Sentences with phrase «secretary under the last government»

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This time last week he was chief secretary to the Treasury, responsible for implementing the spending cuts which the Lib - Con coalition government says are needed to get Britain's structural deficit under control.

Last year, it refused to answer questions from a Senate committee investigating its access to high - level government officials when she was secretary of state under President Obama.

Government plans to privatise Channel 4, revealed by a leaked document last year, have receded under the new government following former culture secretary John Whittingdale's Government plans to privatise Channel 4, revealed by a leaked document last year, have receded under the new government following former culture secretary John Whittingdale's government following former culture secretary John Whittingdale's departure.

Davey, who was energy and climate change secretary in the coalition government of 2010 - 15, said there was frustration that the party had failed to make progress in the polls since last year's general election under its new leader, Vince Cable, another former coalition minister.

These are the last results from tests taken under the previous Labour government - and the Shadow Schools Secretary Vernon Coaker said it showed that 100,000 more children were achieving the basics compared with 1997 when they entered office.

Morgan, who served as education secretary under both the coalition government and the majority Conservative government elected in 2015 until she was sacked by May last July, questioned the government's rhetoric around «meritocracy», a term the prime minister used during speeches about the selection plans.