Sentences with phrase «shadow women and equalities»

Sarah Champion, shadow women and equalities minister, accused the Tories of «turning back the clock on economic equality for women».

«Women don't want more spin and communications professionals, they want fundamental changes to government policy,» shadow women and equalities minister Yvette Cooper said.

Not exact matches

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.

«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.

Labour's shadow minister for women and equalities said in response to yesterday's labour market statistics:

In opposition she has been shadow foreign secretary and shadow home secretary, as well as shadow minister for work and pensions and for women and equalities.

De Piero, who was shadow minister for women and equalities in Ed Miliband's shadow cabinet but quit as a shadow junior minister before the leadership challenge to Corbyn last summer, has a new role as shadow justice minister.

Yvette Cooper, the shadow home secretary and minister for women and equality, intervened as the archbishop of Wales complained that the government had put his church in an «enormously difficult position», which threatened to «severely curtail» its freedom to act according to its conscience.

[17] In a March 2016 speech, Corbyn advocated the decriminalisation of the sex industry «without any discussion or consultation with his shadow cabinet, with me as his shadow minister for women and equalities, with women in the PLP or, to the best of my knowledge, with anyone in the wider Labour Party».

Gloria De Piero MP, Labour's shadow minister for women and equalities, responding to the lifting of Lord Rennard's suspension, said: «Nick Clegg has sent a clear message to women voters — he is more interested in trying to salvage the Lib Dems» fading election hopes than do the right thing by the women who made these serious complaints.

The women and equalities portfolio should be abolished and Labour should take the lead by not shadowing it.

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.

Gloria Di Piero is the shadow cabinet minister for women and equalities and Emma Reynolds moves to housing.

Gloria De Piero, shadow minister for women and equalities, said: «The Tories have spent the last few days briefing that this would be the reshuffle which fixed David Cameron's «women problem» but it's turning in to a damp squib.»

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.

Rayner, MP for Ashton - under - Lyne, has previously held post as a shadow work and pensions minister, and more recently moved to work with the women and equalities portfolio.

De Piero, a former broadcast journalist, has previously served as shadow minister for women and equalities, and shadow minister for young people and voter registration.