Sentences with phrase «as a cabinet minister until»

The tapes detail his time as a cabinet minister until the present date, and provide insights into the workings of the Labour cabinet.

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@Stuart White: The Cabinet Office rule - book (draft of chapter 6, approved by the House of Commons Select Committee on Justice and drawn up in consultation, I understand, with the party leaders and with constitutional experts) lays it down that after an election the incumbent prime minister has a duty, as well as a right, to remain in office until there's clear and incontrovertible evidence that someone else is definitely in a position to command majority support in the house of commons.

Up until now leading Tory Cabinet ministers such as Michael Gove and Eric Pickles have suggested that statutory regulation was not acceptable to them.

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.

He also served on the Environmental Audit Select Committee until the cabinet reshuffle of May 2006 when he was appointed as the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the then Minister of State for Schools Jim Knight.

Until now he has been in relatively low - profile roles, such as Shadow Minister for Trade Unions and Civil Society, and Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office.

Francis Anthony Aylmer Maude, Baron Maude of Horsham PC (born 4 July 1953) is a British Conservative politician, who served over 25 years on the front bench in the House of Commons, [1] including posts as Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster - General, as well as Member of Parliament representing Horsham in Sussex, and then as Baron Maude of Horsham as Minister of State for Trade and Investment until April 2016.

Or limiting freedom of the press, denying democratic rights etc.... well, the Parliamentary Gallery might; and some scholars of constitutional law; and some people who have this unusual belief that the current majority has as much of an obligation to obey laws passed by the past Parliament (until the laws are repealed or declared unconstitutional (oops)-RRB- as a former Tory Cabinet minister accused of things we can't speak of (because we don't know and were never told).