Sentences with phrase «around the cabinet table»

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

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

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

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.

But that's exactly why Mr Cameron brought in Mr Halfon and gave him a prized seat around his Cabinet table in one of the big reshuffle surprises of last week.

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.

It's been a story of high passion and recriminations — well, around the cabinet table at least.

A third of Tories around Cabinet table are now women, he says proudly.

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.

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.

I'm delighted to be continuing as Shadow Secretary of State for Wales in Ed Miliband's Shadow Cabinet, and will be continuing to hold David Jones to account for his failure to stand up for Wales around the Cabinet table.

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.

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.

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

The idea of Cabinet ministers expressing their differences of opinions around the Cabinet table was fairly laughable.

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

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

And Nick Clegg will take off his progressive badge and settle back around the cabinet table to plan the next round of cuts.

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

Fiona Cunningham, special adviser to the home secretary, was the first scalp claimed by the row, which overshadowed the Queen's Speech and forced David Cameron to duck out the G7 summit to answer questions on internecine warfare around his Cabinet table.

New Scottish Secretary of State for Scotland David Mundell will be sitting around the cabinet table alongside George Osborne; Theresa May; Philip Hammond and Iain Duncan Smith.

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.

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

His wise and trenchant views will be missed 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.

«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.»

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?

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

«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.

A Cabinet sub-committee was sitting around the Cabinet table discussing child poverty.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

But the party leader came to value his colleague in government as one of the few Lib Dems ready to stand up to Tories around the Cabinet table — particularly during the AV referendum campaign.

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?

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

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

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

And in his cabinet, around the cabinet table at which he is presiding, are people who instigate violence — purveyors of violence, sitting around his cabinet table.

However, Cameron has faced some criticism for failing to increase the number of women sitting around the cabinet table, while others have argued that he missed a chance to get shot of deadwood in the top team.

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.

«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.

«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.»

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.

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.

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.