Sentences with phrase «with shadow home secretary»

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With Jeremy Corbyn and shadow home secretary Diane Abbott implacably opposed to any restrictions on immigration, it has been left to some of Cooper's party colleagues — most notably Andy Burnham and Hilary Benn — to make the Labour case for controls.

Even Labour, the party with the least understanding of the appropriate limits to state power, is run by a leader who made a special pledge to civil liberties campaigners - even if his shadow home secretary is clearly an unreconstructed authoritarian.

The ABI worked closely with Theresa May's Home Office team on successful reform of riot damages legislation and with her personally during her time as an impressive shadow Work & Pensions Secretary.

The latest opinion poll blow for Labour comes after shadow home secretary Diane Abbott predicted yesterday that her party would catch up with the Tories in 2017.

Mr Cameron opted to keep leadership rival David Davis in his current post as shadow home secretary, with another former candidate, Liam Fox, moved to defence, and Mr Hague made shadow foreign secretary.

Reward came in the form of appointment to shadow home secretary, and he was able to ally himself with Blair without attracting the fatal enmity of Brown.

The shadow home secretary put anti-social behaviour at the centre of his speech, with demands for tougher action against crime on Britain's streets.

Liz Kendall, the shadow Care Minister who is seen as the Blairite candidate, came second on 25 per cent, with Yvette Cooper, the shadow Home Secretary, on 20 per cent and Jeremy Corbyn, a left - wing backbencher, on 18 per cent.

Grayling campaigned before the 2010 election as shadow home secretary promising to tear up the European Convention on Human Rights and replace it with a British Bill of Rights — a move strongly opposed by the Liberal Democrats.

«The figures in this report contrast sharply with what the government claim and betray a chronic deficit of information on immigration,» said shadow home secretary David Davis.

With Andy Burnham as shadow home secretary and Hilary Benn as shadow foreign secretary, the five most senior positions in Corbyn's shadow cabinet will be filled by men.

But commentators were not convinced with one journalist saying that Abbott had experienced a Natalie Bennett-esque «brainfade» and one former Labour special adviser suggesting that the shadow home secretary must be a Tory secret agent...

A third potential option is a job swap between Benn and shadow home secretary Andy Burnham, with The Times reporting that the idea has been «discussed in broad terms in recent weeks».

The shadow education secretary took 134,446 of the nearly 190,000 ballots cast, with his rival, shadow home secretary David Davis, winning just 64,398 votes.

It's now tinged by a hint of pragmatism, however, as if Damian Green - the shadow home secretary who is now faced with the practical reality of turning those hundreds of thousands into tens of thousands - contemplates what to do next.

But shadow home secretary David Davis warned that the revelation - which comes six years after the problem was first raised with the DWP - showed a «massive administration failure».

Davis, who quit as shadow home secretary to run a by - election on civil liberties, accused May of trying to «assault the reputation of those who disagree» with her.

Mary Creagh, the shadow environment secretary, taunted Spelman in the Commons over the U-turn, saying: «Today the air is filled with the sound of chickens coming home to roost.

Claim: The Telegraph said the shadow environment secretary claimed for stamp duty on a home he jointly owned with his partner.

The proposal has also attracted sharp criticism from the Tory libertarian right, with the former shadow home secretary David Davis calling it an «unnecessary extension of the ability of the state to snoop on ordinary people».

After he was elevated from shadow attorney general to shadow home secretary in 2008, a surprise appointment as David Davis's successor, he had dinner with Rebekah Brooks; her horror at his position on the convention, relayed to Andy Coulson, is said to have been responsible for his losing the job, although Brooks denies it.

The full extent of a potential Tory rebellion is starting to become a little clearer, with figures such as Andrew Mitchell, former chief whip, Damian Green, former Home Office minister, and David Davies, former shadow home secretary, potentially joining confirmed rebels such as former attorney general Dominic Grieve and former justice secretary Ken ClaHome Office minister, and David Davies, former shadow home secretary, potentially joining confirmed rebels such as former attorney general Dominic Grieve and former justice secretary Ken Clahome secretary, potentially joining confirmed rebels such as former attorney general Dominic Grieve and former justice secretary Ken Clarke.

«The home secretary and prime minister are out of touch with how bad it is for police forces across the country,» shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said.

With rumours mounting Mr Brown will move away from a national ID card scheme - increasingly criticised for its cost and implications for civil liberties - the shadow home secretary David Davis has called on the soon - to - be prime minister to make his position clear.

The former shadow home secretary told BBC1's Question Time programme he was unhappy with the European court of human rights» (EHR) ruling earlier this week that prisoners should not be disenfranchised.

The shadow home secretary, Andy Burnham, called on Conservatives to vote with Labour on the motion, which asked the government to «commit today that EU nationals currently living in the UK shall have the right to remain».

The former shadow home secretary said it showed that IPSA was «out of touch with reality» and he would propose a motion to stop the increase as the «public would not see the point of this», but he would not be drawn on whether he would accept the rise.

Jeremy Corbyn, the Leader of the Opposition, believes it is essential, with his close ally, the shadow home secretary, Diane Abbott, claiming it would be «outrageous» not to consult Parliament first.

He worked with future shadow home secretary David Davis on the team briefing John Major for Prime Minister's Questions, and also hooked up with George Osborne, who would go on to be his chancellor and closest political ally.

In a toe - curling interview, the shadow home secretary dodged as she was pressed to spell out whether she would take action to expel those with no right to be in Britain.

Labour sources have suggested the possibility that the shadow home secretary, Andy Burnham, could swap positions with Benn, leaving both of them more likely to agree with the leadership on their respective briefs.

A delegation of shadow cabinet ministers, led by the shadow home secretary, Andy Burnham, also failed to secure a meeting with Corbyn last Thursday to try to negotiate a resolution.

The shadow home secretary receives cards with pictures of monkeys and swastikas, and rape and death threats.

Diane Abbott, the shadow home secretary — who will lead the debate, said: «With the resignation of Amber Rudd, Theresa May has lost her human shield and must now fully account for the policies she created and drove through from the Home Office into Downing Strhome secretary — who will lead the debate, said: «With the resignation of Amber Rudd, Theresa May has lost her human shield and must now fully account for the policies she created and drove through from the Home Office into Downing StrHome Office into Downing Street.

She has agreed to stop claiming the second home allowance Nick Herbert The shadow environment secretary claimed back # 10,000 of the # 14,700 stamp duty when he bought a home with his partner in his constituency.