Sentences with phrase «shadow leader of the house»

Former shadow leader of the House Chris Bryant kicked things off when he rose to ask a question and prefaced it by wishing the Speaker «happy kiss - a-ginger day».

The SNP's shadow leader of the house, Pete Wishart today told the House that the proposals were a «shambles»

Under Duncan Smith's successor, Michael Howard, May returned to the transport portfolio, before moving to culture, finally becoming shadow leader of the House of Commons in 2005 when David Cameron rose to the leadership.

Under a putative timetable proposed by shadow leader of the House Sir George Young last month, the prime minister will call the election on March 29th, the House will adjourn on April 1st and parliament will be dissolved on April 12th.

During the debate, Angela Eagle, shadow leader of the House, accused the government of brushing the Fox affair under the carpet and hurting public trust in politics.

Lib Dem shadow leader of the house David Heath said: «Jack Straw has fallen foul of a Tory party professing a desire for reform but doing all they can to frustrate the means, as well as the jurassic elements in his own party who are no more interested in reform.»

«The shadow leader of the House is not one of the cheeriest members of the House,» she reminded MPs.

You've probably never wondered which Smiths song best reflects Sir George Young, the shadow leader of the House of Commons.

The shadow leader of the House claimed that his initial proposal would have created a «dangerous constitutional precedent».

David Heath, with his busy schedule as the Lib Dems» shadow leader of the House, was unable to give politics.co.uk an in - depth interview about his bill.

From the Lib Dems come David Heath, shadow leader of the House, and science spokesman Evan Harris.

«Eric served this parliament with great distinction in many capacities.but the House will recall particularly with great warmth Eric's weekly encounters with the late Robin Cook, when Robin was leader of the house and Eric was the shadow leader of the House.

Theresa May, shadow leader of the House of Commons «Eric was above all a great parliamentarian, who loved this place and all it stood for.

Bryant resigned as shadow leader of the House of Commons in June.

Other significant moves included the return of former frontbencher John Healey to the shadow housing brief, and the appointment of disgraced Keith Vaz's sister Valerie as shadow leader of the House of Commons.

The detail comes 24 hours after the shadow leader of the house, Alan Duncan, was severely embarrassed when a secret video was made public in which he claimed that MPs were now treated «like shit» and «forced to live on rations».

«This executive decision made using the Queen's prerogative powers has significant constitutional implications and is an abuse of power,» said shadow leader of the House Rosie Winterton.

In November last year she told shadow leader of the house Theresa May, who had been pressing her on the issue in the Commons: «The honourable lady can huff and puff but she will not blow this leader of the house down.»

«I don't know why the shadow leader of the House [Chris Bryant] is shouting at me,» he said.

Despite panic in some quarters of the party, Chris Bryant, shadow leader of the House of Commons, said he was still feeling confident about the remain side winning because «outers are shouters» and more likely to be noisy about saying they want to leave.

Chris Bryant, the former shadow leader of the House of Commons, neatly summed up the feelings of Labour MPs, 94 % of whom are highly opposed to a Trump presidency.

Chris Bryant, the shadow leader of the House of Commons, said it was «despicable rigging of the political system» and urged the chancellor to think again.

Other senior Conservatives who made questionable claims included Alan Duncan, the shadow leader of the House of Commons, who oversees the party's expenses policy.

The shadow leader of the House of Commons read out some of Ed Miliband's speech that he forgot to deliver to his conference.

Baroness Smith, the shadow leader of the House of Lords and a former Labour MP, has urged Jeremy Corbyn to think «long and hard» about what she called the devastating defeat in Copeland.

Chris Bryant, shadow leader of the House of Commons, hit out at his former party leader at the Stronger In referendum party.

Ken Clarke might look upon shadow Leader of the House as beneath him, but as a genuine QC he could easily make a first class Lord Chancellor.

Not exact matches

Speaking on Thursday morning, shadow deputy leader of the House added that so much has happened this week that she had «made my «own list».

However, shadow Commons leader Theresa May warned that with only 20 per cent non-political members, the reforms would «put parties even more in control of the upper House and risk the independence that has seen it defeat the government 415 times».

And Melanie Onn, MP for Grimsby and shadow deputy leader of the House, proposes a new form of citizenship lessons in schools to better educate children about the importance of politics:

Harriet Harman is Leader of the House and is shadowed by Theresa May for the Tories.

Angela Eagle, the present Shadow Leader of the House could then shadow a substantial spending department; she should replace the lacklustre Stephen Twigg as Shadow Education Secretary.

Her lead role on the health portfolio will be taken over by Lord Hunt, a former minister in several departments under the previous Labour government, now shadow deputy leader of the upper house and Labour's spokesman on Lords reform.

One organiser said: «The plan is to make Corbyn's job as leader extremely difficult in the hope of pushing him to resign, with most MPs refusing to serve as shadow ministers, show up on the frontbench in the House of Commons, support him at PMQs or formulate policy under his leadership.»

Alan Duncan, the shadow leader of the Commons, said it would be «churlish» to take anything away from his victory and said Mr Bercow deserved the respect of the House following his election.