Sentences with phrase «shadow communities secretary»

Making his debut in his new role at the despatch box, Mr Brokenshire was urged by shadow communities secretary Andrew Gwynne to demand more money for councils.

One of those MPs, former shadow communities secretary Emma Reynolds, has called for the Labour leadership to put the rumours to bed.

Eric Pickles, shadow communities secretary added: «Gordon Brown's tax hikes, especially punitive stamp duty and escalating council tax, have helped kick a whole generation off the housing ladder.»

Labour's shadow communities secretary John Denham accused Mr Pickles of encouraging a «cosy incestuous relationship between local councils and auditors» and said it was unfair of Mr Pickles to suggest a Commission away - day at Newmarket race course took place on a race day.

The parliamentary standards committee has deferred a decision on «nannygate» and shadow communities secretary Caroline Spelman until next week.

In a heated Commons debate on the issue last night, the party's shadow communities secretary Andrew Gwynne admitted that Labour need to do «much more work» to tackle anti-Semitism and vowed: «No political party has the monopoly on vice or virtue but we will put our house in order.»

Emma Reynolds, the former shadow communities secretary, said: «The idea that there isn't any space between unequivocal support for free movement and Ukip's divisive position is plainly wrong.»

Labour's shadow communities secretary, John Denham, said: «The fund helped areas which saw rapid changes in population from migration.

The shadow communities secretary, Andrew Gwynne, told the Guardian last week that the polls had been «incredibly unhelpful» to Labour because they raised expectations when the last time the councils had been up for election four years ago the result was generally regarded as a high - water mark for the party.

It also emerged this morning that Paula Sherriff had resigned her post as parliamentary private secretary to Jon Trickett, the shadow communities secretary and shadow minister for the constitutional convention.

Speaking in the debate on the reform of MPs» expenses, the MP for Old Bexley and Sidcup, defended the use of public funds to employ family members and protested that he had been treated far more harshly than Caroline Spelman, the shadow communities secretary who was ordered to repay an overspend on her nanny.

Mr Gwynne, Labour's election guru and shadow communities secretary, said Labour «trod a very clever fine line» on Brexit during the 2017 election, by accepting the referendum result while demanding Britain keeps all the benefits of being in the single market.

The shadow communities secretary also discloses that shortly before the election Downing Street vetoed his plans for state funding for an official St George's Day celebration of Englishness.

``... the shadow communities secretary, Eric Pickles, said: «Under the government's plans for bin taxes there will be no reduction in council tax.