Sentences with phrase «at the cabinet table»

«The two would sit at the cabinet table and fix their gaze on one another - they worked exceptionally closely together,» said one fellow member of the joint cabinet committee.

Both leaders went out of their way to deny instant claims that the initiative - which caught all but a select handful of MPs and ministers by surprise - is a prelude to a merger, coalition or even the long - rumoured seat at the cabinet table for the Liberal Democrat leader.

As Minister of Infrastructure, Jansen has a powerful spot at the cabinet table, allowing her to champion the construction of big capital projects like the new Calgary Cancer Centre and the completion of the city's ring road.

Number 10 released a picture of the PM sat at the Cabinet table with pen in hand.

Some say a pre-election pact isn't a coalition, this is bollocks, two parties at the cabinet table makes a coalition.

When he steps down as leader, Mr Ashdown will leave his party with a place at the cabinet table through a joint Labour - Lib Dem cabinet committee originally set up to oversee the Government's programme of constitutional reform and now expanded to cover European common foreign and security policy.

The former Energy Minister was moved to Liz Truss's old job - getting a seat at the Cabinet table for the first time - despite quitting her leadership bid within days amid a major row over comments she made about motherhood.

In December 2010, Charles» hard work and dedication earned him a seat at the Cabinet table when he was appointed Minister of Labour.

Minister Bernier's promotion fills a small void at the cabinet table insofar as (far) Northern B.C. representation is concerned.

With talk of the AUMA and AAMDC merging and increasing pressure on the NDP to reform municipal election finance laws, Anderson's role at the cabinet table could become more important in 2018.

It is our hope that his experience with the Business Council of Manitoba means there will be a strong advocate for the business community at the cabinet table.

The creative industries need a stronger voice in Government and a strong secretary of state at the Cabinet table — not no voice at all.

The Tories have the full offer, from throw - open - the - borders global Britain to crazed authoritarian nativism, and that's merely at the Cabinet table.

Gove responded by speaking of his shock at seeing some in government participating in leadership speculation at the Cabinet table.

And Conservative Home's new poll shows that while Tory supporters do not want to see David Cameron and Menzies Campbell sitting together at the Cabinet table, there are areas — such as decentralisation — they could join forces on.

It may be possible down the line, but for now, David Cameron will not keep Gordon Brown, or any other senior Labour politician, at the cabinet table if he can possibly help it.

It is false — Michael Gove at the Cabinet table and David Allen Green in the press did most of the legwork on that one — but it would have complimented the tax credit demands nicely.

Trade unions are demanding a dedicated seat at the Cabinet table under a Labour government, a senior Unite official has claimed.

But also at the Cabinet table were the Labour MP Frank Field and his colleague from Nottingham, Graham Allen.

Newly reelected Russian President Vladimir Putin will be missing a familiar face at the cabinet table following the announcement yesterday that his longtime colleague and personal friend Andrei Fursenko will not return as Minister for Education and Science in the new cabinet.

After Brown assumed power, he created the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS), which gives science a more prominent position at the Cabinet table.

The fusion of the two roles has often been defended as ensuring that the Attorney General has a voice at the cabinet table in discussions of public policy but that seems to support the cabinet status of the Attorney General rather than its combination with another ministerial portfolio such as Justice.

«I would remind you that you were sitting at the cabinet table with me for the last four and a half years, as we discussed ICBC many many times.»

While Tory stalwarts such as Dave Hancock, Doug Horner, Thomas Lukaszuk, and Doug Griffiths are almost certainly in line to keep a spot at the cabinet table, the retirement and defeat of a number of Tory MLAs and cabinet minister may have opened spots for new faces at the table.

Having impressed at both Transport and Defence Reid was promoted to Secretary of State for Scotland on 17 May 1999 and a full place at the cabinet table.

They have propped up this Tory government and given up any pretence of believing in progressive policies in return for a few seats at the cabinet table, the keys to the ministerial cars and a parliamentary group that has more knighted male MPs than women.

This appears to be a new addition to the cabinet, though the release was unclear what role this MLA will have at the cabinet table, as there now only remain 29 PC MLAs not included in the list of cabinet positions.

Christy Clark claims her «tough decisions» helped balance the budgets when she sat at the cabinet table and on the treasury board.

Children's Minister Katherine Zappone said: «As an independent woman sitting at the cabinet table I believe we have reached a significant moment and I am full of emotion at this time.

After January's reshuffle, the number of female Cabinet ministers remained the same at six out of 23, although two more women now sit at the Cabinet table (an increase from 8 to 10).

The Lib Dems need building up in the way Paddy Ashdown turned it form a bunch of beardy weirdy sandal wearing idealists into a party that won seats, and ultimately a seat at the Cabinet table.

Do you want Alex Salmond sat at the cabinet table?

«The reason David Cameron is sitting in Downing Street is because Nick Clegg is sitting next to him at the Cabinet table.»

Over there, the Veterans Administration, which has a seat at the cabinet table, oversees all military welfare, from hospitals to low - cost housing loans.

«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.

As a figurehead for right - wingers, Fox could be about to amass more influence than he had at the Cabinet table.

At the cabinet table, young Turks like David Miliband and Mr Purnell urge the Prime Minister to seize the chance to transform our ailing democracy by embracing a «big bang» reform.

While the good economic time rolled on, it didn't seem to matter, but Brown wanted the top seat at the Cabinet table.

10.45 am: Brown says Dhanda should consider the people who «sit at the cabinet table».

As for what has become of the outgoing co-chairman, Mehdi says that she has been offered a role as «a junior Foreign Office minister with a seat at the Cabinet table, a position she has not yet accepted.»

It is still David Cameron sitting behind the Prime Minister's desk in Number Ten and — although there are no Liberal Democrats seated at the Cabinet table, there are still some very familiar faces.

Imagine Greg Dyke, for the Lib Dems, Ken Clarke for the Tories and Alan Sugar representing business sitting at the cabinet table: there would certainly be real discussion and new perspectives offered to a swathe of Labour politicians who have been stuck in Whitehall for too long.

In defense of this decision, the details of which will be announced in the new year, and which could threaten existing funding bodies, Conor Lenihan, the Minister for Science, Technology, Innovation and Natural Resources (and the only junior minister to hold a seat at the cabinet table), commented:

Some days it feels like Theresa May might as well have done with it and just give Paul Dacre a seat at the cabinet table.

The Minister for Children and Youth Affairs sits at the Cabinet table.