Posts Tagged ‘Shadow Cabinet’
Shadow cabinet: vote for Alan
18/09/2010, 04:01:33 AM
Shadow cabinet: vote for Stephen
18/09/2010, 01:17:55 AM
Shadow cabinet: vote for Barbara
17/09/2010, 04:42:32 PM
From: KEELEY, Barbara
Sent: 17 September 2010 16:17
To: KEELEY, Barbara
Subject: Barbara Keeley for Shadow CabinetBarbara Keeley for Shadow Cabinet
Barbara Keeley MP
Shadow Minister for Care Services
Shadow Deputy Leader of the House
Dear colleague
We will shortly have a new Leader and this election gives us the chance to elect a revitalised Shadow Cabinet to support the new Leader.
We need a team in the Shadow Cabinet who can take the fight to Tories and Liberal Democrats, campaign strongly across the country to win seats for Labour and develop new policy solutions. I want to be part of that team.
I have 21 years of experience of campaigning for Labour, including 9 years as a councillor and cabinet member in Trafford. I was twice Trafford’s Campaign Co-ordinator ensuring we hung on to marginal seats to retain control.
First elected as an MP in Worsley in 2005, I gained experience in the Cabinet Office, DWP and working with Harriet Harman on Equalities as both PPS and Government Whip.
I was Deputy Leader of the House and have deputised for Harriet at the Warwick Policy Forum and at conferences and seminars. Since May I have been Shadow Minister for Care Services in the Shadow Health Team combined with covering as Shadow Deputy Leader of the House.
In Parliament I have been a strong team member and a hard-working and effective Shadow Minister, Minister and backbench MP. I was also chair of the Women’s PLP.
In the Party I have been an effective and hard-working member of the Health Policy Commission, have chaired working groups on policy development and have fought many
by-elections locally and nationally.
In my career before Parliament, I worked as an adviser and consultant on health and social care and on regeneration projects. I was also a Systems Engineering Manager working for IBM, managing a team of 10 people.
I want to use all my experience and skills in the work of the new Shadow Cabinet team and I hope you will use one of your votes for me in this election.
Best wishes
Barbara Keeley MP
Shadow Cabinet: vote for Angela
17/09/2010, 12:40:25 PM
From: EAGLE, Angela
Sent: 17 September 2010 11:01
To: EAGLE, Angela
Subject: Angela Eagle – for Shadow Cabinet
Angela Eagle for Labour’s new Shadow Cabinet
Today I announced my intention to stand for election to Labour’s new Shadow Cabinet. I hope that you consider giving me your support.This is an important time for our Party and it is right that the best team is elected to take on this Demolition Government. Since the election, I have worked as part of the shadow Treasury team to take the fight to the coalition on the economy and the profound risks they are taking with the fragile recovery. There was no mandate for the vicious decisions they took to impose the largest spending cuts in peacetime history – the result of which is an attack on the most vulnerable in our society and will see genuine hardship for many.I have used every opportunity to expose the dangers the Con Dems pose and now I want to be in the Shadow Cabinet, working with you, leading the fight against the Con Dems and returning Labour back to Government.
I have the energy and the experience
I was elected in 1992 in the most marginal seat in the North West famously defeating Tory International Development Minister Lynda Chalker. Between 1992 -1997 I served in the Whips office and served on numerous Select Committees including: Members Interests, Employment, Public Accounts (three times) and Treasury.
In government I spent eight years as a Minister in DETR, DSS, Home Office, Treasury and DWP and on the Government backbenches I was elected Vice Chair of the PLP and served on the Parliamentary Committee.
I can connect with the party and the public
I have been a bridge between the PLP and the Party on the National Executive Committee first elected as PLP representative and later as one of the leaders Government Nominees. I am also an Ex officio member of the National Policy Forum.
I am also an active campaigner for Labour up and down the country and will continue to do so as a member of the Shadow Cabinet.
I will take the fight to this Con Dem Government
We must be strategic and flexible in our response to the coalition. It might be highly enjoyable to focus on the Lib Dems discomfort but it is the Tory small state ideology which we must defeat if we are to stand a chance of making a swift return to Government.
To return to Government we must win the country’s trust again and this will be no easy task – but with the right arguments, the right ideas and the right team – we can and we will.
I’d be honoured to have your support. Please feel free to call me on XXXX XXX XXX.
Best wishes
Shadow cabinet: vote for the Eagle
17/09/2010, 12:26:33 PM
From: EAGLE, Maria
Sent: 16 September 2010 17:55
To: EAGLE, Maria
I believe I have the talons talent to help make Labour soar upwards again. See my two most recent debates:
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/cmhansrd/cm100708/debtext/100708-0003.htm#10070875001355
I both opened and wound up for the opposition on ConDem proposals to extend anonymity to defendants in rape cases. We all demolished their case and the policy was abandoned following the debate – the first defeat of a proposal in the coalition programme for government.
I wound up in the second reading debate on the Fixed Term Parliaments Bill and got stuck into the Deputy Prime Minister – one coalition weak link upon whom we should focus our fire.
Lets get stuck into them in Parliament – and everywhere else!
Maria Eagle
You can’t pour a quart into a pint pot
16/09/2010, 01:30:58 PMAs the inboxes of Labour’s 257 Members of Parliament continue to clog up with subtle (and not so subtle) appeals for support in the forthcoming beauty contest that is the shadow cabinet election, our back-of-a-fag-packet calculations indicate a potentially embarrassing problem for the boys.
Rule changes reserve at least 31.5% of the 19 places (that’s 6 in old money) for women, two more than the last time Labour elected its top team in 1996.
However the current shadow cabinet contains 19 men (excluding Nick Brown as chief whip). When you remove declared retirees like Alastair Darling, Bob Ainsworth and Jack Straw you drop to 16. Then take out one of the leadership contenders so we’re down to 15. But there are no more than 13 places available for those with an Y chromosome. This is before insurgents from the lower ranks break through. And, of course, there may well be more than six women elected. Sunder Katwala has a good piece on this over at Next Left.
An embarrassing game of political musical chairs beckons if the 15 run as expected:
– A Miliband
– Ed Balls
– Andy Burnham
– Liam Byrne is said to be marauding
– Pat McFadden
– Alan Johnson has thrown his hat in
– John Denham
– Sadiq Khan has declared
– Hilary Benn
– Douglas Alexander
– Shaun Woodward
– Jim Murphy
– Peter Hain
– John Healey looks likely
– Ben Bradshaw
So at least two male former Labour cabinet ministers could face an unceremonious ejection from the shadow cabinet.
Or will some drop out of the process rather than risk denting their reputations?
Shadow cabinet: vote for Wayne
16/09/2010, 12:27:17 PM
Shadow cabinet “vote for me” letters
15/09/2010, 09:29:16 PMThe shadow cabinet race is well under way, and a welcome distraction from the leadership contest. The decisions have been made and confirmed. The nominations must be in by Wednesday 29 September and the canvassing has begun.
So far we have seen “vote for me” letters from:
We will keep posting over the coming days until we, like Bob, get tired of them:
