Sentences with phrase «other cabinet ministers did»

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«The standard circulation for cabinet memoranda includes the Queen, the Prince of Wales, all members of the cabinet, any other ministers in charge of departments, the attorney general and the chief whip... Ministers of state and junior ministers do not normally receive memoranda.»

In any other job, breaking the law would likely be cause for dismissal, but this does not appear to be the case if you are a cabinet minister in Alberta's Progressive Conservative government.

The cabinet will reconsider the issue on 30 January, but has been extremely reluctant to approve the grant with the prime minister, Tony Abbott, declaring in December he was loth to consider requests for subsidies because «we don't believe in corporate welfare» and cabinet ministers arguing privately it would set a precedent for other companies looking for handouts.

Former cabinet minister Alan Johnson will stand down at the General Election, saying it will give him the «opportunity do other things with my life».

Ed Balls's insistence on Radio 4's Any Questions on Friday night that he and his cabinet minister wife Yvette Cooper had paid # 80,000 in capital gains tax when they sold their London second home - «because that was the right thing to do: there was no reason to avoid the tax for us» - will be seen as similarly unhelpful to other ministers criticised for not paying tax on sales of their second homes.

Of the others who have been acting up since the election, Sadiq Khan (replacing Lord Adonis at Transport) and Rosie Winterton (replacing Harriet Harman as Shadow Leader of the House and Minister for Women) stand a good chance as does John Healey (Housing) who attends Shadow Cabinet but is, strictly speaking, not a member.

However, findings of a poll of Labour Party members, who were asked which Cabinet ministers and other senior figures they thought were doing a good job, have been leaked.

I did not see a sitting member of the Duma nor any Minister in Putin's cabinet giving speeches at US political rallies, but I did see Senator John McCain and several others doing just that in The Ukraine.

«It does not matter where in the world your company is registered if you own property in London or sell things to government, as part of government procurement, then you have to declare the beneficial ownership, in other words the ultimate ownership of the company,» said Matthew Hancock, the UK's Cabinet Office Minister, according to the BBC.

An A.G. or other public official with a prosecutorial function are entitled to a presumption of exercising prosecutorial discretion independently of partisan concerns, and a Minister's membership in Cabinet does not displace that presumption.