Sentences with phrase «conservative cabinet member»

The HS2 high speed rail line has an «appalling» business case, will cost each household # 3,000 and has «blown its budget» three times, said a former Conservative cabinet member.

Asked where the female Conservative cabinet members were during the session, the source said: «I'm not sure — presumably hard at work doing their jobs.»

[3] 16 seats were contested in 2011, with three Conservative cabinet members, Mark Booty, Richard Langridge and Warwick Robinson, defending seats, as well as the Liberal Democrat group leader Richard Andrews.

Labour cabinet members and ministers outnumbered Conservative shadow cabinet and ministers by approximately two to one (90 vs 46) in 2007; in 2012, Conservative cabinet members and ministers outnumbered their Labour counterparts by more than four to one (67 to 15).

Lords reform and boundary reviews were not explicitly linked in the coalition programme, but some Conservative cabinet members recognise that Clegg will have to exact public revenge over the rebuff if he is to keep his party committed to the coalition.

Not exact matches

The new cabinet, scheduled to be unveiled at 11 a.m. Monday at Rideau Hall, will also include «new faces and younger members, along with experienced hands,» one senior Conservative source said, with more female cabinet ministers in particular.

«Our National Pensioners and Senior Citizens Federation told us that every time they had their lobby in Ottawa, Conservative Cabinet Ministers and Tory Members of Parliament refused to meet with them, whereas in previous governments at least the Minister in charge of seniors would meet with the seniors» delegation.

Conservative Party members will gather in Manchester next week for the party's annual conference, against the backdrop of Mrs May having lost her parliamentary majority in a snap election and continued questions about cabinet unity over Brexit.

The warnings come as several top GOP lawmakers have stepped forward to publicly criticize Pruitt in recent days, marking a dramatic turn of fortune for one of the most conservative members of President Donald Trump's cabinet who has been heralded for dismantling Obama - era regulations.

If you hadn't noticed, the education secretary is a Conservative member of the Cabinet.

Trump, a contingent of his cabinet members and top National Rifle Association officials will join thousands of right - wing activists this week for the annual Conservative Political Action Conference.

These are the messages set out by Cabinet Member and chairman of the Conservative Party Baroness Warsi in an article for The Telegraph.

In a special episode featuring remarkable research produced exclusively for the podcast, we put these questions to Michael Howard, former Conservative Leader and member of Mrs Thatcher's Cabinet, and Stephan Shakespeare, founder of the polling firm YouGov.

And now we have a more explicit outlining of an emerging new Tory constitutional doctrine in an extraordinary Guardian report on Tuesday — based on anonymous briefings from «senior shadow Cabinet members» — that the Conservatives intend to mount a partisan attack on existing constitutional conventions, and the Cabinet Secretary's protocols for handling a hung Parliament, even though a primary motivation for these has been to protect the Monarchy from being dragged into party political controversy.

The Prime Minister is appointing new cabinet members in a reshuffle of her cabinet following an election that saw the Conservatives lose their majority.

When Michael Howard was elected Conservative Party leader in November 2003, Lidington became Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, but was not included as a member of the Shadow Cabinet.

[1] The Liberal Party, founded in 1859, were descended from the Whigs, Radicals and Peelites, while the SDP were a party created in 1981 by former Labour members, MPs and cabinet ministers, but also gained defections from Conservatives.

The most visible African - American member of former Gov. George Pataki's cabinet, former state Sen. Joseph Holland, is lining up support from state GOP and Conservative party activists to challenge Cuomo, though he had initially been considering a run against Gillibrand.

Atlantic Bridge's former funders are key funders of the Conservative party on whom David Cameron relies, and senior cabinet members were on its advisory board.

On the Labour side, for example, prominent non-Corbynites and former Shadow Cabinet members such as Yvette Cooper, Hilary Benn, Mary Creagh and Rachel Reeves will chair committees, while the list of Conservative party chairs and candidates is significantly more liberal and less Eurosceptic than the party leadership, with Tom Tugendhat, Robert Halfon and Nicky Morgan joining fellow Remainers Damian Collins, Sarah Wollaston, Bob Neill and Neil Parish.

He had been a Labour councillor for 25 years when he defected to the Conservatives and has held a number of civic posts including chair of Housing, chair of Planning, chair of Recycling and Waste, Cabinet member for the Environment, deputy leader of the council and Mayor of Ealing.

The Liberal Democrats gained 3 seats from the Conservatives in the wards of Bridge, East and South, including defeating the cabinet member for leisure and Conservative deputy leader, Brian Moss, in Bridge.

The Conservative party has changed so much its members are now universally «mad», a Cabinet Office minister has reportedly said.

This is the UK, so of course there is no formal rule, but based on the 2010 coalition government between the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats, we would expect a full formal coalition to produce a cabinet containing members of both parties, all acting under the convention of collective responsibility.

The Welsh Conservatives have replaced two members of their shadow cabinet in a surprise reshuffle today.

Whether it's Gordon Brown weeping over the tragic loss of his daughter, or members of the shadow cabinet briefing journalists about their worries for the Conservatives» fortunes, there are wobbly lips and squeaky bums aplenty among our representatives.

A recent ConservativeHome «cabinet league table» showed that Tory grassroots members made Patel third favourite to be the next Conservative leader behind David Davis and Boris Johnson.

Attlee and Churchill quickly agreed that the War Cabinet would consist of three Conservatives (initially Churchill, Chamberlain and Lord Halifax) and two Labour members (initially himself and Arthur Greenwood) and that Labour should have slightly more than one third of the posts in the coalition government.

The disadvantages are that it takes away the final decision on who should be the Conservative candidate away from Conservative members and, critically, it means that high profile MPs, including members of the Cabinet, could lose their seats.

.@EPAScottPruitt is likely the bravest and most conservative member of Trump's cabinet.

Indeed, a deal of this kind — nothing much doing in the kitchen or the bedroom, but orderly consideration of domestic finances — sounds remarkably like a domestic equivalent of «confidence and supply»: exactly the arrangement that many Tory MPs and two then Conservative shadow cabinet members, Chris Grayling and Theresa Villiers, wanted in the first place.

Jim Prior suggested her as a member after the Conservatives» 1966 defeat, but party leader Edward Heath and Chief Whip William Whitelaw eventually settled on Mervyn Pike as the Shadow Cabinet's sole woman member.

The foreign secretary hit out at Conservative calls for a referendum, saying eight members of the Tory shadow Cabinet had blocked a public vote in the Maastricht treaty.

Harold Macmillan's 1962 reshuffle was famously dubbed the «night of the long knifes» after the then Conservative prime minister dismissed seven members of his cabinet.

Mrs Hammond took her complaint to Peter Ainsworth - then, as now, a member of the Conservative shadow cabinet, and for whom Mrs Hammond had once worked.

Most voters understandably don't distinguish between a «Top Tory», a Conservative frontbencher and a shadow cabinet member.

Laying down the gauntlet to the Labour leader, Mr Mills — who donated # 1.6 million to Labour since 2010 — adds: «He should understand the imperative to give all Labour Members of Parliament — including those in the Shadow Cabinet, as the Conservatives have done — a free vote allowing them to campaign to leave the EU if they want to.

[4] The Liberal Democrats took four seats and therefore finished with 13 councillors on the council., [5] while all three members of the Conservative council cabinet were re-elected, including the council leader Barry Norton in North Leigh ward.

[2] Conservative councillors who lost seats included the deputy leader of the party Ian Fowler and the cabinet member for education, Peter Collins.

David Cameron has told every Conservative member of the Cabinet to campaign in the Oldham East and Saddleworth by - election, a very senior Tory source told me tonight.

[60] However, in his account of Labour's negotiations with the Liberal Democrats, Andrew Adonis — who participated in the talks — writes that the general consensus among members of Gordon Brown's cabinet was that talks between the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats would reach an impasse.»

Whilst there, as chairman of the Cambridge University Conservative Association and later President of the Cambridge Union Society, he was a member of what became known as the Cambridge Mafia — a group of future Conservative Cabinet ministers, including Leon Brittan, Michael Howard, Kenneth Clarke, Norman Lamont, and Norman Fowler.

He had recruited 421 Conservative MPs and peers, including Lady Thatcher, Lord Archer and cabinet members to change a 300 - year - old law, which had prevented him, as an MP, bringing his action.

Our Political Editor Adrian Masters speaks to Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies who explains why he sacked four of his Assembly Members from the Shadow Cabinet.

Olliff - Cooper, an executive member of the young Conservative thinktank Bright Blue, has worked across Whitehall, first in the Conservative Party Policy Unit and later for the Cabinet Office.

It is a peculiar logic to suggest that a Conservative party donor is the reason why a Liberal Democrat cabinet member in this department and a Liberal Democrat as chief secretary should support the proposal.»

Few members of Cameron's Cabinet will be more important to the success of any Conservative government.

David Ord, who becomes a knight in the new year, is a co-owner of Bristol ports and a member of the Conservative party's Leaders» Group, who were granted exclusive access to cabinet ministers under David Cameron and George Osborne.

Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies has thanked members of his Cabinet dismissed following a reshuffle.

In a further sign of European rumbles, the former cabinet member Kenneth Clarke, whose departure was announced on Monday, said it would be unthinkable for the Conservative party to advocate pulling out of the European convention on human rights, saying it was the basis of British values of liberty and justice for which Britain had fought the second world war.