Sentences with phrase «shadow cabinet role»

The popular MP declined to stand in 2010 and stepped down from his shadow cabinet role in 2011 for personal reasons.

Some reporters treated that as a hint she could be being lined up for a shadow Cabinet role.

Table 1 also shows that half of the chairs now had ministerial experience, with nine having had earlier cabinet or shadow cabinet roles — a testimony to the increasing salience of these chairing roles (which also attract a salary addition for the MPs involved).

Lewis, a new MP who has served in the army in Afghanistan, said he would not be keen to take on a shadow cabinet role so quickly.

David was offered a shadow cabinet role but opted to leave British politics altogether, taking up a job as the head of the International Rescue charity in New York, avoiding speculation about rivalry with his younger brother that would surely have followed had he stayed around.

Labour's Tom Watson has resigned from his shadow cabinet role as the party's general election co-ordinator.