Sentences with phrase «shadow minister»

«People are very unhappy,» one former shadow minister said.
He has also held the post of minister for political and constitutional reform and shadow minister roles for defence and disabled people.
Just because he hasn't had a rocket high media profile doesn't mean he wasn't being a highly effective minister and shadow minister over the course of the last 20 years.
One Labour shadow minister described him as «damaged goods».
One shadow minister compared the state of the debate to «two bald men fighting over a comb».
Why do donors not mention these other shadow ministers specifically?
The authors include six former cabinet ministers and eight current shadow ministers, including some of the leading lights of the new intake.
If he wanted to move an underperforming shadow minister from one brief to another — he can.
But he said it would also put pressure on former shadow ministers to put their differences aside and return to the top team.
I think it's a very strange position for a Labour shadow minister to take.
Khan, who as shadow minister for London, will have a role in setting the process to select the next mayor, has refused to announce his own intentions until after the general election.
Like Chuka Umunna, she entered Westminster in 2010 and has only held the office of shadow minister for care and older people for three and a half years.
The party has been broadly united in public since the general election, though shaken over the weekend by Corbyn's sacking of shadow ministers who defied the party whip to vote in favour of an amendment to the Queen's speech brought by Chuka Umunna, committing to keeping the UK in the single market after Brexit.
And Jon Trickett moves into Ed's own office as shadow minister without portfolio and deputy party chair.
EB: It's been rumoured that Labour decided not to whip because a handful of shadow ministers said they would resign.
The Rotherham MP, who resigned from Corbyn's frontbench in the aftermath of the EU referendum but returned within weeks, becomes shadow minister for women and equalities.
The Conservative shadow minister for schools, Nick Gibb, came out in support of the government guidelines:
Jon Cruddas also talks of how Labour should reclaim the «big society»; therefore it would make sense for Hazel Blears to become a new shadow minister without portfolio.
They were furiousat the decision to sack shadow ministers Michael Dugher and Pat McFadden, and replace Maria Eagle as Shadow Defence Secretary with Emily Thornberry.
One former shadow minister told PoliticsHome: «If you look at the numbers, it will be impossible for him to appoint someone to every job - there simply isn't enough MPs willing to serve under him.
If Benn had won the deputy leadership in 1981, there would have been a mass of defections to the SDP from MPs, including shadow ministers, and councillors, and several unions.
The shadow business secretary, Angela Eagle, was among those thought to be considering their positions, with a string of more junior shadow ministers also likely to step down, and council leaders expected to speak out.
Remarks at odds with party leadership on day in which three junior shadow ministers resign in protest as Jeremy Corbyn struggles to assert authority
The other two are Andrew Gwynne, now shadow minister without portfolio, and Barbara Keeley, who returns as shadow mental health minister.
Mr Corbyn had condemned the «internal factional manoeuvring» which has seen dozens of shadow ministers resign in the last 36 hours in a bid to force him out.
Shadow business secretary, Alan Duncan, was typically robust in his defence of senior shadow ministers retaining outside interests:
Labour leaders and ministers outnumbered Conservative shadow ministers by approximately two to one in 2007.
Labour was operating effectively in showcasing new shadow ministers after the reshuffle and in responding to attacks, including the Daily Mail's disgraceful slurs on Ed Miliband's father.
Many are angry at former shadow minister Chris Leslie's attempts to drum up support for her - and the involvement of the Blairite campaign group Progress.
A lawyer, Vara became the first black or Asian Tory shadow minister when he was appointed shadow deputy leader of the Commons in 2006.
Mr Clark's promotion from shadow minister for charities marks a highlight in a meteoric rise through the party ranks.
«A group of shadow ministers believe that one of Tony Blair's bigger strategic mistakes was to row back on co-operation with the Liberal Democrats when he won such a large Commons majority in 1997.
We are in the home of a London politician named Janet (Kristin Scott Thomas), who has just been appointed shadow minister for health of an undisclosed opposition party.
The rest of Friday and Saturday was spent in conversations with shadow ministers about our own amendments.
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Labour shadow minister Chuka Umunna has said there is «tension» between the Labour party membership and the parliamentary party under the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn.
I was wondering the other day whether there was some kind of campaign etiquette which stated that shadow ministers did not campaign in the seats represented by their opposite numbers, restricting their political sparring to their common portfolio.
First, there is the journalism licensing scheme that was just proposed by British Labour Party shadow minister Ivan Lewis, who wants some authoritarian body to be able to ban people from the profession for malpractice.
In an article in Labour Uncut, Hodges recalls a comment from a Conservative shadow minister asking: «Does Peter Mandelson really think he can make the Conservative party look weak on immigration?
Other interviewees included climate lawyer Prof Michael Gerrard, UK shadow minister for international climate change Barry Gardiner, veteran energy analyst Amory Lovins and the World Coal Association's Benjamin Sporton.
But it's a better look than Labour shadow ministers disagreeing openly with each other.
McKinnell became the fourth shadow minister — and the first with a shadow cabinet post — to step down in the space of a week following the resignations of Jonathan Reynolds, Kevan Jones and Stephen Doughty.
Harman was offered support by Labour shadow minister Chi Onwurah, who said: «I remember those kind of jokes in 1980s Imperial College rag mag.
The signatories - including former shadow ministers Heidi Alexander, Paula Sherriff and Kerry McCarthy - said campaigning outside MPs» homes and offices and bullying at constituency meetings should be condemned rather than «quietly condoned».
«How can we expect shadow ministers to get on top of there jobs and come forward with policies if they keep being moved or think that there not going to be in there job for too long...»
Dawn Butler shadow minister for diverse communities, said the report «suggests there is a serious problem in the criminal justice system».
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