Sentences with phrase «as a cabinet minister under»

The magnificent Ken Clarke has been an MP since 1970, and served as a Cabinet Minister under Thatcher, Major and Cameron.

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Kenney, once a cabinet minister under former prime minister Stephen Harper, was long considered the front - runner to replace Harper as leader of the federal Conservatives.

Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude struggled when under forensic examination on the Today programme this morning, when he was seemingly unable to answer why public sector pension reform was needed when its cost as a share of GDP was set to fall.

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Francis Maude, who as cabinet minister created GDS, recently admitted that if GDS had undertaken faster and more wholescale reform of legacy systems, it wouldn't be under threat now.

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.

Wike, who was minister of state for Education under Jonathan and generally perceived as First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan's «anointed», attacked «most cabinet members» for taking advantage of the former president's gentlemanliness.

The departmental structure around them is also shifting, with Remainer Damian Green taking over effectively as deputy prime minister in the Cabinet Office, which was linking the work being done in the Brexit department with Liam Fox's Department for International Trade and the Foreign Office under Boris Johnson.

Another former Conservative cabinet minister and ex-MP, David Mellor, was even more scathing, describing the Tories under Cameron as «this pale sad shadow of what the Tory party used to be» and warning that it was «ripping itself apart now because of the sense that David Cameron is a prisoner of Nick Clegg and the Lib Dems».

Following the party's decision to support the European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill 2017, at least three shadow cabinet ministers, all representing constituencies which voted to remain in the EU, resigned from their position as a result of the party's decision to invoke Article 50 under the bill.

Hewitt, health secretary under Tony Blair, echoed Hoon's insistence that they had not brought cabinet ministers into the loop about their plans as she maintained she had not spoken to the foreign secretary, David Miliband — seen as a possible successor to Brown — or any other member of the cabinet.

The revised table of cabinet precedence - arguably more capricious under Labour post-1997 than under any previous administration - gives Harriet Harman the deputy's precedence she was previously denied, with Mandelson third; effectively they are being presented as joint deputy prime ministers, for different purposes.

Senior party sources suggested that, although Cable backed the policy first proposed under Farron of a second referendum on Brexit, he wanted to lean heavily on his credibility as a former cabinet minister to give the party more gravitas.

As one Cabinet minister said to me yesterday; under AV the losers win.

As for Kendall, she is said to have strong support from cabinet ministers who served under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.

Lord Howell, a Cabinet minister under Mrs Thatcher, went in his capacity as president of the Royal Commonwealth Society in Britain.

As pointed out with Harman, Jon Cruddas when standing for deputy leader, didn't even want to be in the cabinet, he didn't want to be Deputy prime minister, regarding sexism how did Jack dromey get elected on a all women short list, or is it the working class who suffer under positive discrimination not the fact it's supposed to help women

The first big test of Mr Corbyn's new authority is whether he can persuade big beasts, such as former Cabinet minister Yvette Cooper and former shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna, to serve under him in the shadow cCabinet minister Yvette Cooper and former shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna, to serve under him in the shadow cabinetcabinet.

Halfon, who been a vocal champion of the government's apprenticeship programme, previously served as a minister without portfolio and attended cabinet under David Cameron.