Sentences with phrase «as junior whips»

Since the formation of the coalition, the government have been handing out non-jobs like sweeties in order to maximise the so - called «Payroll vote» (despite many of these roles — such as junior whips and Higher Education Tsar being unpaid).

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.

He, in turn, has been replaced as a junior whip by Mark Hendrick.

Ms Bradley will be succeeded by John Penrose within the whips office, and Harriet Baldwin will be brought into the government as a junior whip.

Not exact matches

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.

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)

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.

Nusrat Ghani The former charity worker and BBC employee, also in the 2015 intake, has both a junior role in the transport department as an assistant whip.

His successor the former Conservative Chief Whip and junior minister, David Maclean sat as MP from 1983 to 2010 when he stood down due to the state of his health; he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1996.

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.

He was a respected incumbent in the post but, after Tony Blair's election as leader, his days were numbered, not least when he delayed the announcement of a frontbench reshuffle by five days because of his opposition to the appointment of Peter Mandelson as a junior opposition whip.

He became an MP at the February 1974 General Election, [5] and served as a Tory whip from 1977 to 1981, when he became a junior minister at the Department of Trade and Industry, moving to MAFF in 1983.

Served as a whip during the 2001 - 2005 Parliament and was made a junior minister after the 2005 election.

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