Sentences with phrase «shadow chancellor who»

George Osborne, the shadow chancellor who doubles up as the general election campaign manager, sat down for a heart - to - heart with Hilton, Coulson and the shadow schools secretary, Michael Gove, who has recently been drafted into the core general election team.

Labour on the other hand has been all over the place between the Blaitite rump who largely support Osborne, a shadow chancellor who never stamped his mark on a credible alternative policy, and a Left whose calls for growth were ostentatiously ignored.

He adds: «The Labour Party has a leader who would abolish the Armed Forces and withdraw from NATO, a shadow chancellor who wanted to disband MI5, and now a shadow defence secretary who would scrap our nuclear deterrent.

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.

It wasn't good enough for the leader to routinely defer to his shadow chancellor when confronted with a difficult decision — a shadow chancellor who on three separate occasions undermined my efforts to agree collective positions on health matters.

«He's got a shadow chancellor who he won't back but he can't sack.»

Chris Leslie, the former shadow chancellor who is backing the Soubry amendments, said there was a good chance the government would be defeated as he was «reasonably confident that the shadow cabinet and rest of the parliamentary Labour party» supported staying in the customs union.

The so - called «McDonnell amendment», named after the shadow chancellor who was long assumed to be its likely future beneficiary, is strongly backed by the left.

He says Miliband is trapped by having a shadow chancellor who was responsible for the mess in the first place.

He said: «They have a leader who will not sing the national anthem, a shadow chancellor who seems to admire the IRA more than he does the British Army, a shadow foreign secretary who sneers at the English flag and a shadow home secretary who seems to advocate unlimited immigration.

Not exact matches

The two others who will play a part in determining what happens to him and their party are the deputy leader and shadow chancellor.

In London, shadow chancellor John McDonnell shared a stage with comedian Ben Elton and rockers Wolf Alice, who performed a DJ set.

12:26 - A neat little dig against the shadow chancellor Ed Balls from Cameron there, who the PM claims is «wrong about everything, even when he's sitting down».

When he was appointed shadow chancellor even some MPs who were sympathetic to Corbyn were horrified, believing the caricature of McDonnell, a ferocious short tempered hard left warrior, such a determined revolutionary that he fell out with Ken Livingstone in the 1980s in a dispute on which he was to the insurrectionary left of the GLC leader.

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.

«There's only one person in this chamber who is drowning and that's the shadow chancellor.

There are several senior writers in the Tory press who think Balls is doing the running on this one and are quietly impressed by the shadow chancellor.

Anyone who spends any time with Corbyn's shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, would discern a hunger to wield power in government as he once did on the much smaller stage of the Greater London Council.

The shadow chancellor appeared to differ from his leader, who had been initially reluctant to blame the Kremlin for the ex-spy attack.

Many predicted that Ed Balls — who has consistently argued that unaffordable spending should continue, with no cuts at all this year — would become shadow chancellor.

The shadow chancellor dismissed suggestions the party's leadership was trying to quash debate on the issue, after pro-EU MPs, who are pushing leader Jeremy Corbyn to commit to permanent membership of the single market, failed in an attempt to stage a vote.

He set up Article 50 Associates last year with Jon Hudson, who was an adviser to the former shadow chancellor Chris Leslie.

They are a presence at Dugdale's Edinburgh speech, too, setting up a stall outside the community centre and handing out leaflets decorated with a photograph of a benign - looking Corbyn standing alongside shadow chancellor John McDonnell, who is giving a clenched - fist salute.

The chancellor's stance was criticised by shadow chancellor Ed Balls, who described Ms Lagarde's comments as «hardly a ringing endorsement» of the government's policy.

Attention on contact between the parties» senior figures began this summer with the revelation by shadow chancellor Ed Balls that he has been in frequent contact by text with Lib Dem business secretary Vince Cable, a former SDP politician, who has spent the summer undermining Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg.

A former home secretary and shadow chancellor, Alan Johnson is the Labour leadership candidate who never quite was.

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.

Its disclosure now caps a difficult week for Ed Miliband who has been battling criticism of his leadership and the embarassing leak of emails belonging to the shadow chancellor, Ed Balls.

Meanwhile, the Tories appeared to be taking their cue from The Sun's Harry Cole, who had seized on the fact that the shadow chancellor's speech did not mention immigration.

Miss Reeves, who is deputy to Ed Balls, the shadow chancellor, said Labour had no intention of increasing taxes on anyone apart from those «right at the top» of the income scale.

When he discovered there were some people in it who were expressing anti-Semitic views he immediately came out of that,» the shadow chancellor said.

And Jim Fitzpatrick, who chairs the all - party parliamentary group on fire safety and who will lead a debate in the Commons on the issue tonight, also rejected the shadow chancellor's choice of language.

«There is only one person in the chamber who is drowning, and it is the shadow chancellor,» the chancellor said.

Brown replies: «The one person he didn't mention who supported the VAT rise is the shadow chancellor.»

One high - profile Labour casualty was former shadow chancellor Ed Balls who lost his seat to Conservative candidate Andrea Jenkyns.

Mr Darling declined to say who he was backing to take over as shadow chancellor, but lavished praise on David Miliband.

Mark Ferguson at LabourList warns that Ed Balls will be difficult for Ed Miliband to resist: «Unlike Johnson, who was by no means certain to serve as shadow chancellor for a full parliament, it's hard to envisage a circumstances in which Miliband could remove Balls.

«The lesson of the Olympics is that if we approach major long - term infrastructure projects by building a cross-party sense of national purpose then we can deliver,» stated the shadow chancellor, which raised intriguing questions about just who Balls can imagine himself working with - Nick Clegg?

It is a comment that could fuel a rumour already drifting around Westminster that, in the face of a coup, Corbyn — who will turn 71 in 2020 — might prefer his close friend and shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, to take over at the wheel.

Chris Leslie, who was Labour shadow chancellor during 2015, labelled it an «OK result» after Jeremy Corbyn's party secured a higher - than - expected 262 seats and significantly boosted its vote share.

For the 4.5 percenters, who, like me, backed Liz Kendall, John McDonnell's first major speech as shadow chancellor at Labour Party conference was, in many ways, a pleasant surprise.

Conservative shadow chancellor George Osborne said: «Given the gloomy economic news and the rising cost of living, millions of homeowners who are struggling thanks to Brown's economic incompetence will welcome this news.

Facing him was shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn, who tried to bring the chancellor out of his comfort zone with questions on terror, ISIL and migrants.

The revelation that Cameron spends a couple of hours with his missus over the weekend has precipitated a bout of appalled derision from the press and shadow chancellor Ed Balls who, while acknowledging that politicians should be given time off to go to the toilet semi-occasionally, snuck a crafty one through the net by following it up with «But I often feel he's not on top of the issues.»

Meanwhile, the posts of shadow chancellor and shadow home secretary are likely to be held by two other MPs who represent seats in that swathe of the Yorkshire coalfield between Leeds and Doncaster.

McCluskey, who has been one of Corbyn's strongest supporters, said the Labour leader and his shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, were «not egomaniacs» and would not want to keep their roles if there were no hope of victory.

To recap: we now have a party led by a man who never expected to leave the back benches; a shadow chancellor best described as «maverick», with a treasure trove of past quotes already carefully dug up and filed at Tory HQ, providing a handy media drip - feed for the next five years.

It was Gordon Brown who, as shadow chancellor, first stunned the political world by announcing on the Today programme in January 1997 that «we will leave the basic rate of tax unchanged and we will leave the top rate of tax unchanged».

Yes agreed shadow chancellor is far more important than deputy so candidates should tell us who they want.

As Nick Watt notes, David Miliband's backbench intervention in a recent economic debate — I clocked it myself here — triggered speculation that he really ought to take over the shadow chancellor's job from Balls, who has what Stalinists used to call «a spoiled biography» — closely associated with the discredited regime of Gordon Brown.