Sentences with phrase «shadow trade secretary»

Abbott, the shadow home secretary, and Barry Gardiner, shadow trade secretary, are understood to have been pushing the Labour frontbench to abstain on Wednesday's vote if the bill emerges unamended after three days of debate.

Alan Duncan, shadow Trade Secretary The Politics Show, BBC, 2 July 2006 Background The West Lothian Question was first posed by Tam Dalyell, then MP for Linlithgow, in the 1970s, but it became a live issue when the Scottish Parliament was established in 1999.

Barry Gardiner, the shadow trade secretary, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: «What we've said is that we need those benefits, and whether they're achieved through reformed membership of the single market and the customs union, or through a new, bespoke trading arrangement, is actually secondary to achieving the benefits.

Not exact matches

Today, the manner in which Unite now dominates the trade union landscape means many general secretaries feel pressure to find ways of stepping out from the super-union's shadow.

Became a shadow spokesman on Trade and Industry in 1985, shadow chief secretary in 1987, shadow secretary of state for trade and industry in 1989 and shadow chancellor in Trade and Industry in 1985, shadow chief secretary in 1987, shadow secretary of state for trade and industry in 1989 and shadow chancellor in trade and industry in 1989 and shadow chancellor in 1992.

Labour's shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna has described the government's trade union reform plans as» the latest in a long line of attempts to stifle reasonable democratic scrutiny, protest and challenge».

His remarks are supplemented by a warning from the shadow foreign secretary, Douglas Alexander, that Cameron is in danger of putting a long - term question mark over the UK's relations with its largest trading partner at a time when the country is desperate to secure growth.

Burnham might have hoped to win the support of the main public sector trade union after his warnings, as shadow health secretary, that the Tories are trying to move towards NHS privatisation.

Brown was shadow trade and industry secretary when Britain joined.

The shadow international trade secretary has previously argued that a customs union agreement would be «deeply unattractive».

Labour's link with the trade unions is «absolutely where it should be» says the shadow business secretary.

Earlier in the evening, shadow defence secretary Alison Seabeck dismayed trade unionists and other Labourites on the same subject, with some similar consensus - courting: «There is no doubt that now the government has picked up the gauntlet and are doing what they can for this deal.»

And the following day, shadow international trade secretary Barry Gardiner burnished Labour's hard Brexit credentials by declaring that staying in the customs union after quitting the EU would be «a disaster».

But supporters of Corbyn immediately swung behind Burgon on social media, with shadow international trade secretary Barry Gardiner stating: «On Newsnight, Richard Burgon brilliantly keeps the focus on our popular policies, on equality & declines the elephant traps.»

Chuka Umunna, the former shadow business secretary, told ITV's Good Morning Britain: «Essentially, those who want us to leave can't answer the question: «Will we be able to have all the benefits that we have in the EU, being part of that big, free trade, single market trading zone if we come out, can you guarantee that?»

Barry Gardiner, shadow secretary of state for international trade, said people were «innocent until proven guilty».

Earlier, Barry Gardiner, the shadow international trade secretary, accused the media of trying to smear the Labour leader with «fantasist» spying claims because it feared the party's plans for press regulation.

Alongside McDonnell and Dodds, Shadow International Trade Secretary Barry Gardiner and shadow Treasury colleagues Peter Dowd and Jonathan Reynolds also voted against the amendment.

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.

Conservative shadow culture secretary Jermey Hunt said that a hung parliament would lead to horse - trading between politicians «behind closed doors».

«Mr Balls, the shadow education secretary, called on supporters to back Miss Abbott during an event held by the GMB trade union, saying that it was important for a woman to be in the race.»

Despite his vocal support for the union during an unprecedented speech at its annual conference in March, the Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn did not visit teachers on picket lines today, and Angela Rayner, the new shadow education secretary and a former trade union official, stopped short of backing the strike.