Sentences with phrase «shadow cabinet portfolios»

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The Conservative ex-minister, who currently holds the higher education portfolio in David Cameron's shadow Cabinet, takes a philosophical view of the rigours of being out of government.

Ed Balls is confirmed as Shadow Chancellor; his wife Yvette Cooper takes his job as shadow home secretary; Douglas Alexander takes her former portfolio of shadow foreign secretary; Lima Byrne becomes shadow work and pensions secretary; Tessa Jowell to take on responsibilities shadowing the Cabinet Office, formerly held by Byrne.

As a result, many ministers had been in place not just since the government was elected in 2010, but had covered the portfolio in Cameron's shadow cabinet or even earlier; Andrew Lansley had covered the health brief since 2004, when Michael Howard led the Conservatives in opposition.

Former Gordon Brown aide Mr Ashworth is shadow minister without portfolio and fills one of three valuable shadow cabinet seats on Labour's ruling NEC.

Popular Leicester MP Jonathan Ashworth is already in the shadow cabinet but does not currently hold a specific portfolio.

When David Davis committed shadow cabinet suicide last year Dominic Grieve briefly got the Home Office portfolio and was — I suspect — soon deemed too gentle, too cerebral even, by Cameron.