Sentences with phrase «which shadow cabinet members»

There is no reference to the topics under discussion or which shadow cabinet members are making speeches.

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«What weighs with him is the polling which shows what the Tories are doing on immigration is popular and it certainly weighs on other members of the shadow Cabinet.

11 of the 47 elected Chairs were previously, or subsequently, members of the Cabinet or shadow Cabinet which suggests they may not be quite the maverick outsiders that some analyses of the select committee system have suggested.

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).

Ed Balls, the shadow chancellor, said it was advisable to keep receipts, but other shadow cabinet members tried to play down his remarks, which were condemned as absurd by Iain Duncan Smith, the work and pensions secretary.

Of course all members of the shadow cabinet will be travelling the length and breadth of the country during the campaign, but there will doubtless be particular interest in the constituencies which David Cameron visits.

However, in order to be taken as a serious government - in - waiting, politics has to come first and I was somewhat concerned recently to hear the following story about a member of the shadow cabinet: he had apparently already told David Cameron that he didn't want a higher profile post than that which he currently holds in advance of the general election, because he didn't want to give up other interests on account of time commitments or potential conflicts of interest involved in a different post.

Members of Labour's shadow cabinet have praised Barking and Dagenham Council for a scheme which involves naming new roads after service men and women killed in action.

The emails from party members will be examined by the party's national policy forum (NPF), which meets this weekend in Leeds, and whose members include the shadow cabinet and trade union leaders.

Ed is faced with a shadow cabinet in which only 4 of its 19 members voted for him in the leadership election 9 months ago and which has shown itself signally unwilling to accept the message of that leadership campaign that the party wanted a change of direction.

In fact there were two things missing from almost every shadow cabinet member's speech last week which have pulsated through every Minister's so far at Conservative conference.

Kristin Scott Thomas stars as a shadow cabinet member hosting one of those dos at which shock revelation follows shock revelation, in Sally Potter's short, smart comedy