Sentences with phrase «conservative cabinet minister»

The Chair of Pacific Future Energy is none other than former Conservative Cabinet Minister Stockwell Day, who served as Minister of Public Safety and then Minister of International Trade in the Harper government.

Justice Minister Peter MacKay announced a number appointments March 7, including the controversial elevation of former Conservative cabinet minister Vic Toews to the Court of Queen's Bench of Manitoba.

Former Conservative cabinet minister Lawrence Cannon will be joining Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP's Ottawa office as a strategic adviser and chairman of its government affairs group.

A former Conservative Cabinet Minister who was the only MP to warn in a parliamentary debate of the unwarranted costs of mitigating climat change.

Monte Solberg, a Conservative cabinet minister, who also quit politics last year after 15 years as an MP, is only 51, so he will have to wait four more years to collect his pension.

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.

The Conservative cabinet minister Ken Clarke tells Stephen Sackur he is not in favour of tax cuts in the present economic climate.

The new guidance for local authorities exposes the claims made by «bin barons» to justify making cuts to services in England, the Conservative Cabinet Minister said.

[17][20] Many years later, in November 2017, former Conservative cabinet minister Kenneth Clarke said Neil had been removed because Neil's article about corruption in the Malaysian government of Mahathir Mohamad conflicted with Murdoch's desire to acquire a television franchise in the country.

A Conservative cabinet minister suggested getting pensioners to pick fruit and vegetables below the minimum wage instead of hiring Bulgarians and Romanians at the legal rate, a former Lib Dem coalition colleague has claimed.

Tonight on Around The House, Paul Brand has an exclusive interview with David Mundell MP, the first ever Conservative cabinet minister to come out as gay.

On this month's edition of Around The House, Paul Brand speaks exclusively with David Mundell, who recently became the first ever gay Conservative cabinet minister.

Lord Fowler, a peer and former Conservative cabinet minister, meanwhile called for the rules to be overhauled so that peers could be suspended or expelled for wrongdoing, following the allegations made in yesterday's Sunday Times.

Nigel Farage decided not to stand in the Newark by - election, as he knew he could not win, according to Conservative Cabinet minister Ken Clarke.

The former Conservative Cabinet minister Ken Clarke has warned David Cameron that any attempt to imitate UKIP will «drive moderate people to stick with the Liberal Democrats», adding: «I can't think of a more certain way to lose the general election than to go for a lurch to the right.»

With both sides said to be bruised by the row, John Redwood, a former Conservative Cabinet minister, rejected angrily suggestions that the role of the Liberal Democrats in government was to «bridle the instincts» of the Conservatives.

Lots of Liberal Democrat ministers, but not a single Conservative Cabinet minister on the front bench, though debate very well attended overall.

The former Conservative Cabinet minister who is now the Provost of Eton.

Former Conservative cabinet minister Iain Duncan Smith has told ITV News that Theresa May is right to pursue a mandate early in Brexit talks by calling for a snap general election.

As one Conservative cabinet minister recently told ConservativeHome: «The Lib Dems may only have one - sixth of the MPs, but without them we have no majority... They own 100 % of the majority.»

Surprisingly good considering it is written by a current serving conservative cabinet minister.

According to the BBC's Norman Smith, he will be the first Conservative cabinet minister with a beard since 1905.

Rifkind — the «you» in question — is, like Clarke, a former Conservative cabinet minister and leadership contender.

Mr Goldsmith's sister Jemima has criticised how his campaign was run, while former Conservative Cabinet minister Baroness Warsi called it an «appalling dog whistle campaign».

Labour said it was a «damning indictment» of the Government that a former Conservative cabinet minister was calling for a plan for growth half - way through the Parliament.

Another former Conservative cabinet minister and ex-MP, David Mellor, was even more scathing, describing the Tories under Cameron as «this pale sad shadow of what the Tory party used to be» and warning that it was «ripping itself apart now because of the sense that David Cameron is a prisoner of Nick Clegg and the Lib Dems».

A Conservative cabinet minister intervened on behalf of one of the world's richest cocoa dealers to get a ban on trading lifted after receiving # 40,000 in donations from the millionaire's company to his parliamentary office.

«It's a damning indictment of this government that, half way through this parliament, a former Conservative Cabinet minister is still calling for a plan for growth,» shadow chief secretary to the Treasury Rachel Reeves said.

Douglas Hogg, the former Conservative cabinet minister who played a notable part in the MPs» expenses scandal after it was alleged that he had claimed money for the clearing of the moat at his country house in Lincolnshire, has emerged as a frontrunner to win a hereditary place in the House of Lords.

In May 1998, the then Chairman of the Political Honours Scrutiny Committee, former Conservative Cabinet Minister Lord Pym, told a House of Commons Select Committee that the committee considered a political donation a point in a nominee's favour as it indicated involvement in public life, and that the nominee had «put their money where his mouth is».

His brother John Hare was a Conservative cabinet minister under Anthony Eden and Harold Macmillan.

This is a thoughtful, self - deprecating political memoir by a former Conservative Cabinet Minister...

OTTAWA — Former Conservative cabinet minister Tony Clement declared Tuesday that he's running for the leadership of his party — but it's not the first time he has pursued the job.

OTTAWA — There's a fine line between legitimate religious expression and inciting terrorism, says Conservative cabinet minister Jason Kenney.

Former Conservative cabinet minister plans to visit 87 constituencies, and even hopes to stay in people's homes

The former Conservative cabinet minister says he would also let his name stand in any race to pick a leader for a newly formed party.

Kenney, a Conservative cabinet minister under former prime minister Stephen Harper, believes he has the majority of delegates needed to win.

Richard Starke (Progressive Conservative — Vermilion - Lloydminster): The former Progressive Conservative cabinet minister and leadership candidate opted not to join his fellow PC MLAs when they joined the Wildrose - heavy UCP caucus in July 2017.

Notable students of the conservative Calgary School have included Prime Minister Harper, Mr. Levant, Ms. Smith, Conservative cabinet minister Pierre Poilievre, conservative strategist Ken Boessenkool, Fraser Institute senior fellow and former Taxpayers Federation director Mark Milke, and former Prime Ministerial Chief of Staff Ian Brodie among others.

Mr. Kenney is a skilled politician, but he would ominously follow in the footsteps of another former federal Conservative cabinet minister, Jim Prentice, who jumped into provincial politics in 2014 before leading the 44 - year old PC government to defeat in May 2015.

Clark has served as party leader since 2013 and became the party's first elected MLA in 2015 when he unseated Progressive Conservative cabinet minister Gordon Dirks in Calgary - Elbow.

«There's nobody more loyal,» one adviser to a Conservative cabinet minister said on condition of anonymity.

The institution's alumni include former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, former New Brunswick premier Frank McKenna, current Conservative cabinet minister Lisa Raitt, and former Home Depot Canada president Annette Verschuren.

And I still would think that, if not for Brexit, Trump and the existence of a former Conservative cabinet minister who thinks she can become leader of the Opposition by appealing to our worst instincts.

Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland did put together a NAFTA advisory council that includes two former Conservative cabinet ministers, Rona Ambrose and James Moore, and Brian Topp — yes Brian Topp, the former chief of staff of Rachel Notley, the New Democratic premier of Alberta.

Among the many well - known Canadians scheduled as «participants» were Stephen Harper's Conservative cabinet ministers Stockwell Day (who at first denied attending) and the then - defence minister Gordon O'Connor, deputy ministers (Defence) Ward Elcock, Peter Harder (Foreign Affairs), Associate Deputy Minister William Elliott (Public Security), Liberal continentalist Anne McLellan, Canada's former deputy prime minister and a defender of the oil patch, the Alberta minister of energy, Greg Melchin, General Rick Hillier, Canada's chief of defence staff, former Conservative cabinet minister Perrin Beatty, now president of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, the infamous continentalist Thomas d'Aquino, head of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives, Rear Admiral Roger Girouard, Maj. - Gen.

DC: What I said last time is I wanted a third of ministers in a Conservative government to be women, and in Conservative cabinet ministers we are now right up there at over 30 %.

Now there are 17 Conservative cabinet ministers and five from the Lib Dem camp.

Five Conservative cabinet ministers lost their seats in that election, including Harold Macmillan.

Liam Fox became the first of Cameron's Conservative cabinet ministers to leave in the 17 - month life of the coalition and now triggers the prime minister's first reshuffle, an operation he had wanted to avoid until half way through the parliament.