Sentences with phrase «around cabinet table»

He sits around a cabinet table with three previous education ministers.

I don't see any «Eurofanatics» around the Cabinet table.»

A lot of that has been due to Westminster commentators not paying much attention to how the Welsh Secretary is performing but seeing her as vulnerable to any attempt to make room for fresh faces around the cabinet table.

He was responding on the BBC Wales Report programme to a question of how hard he had been fighting for Wales around the cabinet table in the lead - up to Mr Osborne's review.

The Prime Minister may have been worrying about the rise of Ukip, but around the Cabinet table most of the discussions about immigration were dominated by Ministers attacking the Home Secretary over her department's restrictive immigration and visa rules.

Education minister and South West Norfolk MP Liz Truss is tipped for high office and possibly a place around the Cabinet table as the new Environment Secretary.

But now he's foreign secretary, sitting around the cabinet table making a lot of seemingly important trips... and he's the bookies favourite to take over if Theresa's toppled as leader.

Nick Herbert and Chris Grayling and Theresa Villiers and other senior Ministers from the party's centre - right tradition do not even sit around the Cabinet table.

These are the Tories who will join Theresa May around the Cabinet table for the first meeting chaired by a woman PM at No. 10 Downing Street in 26 years.

A big promotion for Ms Bradley, who was a junior Home Office minister under May, and will be sitting around the Cabinet table for the first time in her career.

This carries with it risks within the policymaking process, narrowing the experience and knowledge - base around the cabinet table.

Beckett's legacy of blunders is still being felt in the countryside today, yet she still sits around the Cabinet table.

There are seven women around the cabinet table, he goes on.

Some critics have said that Warsi's resignation last week as Foreign Office minister and the first Muslim to sit around the Cabinet table was calculated.

«I don't think it's going to be that complicated,» Mr. Trump told lawmakers assembled around his cabinet table of a broad immigration measure.

Nigel might co-operate on confidence and supply, but would Nick be prepared to sit around the cabinet table with him or Douglas Carswell?

Will Messrs Mitchell and Huhne embrace manfully around the Cabinet table this year, in the spirit of the famous Wellington and Blücher meeting after Waterloo?

«She was also present around the Cabinet table when her Welsh Government re-valued business rates, forcing many small businesses in Ceredigion to pay sky high rates that are forcing many out of business entirely.»

Daisy Sands, head of policy at the Fawcett Society, has welcomed the arrival of new women (Nicky Morgan, Liz Truss and Lady Stowell) around the cabinet table.

In a sign of ongoing government solipsism over Brexit, Westminster's initial reaction to Amber Rudd's replacement by Sajid Javid has been to scrutinise what it means for the balance of power among soft and hard Brexiteers around the cabinet table.

And while his predecessor was a strong voice around the cabinet table for staying in the customs union, the new home secretary has made clear he is sceptical of softer Brexit options.

Indeed, one insider says the PM has been impressed by the way these ministers have been supportive to one another around the Cabinet table, in meetings.

Osborne has been carefully placing allies around the cabinet table and in wider government.

It's not good journalistic form to get starry - eyed, but interviewing the PM while sitting around the cabinet table is not a bad way to spend a Thursday afternoon.

«I think it's really difficult for folk here in Brussels and in other European capitals to get used to the idea that, you know, to all intents and purposes, the British government now looks like a bunch of muppets sitting around the cabinet table.»

By contrast, when I look around the cabinet table, I have confidence that we have a team full of talent, drive and compassion.

The exit of Peter Mandelson deprived the PM of his closest ally in this venture: few others around the Cabinet table share Mr Blair's appetite for friendship across the party divide.

The numbers above do not cover all those who sit around the cabinet table, such as the new chief whip Michael Gove.

«What Michael wants to create is a first class, world class state system which means that in future years you will have more pupils from state schools, people like me, around the cabinet table, and in that I fully support Michael Gove,» the faith and communities minister said.

Putting people like that around a cabinet table is a nightmareish thought for a PM who needs a team to work together through rough and smooth, even if they disagree with the direction of some things.

I was blissfully unaware that a debate supporting my concerns was taking place around the cabinet table.

It is true that a lot of the day - to - day work is done by other bodies — you've got the Arts Council, English Heritage, BFI, Sport England, UK Sport, museums... DCMS itself is quite small now and a lot of it is writing cheques, but what is important is that nonetheless it has a representative sitting around the cabinet table who is going to speak up for those industries.

He said: «Sajid Javid is one of the most experienced ministers around the Cabinet table.

There will be more women around the cabinet table by then, and a brand - new team energised for the general election fight.

I can do my bit around the Cabinet table, but most of the seats at that table are occupied by Conservatives, not Liberal Democrats.»

The composition of the leadership of the ten authorities is unlikely to change quickly so how can the new Mayor ensure the inclusion of women and BME voices around the cabinet table?

Following New Labour's landslide general election victory in 1997 he became the first blind person to take a seat around the Cabinet table, later resigning - twice - from Tony Blair's frontbench.

There are quite a few unloved ones around the Cabinet table.

The Chancellor's introduction of the idea of a transition period is another symbol of the ever - changing picture which creates an impression of dispute around the Cabinet table.

I try to imagine him around the Cabinet table urging Brown to recognise civil liberties as an issue, but I can't.

Some much needed new blood around the cabinet table includes Drayton Valley - Calmar MLA Diana McQueen as Minister of Environment and Water, Calgary - Montrose MLA Manmeet Bhullar as Minister of Service Alberta, Athabasca - Redwater MLA Jeff Johnson as Minister of Infrastructure, and Red Deer - South MLA Cal Dallas as Minister of International, Intergovernmental and Aboriginal Relations.

Not exact matches

As a former Cabinet Minister and Deputy Premier, Clark sat around Gordon Campbell's cabinet table for some of the Cabinet Minister and Deputy Premier, Clark sat around Gordon Campbell's cabinet table for some of the cabinet table for some of the most...

It will be around this table that the big dogs of Mrs May's Cabinet will find their zen with customs union, hard or soft borders and the transition period.

The Prime Minister finds himself as politically impotent as at any time in his troubled premiership, at once unable to dominate the economic argument and stripped of moral authority, even around his own cabinet table.

I find it astonishing if you think about the talent you've got around that shadow cabinet table, even around that small circle of people who came out of the last government together — Miliband, Balls, Burnham, Yvette Cooper, I'm not Douglas» biggest fan but you can include him in that list.

Cameron says at the cabinet meeting yesterday all 29 people around the table agreed he had got a good deal.

They were evident around the new Shadow Cabinet table the other day: Dugher, Ashworth and Watson.

Ed must genuinely have hoped to have his big brother back around the shadow cabinet table after the bitterness which marred the later stages of the leadership contest — and the narrow outcome which must have shocked him almost as much as it did his defeated.

Disappointed that @MichaelDugher will not be around Shadow Cabinet table.

This can loop around your neck, but can also be hung up on any handy cabinet knob, or used as a table lamp, or just rested on your tummy if you read in bed.