Sentences with phrase «which shadow chancellor»

Miliband will also reportedly back more transparency for the financial services sector and an increase in the resources available to the Serious Fraud Office, which shadow chancellor Ed Balls has criticised for its «tardy» response to the Libor scandal.

Today's Times (#) also features an interesting interview with Johnson by Rachel Sylvester and Alice Thomson, headlined «No more Mr Nice Guy», in which the shadow chancellor actually embraces the «Enforcer» nickname.

The speech sought to consolidate a shift in the economic debate in which shadow chancellor Ed Balls has accepted years of flatlining growth are now at an end.

Not exact matches

The new year saw the shadow chancellor give an interview to the New Statesman in which he made clear he wanted to palsy it up with Clegg.

This was enough to worry the shadow chancellor into responding with a new year interview in which he extended an olive branch to the Lib Dem leader, saying «I've no reason to doubt his integrity».

When he was appointed shadow chancellor even some MPs who were sympathetic to Corbyn were horrified, believing the caricature of McDonnell, a ferocious short tempered hard left warrior, such a determined revolutionary that he fell out with Ken Livingstone in the 1980s in a dispute on which he was to the insurrectionary left of the GLC leader.

While discussing possible tax increases to fund cash - strapped public services, shadow chancellor John McDonnell suggested any additional burden should fall on «the rich» — which he defined as people earning «above 70,000 to 80,000 a year».

From 1994 to 1999, Balls served as economic adviser to Gordon Brown, during which period it emerged that he had written a key speech for the then shadow chancellor that used the phrase «post-neoclassical endogenous growth theory».

11:56 - I wonder which of the following weak spots David Cameron will zero in on this week: Ed Miliband's contortions following the anti-Syria intervention vote, his shadow chancellor's decision to slowly U-turn on austerity, or the fact the GMB are pulling their most of their funding from the Labour party.

After coming out in support of the graduate tax during his leadership campaign, Mr Miliband's favoured policy was instantly destabilised by outspoken comments from his shadow chancellor saying he still supported tuition fees, which he originally helped to bring in while in government.

The second is the one that has not yet taken place, but which Ed failed to prevent when he chickened out of removing Ed Balls as shadow chancellor (and, more importantly, as the sort of shadow leader that Gordon Brown was under Blair's leadership).

As the shadow chancellor put it, it's the election rather than the Budget which everyone is focusing on.

Turning to pose for the photographers off to the right, the shadow chancellor demanded that Gordon Brown «stop boasting about [policy] success and start addressing the reasons for its failure,» which included telling the public about the severity of the situation.

His tax plans, which have brought criticism from both the prime minister, Tony Blair, and shadow chancellor George Osborne propose a two pence cut in the basic rate, with the tax deficit supplemented by «green taxes» on vehicles and additional taxes for the rich.

Yvette Cooper is the only Labour figure who has made it into the coverage today in her capacity as shadow work and pensions secretary, which incidentally can't be doing her profile as a potential shadow chancellor any home.

Because of all this, there seems little realistic option but to agree to a free vote (which the leader's chief ally, the shadow chancellor John McDonnell, favours anyway).

How does the new leader of the opposition, Nadine Dorries, propose, with her shadow chancellor, to reduce this deficit, which her party helped to create.

That «muttering idiot», Cameron barked, again proving that the shadow chancellor can get reactions out of the prime minister which other Labour figures only wish for.

The author is a former news editor of the left - wing magazine Tribune and he sits on the national committee of the Labour Representation Committee, which is chaired by shadow chancellor John McDonnell.

The opposition's partisanship is being pursued with the zeal and enthusiasm which only shadow chancellor Ed Balls can muster.

Speaking at the think tank Demos, the shadow chancellor said the party is committed to the progressive policies of New Labour in a manner which Mr Brown's administration is not.

Mark Ferguson at LabourList warns that Ed Balls will be difficult for Ed Miliband to resist: «Unlike Johnson, who was by no means certain to serve as shadow chancellor for a full parliament, it's hard to envisage a circumstances in which Miliband could remove Balls.

«The lesson of the Olympics is that if we approach major long - term infrastructure projects by building a cross-party sense of national purpose then we can deliver,» stated the shadow chancellor, which raised intriguing questions about just who Balls can imagine himself working with - Nick Clegg?

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.

Hague congratulated her on not putting the shadow chancellor on the Labour benches «which helps us to hear».

It reported that 12 senior staff working for Mr Corbyn and shadow chancellor John McDonnell were members of the groups which contained more than 2,000 racist, anti-Semitic, misogynistic, violent and abusive messages.

The press are aghast at John McDonnell being selected as shadow chancellor, but it's Andy Burnham as shadow home secretary which is most troubling

He reveals he saw a picture of McCartney's «attractive» shorts and the shadow chancellor's «very curious pair of black leggings» over his breakfast cereal this morning, which gets a lot of laughter.

«This incompetent government can't even organise a humiliating U-turn without messing it up,» the shadow chancellor said, suggesting a meeting between Mr Brown and Mr Field had established an agreement which Mr Darling «was not part of».

The shadow chancellor was asked about the shadow foreign secretary's rousing address, which many are calling one of the best ever in the House of Commons, as he appeared on Radio 4's Today programme this morning.

Instead, there will now be an emergency debate on the economy, in which both Cameron and his shadow chancellor, George Osborne, will speak.»

After George Osborne's statement on the Comprehensive Spending Review, there was a response by newly - installed shadow chancellor, Alan Johnson - to which the Chancellor himself in turn got the chance to reply.

The shadow chancellor's move has caused concern in Labour ranks because two of his new advisers are or have recently been members of other political parties, with which Labour is not meant to engage under its constitution.

The vote, which endorsed Corbyn's pledge to oppose Brexit if the deal failed to protect workers» rights and included full access to the single market, came as John McDonnell, the shadow chancellor, pledged # 70bn in extra spending for Scotland.

But the new leader and shadow chancellor will need immediately to demonstrate economic literacy, which means robustly critiquing George Osborne and articulating a credible and appealing alternative economic approach.

After David Cameron's well - reviewed conference speech last week, which promised income tax cuts, 39 % of voters say the prime minister and the chancellor, George Osborne, are the team they would most trust «to manage the economy properly», compared with just 19 % who say they would trust the opposition Labour leader, Ed Miliband and his shadow chancellor, Ed Balls.

Formby is regarded as part of the inner circle of the leader's office, which includes Unite leader Len McCluskey, shadow chancellor John McDonnell and Corbyn's increasingly influential gatekeeper, Karie Murphy.

The answer is to be found in the deteriorating relationship between Labour's leader and his shadow chancellor, a dysfunction which is increasingly defining policy - making within the party.

Alan Johnson, the shadow chancellor, attacked «the deepest cuts to public spending in living memory», which he warned could end up «stifling» the economic recovery.

During a Commons statement on the Paris terror attacks which killed 129 people, Mr Cameron urged Mr Corbyn to reconsider his opposition to shoot - to - kill, while former shadow chancellor Chris Leslie said the need for such a power should be «immediately obvious».

However, his strident views on which direction the party needs to go on the economy will be seen as a pitch for the very important shadow chancellor position alongside the new leader.

There would probably be others that would deal with economics better, but the position at the moment is shadow chancellor so involves a lot more politics which Osbourne is usually good at (unless mandleson is involved).