Sentences with phrase «conservative chief whip»

Margesson, the Conservative Chief Whip, sat with Prime Minister Chamberlain and Foreign Secretary...

These included former Conservative chief whip David Maclean and Labour whip Fraser Kemp.

He continued as Conservative Chief Whip until 1948.

His successor the former Conservative Chief Whip and junior minister, David Maclean sat as MP from 1983 to 2010 when he stood down due to the state of his health; he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1996.

Mr Robbins, who is defended by the likes of Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood and Conservative Chief Whip Julian Smith, is often described as a clever man.

So after Conservative chief whip Michael Gove told the Times «it would be impossible to move forward without making sure you have change both in Scotland and England», Labour was quick to respond by attempting to kick the issue into the long grass.

This is not, however, anything to do with tomorrow's vote on tuition fees, but the dilemma faced by Willie Whitelaw as Conservative Chief Whip during the furore over whether or not back Harold Wilson's Rhodesian oil sanctions in December 1965.

Claim: According to the Telegraph, the Conservative chief whip spent # 3,000 on new windows at his second home in Derbyshire.

But, and here Helen Jones could do with some wider perspective, the Whips are crucial when there is a leadership crisis - the Conservative Chief Whip David Margesson in May 1940 and the Conservative Chief Whip David Maclean in the IDS leadership crisis in 2003.

Lord Heseltine, 83, who served as a minister in the Thatcher government, said he was informed by the Conservative chief whip in the Lords he was to be sacked «from the five jobs with which I have been helping the government».

Peter Oborne begins his Daily Telegraph column today with the story of how Alastair Goodlad, the former Conservative Chief Whip, once reproved him for wearing brown shoes.

Not exact matches

The Conservatives need to repair the damage from the «plebgate» affair that led to the resignation of chief whip Andrew Mitchell following the prolonged saga after his altercation with a policeman in Downing Street.

The Tory chief whip offered David Cameron his resignation after his lack of support in the Conservative party made his position untenable.

West Derbyshire MP Patrick McLoughlin has been appointed as the new chief whip, replacing David Maclean, while Oliver Letwin has been named director of policy and Lord Strathclyde holds his post as Conservative leader in the House of Lords.

But chief whip Michael Gove has succeeded in getting many Conservative MPs to stick around by telling them they must attend an election briefing from campaign strategist Lynton Crosby this morning.

Alistair Burt, MP for North East Bedfordshire, Assistant Chief Whip and Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party, suggests that Conservatives and Christians in the UK should welcome a loosening of ties between American Evangelicals and the Republican Party.

Conservative politician regarded as a safe pair of hands who became deputy chief whip in the House of Lords

Liberal Democrat chief whip Alistair Carmichael, who represents the Orkneys and Shetlands, was second with # 82,878 while Conservative MP David Morris, representing Morecambe and Lunesdale, was third.

The chief whip and former international development secretary apologised, met members of the Police Federation and avoided the Conservative party's autumn conference in Birmingham, but was finally forced to resign as public anger about his rant — and what it said about the ruling Conservatives — forced him to quit.

In a statement today, he said: «I have advised the chief whip and the chairman of my local Conservative association that I shall not seek to continue as the Conservative Party Candidate for Old Bexley and Sidcup at the next election.

«However, having asked the Chief Whip to speak again to Mr Conway and having personally reflected overnight, I have decided to withdraw the Conservative whip from Mr Conway.&raWhip to speak again to Mr Conway and having personally reflected overnight, I have decided to withdraw the Conservative whip from Mr Conway.&rawhip from Mr Conway.»

In the 1906 election, the LRC won 29 seats — helped by a secret 1903 pact between Ramsay MacDonald and Liberal Chief Whip Herbert Gladstone that aimed to avoid splitting the opposition vote between Labour and Liberal candidates in the interest of removing the Conservatives from office.

As a British Conservative he is a member of the European Conservatives and Reformists Group (ECR) where he served as Chief Whip from 2010 - 2014.

The shadow agriculture minister Jim Paice and Conservative deputy chief whip Andrew Robathan also spoke at the event.

So Andrew Mitchell takes over from Patrick McLoughlin as chief whip, and Sayeeda Warsi is given the boot from her role as co-chair of the Conservative party.

To say that some Conservative MPs are unhappy with the chief whip becoming defence secretary would...

To say that some Conservative MPs are unhappy with the chief whip becoming defence secretary would be putting it mildly.

All five MEPs were required by the Conservatives» European Parliament Chief Whip to remove their signatures and all declined to do so.

Andrew Davidson, the 2nd Viscount Davidson, who has died aged 83, was an able and hard - working Conservative deputy chief whip in the House of Lords from 1986 until 1991.

There will then be a meeting at which Eric Pickles, Patrick McLoughlin, the Opposition Chief Whip, and Jeremy Middleton, representing the voluntary party as chairman of the National Conservative Convention, will draw up the final shortlist for the association - no - one else will be involved in the process.

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.

He was selected for the safe Conservative seat of North West Hampshire prior to the 1997 general election to replace the retiring MP Sir David Mitchell (the father of Andrew Mitchell whom Young would, in 2012, succeed as Chief Whip).

• Christopher Hope in the Daily Telegraph has said that Andrew Mitchell, the former chief whip, has said that Ukip are the Conservatives» «cousins» and the party wants them back.

He is Chief Whip for the Conservative Group and speaks on Education policy in Wales.

Former Deputy Chief Whip Sir John Randall, MP Sir Alan Haselhurst and Amanda Sater, lately Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party, were also handed peerages.

In House of Cards, Francis Urquhart is the Chief Whip for the UK Conservative Party and the trilogy charts his ambitious rise through his party's ranks until he becomes Prime Minister.

Afterwards Conservative leader David Cameron mocked Armstrong during an exchange with Tony Blair, saying «She must be the first Chief Whip in history to put the Prime Minister in the frame for losing a key vote — which is an interesting career move, to say the least.»

Disquiet about the group is such that the Conservative's chief whip, David Maclean, recently told its chairman, former Tory MP Patrick Nicholls, to rein in its activities, Guardian Unlimited has learned.

Here's Greg Hands, the Conservative deputy chief whip and MP for Chelsea and Fulham, on the Hammersmith and Fulham result.

A policewoman involved in the Plebgate row on Downing Street between officers and former chief whip Andrew Mitchell boasted to a friend that she could bring down the Government, the Conservative MP has said.

The Conservatives» election fundraising gala last month offered up auction prizes that included shoe shopping with the Home Secretary and a chicken dinner at home with the Chief Whip.

The Times has also published a letter from Lord Ryder, the Conservative peer and former chief whip in the Commons (paywall), effectively siding with Douglas Carswell, Ukip's sole MP, in his row with Nigel Farage about whether or not the party should claim # 650,000 in Short money.

• The Tory chief whip under Hague, who was charged by the former Conservative leader with dealing with the negotiations, had reason to believe that Ashcroft was a non-dom.

It is not up to David Cameron to tell Conservative MEPs how to vote - it is up to the leader of the delegation (currently Giles Chichester) together with his Chief Whip to determine how the group votes.

As Chief Whip I particularly look forward to the prospect of new additions to the Conservative Assembly team, a group that is already widely regarded as the most effective and hardest working in the Assembly, time and time again exposing Labour's waste and hypocrisy.

Mr Gove, a former chief whip and education secretary, will be in charge of implementing the Conservatives» pledge to scrap the Human Rights Act and replace it with a British Bill of Rights.

Nicky Morgan has been reappointed as education secretary and minister for equalities while Mark Harper has been given the crucial job of chief whip - responsible for maintaining discipline among Conservative backbenchers.