Sentences with phrase «then shadow home secretary»

One of the first came amid the MPs» expenses scandal when it emerged in 2009 that Grayling, then shadow home secretary, had used parliamentary money to pay for and refurbish a central London flat even though his constituency home was little more than 15 miles from parliament.

• Supporters of Liz Kendall tried to arrange for her and then shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper to stand aside to give shadow health secretary Andy Burnham a clear run when it became apparent support for Corbyn was surging

I called TB [Tony Blair, then shadow home secretary] who was up in Aberdeen, and said the speculation is going to start straight away.

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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.

Galley had been introduced to Green by his then boss, the shadow home secretary, David Davis, whom he had approached saying he was a committed Conservative and was willing to leak material.

He was a shadow Labour spokesman throughout the 1980s before serving as Home Secretary, from 1997, in Tony Blair's first term as PM, becoming Foreign Secretary from 2001 to 2006 and then holding a series of other front bench roles until Labour lost power in 2010.