Sentences with phrase «briefed against a minister»

This is to be the first of many briefings against ministers by Damian McBride, which, Darling insists, Brown always tacitly sanctioned.

Apart from a briefing that led the Observer's Andrew Rawnsley to quote an unnamed source describing Brown as «psychologically flawed» and «losing my temper in briefings about Clare Short», Campbell said he had never briefed against a minister.

Not exact matches

The Tories» energy minister was the subject of a furious briefing campaign today, after he came out against the construction of further wind farms.

Son of a minister, the almost 7 - foot tall Cornegy had a brief and unspectacular pro-basketball career and ran against Vann in 2009, endorsing him in the general after losing in the primary.

The allegations of wrong - doing are groundless, but certain shadow ministers were happy to brief the right wing press to create a crescendo of opprobrium against «union barons» etc..

While briefing semi-privately against left «extremism» in the Liberal Democrats, attempts will be made by the prime minister through the Downing Street Policy Unit to persuade Charles Kennedy - if he wins today - to toe a more Blairite line.

Labour ministers are facing a media backlash after they were accused of briefing against the outgoing head of the Army.

And with cabinet ministers lining up to brief against him, the chancellor might well fancy swapping his current set of colleagues for a new one.

«Self - regulation of the press by the press is simply no longer acceptable to the public,» he says, before accusing the PM's ministers of briefing against Leveson.

He had been sparring with Harriet Harman at PMQs who claimed the deputy prime minister briefed against the Tories but voted with them, and she said «people will never trust him or his party ever again».

The minister is also expected to brief the upper chamber on how the ministry intended to ensure protection of the residents of mining host communities against lead poisoning and other hazards.