had «learned from those lessons of the past».

It is clear that the Conservative shadow cabinet knows not to step on another shadow cabinet minister's toe.

«We couldn't pre-empt the outcome of the court case,» says a shadow cabinet minister and close ally of Miliband.

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.

He was, as Danny writes, the first shadow cabinet minister to back David Cameron's leadership bid.

The first, from former shadow cabinet minister Caroline Flint, was part of a speech last month urging the party to commit to a full - blooded Brexit, outside the single market, customs union, and the realm of free movement of people.

If the whip is now in favour of leaving Nato, of a completely new policy on Trident... I just can not see how many people will be prepared to accept that responsibility,» one shadow cabinet minister said.

Denham also reportedly suggested shadow Cabinet minister should use more stories about struggling southern voters in speeches.

McDonnell also hit out at former Labour shadow cabinet minister Caroline Flint, after she told the BBC's Sunday Politics programme yesterday that his ambition that the party «hang on» in the recent local elections was not good enough.

One shadow cabinet minister told friends: «I am expecting a busy Christmas, and a very quiet new year.»

As a senior shadow cabinet minister put it to me, we have show that Britain is still capable of (and needs!)

Despite only getting elected last year Sheppard has become one of the most recognisable SNP faces in SW1, his role as shadow cabinet minister giving him license to roam across the broadcast studios.

It's now clear what happens when a shadow Cabinet minister publicly expresses their difference of opinion with the Labour leader: They either get sacked or they get told to shut up, as shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn has been.

To be frank, I suspect that the chair of the home affairs select committee will be more able to get a public platform and more able to influence policy than a shadow cabinet minister or even the most junior ministers in government.

It was made worse by the fact that that someone was a senior shadow cabinet minister who I have quite a large crush on.

The senior former shadow Cabinet minister was criticised for submitting a # 957 claim for a «pewter finish» on radiators, and # 8,000 for work on his garden.

It's an independent group within the party but supported by shadow cabinet ministers, Nick Herbert and Greg Clark, who both attended last night's launch party.

Mr Letwin is just one of two shadow cabinet ministers to sit in David Cameron's leadership suite - the other being George Osborne.

Only five shadow cabinet ministers registered more than a 0.5 % showing in our recent survey of party conference performers.

I think the best bet for Labour here is for Ed Miliband to do what Harold Wilson did in the 1975 Common Market Referendum - allow Labour MPs, party members and shadow cabinet ministers to campaign for or against, or not at all, depending on their personal preferences.

Four shadow cabinet ministers resigned so they could be among the 47 Labour MPs to vote against Brexit.

The signatories — including 10 former shadow cabinet ministers — told Mr. Corbyn that the «extremely worrying trend of escalating abuse and hostility» is «being done in your name.»

Following the party's decision to support the European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill 2017, at least three shadow cabinet ministers, all representing constituencies which voted to remain in the EU, resigned from their position as a result of the party's decision to invoke Article 50 under the bill.

Speeches lauding the «enormous opportunities» of Brexit would not have been made, and unhelpful remarks from shadow cabinet ministers would not have been tolerated.

But most challenging of all was a picture round in which all of the answers were names of Labour's shadow cabinet ministers....

Mr Watson's Glastonbury adventure comes as ten shadow cabinet ministers are reportedly ready to resign.