Sentences with phrase «topped shadow cabinet»

His popularity with Labour members was at its height and he regularly topped shadow cabinet elections.

After topping the shadow cabinet ballot, I would say she's almost certain to be the next leader of the Labour Party.

Jeremy Corbyn has promoted a number of his closest allies to top shadow cabinet jobs as he vows to...

Labour was hit by the resignation of one of its top shadow cabinet talents as the government's Brexit bill was passed overwhelmingly by MPs.

With the elevation of Emily Thornberry, the Labour leader's Islington North constituency is now sandwiched in between the constituencies of two of his top shadow cabinet colleagues.

Corbyn has handed the four top shadow cabinet posts (leader, shadow chancellor, foreign secretary and home secretary) to men.

Not exact matches

While it's unusual for someone seeking to become a Labour PPC to secure the support of three members of the shadow cabinet, Hayes was not alone among the candidates in getting top level backing.

The FT says some of the shadow cabinet are looking at John McDonnell as a «brake» on Milne's plans to radically overhaul the top team.

As Jeremy Corbyn moves to impose unity on his shadow cabinet, David Cameron has been forced to take the opposite approach with his top team.

Having spent five years in Ed Miliband's shadow cabinet, Flint opted not to join Corbyn's top team last year — and the MP for Don Valley made it clear that she would not be changing her mind now.

And she dismissed the fact Mr Corbyn has scores of empty frontbench roles - with people having to do two shadow cabinet jobs at once - after 64 members of his top team resigned.

But while the party's top team moved to heal the wounds of a battle that set brother against brother, there were still questions over what role, if any, David Miliband would take in the shadow cabinet.

Corbyn, to his credit, had attempted to create as broad a tent as possible in the shadow cabinet in order to appease party moderates, but the idea of allowing dissent within his top team unravelled the moment Hilary Benn took the dispatch box during the Syrian airstrikes debate.

Our Shadow Cabinet is one of the top teams at Labour, made up of the Leader of the Labour Party and their chosen team who shadow the top government roles.

Four or five of the individuals serving in the shadow cabinet at the next General Election arte unlikely to make it to the top table should office follow polling day.

Most voters understandably don't distinguish between a «Top Tory», a Conservative frontbencher and a shadow cabinet member.

David Cameron's three leading shadow cabinet ministers also top the league that measures grassroots approval of frontbenchers.

The Tory grassroots, who had become increasingly sceptical of George Osborne's qualities, decided he was as effective as the other top members of the shadow cabinet, David Davis and William Hague.

Labour's shadow cabinet office minister has written to the country's top civil servant asking «a number of important questions» over the arrest of the Prime Minister's former deputy policy adviser over allegations linked to child abuse images.

But senior frontbenchers say the price of working with Mr Corbyn would be the return of shadow cabinet elections, giving MPs the power to elect a substantial number of Labour's top team.

Jeremy Corbyn has finished a much - anticipated shake - up of his top team by changing just two shadow cabinet posts.

William Hague and David Davis continue to trade places as the most rated member of the shadow cabinet with William Hague finishing top this month.

As shadow cabinet member for Local government he should be shouting from the roof tops that the EU and this government plan to abolish counties and reorganise other local authorities into regional government with sub regions and sub sub regions.

After his role in the Crewe and Nantwich by - election campaign - following a successful masterminding of our local government advances - Eric shot to near the top of our regular shadow cabinet league table of members» satisfaction.

There is a dearth of women at the top of the party and there is talk that Lisa Nandy will be offered the brief in order to lure her back into the shadow cabinet.

Jeremy Corbyn's shadow cabinet deserve to retain their positions, an influential backbencher has said, as he urged MPs who have previously been critical of the Labour leader to back the party's top team.

So the move of Diane Abbott up to the home secretary brief and promotion of Emily Thornberry to shadow foreign (incidentally, the first time a Labour shadow cabinet has seen an even gender split in the «great offices of state» as well as the elevation of a black woman to such a position) ensures that at the very top there's a unanimity of opinion.

On Saturday night, in a sign of the growing concern at the top of the party about the affair, one shadow cabinet member told the Observer: «The issue is already echoing back at us on the doorsteps.»

It is understood there are still more shadow junior ministerial announcements to come but the shadow cabinet movements are now concluded, with 17 women and 14 men in top jobs.

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Johnson's assessment came as the chairman of the parliamentary party, John Cryer, condemned Corbyn's controversial shake - up of his top team during a period when the leader's office had been in talks about the shadow cabinet being elected in part by MPs.

Walls, grey / green, cabinets beigy - white, hardware copper overpainted to match the beigy white cabinetry, new glossy black granite counter tops had been installed before we purchased the home, a construction grade «boob» light in the middle of the room behind me as I worked at counter top or sink provided only shadows.