Sentences with phrase «cabinet role as»

She was nevertheless promoted by Gordon Brown to her first proper Cabinet role as Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (having previously been «Labour Party Chair»).

Labour's Tom Watson has resigned from his shadow cabinet role as the party's general election co-ordinator.

Not exact matches

Should Hammond be removed as chancellor it is unclear whether he would remain in the cabinet in a lesser role, or be removed entirely from May's inner circle.

In a late - summer cabinet shuffle, Trudeau moved Jane Philpott, who had earned solid reviews during her stint as health minister, into a newly created role as Indigenous services minister.

She worked as Minister across nine Canadian government departments, and her service included the role of Vice Chair of the Treasury Board and chair of the cabinet committee for public safety, justice and aboriginal issues.

Name: Chris Fowler, MA Title: President and Chief Executive Officer Areas of responsibility: Executive management, strategy Years with CWB Financial Group: 27 Career history: Has served at CWB in roles with increasing responsibility since 1991, including, commercial account management (1991 - 1995), credit risk (1995 - 2008), and joined the executive team in 2008 as Executive Vice President, Banking, and then President and Chief Operating Officer Education: Master of Arts Degree in Economics from the University of British Columbia Community involvement: Trustee for the University Hospital Foundation (University of Alberta), Member of the Canadian Bankers Association's Executive Council, director with the Art Gallery of Alberta's board of directors, and campaign cabinet member with the United Way of Alberta Capital Region

These include holding open Cabinet meetings at least once a month, which will be broadcasted on the Internet; giving Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) a greater role by reforming the Legislative committee system and allowing government MLAs to vote freely (as opposed to voting according to the Party's preferences); restricting the tenure of a premier to two (four - year) terms; holding a Citizen's Assembly on electoral reform to examine alternative models for electing MLAs; instituting a system by which citizens can recall elected officials; and instituting elections for all government boards and commissions.

It comes as the former cabinet member responsible for children's services in Rotherham is facing pressure to stand down from his new role as South Yorkshire's Police and Crime Commissioner.

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.

Patrick has spent ten years as a special adviser in various roles at the heart of British government, including 10 Downing Street, the Cabinet Office, the Northern Ireland Office.

He should appoint a summer Shadow Cabinet with Angela Eagle as his economic lead and a gender balance in the senior roles.

Despite only getting elected last year Sheppard has become one of the most recognisable SNP faces in SW1, his role as shadow cabinet minister giving him license to roam across the broadcast studios.

[2] Following the defeat, he accepted a role in Corbyn's Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Home Secretary.

She has served in various Cabinet and Shadow Cabinet positions and, in her role as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, she has served as the Acting Leader of the Labour Party twice and Leader of the Opposition: from May to September 2010 and from May to September 2015; and remains the only politician to have held this position on two separate occasions.

Senate Democrats, for their part, can still point to their role in derailing Ronny Jackson's nomination to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs, another Cabinet post often seen as above politics in previous administrations.

Meanwhile, Liz Truss was effectively demoted to Chief Secretary to the Treasury «attending Cabinet» from her previous role as Justice Secretary.

Is it just me, or does it seem odd that this rule applies to cabinet members, as I can not think of any one who has served for 20 years, effectively meaning that cabinet members do not get pensions despite serving in highly important roles?

He told Acoba that his role at Tendo would «not involve any contact or dealings with Government» and as a result the Cabinet Office had «no reservations» about the appointment.

Speaking in the House of Lords Lord Patten, who held a number of junior ministerial roles before joining John Major's cabinet as education secretary in 1992, claimed there was a role for «grown - up SpAds» but said there are too many and they often have too high opinion of themselves.

In his cabinet roles so far he has, as BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg put it, avoided major calamity, although he faced questions as business secretary over Tata steel, and as communities secretary over the response to the Grenfell disaster.

De Piero, who was shadow minister for women and equalities in Ed Miliband's shadow cabinet but quit as a shadow junior minister before the leadership challenge to Corbyn last summer, has a new role as shadow justice minister.

Jeremy Corbyn has appointed an array of new MPs to frontbench Labour jobs as well as handing junior roles to recognisable names such as former shadow cabinet minister Gloria De Piero and Tracy Brabin, who replaced the murdered MP Jo Cox.

However, as a final role before leaving the Commons, Mr Curry replaced Sir George Young as chairman of the Commons» Standards and Privileges Committee when the latter was recently promoted to the Shadow Cabinet.

May must now decide whether to replace her longstanding ally with an individual who holds down the same two roles as Green, who was first secretary of state and Cabinet Office minister.

Halfon, who attends cabinet in his role as minister without portfolio, has confessed his six - month affair to Downing Street and said he feels «ashamed».

11:50 - UPDATE - It now looks like Laws is going to have a role in the Cabinet Office as well as in the education department.

And it's in that role, even after Corbyn's shock election as Labour leader, shadow cabinet resignations, removals and refusals to serve, that Falconer remains, looking ever more like something of a Blairite cuckoo in the Corbyn nest.

«I intend to carry on playing my full role as a proud member of our Shadow Cabinet taking on the Tories.

Some reporters treated that as a hint she could be being lined up for a shadow Cabinet role.

Lord Falconer, a surprise appointment to this shadow cabinet having been a key member of the Blair government and a former flatmate of the ex-Prime Minister, quit as Shadow Justice Secretary to take the number of vacant roles in Mr Corbyn's team to 10.

The 49 - year - old was found dead last Tuesday by his wife Bernadette, four days after being removed from his role as cabinet secretary for communities and children.

Mr Sargeant, 49, is understood to have taken his own life on Tuesday, four days after being removed from his role as cabinet secretary for communities and children.

An unnamed minister told the Sunday Telegraph that Miller should lose her cabinet post because her conduct was «incompatible» with her role as a cabinet minister.

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.

It came as Mr Corbyn tightened his grip on the party with the completion of a shadow cabinet reshuffle which saw a host of allies handed front bench roles.

Clarke would be unacceptable in any Ministerial or Cabinet role due to his divisive pro-EU views, and how easier would Clarke as Chancellor make any negotiations for a new arrangement with the EU to restore our sovereignty?

She signalled a pattern of strong central control from Downing Street by keeping only three out of 24 Cabinet ministers in the same roles as before, promoting Johnson to the Foreign Office, and exiling Gove (for a year) and Osborne (for good).

In this role, he attended Cabinet meetings, but not as a full member.

Newly - minted LG Bob Duffy gave an impromptu press gaggle after the Cuomo administration's first cabinet meeting and pledged to continue to act as a champion of upstate interests in his new role — much as he did in his old job as mayor of Rochester.

Since Maurice Hankey's time as cabinet secretary in the First World War, the role of policymaking civil servant has been crucial to the smooth running of coalitions and, more signifi cantly, their conception.

Peter Hain and Shaun Woodward keep their roles as the Shadow Secretaries for Wales and Northern Ireland despite failing to get enough votes to win another Cabinet post in the election.

New entrants Of the new entrants to Labour's cabinet, Meg Hillier takes over Ed Miliband's role as Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Maria Eagle takes over as Shadow Transport Secretary while her twin sister Angela takes the Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury role.

Tessa Jowell moves across to be Shadow Minister for the Olympics — a role she previously held in the Labour Cabinet, while Liam Byrne takes over her current role as Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office.

Other appointments Miliband's leadership rival, Ed Balls, moves in to replace Johnson in the Home Office brief, while his wife Yvette Cooper — who was widely tipped to take over the Shadow Chancellor role after getting the most votes in the Shadow Cabinet election — takes over from David Miliband as Shadow Foreign Secretary.

[1][2] His post was then split into three positions: he was succeeded as Cabinet Secretary by Sir Jeremy Heywood, as Head of the Home Civil Service by Sir Bob Kerslake (in a part - time role), and as Permanent Secretary in the Cabinet Office by Ian Watmore.

Naming the roles in his Shadow Cabinet was Ed Miliband's first big decision as party leader.

Since you first entered Parliament in 1970, and over forty years since your first Front Bench role as a PPS, your passion for getting things done and the energy you have brought to your Cabinet posts has not diminished one bit.

Former Shadow Secretary of State for Defence Clive Lewis has taken on a new role within the shadow cabinet as Shadow Business Secretary.

Former shadow cabinet minister Heidi Alexander has announced she will stand down as an MP to take up the role of London's deputy mayor for transport.

Anna Soubry was sacked from a Cabinet post as Business Minister, then quit rather than take a lesser role.