Sentences with phrase «as culture secretary as»

Maria Miller said she decided to resign her position as Culture Secretary as her situation had become an «enormous distraction» to the Government and its achievements.

Not exact matches

Culture secretary Matt Hancock added: «Robust high quality journalism is important for public debate and scrutiny - but as print circulations decline and more readers move online, the press faces an uncertain future.

Sajid Javid as culture secretary He's plainly very able.

Supporters of the amendment expressed irritation when culture secretary Maria Miller said it could function as a «wrecking amendment» to the gay marriage bill — an accusation she last used yesterday, albeit with more justification, on demands for civil ceremonies for heterosexual couples.

It's a real privilege to be here to address you as Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport.

In an earlier interview Ms Jowell said the government had «no plan B» if parliament rejected the order and last night the culture secretary said: «Ministers will want to reflect and come back to this elected house in due course with proposals as to how to take this policy forward.»

So what better place to make my first major speech on music as Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport?

The Barnsley East MP, who was sacked as Shadow Culture Secretary by Mr Corbyn last month, launched his broadside in an article for left - wing newspaper Tribune.

As if deputy PM Nick Clegg hadn't been sidelined enough in the last parliamentary term, his version of PMQs - Deputy Prime Minister's Questions - was labelled «useless» in this morning's first culture questions put to new culture secretary Maria Miller and culture minister Hugh Robertson.

John Whittingdale, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, isn't seen as friendly to the arts.

Mrs Miller resigned from her position as Culture Secretary yesterday after sustained pressure over the disclosure she had wrongly claimed thousands of pounds in mortgage interest payments.

She subsequently served as Shadow Deputy Prime Minister, combining the position with that of Shadow Secretary of State for International Development (2010 — 2011) and then Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport (2011 — 2015).

He has been in parliament since 2001 and has worked as health secretary; culture, media and sport secretary; and chief secretary to the treasury.

Hugh Robertson, minister for sport and tourism, this morning snatched away the spotlight from his Tory colleague Maria Miller, who was taking the stage for the first time as culture secretary in the commons.

The peccadilloes of the ruling classes have long been of fascination and as shadow secretary for media culture and sport, Chris Bryant, has written, sex scandals of all sorts — including adultery, homosexuality (when illegal) and murder — have gone hand - in - hand with political power for centuries.

Unlike most of the other scandals in this list, no one really important lost their jobs as a result of the furore surrounding the then culture secretary's decision - making.

John Whittingdale as Culture Secretary is an inspired appointment.

Cameron later took to Twitter to announce Sajid Javid, a Treasury minister, would replace Miller as culture, media and sport secretary.

Pressure on Maria Miller was stepped up as the Telegraph released a tape of a phone call between an aide to the Culture Secretary and a reporter investigating her expense claims.

It was the first time Miller has spoken publicly since her resignation as Culture Secretary was announced earlier this morning.

Maria Miller is being urged to reject a # 17,000 payoff she can claim after quitting as Culture Secretary over her expenses.

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.

He agreed with Mr Cameron that she «is doing a good job as the culture secretary, has apologised and re-paid the money she has been asked to pay.»

The vast majority of the public (88 %) think Maria Miller was right to resign as Culture Secretary, according to a new ITV News / ComRes poll.

Meanwhile, a Number 10 source told the Press Association that some MPs had raised concerns over the Culture Secretary but added: «There are plenty of MPs who have got in touch to say they strongly back Maria as well.»

Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt and David Willetts, the Universities and Science Minister, have quite rightly been encouraging the arts establishment and the universities to look more to philanthropy as a major source of income.

Maria Miller has said she takes «full responsibility» for her decision to resign as Culture Secretary, saying she wants to «make sure that I can move on».

A large majority of voters think Maria Miller should be sacked as Culture Secretary, according to a poll conducted in the wake of her apology to Parliament over expenses.

Culture Secretary Maria Miller ignored questions from journalists this morning, as she arrived for a Cabinet meeting at Downing Street.

However, Equalities Minister (and Secretary of State for Culture) Maria Miller pointed out on Twitter that since any vote on the issue would be a free vote, it would not technically be counted as a rebellion.

Former Conservative chairman Lord Tebbit has become the most senior Conservative to call for Maria Miller to resign as Culture Secretary, amid controversy over her response to an investigation into her expenses claims.

The Twitter feed from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) was hacked this evening and Culture Secretary Maria Miller was described in a tweet as being «like a modern day Robin Hood».

The Prime Minister's «irrational» backing of beleaguered Culture Secretary Maria Miller over her expenses is damaging the party's election hopes, activists warned, as a poll suggested two in three Tory voters thought she should be sacked.

As culture secretary James Purnell said: «The union flag is a powerful symbol of both our heritage and modern, diverse Britain.

Culture Secretary Matt Hancock's warning to the House of Lords came as he made concessions over press regulation, including regular reports on the effectiveness of low - cost arbitration and how personal data is processed for journalism purposes.

She spoke as Culture Secretary Maria Miller, who is also the Minister for Equalities, announced that the Church of England and the Church in Wales will be excluded from the government's planned new law to allow gay couples to marry.

Shadow Welsh Secretary Owen Smith says that Swansea «remains one of our great cultural centres» despite not being chosen as City of Culture.

Has been a privilege to serve as Culture Secretary.

Mr Javid has been promoted from his previous brief as Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport.

Hunt, South West Surrey's MP, has been Britain's Health Secretary since September 2012 prior to which he spent more than two years as the Conservative Party's Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport Secretary.

She was promoted to the cabinet as culture secretary in 2001, with the Olympics added as a special responsibility in 2005.

The return of Rebekah Brooks to run Rupert Murdoch's UK newspaper operation has been described as «two fingers up to the British public» by the shadow culture secretary, in a strikingly aggressive intervention.

While much blame can be placed on Labour's regulatory system for both the banking crisis and abuses that are regularly unfolding before the eyes of an incredulous public, the chancellor's focus today should have remained on the reputation of the City being «at stake» - as put to him by shadow chief secretary to the Treasury Rachel Reeves - and a culture change, something that all parties agree to be critical.

In 2015 - 16, Mark Francois, Penny Mordaunt and Sajid Javid all paid their subscriptions to the organisation while holding jobs in government, and the ERG gained its first cabinet level minister, as Javid became Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport.

Ivan Lewis, Labour's shadow culture, media and sport secretary, welcomed the government's announcement as a «step forward».

As Labour pointed out, the contrast with his refusal to do so over culture secretary Jeremy Hunt was somewhat strange.

Woodhouse enters the public affairs world after four years at The Sun and eight months as special adviser to culture secretary Karen Bradley.

Culture secretary Maria Miller paved the way for spending cuts to the arts budget as her department braces for more belt - tightening in this summer's 2015/16 spending review.

The Chancellor was impressed and Javid then spent two years as a Treasury Minister before David Cameron promoted him to the Cabinet in April 2014 as Culture Secretary.

«That's the argument that I, as culture secretary, intend to make at the Cabinet table, and in our negotiations with Treasury — and I need all your help in that endeavour,» she added.