Sentences with phrase «shadow health secretary who»

Alexander, the former shadow health secretary who quit Corbyn's frontbench during the string of resignations over his leadership in 2016, has resigned her seat to take up a role as deputy mayor for transport under the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, at City Hall.

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The news was seized on by shadow health secretary Andy Burnham, who said campaigners needed to lend the opposition support to maximise the chances of the Lords voting down the legislation.

Miliband's announcements represent a victory in the shadow Cabinet for shadow health secretary Andy Burnham, who had been calling for Labour to integrate health and social care.

And that's not just good for the shadow health secretary, or those who have been fighting for justice for 96 people who went to cheer their side to Wembley and never came home.

More attention has been paid to the pugnacious shadow health secretary, Andy Burnham, who has been tipped as a possible future leader.

The shadow health secretary has received the most donations of all four leadership candidates, followed by Yvette Cooper who has been given a total of # 81,500 in recent weeks.

A few months later he was replacing the competent John Healey, who had good reason to feel hard - done - by, in the most politically profitable role in opposition: shadow health secretary.

The shadow health secretary - who had just made an emotional speech, which I covered earlier, today to much applause - is rumoured to be precarious in his current role with a reshuffle around the corner.

The shadow health secretary joins a number of Labour MPs who are critical of Mandelson's decision to publish his memoirs while the leadership election is under way.

«This is a real vote of confidence in the Conservative party's policies for the NHS, from the people who have the greatest day to day responsibility for caring for patients,» said shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley.

Heidi Alexander, who quit as shadow health secretary last weekend, has criticised John McDonnell's «totally unacceptable» conduct in setting up a team of NHS policy advisers without telling her.

It is this plan that critics such as the RCN and Labour's shadow health secretary, Andy Burnham, have warned would turn the NHS into a two - tier system in which those who can pay get preferential treatment.

Heidi Alexander, the shadow health secretary, was the first to walk out, followed by Gloria De Piero, who has represented young people and toured the country talking to Labour voters and members.