Sentences with phrase «around the cabinet table in»

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.

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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.

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.

«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.

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.

«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.»

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

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.

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.

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?

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

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.

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.

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.

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While I have found other creative spots around the house to keep things I use for the dining room (the dresser in our entry, for instance), recently I was able to find an additional couple of small scale cabinets that could fit right in my dining room and yet would still leave plenty of room for sitting around the table.

Among the many pieces of furniture, artworks and accessories par excellence around the house, the 1970s gold - topped coffee table in the living room, seen here in front of the heirloom bergère chairs, is a spectactular party piece: its base opens up to reveal a drinks cabinet.