Sentences with phrase «cabinet colleague who»

Did he want a strong shadow cabinet colleague who would, on occasion, feel able to speak out against the views of his leader and perhaps the wider shadow cabinet or did he want such a big beast roaming the backbenches, taking potshots at the leadership at will?

He also attacked his Cabinet colleagues who are backing Brexit for not saying how the UK would operate outside the European Union.

He also took a thinly - veiled swipe at his shadow cabinet colleagues who had come up with various reasons why Labour lost the Copeland by - election «I thought the loss in Copeland was really serious.

The Prime Minister has rebuffed Cabinet colleagues who suggested that Labour supporters could back Liberal Democrat candidates where such a vote would keep out a Conservative.

Whitehall sources suggested that May had been urged to take a harder stance over Brexit by cabinet colleagues who have argued that a rerun of the referendum would result in an even more emphatic victory for Brexit, in the region of 60 % -40 %.

It's notable that two of Cameron's Cabinet colleagues who have broken cover in recent days — eurosceptic Michael Gove and europhile Kenneth Clarke — are far more widely thought than the Prime Minister to put strength of feeling ahead of tactics.

Not exact matches

Known as Mr. Fix - It by some of his cabinet colleagues, Kenney has pledged to bring in major reforms to the system, including beefing up the auditing powers of federal inspectors who are hunting down abusers.

VICTORIA — Energy Minister Bill Bennett called his own B.C. Liberals cabinet colleagues «a bunch of nervous politicians» who don't even know what the «upper range is yet» on the cost of the proposed Site C hydroelectric project.

The job of the finance minister, possessing these same instincts and surrounded by colleagues in cabinet and in caucus who are idealistically impatient, is a difficult one.

The demob - happy ex-minister, who left the government in last week's reshuffle, used his first big interview since quitting to send a warning sign to his former Cabinet colleagues.

The first key point to understand is the difference between the Prime Minister's roles as head of the Cabinet, who wields executive power via the confidence of the House of Commons, and as Tory leader, whose authority rests on the faith colleagues have in you as a general election winner.

And let me pay particular tribute to those parliamentary colleagues who stepped forward in the summer to fill the gaps in the shadow cabinet and ensure that Labour could function as an effective opposition in parliament.

And last year, a Labour councillor was accused of making death threats against one of his former group colleagues, Rania Khan, who now serves in Rahman's cabinet.

Since his speech in favour of air strikes on Syria I am struck by the number of Hilary Benn's colleagues, those who have worked with him in cabinets or shadow cabinets, who tell me he has changed since the summer, finding his political voice or public definition in opposition to Jeremy Corbyn's leadership.

Increasingly, the pressure comes from his colleagues in the cabinet who want the Cameron — and the party as whole — to take a firm stance on Britain's membership of the EU.

According to him, President Mahama who is a Gonja has only the Minister of Food and Agriculture Alhaji Mohammed Muniru - Limuna a colleague tribesman in cabinet.

Today Mr Clegg attempted to draw a line under his rivalry with Mr Huhne, insisting he could go back to being «colleagues» with the environment spokesman, who is now waiting to hear what position he will take in Mr Clegg's «shadow» Cabinet.

Everyone who «knows how things are done», even your shadow cabinet colleagues, will warn against it.

So when Ed Balls used his conference speech to signal Labour's departure from an unquestioning commitment to HS2, all eyes turned to Adonis, who as a shadow minister for infrastructure is also a shadow cabinet colleague of Mr Balls.

Mr Osborne has used his new role as Evening Standard editor to make a series of attacks on Mrs May, who he clashed with repeatedly during their six years as Cabinet colleagues.

A senior source told The Sunday Telegraph that Mr Purnell, who claimed he had acted alone, had in fact been expecting Cabinet colleagues to follow his lead and that Mr Hutton, who said he resigned for family reasons, had been «shamed» into resigning by Mr Purnell.

Burnham, who is not persuaded by the case for air strikes, warned that colleagues who voted against the party's proposed position would be «thrown to the wolves» and said that he would not be a part of a «sham shadow cabinet».

Foot was also an experienced cabinet minister who enjoyed far more support and respect from colleagues than Corbyn does today.

It means that the Brexit secretary now easily tops the table of cabinet ministers who have been forced to wave goodbye to key colleagues in recent months.

They include Clarke's Cabinet colleague Iain Duncan Smith, the work and pensions secretary, who last year suggested the UK could «have it all» either in or out of the EU.

It was also Miliband, as my colleague James Macintyre recalls this week, who led cabinet opposition to Israel's bombardment of Lebanon.

That raised eyebrows from former shadow Cabinet colleague Philip Hammond, now defence secretary, who said it could be difficult for Evans to remain in the job.

«When you have an Attorney General who is a cabinet member and is the most powerful person in terms of fighting corruption, how is that possible in our part of the world that you sit there with your colleague and you are the one who will look at your colleague and say you are a thief, you have stolen money from the state and you have done something against us?

Ms Rudd was a committed Remain campaigner, who raised eyebrows with the highly personalised attacks she launched on her now Cabinet colleague Boris Johnson.

In his speech to the Lib Dem conference on Tuesday, Huhne, who fell out with Conservative cabinet colleagues over their tactics during the Alternative Vote referendum in May, will warn David Cameron to keep the Tory right under control, saying: «We don't need the Tea Party tendency in Britain.»

When U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings leaves office along with her Cabinet colleagues, President George W. Bush surely will heap praise upon his good friend and adviser who oversaw his prized domestic accomplishment: the No Child Left Behind Act.

Environment minister Robert Hill, who led our delegation, was feted by his colleagues; indeed, he received a standing ovation at the first Cabinet meeting after his return.

The Prime Minister has form of course: in 2011, when she was Home Secretary, she tried to dismantle the SFO, but was thwarted by her cabinet colleagues, most notably Ken Clarke, who was the then Justice Secretary — and reportedly tried to revive the plan in 2014.