Sentences with phrase «shadow cabinet on»

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.

Miliband was trying to take Labour in the right direction and I admire his convictions, but he did not seem to have the courage of them and was unable to get many of his own shadow cabinet on message.

Siddiq said she had made the final decision to resign after Corbyn confirmed to the shadow cabinet on Thursday morning that Labour MPs would be expected to back the article 50 bill and a three - line whip would be imposed.

Not exact matches

The new Labour leader will take over with just under a month before the coalition's spending review is announced on 20 October, and a matter of days after announcing the new shadow cabinet.

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.

A New Statesman interview with Harriet Harman yesterday revealed the interim labour leader was angling for a seat on the shadow Cabinet once a new head was chosen.

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

Corbyn was appearing with the entire shadow cabinet, members of Labour's ruling body and trade union chiefs at an event in central London on Tuesday,

John Trickett, shadow Cabinet Office minister, comments on the Bureau of Investigative Journalism lobbying sting operation.

Backbenchers and political journalists piled the praise on Eagle after today's performance, while a shadow cabinet member suggested that many Labour MPs preferred Eagle's «confrontational» style to Jeremy Corbyn's «calm» approach.

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.

And now we have a more explicit outlining of an emerging new Tory constitutional doctrine in an extraordinary Guardian report on Tuesday — based on anonymous briefings from «senior shadow Cabinet members» — that the Conservatives intend to mount a partisan attack on existing constitutional conventions, and the Cabinet Secretary's protocols for handling a hung Parliament, even though a primary motivation for these has been to protect the Monarchy from being dragged into party political controversy.

All those of us who believe in a compassionate, fairer society must get behind Corbyn, McDonnell and the shadow cabinet and make our voices heard on behalf of the 99 %.

He had proposed a week - long attack on «the great Tory deception» over the deficit, which was to have involved the entire shadow cabinet.

Labour's shadow cabinet agreed on Monday that MPs would be given a free vote, despite Corbyn's public opposition to strikes, to avert a threatened rebellion by pro-bombing members such as shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn.

For a start, the next Labour leader will have only 13 days to agree a policy on spending cuts: the new shadow cabinet won't be announced until 7 October, while the forthcoming Comprehensive Spending Review, which will reveal the biggest cuts to public expenditure since the 1930s, is scheduled for 20 October.

Even at this point, the shadow cabinet still could not agree on how to tackle the issue.

He said opinion had shifted on the case for airstrikes «in the media, in parliament, in the PLP, in the shadow cabinet».

Nominations for the shadow cabinet open on 26 September, the day after the new leader is announced.

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.

Since his speech in favour of air strikes on Syria I am struck by the number of Hilary Benn's colleagues, those who have worked with him in cabinets or shadow cabinets, who tell me he has changed since the summer, finding his political voice or public definition in opposition to Jeremy Corbyn's leadership.

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.

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.

With Labour backing Lords reform in its manifesto, the shadow cabinet agreed on Tuesday to support the bill when it receives its two - day second reading in the Commons, likely at the beginning of July.

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.

Labour's shadow work and pension secretary Rachel Reeves has asked «when will the PM and IDS [Iain Duncan Smith] get a grip» on Universal Credit, after Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude admitted to ITV News that its implementation had been «pretty lamentable» so far:

He called delays on the decision over shadow cabinet elections a «missed opportunity» and said he hoped de-selection of critical MPs would not happen.

By 9.30 pm on Sunday a further 11 members of the shadow cabinet had left their posts.

«I don't think we can go on having policy made by the leader, shadow cabinet, or parliamentary Labour party.

Did he want a strong shadow cabinet colleague who would, on occasion, feel able to speak out against the views of his leader and perhaps the wider shadow cabinet or did he want such a big beast roaming the backbenches, taking potshots at the leadership at will?

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.

«What weighs with him is the polling which shows what the Tories are doing on immigration is popular and it certainly weighs on other members of the shadow Cabinet.

One of the shadow cabinet's most thoughtful members suggested to me that the chances of a Lib - Lab coalition winning a referendum on PR were so slim, and the scale of the difficulties facing the next government so great, that it might be worth leaving them to face the music.

More mischievously, former senior advisers to the shadow cabinet were looking at ways they could quickly hang John McDonnell by his own petard, way before George Osborne, sensibly playing a longer game, could get his own dirty hands on him.

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.

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.

He attacked the «lightweight» shadow cabinet and called for the former ministers Alan Johnson and Alistair Darling to be brought back on to the front bench.

This «democratic revolution» could entail democratic elections for shadow cabinet positions and digital consultations for members on policy.

However Mr McCluskey quickly denied putting any pressure on Ed Miliband over his shadow cabinet reshuffle.

Could you elaborate on why having the members electing part of the shadow cabinet is a bad idea?

With a new leader and a freshly elected shadow cabinet, it would be natural to draw a line under past actions and concentrate all our attentions on future policy.

(And while I understand your position on anonymous sources — it furthers your own poltical agend... sorry, I mean it's the ethical thing to do — could you at least number them so we know if the shadow cabinet member who told you things is the same one as last time, or a different one.

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

Fellow Labour MP Wes Streeting added: «Lots of good people chose to serve in shadow cabinet to keep the show on the road.

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».

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.

«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.

The FT says some of the shadow cabinet are looking at John McDonnell as a «brake» on Milne's plans to radically overhaul the top team.

Unlike Twigg or Byrne, Murphy remains in the shadow cabinet and is — according to Labour sources — taking on one of the most important roles on offer.

The ones to watch are doing the equivalent of Hilary Benn outside the shadow cabinet, focusing on policy rather than playing easy games on Twitter and in the media.