Sentences with phrase «shadow housing minister»

Before the 2010 general election he served as shadow housing minister.

However shadow housing minister John Healey, who served as Gordon Brown's housing minister, distanced himself from McDonnell's rhetoric in an interview on the Radio 4 Today programme.

But if evidence were needed to prove that no such rule exists, it has just arrived in my inbox - the picture on the right of shadow housing minister, Grant Shapps.

But shadow housing minister Alison Seabeck said the government's policy changes would make it harder, not easier, for people to buy a house.

Other MPs in new roles include Melanie Onn, the former shadow deputy leader of the House of Commons, who joins Lloyd as a new shadow housing minister.

«The IPPR proposals are a welcome contribution to the debate and we will give the recommendations careful consideration,» shadow housing minister Jack Dromey said.

But warm words are cold comfort to those sleeping rough if you fail to act,» shadow housing minister Emma Reynolds said.

They've given us a succession of short - term gimmicks, underpinned by political opportunism: bank taxes they have «spent» 10 times over; an energy policy that turns out to be a con; a housing policy their own shadow housing minister said would not work in practice.

Shadow Ministers, not shadow cabinet members (I think from press reports shadow policing minister Lyn Brown, shadow foreign office minister Catherine West, shadow transport minister Daniel Zeichner, shadow housing minister Andy Slaughter and I am not sure Dr Rupa Huq, the shadow home office minister, resigned just before)

Interviewed on Twitter by Channel 4 News presenter Krishnan Guru - Murthy, Tory shadow housing minister Grant Shapps tweeted his responses on abortion, Europe, house prices and gay rights.

Rachel Reeves has gone to DWP from shadowing the chief secretary role, Liz Kendall will have a seat at cabinet, shadowing the care and older people brief, Gloria de Piero has been promoted to head women and equalities, and Emma Reynolds will attend cabinet as shadow housing minister.

But shadow housing minister Grant Shapps doubted whether Ms Flint's proposals would be legally enforceable, pointing out ministers and local councils have a statutory duty to house homeless families with children.

Tony Lloyd, the former Stretford MP who stepped down to become Greater Manchester police and crime commissioner and was later beaten by Andy Burnham for the nomination to be Greater Manchester mayor, has been made a shadow housing minister.

As shadow housing minister he backed localism.

John Healey, the shadow housing minister, told public audiences that now «by wealth the top 10 per cent of households have 877 times more than the bottom 10 per cent».

Affordable and social housing tenants would be handed a «right to move» by a new Conservative government, shadow housing minister Grant Shapps announced today.

Jack Dromey, Labour's shadow housing minister, rules it out emphatically.

The shadow housing minister, Grant Shapps, agrees: «This report lifts the lid on the devastating impact of a failed housing policy that has led to an increasingly ghettoised social divide.

Healey, the shadow housing minister, said the union leader was right about the polls.

Labour's shadow housing minister, Emma Reynolds, said: «It's a tragedy that so many people are without a home or struggling to keep a roof over their head and, as if that wasn't bad enough, they are then faced with being placed miles away from home.»

The shadow housing minister, Caroline Flint, proposes housing asbos, banning evicted tenants from living within five miles of their former home.

And the shadow housing minister, John Healey, said: «The Tories have talked of little else but HIPs over the past few years, and this announcement merely highlights the limits of their ambition and concern - pleasing estate agents rather than supporting first time buyers.