Sentences with phrase «cabinet colleagues over»

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.»

But now he's fighting for his political life after his first Budget in March ended in a U-turn, and he spent the summer clashing with Cabinet colleagues over Brexit.

Not exact matches

Major's former cabinet colleague Norman Fowler — now presiding over the upper chamber as Lord Speaker — recently warned in an interview with this magazine that the Lords could no longer justify its size, and must «stop faffing around» and significantly cut the number of peers.

«My concern steadily grew over what I was hearing from colleagues, such as Heidi, Thangam and Lilian, and what I was seeing at shadow cabinet meetings, where Jeremy tended to read from a prepared script, didn't respond to our questions, and didn't convey any sense of strategic direction or leadership.»

He also ribbed Commons speaker John Bercow for having a large ego and teased cabinet colleague John Whittingdale over his former girlfriends.

He was dismissed from the cabinet over the claims in 1970, along with colleague Neil Blaney, but was later cleared of all charges in a court of law.

Over recent days we've also heard my shadow cabinet colleagues, Emma Reynolds and Tristram Hunt, talk about how a Labour government will ensure we get the house building we need to strengthen our economy and improve people's quality of life, and about how we raise standards in our schools to ensure our children are equipped to succeed.

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

Jo Stevens, Rachael Maskell and Dawn Butler have all stood down from the Shadow Cabinet over the issue, but the fate of their shadow ministerial colleagues has yet to be decided.

Over the past two years, it has been met with reservations from cabinet colleagues in the Cameron government and serious problems finding a robust definition of extremism that would survive legal challenge from a banned group or individual.

Friends of Jacqui Smith say she was attacked by some colleagues over her own expenses when they were published by the Sunday Express, with one cabinet colleague publicly declaring in a cabinet meeting that he had only claimed a «pittance» - only to be disproved by the Telegraph's allegations, which have left Smith looking far from alone.

The problem is partly the excessively tight control being exerted by the shadow Treasury team over all their colleagues» initiatives, but mainly that Ed Miliband is hamstrung by a shadow cabinet where a large majority didn't vote for him as their first - choice candidate.

I cite as evidence his long - rolling row with his Cabinet colleague Caroline Spelman over waste collection, and what the Communities Secretary has splendidly labelled the right of every Englishman and women to have the remnants of their chicken tikka masala collected weekly.

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 %.