Sentences with phrase «became prime»

When John Major became Prime Minister in November 1990, he gave Young the role of Minister for Housing and Planning.

When Gordon Brown became prime minister, he wanted to initiate fundamental reforms to the UK food system, so in 2008 he commissioned a report.

She became Prime Minister after winning the 1979 general election.

If he became prime minister, it seems likely that he would reduce funding on defence spending below the 2 % floor set by NATO.

The poll shows the gap between the two main parties has narrowed to its closest since shortly after Gordon Brown became prime minster in the autumn of 2007.

The Queen made him Baron Malloch - Brown in July, 2007, after he became Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Foreign Office chief for Asia, Africa and the United Nations.

They point to his admission this week that even on the day before he eventually became Prime Minister, he was convinced Clegg had done a deal with Labour and he would remain Leader of the Opposition.

He also rather cheekily advised the Mayor to fire Lynton Crosby if he became prime minister.

And Ahmet Davutoğlu became prime minister with Erdoğan's will too.

Erna Solberg, who is coming to the UK for the first since she became prime minister last year, said staying out of the EU but within the single market gave her country even less chance to set the rules.

The so - called «ordinary working families» are the first attempt by a minister to define the «just about managing» families that Theresa May set out to champion when she became prime minister.

When Theresa May became prime minister she stood on the steps of Downing Street and promised that she «will make Britain a country that works not for a privileged few, but for every one of us.»

When May became prime minister she promised to lead a government that would prioritise the interests of «ordinary working class families».

Ever since David Cameron became prime minister in 2010, no consultancy has managed to seize the prized mantle of the «top Tory agency».

Sturgeon has met Osborne on two occasions since he became Prime Minister, although he has not been brave enough to venture north of the border.

Before he became prime minister, Benjamin Disraeli described the Irish as a «wild, reckless, indolent, uncertain and superstitious race [who] have no sympathy with the English character».

On the day Gordon Brown became Prime Minister, Unlock Democracy ran a newspaper advertising campaign calling for a constitutional convention.

Some of the changes he brought in long before he became prime minister began that process.

Yet since Mr Brown became Prime Minister last summer, Mr Cameron has made a string of highly personal assaults on his opponent.

However, he later returned and became prime minister.

Blair was only 43 when he became prime minister (ten years later he was still only 53, which meant he had to find something else to do after Downing Street — but that's another story).

However, Gordon Brown discarded the advice and embarked on a # 90 billion increase in spending when he became prime minister.

Average energy bills have risen by # 300 since David Cameron became Prime Minister whilst Britain's big six energy companies have enjoyed a # 3.3 billion windfall in profits since 2010.

After David Cameron became Prime Minister in May 2010, he appointed Coulson as Director of Communications for the government at 10 Downing Street.

But the direction of travel is clear; and the latest overall index, 83, is the highest since David Cameron became Prime Minister.

Khan duly began to climb the ladder, becoming a government whip when Gordon Brown became Prime Minister last June.

A Downing Street spokesman said he understood Mrs May had in fact met Lord Heseltine, although he did not confirm whether this was before or after she became prime minister.

Judgment is why John Major became prime minister and his more luminous peers — Michael Heseltine, Michael Portillo, Ken Clarke — never did.

To coincide with Corbyn's visit, Labour publicised NHS statistics it said showed that in the year since May became prime minister, more than 2.5 million people had waited more than four hours to be seen at an A&E department, and 280,000 more people were on treatment waiting lists.

The row has developed since NHS Borders health board became the prime provider of healthcare services for patients in the Borders area from July 1st this year.

And yet if this was all there was to Chamberlain, it doesn't explain his political career or how he became Prime Minister in 1937.

He left the government after John Major became prime minister, and became a leading opponent of the Maastricht Treaty.

It is fair to say that only two Labour leaders since the war have stuck to a personal position on European integration: Michael Foot against, John Smith for, and neither became prime minister.

Of course, for those leaders who became Prime Minister an important criterion must be their success or failure in government and whether they were «transformational».

Ånd yet the man who became the Prime Minister's media adviser, Andy Coulson, has always maintained in evidence to parliament and on oath in court that he knew nothing of any illegal activity during the seven years he spent at the top of the News of the World.

Heath did not resign until March 4, after confirming that a coalition with the Liberals was impossible, and Harold Wilson became the prime minister of a minority Labour government.

David Cameron became Prime Minister on 11 May after Gordon Brown's resignation and the Liberal Democrats formed a coalition government with the Conservative Party, with Nick Clegg as Deputy Prime Minister and other Liberal Democrats in the cabinet.

As soon as she became prime minister, May demoted Javid from business secretary to communities secretary.

Gordon Brown rejected Mr Freud's recommendations when he first became prime minister, but has now had a change of heart and wants them initiated comprehensively.

On 28 June 2007, the day after Gordon Brown became Prime Minister, Miliband was sworn of the Privy Council and appointed Minister for the Cabinet Office and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, being promoted to the cabinet.

The alternative is the gutting or abolition of the Act, and a withdrawl from the European Convention on Human Rights, which the Conservatives are threatening to do (David Cameron even had a populist pop at the idea of human rights in a conference speech before he became Prime Minister).

Having initially kept his position when Gordon Brown became Prime Minister, on 3 October 2008 Adonis was reshuffled to the Department for Transport to become Minister of State.

[2][3] He remained in that role when Gordon Brown became Prime Minister in 2007, before becoming Minister of State for Transport in 2008.

In June 2014, while speaking to the Labour Friends of Israel, Miliband stated that if he became Prime Minister he would seek «closer ties» with Israel and opposed the boycott of Israeli goods, saying that he would «resolutely oppose the isolation of Israel» and that nobody in the Labour Party should question Israel's right to exist.

So Theresa May has said since before she became prime minister, to the confusion of those who see the maxim as little more than a vacuous inanity.

She was keen to repeat the messages she has been pushing since she first became prime minister about fairness and a country where nobody is left behind.

Fifty - two per cent also said they would stick with Ukip even if it meant Ed Miliband became prime minister.

When she became prime minister in dramatic circumstances she chose to be trapped from the beginning.

The number of rough sleepers has increased every year since David Cameron became prime minister.

«Last summer, after the country voted to leave the European Union, Britain needed certainty, stability and strong leadership, and since I became prime minister the government has delivered precisely that.