Sentences with phrase «cabinet resignation from»

Mr Corbyn's position as party leader is under severe threat today as he faces mass Shadow Cabinet resignations from colleagues furious at his display during the referendum.

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Bouchard's resignation from Mulroney's cabinet in 1990 consolidated the collapse of the Progressive Conservative coalition.

His devastating resignation speech on leaving the cabinet in 1990 was widely seen as the central factor in forcing Thatcher from Downing Street.

After Corbyn said he had been disappointed with Smith's recent resignation from the shadow cabinet, Smith had a withering response.

The accountability made possible by the net is often of the trivial, superficial sort (as with Emily Thornberry MP's resignation from cabinet for tweeting a picture of a van), while the major deceptions (over the NHS, foreign wars, tax havens) have not resulted in anyone being held to account.

But after rolling mass resignations from the shadow cabinet, which have continued into Tuesday with Pat Glass resigning as shadow education secretary just two days after being appointed, Milband said it was time for Labour to unite around an alternative candidate.

The co-ordinated string of resignations from the shadow cabinet that followed the Brexit vote was designed to pressure Corbyn to resign as leader of the party.

And he is sanguine about the splits at the top of the party triggered by Iain Duncan Smith's resignation from the Cabinet: «If you look at the evidence, the party is united around me, for me to win on 5 May... They [the party] also understand that this is the biggest election between now and the general election, so it matters politically as well.

Jeremy Corbyn has lost control of his MPs with 46 resignations from his Shadow Cabinet and frontbench.

More recently, the accidental leaking of Ruth Kelly's resignation from the cabinet (and all kinds of hints and rumours as to how it happened) showed a pretty amateurish approach to news management.

The en masse resignations from the shadow cabinet, followed by a vote of no confidence from 81 per cent of MPs, shows that Jeremy Corbyn has lost the trust of his peers (or perhaps he never really managed to obtain it in the first place).

On 12 June 2008, Davis resigned from the Shadow Cabinet and announced his resignation as an MP, in order to force a by - election, and cause a wider debate on the single issue of what he believed to be the erosion of civil liberties.

Trade unions in Scotland have called for Jim Murphy to step down as leader of Scottish Labour as Neil Findlay who stood against Murphy for the leadership last year with the backing of the Left and almost all trade unions announced his resignation from the shadow cabinet at Holyrood where he held the fair work, skills and training brief.

Liam Fox cut a proud and unapologetic figure today as he issued a personal statement to the Commons following his resignation from Cabinet.

The former work and pensions secretary, whose resignation from the cabinet and criticism of Gordon Brown last June nearly toppled the prime minister, has told his constituency Labour party in Stalybridge and Hyde he will be standing down as their MP but that his decision is personal and, after 20 years in the Westminster political system, no reflection on Labour's chances at the next general election.

«She resigned from the shadow cabinet, we had a conversation after she had announced her resignation from the Shadow Cabinet and I would ask her to think for a cabinet, we had a conversation after she had announced her resignation from the Shadow Cabinet and I would ask her to think for a Cabinet and I would ask her to think for a moment.

Mr Flynn's unexpected double promotion is a result of the mass resignations from Jeremy Corbyn's Shadow Cabinet.

The Bristol MP, who stepped down from Jeremy Corbyn's shadow cabinet amid the mass resignations that followed the Brexit referendum, said she felt compelled to come forward after Etemadzadeh was criticised for her account of a recent encounter with Hopkins.

Admittedly he was an afterthought for the role, only moving into the Cabinet once the resignation of David Laws saw Danny Alexander shifted from Scotland to the Treasury, but his time there has been impressive: Moore navigated the Scotland Act through Parliament and was doing a good job in ensuring the referendum on Scottish independence was being held on the government's terms.

This time Corbyn contemplated sweeping changes to his shadow cabinet, recognised that such a move would trigger unwanted resignations on an impossibly big scale, stepped back from such a move but still sacked stroppy dissenters and made a significant move in relation to defence policy.

Anticipating their usual drubbing in local elections, Brown was hit by a wave of resignations from Labour Cabinet ministers.

This follows the resignation last week of Jo Stevens from the shadow cabinet and Tulip Siddiq from Labour's front bench.

«Dear Jeremy, Following our conversation, I am writing with regret to tender my resignation from the Shadow Cabinet.

The party is also looking to recover from a ministerial resignation - Brooks Newmark had stepped from the cabinet, after a newspaper alleged the Conservative minister for civil society had sent an explicit photograph of himself to an undercover reporter posing as a female party activist.

The survey, carried out between Monday and Thursday as Mr Corbyn came under fire from MPs and suffered several resignations from his shadow cabinet, found 50 % of Labour members support him as leader but 47 % do not.

The assembly member Carl Sargeant served as Cabinet Secretary for Communities and Children 19 May 2016 until his resignation on 3 November 2017 following his suspension from the Labour Party due to «shocking and distressing» allegations about his personal behaviour.

He was endured mass resignations from his shadow cabinet with a leadership election now on the horizon.

All the day's political news as chancellor seeks to stabilise economy, with more resignations expected from Jeremy Corbyn's shadow cabinet

His interview with Peter Mandelson in 2001 triggered the Northern Ireland Secretary's second resignation from the Cabinet.

But the opposition leader did not touch upon Duncan Smith's dramatic Friday night resignation from the cabinet — or the former Tory leader's explosive attacks on Cameron and Osborne this weekend.

With accusations that he didn't give 100 % to campaigning for remaining in the EU over the past few months, and resignations coming thick and fast from multiple shadow cabinet members, it's increasingly likely that Jeremy Corbyn will need to stand down as leader of the Labour party.

The book, which makes extensive use of a near - verbatim record of the talks kept by long - serving Lib Dem aide Alison Suttie, marks Mr Laws's return to the political limelight following his shock resignation from the Cabinet just weeks into the Coalition.

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According to Sky News, the Deputy Labour leader is «Deeply disappointed at the sacking of Hilary Benn, but he's equally disappointed by the resignations from the Shadow Cabinet.»

In 2008 he helped prompt the resignation from the cabinet of Peter Hain, the secretary of state for Wales and for work and pensions, by revealing that donations to his unsuccessful campaign for the Labour deputy leadership had been declared months late.

Ms Haigh, who has moved from being a shadow Cabinet Office minister to a post in Tom Watson's shadow culture, media and sport team, had even been sent a letter from Mr Corbyn thanking her for staying on the front bench after the wave of resignations which saw scores of senior MPs depart in June.

Following the resignation from the cabinet of Iain Duncan Smith over disability benefit cuts, Mr Crabb, the first Conservative cabinet minister for a century to have a beard, was promoted to work and pensions secretary.

In June he appeared on andrew neil's This Week programme, as his alter - ego Claire, to discuss David Laws» resignation from Cabinet following revelations about his sexuality.

Since then, we've seen the resignations from Parliament of Greens Senators Ludlum and Waters, and from Cabinet of Senator Canavan.

Justice Minister Peter MacKay is set to announce his resignation on Friday, the second shock departure from Prime Minister Stephen Harper's cabinet this year, just months ahead of a tough election for the governing Conservatives.