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By satnav
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She has been pretty poor as leader of the opposition but she hasn't been helped by the fact that most of the shadow cabinet have been lost in action. The shadow chancellor has missed plenty of open goals, the shadow Foreign Secretary has been silent on Ukraine and Tariffs and the Shadow Home Secretary just comes across as a prat. Over the last week IDS has been on the news more than the entire shadow cabinet.
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By Andy McDandy
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satnav wrote: Tue Apr 15, 2025 1:15 pm She has been pretty poor as leader of the opposition but she hasn't been helped by the fact that most of the shadow cabinet have been lost in action. The shadow chancellor has missed plenty of open goals, the shadow Foreign Secretary has been silent on Ukraine and Tariffs and the Shadow Home Secretary just comes across as a prat. Over the last week IDS has been on the news more than the entire shadow cabinet.
Most of the experienced ones quit or were ousted at the GE. She's got the creepy twins (Whateley and Trott) but none of them are really making any impact.
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By Tubby Isaacs
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Jenrick was the main one in a Mail splash that the Government should stop "appeasing" Muslim terrorists on the back of the attacks in prison. The attacker was working in the kitchens, not sitting in his cell eating Lobster Thermidor. I don't think this prisoner ought to have been anywhere near knives, but I'm not aware this policy has been changed since Jenrick was in the Justice brief.
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By Tubby Isaacs
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Andy McDandy wrote: Tue Apr 15, 2025 1:47 pm
Most of the experienced ones quit or were ousted at the GE. She's got the creepy twins (Whateley and Trott) but none of them are really making any impact.
It's very difficult for a shadow to make a big impression at the best of times, even the Shadow Chancellor- Philip Hammond was barely noticed as the actual Chancellor. But Mel Stride doesn't seem to be up to the job, and barring a big collapse in employment, which we haven't seen yet, he's probably not going to improve.

One of the few Shadow Chancellors to make an impression is George Osborne, but that was only really true post-crash when he had a simple (and disastrous) austerity message to push. When he rather sensibly was matching Labour's spending plans, he wasn't cutting through.
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