Sentences with phrase «told shadow leader»

In November last year she told shadow leader of the house Theresa May, who had been pressing her on the issue in the Commons: «The honourable lady can huff and puff but she will not blow this leader of the house down.»

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The SNP's shadow leader of the house, Pete Wishart today told the House that the proposals were a «shambles»

It's now clear what happens when a shadow Cabinet minister publicly expresses their difference of opinion with the Labour leader: They either get sacked or they get told to shut up, as shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn has been.

Rayner has now indicated that the answer to that question is a clear yes, with the shadow education secretary telling Nick Robinson that she is capable of being Labour leader - and would not let feminists down by saying otherwise.

The shadow transport secretary and vice-chair of the Labour party, Michael Dugher, told a meeting in Westminster that his party would face an electoral wipeout if Corbyn becomes leader on Saturday.

Now, the former shadow transport secretary claims she was told to «f *** off» by her own local party members in Nottingham after explaining why she was backing Owen Smith to be Labour leader.

A spokesman from the leader's office told journalists last night that a «not insignificant number» of MPs will return to the shadow cabinet next week.

That was what «a senior member of Mr Cameron's shadow cabinet» told last Monday's Daily Telegraph about the Tory leader's visit to a Norwegian glacier (for which Mr Cameron left London this afternoon).

His mishap was highlighted by Angela Eagle, shadow leader of the Commons, who told MPs: «Mr Gove hasn't had the most auspicious of starts.

«There's been too much internal focus here on whether the shadow cabinet is elected or appointed by the leader and so on,» the former shadow Europe minister told Sky News.

Sources close to Mr Corbyn told the Mirror they expect at least half a dozen - including arch-Blairite Lord Falconer - to return to the shadow cabinet as the leader tries to make peace with his party.

Paul Waugh of the HuffPost UK says he has been told that as many as 11 members of the shadow could resign if the Labour leader sacks Hilary Benn now.

The shadow culture secretary, Michael Dugher, one of those believed to be at risk in the impending reorganisation, told BBC 5 Live's Pienaar's Politics programme that previous Labour leaders he had worked closely with had been reluctant to «go down the path of big reshuffles».

The shadow culture secretary, Michael Dugher, one of those believed to be at risk in the impending reorganisation, told BBC Radio 5 Live's Pienaar's Politics programme on Sunday that previous Labour leaders with whom he had worked closely had been reluctant to «go down the path of big reshuffles».

He told the BBC's Westminster Hour: «Every leader has a right to change their team... but it does strike me it has only has been three months since Jeremy Corbyn appointed his shadow cabinet.

He told Sky News» Kay Burley: «I understand he was consulted on it and raised concerns around the fact you would have a leader and a shadow defence secretary in very sensitive circumstances from a certain part of North London.

This morning, Alan Duncan, the shadow leader of the Commons, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that raising the inheritance tax threshold to # 1m would be in the Conservative party manifesto, and that the party would introduce it in the first term of a Tory government.

«BMW is the volume leader and casts a very big shadow in that segment,» Steve Shannon, executive director - Cadillac marketing, tells Ward's at the Chicago auto show here.