Sentences with phrase «shadow home secretary]»

The Labour leader kept his seat when Mr Javid made his challenge but shadow home secretary Diane Abbott intervened to insist Labour opposed the abuse.

Appointed shadow home secretary, Prior urged Heath to submit himself to early re-election as leader, but he demurred and the delay until February 1975, following the more decisive second Labour election victory in October 1974, proved fatal and sealed Thatcher's triumph.

Andy Burnham, the shadow home secretary (at least, we think he's still shadow home secretary), has also put out a statement about Michael Dugher.

The Labour leader (right today) kept his seat when Mr Javid made his challenge but shadow home secretary Diane Abbott (centre) intervened to insist Labour opposed the abuse

Andy Burnham is definitely not being moved from his post as shadow home secretary, my colleague Frances Perraudin tells me.

The arrest of Damian Green, the shadow home office minister, is more than just worrying.

Andy Burnham, the shadow home secretary, had earlier said there was a «very real prospect» of Britain crashing out of the EU because the remain camp was failing to reach beyond Hampstead to traditional Labour voters in its northern heartlands such as Hull.

It comes after a survey revealed Labour's shadow home secretary Ms Abbott receives one third of all the abuse sent to British politicians.

The shadow home secretary called for Yarl's Wood in Bedford and Brook House near Gatwick Airport to be shut down.

Yesterday the shadow home secretary expressed his support for homophobic B&B owners.

Shadow cabinet ministers including the deputy Labour leader, Tom Watson, and the shadow home secretary, Andy Burnham, defended Dugher, saying he was a strong campaigner who was vital for winning back working class Labour support in the north of England.

In the Commons debate on Windrush, shadow home secretary Diane Abbott, opening the debate, said many people felt «all roads lead back to the Prime Minister».

Whilst he only says to the paper that he would stand in a seat «in the Suffolk area», I am reliably informed that he specifically has his sights on the Bury St Edmunds constituency where he lives, which is currently represented by Conservative MP and shadow home affairs minister, David Ruffley.

A delegation of shadow cabinet ministers, led by the shadow home secretary, Andy Burnham, also failed to secure a meeting with Corbyn last Thursday to try to negotiate a resolution.

Labour sources have suggested the possibility that the shadow home secretary, Andy Burnham, could swap positions with Benn, leaving both of them more likely to agree with the leadership on their respective briefs.

But when presenter Piers Morgan pressed her for more detail, the shadow home secretary said only that she was working on a policy which would make the handling of migration «fairer and more efficient».

But the plan was foiled when shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper tabled a Labour amendment supporting the extension of civil partnerships as long as a consultation on the plans took place immediately rather than in five years.

In a toe - curling interview, the shadow home secretary dodged as she was pressed to spell out whether she would take action to expel those with no right to be in Britain.

This was echoed by the former shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper, who emphasised on Friday that immigration is «not what this campaign is about — Brexit will not make a difference».

Chris Huhne, the shadow home secretary, admitted key party members had been kept out of the loop.

She replied she would prefer to be alone, hardly a resounding show of support for the shadow home secretary.

He worked with future shadow home secretary David Davis on the team briefing John Major for Prime Minister's Questions, and also hooked up with George Osborne, who would go on to be his chancellor and closest political ally.

Chris Grayling, the shadow home secretary, had let slip that he's closer to those that find gay people distasteful than he is to us gays.

It was presumably why two Conservative party leaders, William Hague and David Cameron, selected me to be shadow attorney general and why Cameron also appointed me as shadow home and then shadow justice minister, and why he, as prime minister, asked me to be solicitor general.

The shadow home secretary, Yvette Cooper, received 59, the shadow minister for care, Liz Kendall, 41 and Corbyn, 36.

David Davis, the Tory MP and formed shadow home secretary, called last week for a return to grammar schools to «rescue the next generation of the under - privileged».

it seems like grieve will take over as shadow home sec.

3.50 pm: Alan Johnson, the shadow home secretary, responded angrily to May's statement.

The shadow home secretary and wife of shadow chancellor Ed Balls is a formidable politician.

The shadow home secretary, Chris Grayling, said owners of B&B accommodation should have the right to turn away gay couples.

Alan Johnson, the shadow home secretary, suggested she was putting the public at risk.

Jeremy Corbyn, the Leader of the Opposition, believes it is essential, with his close ally, the shadow home secretary, Diane Abbott, claiming it would be «outrageous» not to consult Parliament first.

Members of the Windrush generation, their families and supporters have been joined by the shadow home secretary, Diane Abbott, at a rally outside Downing Street.

Europe spokesman 2005 - 2006, Liberal Democrat shadow home secretary since 2006.

In a sign that he has tightened his control over the party, Abbott, a friend of Corbyn whose constituency neighbours his own, was promoted from being shadow health secretary to shadow home secretary.

• Yvette Cooper, the shadow home secretary, has partly blamed Theresa May for the disappearance of a terrrorist suspect.

Winterton's sacking, and the elevation of Diane Abbott, a key Corbyn ally, to shadow home secretary, provoked anger among moderate MPs in what some described as a «revenge reshuffle».

«I'm one of the first shadow home secretaries to get up here and talk in these terms, and I'm doing it for a reason,» she said.

They claimed the shadow home secretary was best placed to beat Corbyn due to polling data which suggests she is increasingly being selected as second preference and attracting more support in London.

He gives Brown credit for the «tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime» slogan that defined Blair as shadow home secretary.

He is likely to be replaced as shadow home secretary by his wife, the shadow foreign secretary, Yvette Cooper.

Yvette Cooper, the shadow home secretary, described Cameron's plans to promote women as a «last - minute worry about voters».

In a speech on immigration in the wake of the Windrush scandal, the shadow home secretary said Labour would scrap minimum income requirements for spouses to join partners in the UK and always allow children to do so.

Abbott's appointment will prompt criticism from some within the party, particularly in northern seats, who want to see the shadow home secretary take a tougher stance on immigration.

David Davis, the former shadow home secretary who quit the Tory frontbench to fight campaigns on civil liberties issues, welcomed news of the review.

• Supporters of Liz Kendall tried to arrange for her and then shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper to stand aside to give shadow health secretary Andy Burnham a clear run when it became apparent support for Corbyn was surging

A Labour government would dismantle Theresa May's hostile environment policy and remove requirements on landlords, banks and employers to act as defacto immigration enforcement officers, the shadow home secretary will say.

The former shadow home secretary said it showed that IPSA was «out of touch with reality» and he would propose a motion to stop the increase as the «public would not see the point of this», but he would not be drawn on whether he would accept the rise.

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.

The shadow home secretary, Andy Burnham, called on Conservatives to vote with Labour on the motion, which asked the government to «commit today that EU nationals currently living in the UK shall have the right to remain».