Sentences with phrase «shadow chancellor makes»

The shadow chancellor made the commitment during a Q&A session at the Tory party conference in Manchester.

Last year, the Labour leader and shadow chancellor made it clear they would not be interested in such an arrangement.

Not exact matches

The new year saw the shadow chancellor give an interview to the New Statesman in which he made clear he wanted to palsy it up with Clegg.

«This shows how foolish and short - termist the chancellor was to bank this cash in the autumn statement to make his borrowing figures look less bad,» Rachel Reeves, shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, said.

The former shadow chancellor may not look much like Russell Crowe at first glance but there is a comparison to be made.

A friend of Balls says: «If David is leader, and he makes Ed [Balls] shadow chancellor, there's a real risk of a repeat of the Blair - Brown wars.»

Labour will not make «political capital» out of a U-turn on plans to cut tax credits, shadow chancellor John McDonnell has said.

Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude has said that the shadow chancellor Ed Balls» pledge to axe winter fuel payments for wealthier pensioners shows he is «making it up as he goes along»:

At a make - or - break party conference in Blackpool the policy was announced amid great fanfare by George Osborne, the shadow chancellor.

David Cameron said «we have to make room for everybody» about the leanings of the teenage Miliband, as he spoke about the UK's future relationship with the EU, and he took a swipe at the shadow chancellor.

Yvette Cooper is the only Labour figure who has made it into the coverage today in her capacity as shadow work and pensions secretary, which incidentally can't be doing her profile as a potential shadow chancellor any home.

On Wednesday, it emerged that the shadow chancellor, nicknamed «Ed's Enforcer», had asked his front - bench colleagues to apply in writing to his office every time they plan to make a policy announcement.

He blamed it on his stammer amid the bearpit atmosphere of the Commons chamber, but the shadow chancellor's under - par response to the autumn statement was really of his own making.

The shadow chancellor has been accused of making false accusations by senior Treasury officials after he implied that they had broken the law and collaborated with Labour in a taxation cover - up.

The shadow chancellor George Osborn singled out comments made by the six deputy candidates as proof of Labour's leftward shift.

Then the new leader needs to make him shadow chancellor — the top general — and let him run the war.

[44][45] Abbott also denied reports Corbyn and shadow chancellor John McDonnell were attempting to stop her from making broadcasts.

Ed Ball's speech in particular, defining where he stands on austerity and Keysianism, the shadow chancellor's most important speech since that to Bloomberg, was made without any discussion whatsoever within the party's formal policy structure or amongst MPs.

Ed Miliband is on the cover and Jim Pickard examines what makes the Labour leader tick, his relationship with his brother David and shadow chancellor Ed Balls, and whether he is providing a transformative lead for his party.

He said he had not consulted with Ed Balls, the shadow chancellor, before making his pledge.

The prime minister defended Osborne, saying: «The chancellor was announcing this tax reduction from the dispatch box... He was actually here making the announcement and I have to say completely wrong - footing the shadow chancellor.»

The only good news is for Ed Balls, the combative shadow chancellor who stood against the Milibands for the Labour leadership last year, and who appears to have made more of an impact on the electorate than the two brothers.

We previewed the shadow chancellor's plan to make people publish their tax returns if they earn more than # 1m a year here.

Yet he would make an excellent shadow chancellor; certainly he has a more sophisticated understanding of economics than George Osborne.

This is in spite of his making so many concessions to the Blairites, starting with not appointing Balls as shadow chancellor.

To deliver this strategy he made a deliberate choice not to appoint Ed Balls as shadow chancellor, but opted for the Blairite Alan Johnson.

The answer is to be found in the deteriorating relationship between Labour's leader and his shadow chancellor, a dysfunction which is increasingly defining policy - making within the party.

Under Mr Miliband, who is pictured with the shadow chancellor Ed Balls in London this morning, Labour has called for an end to speed cameras being used to make money for councils

But a Conservative Party spokesman said shadow chancellor Ed Balls had made it clear in a speech in June that the party would curb new schools in areas where they was an «excess» of places.