Sentences with phrase «cabinet colleagues before»

Former business secretary Sir Vince Cable said the new PM had clashed with Cabinet colleagues before over the # 18 billion project.

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«Vince Cable stunned colleagues last night by declaring that the Coalition could break up before the election and indicating that he has private «red lines» that would prompt him to walk out of the Cabinet.

Tony Blair will step down as prime minister «well before» the next general election, one of his cabinet colleagues has said.

The meeting was held in August, weeks before the current Chancellor angered his Cabinet colleagues by refusing to free up funds to prepare for Brexit.

Labour denied reports of a heated telephone conversation between Brown and Clegg, and support among Brown's Cabinet colleagues remained strong, but one backbencher, John Mann, urged Brown to step aside as Labour leader before the party conference in September, arguing that Brown's continued leadership «rules out the credibility of a Lib / Lab pact».