Sentences with phrase «shadow ministers after»

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.

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I, too, left the institution after 25 years in ministry and 52 years in its shadow (as a Baptist minister's son and highly - committed Christian).

She had served as work and pensions secretary during the final years of the New Labour government; after that she has been shadow minister for women and equalities, shadow foreign secretary and shadow home secretary.

As quick to fire off a barbed tweet as he is with a parliamentary put down, in recent years Bryant has fallen out with both the singer James Blunt — who labelled the then shadow arts minister a «classist gimp» after Bryant suggested his music career had benefited from a wealthy background - and the boxer Tyson Fury.

«After her big idea to cram more toddlers into the same nurseries had to be dropped, Liz Truss has had to resort to stealing Labour ideas from 2005,» shadow children's minister Sharon Hodgson said.

«It is simply not good enough that forty years after the Equal Pay Act women still don't earn equal pay for equal work, and despite doing better at school and university more women end up in lower skilled and lower paid jobs than men,» Labour's shadow minister for women and equalities, Gloria De Piero said.

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.

The shadow defence secretary reacted angrily after the prime minister made a series of claims about members of the shadow cabinet.

«It is fantastic news that after over two years of unnecessary delays caused by the Conservative - led government 4G is finally on its way to the UK,» said Helen Goodman, shadow media minister.

A Labour shadow minister is facing an internal party investigation after it was alleged that he swore at a colleague.

As shadow Environment minister, Gardiner criticised the lack of prosecutions of leading players ten months after David Cameron promised that everything possible would be done to deal with crime relating to the horse meat scandal.

«In throwing out a Tory who has repeatedly failed to stand up for his constituency, South Suffolk are have not only shown the way for the rest of the country but they have delivered a blow to David Cameron's own credibility after he personally intervened to support Tim Yeo's in his deselection battle,» shadow Cabinet Office minister Jon Ashworth said.

McDonnell also hit out at former Labour shadow cabinet minister Caroline Flint, after she told the BBC's Sunday Politics programme yesterday that his ambition that the party «hang on» in the recent local elections was not good enough.

Sadiq Khan MP, shadow justice secretary, said: «The energy and time this government is spending on arguments about the Human Rights Act shows how completely out of touch it is with the British people who are not interested in cat fights between ministers but how the safety of their communities will be protected after cuts in police budgets which go too far and too fast.»

Labour also seized on the u-turn with shadow business secretary Clive Lewis saying: «The prime minister announced she is ditching her flagship policy to put workers on company boards - just one month after committing to it.

Labour's policy on Brexit has been thrown into fresh confusion after two shadow ministers said a Norway - style trading partnership is not «off the...

Labour's shadow work and pension secretary Rachel Reeves has asked «when will the PM and IDS [Iain Duncan Smith] get a grip» on Universal Credit, after Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude admitted to ITV News that its implementation had been «pretty lamentable» so far:

A new homeland security shadow minister has not been appointed after 50 days despite Mr Cameron pledging strong leadership in response to terrorism, Mr Reid said.

New leader of the opposition Harriet Harman, after asking a question about Israel, focused on the proposed anonymity in rape prosecutions - an issue close to the shadow women's minister's heart.

In 2001 when a shadow Treasury minister he had to go into hiding during that year's election campaign after claiming the Tories wanted to cut public spending by # 20 billion rather than the # 8 billion they had publicly stated.

The Labour shadow health minister said the party was danger of entering into a «downward spiral» with the Tories on immigration, after Australian election strategist Lynton Crosby joined David Cameron's team.

The MP for Newark was sacked as shadow homeland security minister last month after he was criticised for appearing to excuse racism in the army.

He was shadow justice minister when Chris Grayling was justice secretary and day after day he challenged the appalling reactionary dimwittedness of the government.

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.

After entering Parliament in 2010, he quickly became a shadow culture, media and sport minister and later a shadow justice minister.

After two missed media appearances on Tuesday, with Thornberry standing in at the last minute, Corbyn announced on Wednesday morning that the shadow policing minister Lyn Brown would stand in for Abbott for the remainder of the campaign.

The furious row broke out last night after the shadow minister went on Twitter to lash out at Mr Corbyn.

Brabin, who won Cox's Batley and Spen seat in a 2016 byelection after the MP was murdered by a far - right attacker, has been made a shadow education minister.

Jeremy Corbyn is under further pressure today after numerous junior shadow ministers led a fresh wave of resignations from his frontbench team.

The former London mayor also said that shadow defence minister Kevan Jones «should see his GP», after Jones questioned whether Livingstone should be leading a review of Labour's defence policies.

The MP, who is a defence shadow minister, said he was resigning his membership after 37 years with «great sadness».

Pat Glass also returns as shadow transport minister, despite quitting as shadow education secretary in June just 24 hours after getting the job.

The pair looked wholly unimpressed after the shadow City minister Richard Burgon asked whether the prime minister would resign if the UK voted to leave the EU.

Patrick Mercer, the shadow homeland security minister, has been axed from the Conservative frontbench after claiming racism is «part and parcel» of army life.

«It was evitable the government could not proceed with their hated and illegal residence test after the judgement from the high court,» shadow justice minister Andy Slaughter said.

Former deputy prime minister John Prescott's wrote: «I really hope every member of the shadow cabinet thinks twice before writing for the Sun after that front page.»

The shadow minister for women and equalities, who first made her name as a political correspondent with GMTV, has been tasked by Ed Miliband with reaching out to new supporters after the success of her «why do people hate me» roadshow.

She was made shadow minister for the disabled by Jeremy Corbyn in 2015 and was promoted to the shadow cabinet after last year's general election.

A shadow minister recieves information in the public interest, it is released after the government hides it, and he then gets arrested with more police than those involved in the Stockwell tube incident.

After a hymn of praise to the NHS from 91 - year - old Harry Smith that drew the first tears of anything other than despair all week, Andy Burnham, the shadow health minister, followed up with one his tub - thumping, kick - the - Tories specials.

Last night's closing credits of Newsnight acknowledged the gaffe by its editor Ian Katz after he accidentally tweeted that Labour's shadow Treasury minister Rachel Reeves was «boring» and «snoring.»

«The best birthday present I could want is the shadow chancellor staying in the shadow cabinet», the prime minister bellowed at Ed Balls, freshly rewrapped and unwrapped after Ed Milband's reshuffling of his Labour team.

David Cameron was forced to defend his shadow health minister today after it was revealed he is a paid consultant to a private healthcare company.

The much deferred announcement is due at the end of the month, but some senior vice chancellors last month infuriated the Labour front bench by issuing an open letter opposing the tuition fee cut only days after meeting the shadow higher education minister, Liam Byrne.

Fears that Labour could slump to fewer than 150 seats at the next election are a «very serious warning» for the party, one shadow minister has said, after a Fabian Society report said it could get less than 20 % of the vote.

The shadow energy and climate secretary, Lisa Nandy, said the solar cuts were misguided, especially after ministers had just forked out # 175m to diesel farm developers.

They include Chi Onwurah, the former minister for culture and the digital economy, who wrote that it was «statistically interesting to say the least» that Labour's leader had made life difficult for two of the very few minority ethnic female MPs; and Pat Glass, who resigned as shadow education secretary in June two days after being appointed, in protest over Corbyn's leadership.

David Cameron has been accused by Labour of «patronising, sexist, insulting and un — prime ministerial» behaviour after he told a shadow minister to «calm down, dear» in the Commons.

Most former cabinet ministers will now shadow their old posts, but there are a few notable exceptions, the most obvious being Gordon Brown, who has returned to the backbenches after quitting as Labour leader.

The former shadow cabinet ministers have reached a «common understanding» about the best way to take on Mr Corbyn, who won a landslide victory last year, after wrangles over who should stand against him.