Sentences with phrase «shadow chancellor since»

Shadow home secretary 2010 - 2011, shadow chancellor since 2011.

John McDonnell is Labour MP for Hayes and Harlington and has been shadow chancellor since September 2015.

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Since the former shadow chancellor smashed it on Strictly Come Dancing, transforming his public persona from bad guy who broke the economy to the fun guy who nearly broke his dancing partner by dropping her on her face, politicians are looking for ways to be normal.

This was David Cameron's first opportunity to bash Ed Balls since the shadow chancellor's autumn statement howler last week.

And these revised figures also show that since George Osborne's spending review our economy has flatlined and not grown at all,» shadow chancellor Ed Balls said.

Over on the Labour front bench, some unease might also be gathering, since both the leader of the opposition and the shadow chancellor promise what might charitably be termed «austerity lite».

The shadow chancellor said Britain was coming out of the biggest recession since the war and the party had no choice but to tackle its economic difficulties decisively.

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.

And now, since 2010, it's what Ed has been doing as shadow chancellor, and how he's tackled the task, that I have come to admire.

... Britain is experiencing the fastest growth since the 1990s, he will say, while arguing that criticism of the Coalition's austerity programme by Ed Balls, the shadow chancellor, has been proven entirely wrong.»