Sentences with phrase «shadow education secretary when»

May first joined the Tory frontbench in 1999 as shadow education secretary when William Hague was the party leader.

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«I was incredulous when David Laws and Danny Alexander made it clear that they wanted substantial cuts this year,» the shadow education secretary, Ed Balls, told me.

Labour's shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt was quizzed on Mumsnet today and admitted the issue of when summer - born children start school was a growing concern for both parents and admissions authorities,

He has a disabled child and was responsible for setting up the commission when he was shadow education secretary back in 2005.

Labour's shadow education secretary, Angela Rayner, said: «When even the Conservative - dominated education select committee calls Theresa May's new grammar schools an «unnecessary distraction», it's time that ministers finally sat up and took notice.

Bounce... Justine Greening took over and Labour fielded enough shadow education secretaries that many of us wondered when it would be our turn to have a go?

She could do worse than consider the proposal put forward by Tristram Hunt in November 2014 when he was shadow education secretary.

Stephen Twigg MP, Labour's shadow education secretary, said: «When a Tory councillor makes openly racist comments like these, it's no surprise people still think of the Conservatives as the nasty party.»

Angela Rayner, the shadow education secretary, said the move by the treasury was «astonishing» at a time when schools spending is being «drastically cut».

Allocating cash for the expansion of grammar schools in England when other parts of the education sector face funding concerns is «baffling», shadow education secretary Angela Rayner says.