Sentences with phrase «against the prime ministers who»

By the time Lucien Bouchard and Paul Martin left cabinet and turned, in different ways, against the prime ministers who had made them stars, they had earned independent reputations as visionary leaders.

Not exact matches

The prime minister's Conservative party critics, who are already unhappy with her leadership on Brexit, are poised to speak out against her leadership should Labour make major gains across the country.

The bank admitted that the controversial Wilders — who was convicted of discrimination against Moroccans at a political rally in 2015 — could become the next prime minister.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who spoke with Trump, said Japan will not back down against any provocation and would maximize pressure on the North in its strong alliance with the U.S.

While largely still on the defensive, another one of Murdoch's British papers, The Sun tabloid, scored one point Friday against former Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who had accused the paper of obtaining confidential medical files on his younger son, who has cystic fibrosis.

Prime Minister Joseph Muscat turned the annual May Day celebrations into a protest against Project Daphne and warned of «repercussions for people who have been caught lying to smear Malta's name».

in which Wright badly mischaracterizes the response of the United States to the September 11th attacks, as well as the views of President Bush and then - Prime Minister Tony Blair, declared that the 2006 mid-term elections was an example of God «calling to account those who abuse powers,» showed a disturbing tendency toward moral equivalence between jihadists and those who are fighting to defeat them, and directed virtually all of his scorn against the United States and Great Britain rather than al Qaeda, the Taliban, and the regime of Saddam Hussein.

The MP explained that he was on the side of the «innocent» people being caught up in the violence and encouraged a response that would show the UK's intolerance of such behaviour: «The only way of stopping someone who continues to be violent, destructive, murderous and surgical in the way that they carry out their actions against innocent people is to stop them being able to have the capabilities to be able to do it and I think that's what we're targeting and I would hope that the Prime Minister and the President of the United States will be targeting the weapons of war and by doing so taking away the ability to wage war.»

However Mr Osborne is thought to be more sympathetic to the banks position and appears to have an ally in the prime minister, David Cameron, who warned against reforms which put the economy at risk.

The presidential campaign pits incumbent Yoweri Museveni, who has ruled the country for almost three decades, against seven other candidates, including his ex-doctor Kizza Besigye and former prime minister Amama Mbabazi.

That would be the same Boris Johnson who declared back in February when he decided to oppose the Prime Minister: «What I won't do is take part in loads of blooming TV debates against other members of my party.»

Commenting on reports of the announcements the Prime Minister will make at a Downing Street Summit today about action proposed to be taken against certain public service workers, including teachers, who fail to report sexual abuse of children and young people, Chris Keates General Secretary of the NASUWT the largest teachers» union in the UK said: «No one can fail but to be shocked by the horrific abuse of young girls revealed by recent investigations, including the Report today on Oxfordshire.

The prime minister used his address at the lord mayor's banquet last night to send a clear signal to the 81 Conservative rebels who revolted against him en masse over an EU referendum last month.

Then came an isolated flutter of anger against comedian Jimmy Carr, who found himself the target of the prime minister's criticisms over his tax avoidance measures.

With the Prime Minister attempting to draw a line under the affair and preserve one of the few female members of his Cabinet, some 78 % of voters taking part in the poll said that Mrs Miller should be sacked as Culture Secretary, against just 10 % who said she should stay.

The prime minister attempted to rebut the acting Liberal Democrat leader, who has acquired a reputation for scoring points against Mr Brown in their weekly exchange.

«But instead of listening to his moderates, and perhaps against his own better judgement, the Prime Minister is in hock to those who demand an ever more uncompromising stance.

In the aftermath of the great victory against Nigel Farage in South Thanet, Gray was largely written out of the story and replaced by Nick Timothy, a long - time special advisor to Theresa May who is now the prime minister's joint chief of staff.

It seems to go against what the Prime Minister said in her very first words from Number Ten; fighting for ordinary families (or the «mainstream» as she called them today), who work around the clock but worry about the cost of living.

«Brand Miliband» has had a rough few weeks and is looking pretty sad, at a time when the opposition leader should be riding high in the polls against a relatively unpopular prime minister who has just suffered a string of ordinarily catastrophic defeats over Europe and is reeling (well, he certainly ought to be) over his formerly close association with a convicted criminal.

«Gaddafi is a dictator who has a track record of violence and support for terrorism against our country and against Scotland specifically,» the prime minister said grimly.

Who remembers the Prime Minister's speech or the numbers of MPs voting for and against military action?

Lord Forsyth said ministers who voted against the government should be sacked, and that Nick Clegg had «double crossed the prime minister».

They are::: The revelation in November 2007 that Home Secretary Jacqui Smith was aware the Security Industry Authority had granted licences to 5,000 illegal workers but did not think the Home Office's official explanation was «good enough» for the press office or ministers to use;:: The fact that an illegal immigrant had been employed as a cleaner in the House of Commons, which emerged in February this year;:: A whips» list of potential Labour rebels who might vote against the Government over plans to increase the pre-charge terror detention limit to 42 days in a crucial Commons vote;:: A letter from Ms Smith to Prime Minister Gordon Brown warning that the recession could lead to a rise in violent crime and burglaries.

He also urged the prime minister to appoint an EU commissioner who «isn't just simply going to Brussels to sort of carry on a Tory party war against Europe».

Today Ms Morgan, who lost her Cabinet role when Theresa May became Prime Minister, indicated that she and some other Conservative MPs would vote against the proposals in their current form.

Mr Hain, who is poised to vote against the motion when Parliament meets tomorrow if he returns from a foreign trip in time, said: «The Prime Minister is asking the nation to back him on a dangerous strike when nobody knows what the consequences will be.

The case has proved especially embarrassing for the deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg, who has been asked repeatedly by the alleged victim to take action against Hancock, who rejects the allegations.

He had been sparring with Harriet Harman at PMQs who claimed the deputy prime minister briefed against the Tories but voted with them, and she said «people will never trust him or his party ever again».

The aide rung the office of one of the rebels to say that unless they produced an unusual name, not associated previously with moves against the prime minster, the cabinet minister (who is not enthusiastic about supporting Brown) would be forced to go on air to back the PM.

Close to half of voters (46 %) said they would prefer Mr Cameron to remain as Prime Minister, against 33 % who said they would prefer Mr Miliband.

The deputy prime minister backed the home secretary, Theresa May, who called for disciplinary action against the representatives of the Police Federation who met Mitchell a month after an altercation with armed officers in Downing Street in September last year.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper — who has been in office nearly a decade and is derided by environmentalists for his climate and pro-oil positions — is in an intense political fight against Justin Trudeau, the 43 - year - old leader of the Liberal Party and son of former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.

The move apparently reflects concerns that students at the university hosting the congress would stage protests against Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was scheduled to open the event.

Her growing closeness with Abdul — even after she learns he's married, even after she learns that India's Muslim leader has declared a fatwa against her — gives her the strength to stand up to a prime minister (Michael Gambon) and oldest son (Eddie Izzard) who would like nothing more than to shove her out of the way.

Darkest Hour: During the early days of World War II, the fate of Western Europe hangs on the newly - appointed British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Hitler, or fight on against incredible odds.

When he asserts his prime minister - ness against Billy Bob Thornton's U.S. president (a character who combines the worst aspects of Clinton and Bush), Grant does a dance throughout 10 Downing Street to the Pointer Sisters» «Jump for My Love.»

On the other hand, Working Title's «Darkest Hour,» which I saw at Telluride, is a series of talky dramatic sequences in which new Prime Minister Churchill (Gary Oldman), supported by his wife (Kristin Scott Thomas), must take on the fight against the Nazis who are swiftly conquering Europe and cornering some 400,000 Allied forces in Dunkirk.

«During the early days of World War II, the fate of Western Europe hangs on the newly - appointed British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Hitler, or fight on against incredible odds,» Deadline reports.

In case we hadn't absorbed the message that the Prime Minister was against Overlord, the film, like a broken record, continuously has Churchill imploring Eisenhower, Montgomery and anyone else who'll listen not to «make the same mistakes as before».

Former deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg lost his Sheffield Hallam seat to Labour as well as Conservative MP Philip Davies who has campaigned against universal sex education.

«UKIP Councillor from Oxfordshire, David Silvester sent a commentary to the Henley Standard, in which he blamed the recent heavy floods across Britain on the government and particularly the Prime Minister who has acted «arrogantly against the Gospel.»

Sayan Khhukhaji to report a defamation complaint against Amsterdam, who has been acting as legal counsel for former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra and the National United Front for Democracy Against Dictatagainst Amsterdam, who has been acting as legal counsel for former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra and the National United Front for Democracy Against DictatAgainst Dictatorship.

It's disappointing to see Finance Minister Bill Morneau and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau engage in a subtle form of «class warfare» against professionals and small - business people given the proposed tax changes that would detrimentally affect lawyers, doctors, farmers and other small - business people who run their businesses through corporations.

This is the prime minister who cautioned against drugs, implemented unnecessary mandatory minimums for minor drug offences, tried to paint Justin Trudeau as a dangerous pusher, and clouded himself in a «tough on crime» bubble, yet in a most telling revealing strip tease, he embraced Rob and Doug Ford.

In fact, former prime minister Stephen Harper, speaking at Yukon College in Whitehorse in August 2014, following the death of 15 - year - old Tina Fontaine — who was killed after she left her foster home — stated that violence against Indigenous women and girls in Canada should not be viewed as «sociological phenomenon.»

Not against the Chair (who is apparently doing the best she can) but against the Minister, the cabinet, the Prime Minister, the Crown (I am sure Elizabeth II would not approve — David?)