Sentences with phrase «as cabinet ministers fight»

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Immediately before entering elected politics, he served as executive assistant to cabinet minister Hugh Horner (father of current PC leadership candidate Doug Horner), who he later replaced as MLA for Barrhead in a closely fought 1979 by - election.

Throughout its one hundred year history the Cabinet Office has, at times, had to fight for its survival — as much from the predatory activities of senior departmental civil servants as from ministers.

Brown's closest ministerial ally, Ed Balls, said the email was a «damp squib» by a few disgruntled MPs and insisted that the cabinet was «absolutely united» behind Brown.But the number of cabinet voices emerging in support of Brown did not begin to rise to a chorus until early evening, among them two of the ministers tipped as possible successors to Brown — the home secretary, Alan Johnson, and the energy secretary, Ed Miliband, who said today's call by rebels would be seen as a «temporary distraction» from the job of fighting the Conservatives and laying out future plans for the country.

Gordon Brown's re-shuffled Cabinet began work today as the prime minister's new year «fight - back» was set - back by the resignation of Peter Hain.

The Cabinet minister revealed his «very personal» response to the crisis as he pictured his own family being forced to fight the immigration system.

Sayeeda Warsi Having fought Dewsbury in 2005, she was appointed to the shadow cabinet in July 2007 as shadow minister for community cohesion and given a peerage, making her the youngest member of the House of Lords.