Sentences with phrase «as junior ministers»

Edwina Currie (Health) and John Major (Social Security) both served under him as junior ministers.

Theresa Villiers, Caroline Spelman, Chris Grayling, Andrew Lansley need some time as junior ministers of state so that they have enough experience to be good cabinet members as do Michael Gove & Jeremy Hunt.

Nine - tenths of the M.P.'s who first won seats in the House of Commons in 1918 or thereafter, and who held some ministerial office in the years from 1918 to 1955, began their progress towards posts in a ministry or a Cabinet by serving as parliamentary secretaries or as junior ministers... Recruitment to the front bench clearly begins with these two offices.

Previously, as a ministry official, he had visited the Cabinet Office to discuss the MOF's intervention strategy and the importance of containing the yen with officials such as a junior minister named Shinzo Abe.

The View from the Foothills by Chris Mullin is just so accurate about life as a junior minister that it was painful to read at times.

He served as a junior minister in the Northern Ireland Office, the Department for Productivity, Energy and Industry, the Department of Trade and Industry and finally in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

He said Welsh ministers had found the new Secretary of State «pragmatic and reasonable» to deal with during his time as a junior minister at the Wales Office.

There is one thing, however, for which sections of the left will never forgive Miliband - as a junior minister, he supported the invasion of Iraq in March 2003 and, as foreign secretary, continued to defend the government's subsequent record on Iraq.

Ed Miliband has accused George Osborne of «hiding away» over the decision to axe a planned 3p hike in fuel duty — as it emerged that he was dining with Tory MPs in Downing Street last night as his junior minister Chloe Smith was struggling on live TV to explain the move.

Mullin's first diary, A View From the Foothills, charted his life as a junior minister under Blair.

He was first elected to the House of Commons in 1983, and served as a junior minister under John Major.

First elected in Redditch in 1997 — always a West Midlands swing seat, she plans to defend it in what will be a tough contest — she had served as a junior minister, notably in education, and latterly as Tony Blair's chief whip.

Chris Mullin, who served as a junior Minister between 1999 and 2005, gives a ruthlessly honest account of his time in a department where, as he puts it, «life was a vast cascade of all the things my many superiors didn't want to do».

Brokenshire is a May loyalist, who spent five years as a junior minister in her Home Office and was among the early backers for her leadership campaign.

He served in John Major's government as a junior minister.

Lady Northover moves from the Lords whips» office to Featherstone's old post as a junior minister at the Department for International Development.

When she piloted fracking legislation through the Commons as its junior minister, she was accused by the opposition of reneging on pledges not to let the controversial gas extraction process occur in national parks.

She served as a junior minister in the Labour - Liberal Democrat coalition Scottish Executive from 2004 until the coalition's defeat by the Scottish National Party (SNP) in 2007.

He was elected to Parliament in 1992 and served as a junior minister for education and schools before moving to his next position, chief secretary to the Treasury.

Not exact matches

After earlier stints as a junior finance minister and deputy governor, he took over as Governor of the Bank of Canada seven months before the global recession really began to bite in September 2008, and is credited with keeping his homeland free from the worst ravages of the crisis.

Take for example Quebec Premier Bernard Landry, who appointed David Levine as a junior health minister in 2002 only to see him lose a by - election shortly afterward.

He shows all the strengths and weaknesses of Geoffrey Howe, notes that John Major's brief period as Foreign Secretary was an uphill task, but greatly admired Douglas Hurd, a former diplomat and junior Foreign Office minister.

Under Blair in the Lords he served as a junior MAFF minister for two years and his Westminster Diary Volumes 1 and 2 show not only his old Labour sympathies but his love of the arts and the turf.

After appointing Mullin to junior office again in 2003 the Prime Minister discovered that as a backbencher he had voted against the Iraq War.

Chris Mullin, in his excellent diaries, records the view of Janet Andersen, a former Labour whip and minister, on Tony Blair's attitude to junior ministerial posts: «He regards them as sweeties to be handed out to keep the children happy», she said.

Speaking on BBC Breakfast this morning Ellwood, now a junior defence minister, was visibly moved as he recalled returning home after the incident to find his young son in tears.

Permanent secretaries deal with strategic management — while junior ministers hardly count, as we've seen in the diaries of both the late Alan Clark MP and Chris Mullin.

As Truss made the point, her government colleague Sam Giymah, junior minister for prisons, struggled to keep a straight face.

He dithers over whether he really wants to be a junior minister rather than chairman of a select committee, and eventually is disappointed when he's only ever appointed to the most junior jobs as a parliamentary under - secretary.

As Mullin observed, while a member of that committee, he had more face time with Blair than when he was a junior minister.

For the first time there is clear evidence that the prime minister, as opposed to a junior cabinet minister or special adviser, directly manipulated the quasi-judicial process considering News Corporation's bid for BSkyB, in favour of the Murdochs.

Rejected an appointment as a government whip in 2001, but joined the government as a junior transport minister between 2005 - 2007 (more information at They work for you)

He's had a rapid rise to the Shadow Cabinet since becoming an MP just two years ago and will be surrounded by former cabinet and junior ministers on the Labour benches as well as long - serving backbenchers.

After a spell as a trade union officer, Watson became an MP in 2001 and rose fast, becoming a junior whip in 2004 and junior defence minister two years later, when his nightly ministerial papers included details of British soldiers killed in Iraq, a conflict he voted in favour of.

The Welsh Government briefed that the Secretary of State, Cheryl Gillan, and her junior minister, David Jones, were trying to overturn the will of the Welsh people, as expressed in last year's referendum on the Assembly's powers.

De Piero, who was shadow minister for women and equalities in Ed Miliband's shadow cabinet but quit as a shadow junior minister before the leadership challenge to Corbyn last summer, has a new role as shadow justice minister.

Jeremy Corbyn has appointed an array of new MPs to frontbench Labour jobs as well as handing junior roles to recognisable names such as former shadow cabinet minister Gloria De Piero and Tracy Brabin, who replaced the murdered MP Jo Cox.

Other politicians to get the highest honour include Christopher Chope, a rightwing Conservative who was a junior minister under Margaret Thatcher and John Major, and Geoffrey Clifton - Brown, who served as a junior whip under William Hague.

«Both Steve Baker and Suella Fernandes recognised this principle by resigning as the ERG's chair as each became junior ministers.

In a letter to Tony Blair yesterday, Mr Sheridan - whose position as parliamentary private secretary to the defence team is one below a junior minister - also raised concerns about the prime minister's close relationship with the US.

Details of junior ministerial changes keep filtering through, including Grant Shapps» replacement as housing minister.

As the tensions escalate, the government may well be concerned about an impending PR battle between heroic junior doctors and an axe - wielding millionaire Tory Cabinet minister.

Daniel Akuffo, junior brother of Attorney - General and Minister of Justice, Gloria Akuffo, was also being endorsed to join the government as the District Chief Executive (DCE) for Shai - Osudoku District in the Greater Accra Region.

Lewis recently surprised many by ruling himself out of a place in the top team, and has instead accepted a more junior role as shadow energy minister.

Andy Burnham replied that as a junior Health minister he had taken previous legislation on this area through parliament, but he said that Labour did not go far enough in linking social care up with pain management or enshrining in the NHS constitution that patients can choose where they want to die.

Hill, a former political secretary to prime minister John Major, was said to have tried to resign as a junior education minister in last September's reshuffle but when Cameron apparently failed to notice Hill wanted to leave his post.

Response: Ms Ryan, a former junior Home Office minister, told the paper that the rules had required her to register her flat as her main home when she was in government because it was closest.

10.24 am: Glen Oglaza on Sky says Brown is asking junior ministers to give him a personal pledge of loyalty as a condition for accepting a government job.

Most accounts say Thatcher's experience as a junior Pensions minister and Education Secretary was negligible and affected very little - as PM, she preferred to refer to her time spent as an Opposition spokesman than to her time in government.

The North East Cambridgeshire MP is another junior minister to shift up one level, moving from the Treasury to join Dinenage as Hunt's deputy.