Sentences with phrase «dem cabinet resignation»

Should the conference debate the # 100 - billion Doomsday weapon and vote to abandon it, the whispers are Maria Eagle (Defence) and Vernon Coaker (Northern Ireland) could be the first Shadow Cabinet resignations.

Officials probing the issue are taking a long time to work out whether Huhne should face charges or not; we'll have to wait until next year's top ten to see whether this one actually results in a second Lib Dem Cabinet resignation.

Here it is, then: the only Cabinet resignation of the year.

[3] Turley resigned in June 2016 as part of a mass shadow cabinet resignation in protest at Corbyn's leadership.

Former shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna said: «After eight years of Tory misrule, most people thoroughly tired of austerity, a disastrous Brexit negotiation, the Windrush outrage and four cabinet resignations in six months, we should be well ahead and we are not.

The inquiry is part of measures by Brown to try to regain the initiative after he headed off a rebellion in his ruling Labour Party following disastrous European elections and several cabinet resignations this month.

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.

We've had three party conferences, one Cabinet resignation, and 81 Tory rebels on Europe - but where has it left us?

The chances of Cabinet resignations prompted by issues outside of Scotland's cleaner are slim.

It explains partly why the biggest winners out of the Liam Fox cabinet resignation were two women — Justine Greening and Chloe Smith.

It would take only one Cabinet resignation to trigger a potentially fatal leadership challenge.

Just as received wisdom on Thursday, as rumours of an imminent Cabinet resignation swirled, suggested that Gordon Brown would be finished if these proved to be true, so the departure of James Purnell, following those of Beverley Hughes, Jacqui Smith and Hazel Blears, was shown to mark nothing of the sort.

Tom Watson tonight criticised Jeremy Corbyn's decision to sack Hilary Benn - as the Labour leader was left reeling by a raft of Shadow Cabinet resignations.

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.

Despite the tumultuous events of the last week after a string of shadow cabinet resignations, Corbyn appeared to be in high spirits and even stopped to pose for a selfie with one supporter.

So rare for nobody to see a Cabinet resignation coming.

But the prime minister indicated it might be held sooner during a tense meeting of the parliamentary Labour party last week where he faced calls for his resignation after a week of cabinet resignations and the European election drubbing.

Then in the summer of 2009, he suffered a flood of Cabinet resignations - Hazel Blears, Jacqui Smith and even James Purnell who went on the day of the European elections when Labour came third with just 16 % of the vote.

Tory grandee Sir Desmond Swayne dismissed suggestions that a second Cabinet resignation in a week would be a «catastrophe».

Mr Corbyn suffered the indignity of further shadow cabinet resignations, with shadow education secretary Pat Glass quitting just two days after being appointed to the post saying the situation was «untenable».

Not exact matches

Recent resignations have left Mr. Harper with holes to fill in his cabinet, meaning that new faces won't necessarily force familiar ones out entirely.

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

Dave Hancock appointed Premier Long - time PC cabinet minister Dave Hancock was appointed Premier and interim leader of the PC Party following the resignation of Alison Redford in March 2014.

Amid the violent protesting between citizens and police that has led to thousands of injuries, Egypt's cabinet offered resignation today.

I don't think anyone has forgotten or missed that we have been asking for D / M or C / B's and a striker last season, it is the very reason why so many supporters are asking for his resignation becouse it's now been two seasons we are playing with shortage or players below par and as always those positions let us down, if he had just bolster those areas (which the whole world was shouting about even our enemies were telling us day and day out) we wouldn't be so angry with him and maybe we could of had extra silverwear in our display cabinet.

The Cabinet Manual merely notes «[r] ecent examples suggest that previous Prime Ministers have not offered their resignations until there was a situation in which clear advice could be given to the Sovereign on who should be asked to form a government.

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

The resignation of Davies after his late - night amble around Clapham Common apparently caused as progressive a figure as Blair to worry that «we could get away with Ron as a one - off aberration, but if the public start to think the whole cabinet is engaging in gay sex we could have a bit of a political problem».

So the Purnell resignation does not seem to have convinced the Cabinet at this stage.

I can't myself identify which other resignations of senior Cabinet figures would be pretty likely if those two are staying.

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.

His botched handling of his shadow cabinet reshuffle and the series of resignations that have followed this morning, will completely overshadow any positive coverage he might otherwise have received for his performance today.

Resignations and Cabinet Office enquiries are not helping but yet, the government has weathered major storms and these are the tests of survivability that some predicted it would fail.

Andrew Adonis, in first full interview since his resignation, says Theresa May's cabinet has landed Whitehall with a «nervous breakdown»

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.

Despite the mass resignation of shadow cabinet members, Corbyn feels emboldened to resist calls to go.

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.

As the country split down the middle, former and current Cabinet ministers toyed with resignation, the UN went to vote, and the international community became entrenched in one of the most divisive issues of a generation, Brown stayed silent.

The Cabinet Manual specifies that alternative as follows: Upon resignation of the incumbent, «the Sovereign will invite the person who appears most likely to be able to command the confidence of the House to serve as Prime Minister and to form a government» (§ 2.8).

On the 20th of February, 2013 the premier submitted his cabinet's resignation.

David Cameron became Prime Minister on 11 May after Gordon Brown's resignation and the Liberal Democrats formed a coalition government with the Conservative Party, with Nick Clegg as Deputy Prime Minister and other Liberal Democrats in the cabinet.

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.

Maria Miller's resignation was «entirely» her own decision, cabinet colleague Michael Gove has said.

Apparently there's been some sort of problem relating to a friend of a Cabinet secretary, whose shady links to the world of lobbying prompted a major resignation.