Sentences with phrase «shadow cabinet seats»

Mr Ashworth holds one of three shadow cabinet seats on the powerful 35 - strong body that will be pivotal for Labour's future.

... And one of three shadow cabinet seats on Labour's ruling NEC will be handed from Jonathan Ashworth to Kate Osamor.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

The Labour leader was attacked by backbench MPs and even members of his shadow cabinet after the party lost seats in England and Wales and were humiliated in Scotland, where they finished a distant third.

«Increasingly, secretive groups, which don't have to declare where all their cash comes from, are channelling cash to key seats,» shadow Cabinet Office minister Jon Ashworth said.

On the other side of the Commons, Jeremy Corbyn» Islington North seat is scrapped, potentially pitting him against his shadow cabinet colleagues Emily Thornberry and Diane Abbott to represent a single seat.

«I haven't embarked on this leadership campaign to get a seat in the shadow Cabinet.

Should he choose to fight the Leeds South and Outwood seat, he could find himself being pitted against shadow Cabinet colleague Hilary Benn, whose existing Leeds Central constituency would be partly folded into the new seat.

The Guardian understands that Corbyn is considering convening an extra meeting of the shadow cabinet later this week to discuss the issue, which risks exacerbating the rift between MPs in post-industrial seats where there are profound concerns about immigration and those in constituencies that voted remain.

Power is an inheritance to them and an entitlement and as long as they retain their safe seats they still get shadow cabinet jobs and dosh to do absolutely nothing other than wait for more morally driven activists to sell ideas that do not exist on doorsteps.

Given that Corbyn wants party members to have more seats on the NEC (to extend his power there), and MPs want at least some shadow cabinet members to be elected, it is not hard to see how some sort of deal could be struck.

She stood down from the shadow cabinet to seek the selection for the Kilmarnock and Loudoun seat, following the announcement from Des Browne MP that he would not stand at the 2010 General election.

When we meet, her fast - tracking into frontline politics by David Cameron - via a recently announced seat in the House of Lords - is being talked up by her minders as the stuff of history: Warsi is the first Muslim to sit in either the cabinet or the shadow cabinet, and when she takes her seat in the Lords, she will be the youngest non-hereditary peer.

Diane knows she has no chance of winning but is betting on a reward from the eventually victor of a seat in the shadow cabinet.

Asked about his NEC seat, Leicester South MP Mr Ashworth said: «They're decisions for the leader and the shadow cabinet and I'm not going to get into that today.»

its corbyn or destruction for labour and every single new labour idiot he appoints to his shadow cabinet will cost labour seats every time they open their mouths so it would be a good idea not to appoint any.

Oliver Heald MP, who used to have responsibility for constitutional affairs in the shadow cabinet, believes in full equalisation of seats: