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- noun UK a
senior group ofopposition politicians who shadow the members of thegovernment
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Then you will find a small, bar-coded label Shadow Cabinet, an online collection of my more recent poems The Middlewesterner
Via Negativa 2008
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Then you will find a small, bar-coded label Shadow Cabinet, an online collection of my more recent poems The Middlewesterner
Via Negativa 2008
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Cameron by pulling together a committee of businessmen to meet with the Shadow Cabinet is the surest sign that the 'professional' politicians in the Tory Party have no idea or any viable economic policy or philosphy other than 'elect Dave'
Dear God, the Tories finally admit they have not got a clue either Guthrum 2009
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"Unless being in the Shadow Cabinet is the most important thing to them, they shouldn't be there," is how one put it.
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In the elected parties shadow cabinet members are elected MPs, but the Green Party does not yet have elected MPs, so our Shadow Cabinet is instead drawn from generally our strongest candidates in terms of vote performance.
Scott Baker: Interview With Canadian Green Party Politicians Erich Jacoby Hawkins and John Fisher Scott Baker 2011
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In a traditional two-party system, one would have a single Cabinet and a single Shadow Cabinet, but Canada has had a three-, four- or five-party tradition for several decades now, and each opposition party has their own shadow cabinet who critique the ministries from their own particular ideological stance.
Scott Baker: Interview With Canadian Green Party Politicians Erich Jacoby Hawkins and John Fisher Scott Baker 2011
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In the elected parties shadow cabinet members are elected MPs, but the Green Party does not yet have elected MPs, so our Shadow Cabinet is instead drawn from generally our strongest candidates in terms of vote performance.
Scott Baker: Interview With Canadian Green Party Politicians Erich Jacoby Hawkins and John Fisher Scott Baker 2011
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In a traditional two-party system, one would have a single Cabinet and a single Shadow Cabinet, but Canada has had a three-, four- or five-party tradition for several decades now, and each opposition party has their own shadow cabinet who critique the ministries from their own particular ideological stance.
Scott Baker: Interview With Canadian Green Party Politicians Erich Jacoby Hawkins and John Fisher Scott Baker 2011
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Could you describe what that is specifically, and also what a Shadow Cabinet is?
Scott Baker: Interview With Canadian Green Party Politicians Erich Jacoby Hawkins and John Fisher Scott Baker 2011
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Could you describe what that is specifically, and also what a Shadow Cabinet is?
Scott Baker: Interview With Canadian Green Party Politicians Erich Jacoby Hawkins and John Fisher Scott Baker 2011
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