Sentences with phrase «shadow home secretary until»

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Developments are taking place everyday so you do nt expect the shadow home secretary's post to be vacant or appoint someone temporarily because someone has chosen to leave without even informing his boss until the last minute.

«The government should not have left this legislation until the last minute before the summer,» shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said.

Until Emily Thornberry's tweet came along and ruined Labour's week, the top story for the opposition was shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper's big speech on immigration.

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.

He was a shadow Labour spokesman throughout the 1980s before serving as Home Secretary, from 1997, in Tony Blair's first term as PM, becoming Foreign Secretary from 2001 to 2006 and then holding a series of other front bench roles until Labour lost power in 2010.