Sentences with phrase «become trade minister»

Cameron has made another announcement - Francis Maude, the former cabinet office minister, will become Trade Minister.

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In sector news, utilities became one of the worst performing sectors in Wednesday's trade, closing down 1.53 percent, after U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May promised new caps on energy bills.

Toronto MP Chrystia Freeland becomes international trade minister.

Rookie MP Bill Morneau becomes Finance Minister; Chrystia Freeland is Minister of International Trade

The U.S. Senate recently passed a resolution condemning the prosecution and continuing incarceration of former prime minister Yuliya Tymoshenko and her political allies.8 Various European leaders, including OSCE Parliamentary Assembly members, have made a special point of visiting Tymoshenko in prison and lobbying for her release.9 Her incarceration has become one of the main obstacles in Ukraine's relations with the EU, stalling Ukraine's hitherto successful bid for a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement with Brussels.

Meanwhile, bond king Bill Gross found silliness on the trading floor, Larry Summers did not become the next Federal Reserve chairman, and U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron called for spending cuts in a gold - laden throne room — making a bigger fool of himself than millions of tweeters ever could.

Standard Charterted's chairman Mervyn Davies has just stepped down to become the UK government as trade minister.

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.

And in the June 2003 reshuffle she became a Department of Trade and Industry minister, and deputy minister for women.

A number of other senior Labour figures also took up senior positions: the trade union leader Ernest Bevin, as Minister of Labour, directed Britain's wartime economy and allocation of manpower, the veteran Labour statesman Herbert Morrison became Home Secretary, Hugh Dalton was Minister of Economic Warfare and later President of the Board of Trade, while A. V. Alexander resumed the role he had held in the previous Labour Government as First Lord of the Admirtrade union leader Ernest Bevin, as Minister of Labour, directed Britain's wartime economy and allocation of manpower, the veteran Labour statesman Herbert Morrison became Home Secretary, Hugh Dalton was Minister of Economic Warfare and later President of the Board of Trade, while A. V. Alexander resumed the role he had held in the previous Labour Government as First Lord of the AdmirTrade, while A. V. Alexander resumed the role he had held in the previous Labour Government as First Lord of the Admiralty.

Many bigwigs of the NDC such as former Trade Minister Ekow Spio - Garbrah, former CEO of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) Sylvester Mensah, former Vice President Kwesi Amissah - Arthur, Goosie Tanoh, Majority Leader Haruna Iddrisu, former Vice Chancellor of UPSA Prof Joshua Alabi, and Second Deputy Speaker Alban Bagbin have emerged or shown interest in contesting to become the flag bearer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) for the 2020 polls.

This is such a priority for me that when I became Prime Minister I established, for the first time, a Department for International Trade, led by Liam Fox.

Consequently, five new ministers, including Sir Ara Darzi — a consultant surgeon who became a health minister in the House of Lords, Sir Digby Jones — a former director general of the CBI who became minister of state for trade and investment and Sir Alan West — the former head of the Royal Navy who became a security minister at the Home Office.

«The experienced Minister for Trade and Industry will work with you to address any challenges that may arise, but, if, indeed, it becomes necessary, which I hope it will not, to go higher up the chain of authority.

Unfortunately, so too is the idea that the trade unions will come to the rescue of Ed Milband should he need their assistance if he does not become Prime Minister in the second week of May.

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.

In addition to Jim O'Neill (see 2.56 pm), they are: Francis Maude, who is becoming a combined Foreign Office / trade minister; Ros Altmann, who becomes a pension minister; George Bridges, who becomes a Cabinet Office minister; David Prior, who becomes a health minister; and Andrew Dunlop, who becomes a Scotland Office minister.

«The experienced Minister for Trade and Industry will work with you to address any challenges that may arise, but, if, indeed, it becomes necessary, which I hope it will not, to go higher up the chain of authority, I want you to know that my doors will always be open.

Michael Apted's impassioned history lesson, about crusading reformer William Wilberforce (Ioan Gruffudd) and his dream to outlaw the slave trade in the British Empire, begins with William Pitt the Younger (Benedict Cumberbatch) poised to become England's youngest Prime Minister.

Thailand's Prime Minister repeated claims made in the past pledging to end the domestic ivory trade, yet there is no timeline for this ban and the world's elephants become increasingly endangered while policy change languishes.

The Deputy Minister stated that cryptocurrency trading will soon become global standard practice.

Swedish P2P bitcoin trading on Localbitcoins has set several records for trade volume in recent months, including after news that Mathias Sundin — a Swedish MP who made history by becoming the first ever elected minister to have exclusively accepted campaign donations in the form of Bitcoin — announced that he would be leaving politics in order to assume the position of chairman of the board at Sweden's largest bitcoin exchange, BTCX.