Sentences with phrase «shadow secretary for»

She served as shadow secretary of state for international development and more latterly as shadow secretary for local and devolved government, a role that David Cameron recast as shadowing the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.

David Willetts, shadow secretary for innovation, universities and skills: # 135.12 for changing lightbulbs

He won the seat at the 2001 general election and, after a short stint as shadow secretary for education, was party leader within four years, beating David Davis, Liam Fox and Kenneth Clarke to the top job.

Margaret Curran MP, shadow secretary for Scotland, and Scottish deputy leader Anas Sarwar MP, joined the NEC to review the referendum campaign and the landscape following the decisive No vote.

Before 1997, Tony Blair ostensibly promoted Robin Cook from shadow secretary for state for trade and industry to shadow foreign secretary in a bid to sideline him from shaping economic policy.

Sadiq Khan was a former radical human rights lawyer and doing a good job as shadow secretary for justice when he also became shadow minister for London, and responsible for running the general election campaign in London.

Mr Herbert, previously the shadow secretary for justice, fills the void left by Mr Ainsworth's departure with expectation on him to start debate and put forward the Conservative plans.

The peccadilloes of the ruling classes have long been of fascination and as shadow secretary for media culture and sport, Chris Bryant, has written, sex scandals of all sorts — including adultery, homosexuality (when illegal) and murder — have gone hand - in - hand with political power for centuries.

Since the 2010 election, he has been shadow secretary for both health and education.

Under Ed Miliband he was shadow secretary for education and shadow secretary of state for health.

Since 2010 she has been shadow secretary for environment, food and rural affairs, transport, and more recently international development.

I also believe we should have shadow secretaries for the Army, Navy and Air Force, all of whom will have served in the respective arm of the military.

Not exact matches

Labour's shadow transport secretary, Andy McDonald, accused the government of «taking people for a ride.»

Sustain has welcomed commitments from shadow Health Secretary Jon Ashworth that a future Labour Government would introduce legal standards for hospital food, extend the sugary drinks tax and ban junk food advertising during family TV, for the benefit of the nation's health.

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.

Also during PMQs, May showed that she was riled by Emily Thornberry when she attacked the shadow foreign secretary for shouting «from her normal sedentary position».

Greg Clark has been made shadow energy and climate change secretary for the Tories.

With Jeremy Corbyn and shadow home secretary Diane Abbott implacably opposed to any restrictions on immigration, it has been left to some of Cooper's party colleagues — most notably Andy Burnham and Hilary Benn — to make the Labour case for controls.

The serial rebel said he would support former shadow home secretary David Davis» resignation in protest at the government's planned 42 - day detention for terrorism suspects.

Here's shadow business secretary, the dashing Chuka Umunna: «Labour has led calls for a British Investment Bank since last year.

Adam Smith, chief of staff to shadow secretary of state for culture, media and sport Jeremy Hunt, agrees that the political selling point is going to hit problems with privacy and security.

11:56 - Allison McGovern, shadow international development secretary, looks out of her depth, I'm afraid, although she is somewhat saved by comparison with Lynne Feathstrone, answering her questions for the government.

«Ed Balls boasted that his new diploma was on course to overtake the A-level and become the qualification of choice for young people,» said shadow education secretary Michael Gove.

Aid drops which Corbyn's shadow foreign secretary, Emily Thornberry, who was on stage with him has been calling for for over a year.

«Don't move the party to the left,» shadow home secretary Alan Johnson urged Mr Miliband in an article for the Independent on Sunday newspaper.

And shadow Scottish secretary Ann McKechin is facing pressure for her failure to take the fight to the SNP government in Edinburgh, according to the Scotsman newspaper.

We agree with shadow education secretary Lucy Powell's call for a» pause» and we intend to work with all possible allies including, importantly, parents and governors to defeat these plans.

13:23 - I'm hearing that Yvette Cooper, shadow home secretary, will open in the phone - hacking debate, followed by Dominic Grieve, attorney general, for the government, and then probably Chris Bryant, the Labour MP and phone - hacking victim, who called for the debate.

«I will remain as shadow home secretary for the time being,» said Burnham.

Mr Balls contrasted the approach with that from Michael Gove, shadow schools secretary, whose plan for free schools set - up by parent and community groups, has proved popular among many voters.

I sat down for a chat with shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan in his constituency headquarters yesterday.

Most damagingly for Gove, some of the failures of the school directly correlate to concerns raised about free schools by new Labour shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt.

Responding, shadow culture secretary Hugo Swire called for reassurances that the new casinos would be properly assessed for their social impact.

In a reversal of scenes from last year, when the Conservatives attacked Labour for being unprepared for the extreme weather conditions, shadow transport secretary Maria Eagle attacked her government counterpart, Philip Hammond for not organising a better government response to the snow.

Previously shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, the MP for Salford and Eccles has emerged in recent weeks as Team Corbyn's favourite MP.

Owen Smith, who cackhandedly challenged Corbyn in 2016 and then kowtowed his way to the post of shadow Northern Ireland secretary, spoke out too soon and got sacked for his trouble.

Former shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper attacked Farage for «exploiting the misery of the Syrian refugee crisis in the most dishonest and immoral way».

Then Keir Starmer, the shadow Brexit secretary, would go on telly and say lots of sensible soft - Brexity things, only for John McDonnell to go on the next week and sound like some kind of left - wing Nigel Farage.

The former shadow environment secretary's article for Huffington Post comes days after former shadow health secretary Heidi Alexander criticised Corbyn's «inept, unprofessional and shoddy» tenure.

16:23 — The shadow justice secretary, Sadiq Khan, is responding for the opposition.

However there is a feeling among some that Yvette Cooper has the strongest credentials, having impressed as shadow home secretary for four years under Ed Miliband.

The shadow home secretary also pledged to properly centre the right to family life in Labour's immigration policy, saying her party «don't want to break up families from the EU in the way we currently do for non-EU families.»

The latest opinion poll blow for Labour comes after shadow home secretary Diane Abbott predicted yesterday that her party would catch up with the Tories in 2017.

Miliband's announcements represent a victory in the shadow Cabinet for shadow health secretary Andy Burnham, who had been calling for Labour to integrate health and social care.

He wrote: «This from the shadow secretary of state for Wales?

He dismissed shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry's comments yesterday that Labour would likely vote for the deal even if it only amounted to «blah, blah, blah» and insisted Labour won't support it.

Kate Osamor, the shadow international development secretary, said: «The Tories have been cutting the aid budget by stealth for years, and they are now arguing over whether to go even further by abandoning the international definition of aid.

And now we have a more explicit outlining of an emerging new Tory constitutional doctrine in an extraordinary Guardian report on Tuesday — based on anonymous briefings from «senior shadow Cabinet members» — that the Conservatives intend to mount a partisan attack on existing constitutional conventions, and the Cabinet Secretary's protocols for handling a hung Parliament, even though a primary motivation for these has been to protect the Monarchy from being dragged into party political controversy.

Meanwhile Starmer and the shadow foreign secretary, Emily Thornberry, will write to Davis on Wednesday with a list of 170 questions that they say remain unanswered by the government on Brexit — one for each day until article 50 is triggered in late March.

After Corbyn's spokesman suggested airstrikes made terror attacks in Britain more likely, a spokesman for shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn said: «Daesh have already killed British citizens in Tunisia, blown up Lebanese citizens and anti-war campaigners in Turkey, and murdered journalists.