Sentences with phrase «by cabinet colleagues»

The Prime Minister has form of course: in 2011, when she was Home Secretary, she tried to dismantle the SFO, but was thwarted by her cabinet colleagues, most notably Ken Clarke, who was the then Justice Secretary — and reportedly tried to revive the plan in 2014.

«Mr Paterson has been dismissed by Cabinet colleagues as «stupid» for failing to take seriously the threat posed by climate change.»

Whitehall sources suggested that May had been urged to take a harder stance over Brexit by cabinet colleagues who have argued that a rerun of the referendum would result in an even more emphatic victory for Brexit, in the region of 60 % -40 %.

The BBC were also preparing to report that Miss Kelly had been asked by Cabinet colleagues to use her resignation as an opportunity to criticise the Prime Minister and potentially trigger another coup attempt.

Michael Gove's proposal to give the Queen a new royal yacht has been openly mocked by Cabinet colleague Nick Clegg.

George Osborne should consider «phasing in» planned tax credit cuts or only imposing them on new claimants, according to a think - tank founded by Cabinet colleague Iain Duncan Smith.

Margaret Hodge has been criticised by a cabinet colleague for adopting the «language of the BNP» for her comments on immigrants and housing.

Not exact matches

Known as Mr. Fix - It by some of his cabinet colleagues, Kenney has pledged to bring in major reforms to the system, including beefing up the auditing powers of federal inspectors who are hunting down abusers.

The job of the finance minister, possessing these same instincts and surrounded by colleagues in cabinet and in caucus who are idealistically impatient, is a difficult one.

He could raise the GST, but the Prime Minister has ruled that out; he could fulfill an election commitment by undertaking a serious simplification of the income tax system, which could yield substantial revenues (about $ 3 to $ 5 billion), but he seems reluctant to do that; or, he could take the easy way out and simply cut his fiscal prudence in half and «miraculously» free up $ 3billion annually for his cabinet colleagues.

David Cameron has shocked his cabinet colleagues by announcing that he is stepping down as prime...

«Vince Cable stunned colleagues last night by declaring that the Coalition could break up before the election and indicating that he has private «red lines» that would prompt him to walk out of the Cabinet.

Settling disputes in cabinets encourages coordination of policy, which can be achieved better horizontally among colleagues than vertically by one - person from above.

Since his speech in favour of air strikes on Syria I am struck by the number of Hilary Benn's colleagues, those who have worked with him in cabinets or shadow cabinets, who tell me he has changed since the summer, finding his political voice or public definition in opposition to Jeremy Corbyn's leadership.

The frontrunner has previously made clear that his policy proposals are only suggestions that would have to be agreed by colleagues, but this is his clearest indication yet that the role of MPs and the shadow cabinet would be diminished.

And with our zero - based review — a review of every pound spent by government from the bottom up — Rachel Reeves and my Shadow Cabinet colleagues have begun the work of identifying savings so that we can switch resources to Labour's priorities.

The meeting was held in August, weeks before the current Chancellor angered his Cabinet colleagues by refusing to free up funds to prepare for Brexit.

Within the current Government, the history of this initiative can be traced back to pre-election speeches made by David Cameron and his cabinet colleagues and was formalised in the June 2010 Budget document, stating that:

This morning's reports of Andrew Lansley's Commons statement yesterday haven't missed that he was unsupported in the Chamber by the presence of senior Cabinet colleagues.

«He wants you to believe that the housing crisis in our country can not be fixed in the way that Labour has consistently called for, and even colleagues in his own Cabinet have argued for, by increasing investment to build more housing.

As for his distaste for Mandelson's «rush into print», you might recall it was David's denigration of serving cabinet colleagues to his biographer that had caused support to vanish by the time of his first resignation.

David Miliband tonight issued a lukewarm vote of confidence in the prime minister after two former cabinet colleagues called for a secret ballot by Labour MPs to settle the question of his leadership «once and for all».

There are 46 instances of «fuck», «fucking» or «fucked» in the book, mostly in reported speech by Cameron's aides and cabinet colleagues.

He does so by ingeniously entwining Ted Heath as an MP and party whip in the 1960s with the chief of staff and his colleague in the offi ce of a member of today's shadow cabinet.

His eulogy was quickly superseded by an equally flattering representation of his own present day cabinet colleagues.

He insists that he isn't the sole survivor of a very different era - shadow cabinet colleagues «like Andy Burnham, Hilary Benn, Rosie Winterton... I'm not sure that the word Blairite is used by them but we're proud of our record» - and says a period of relative tranquillity has set in amongst Labour's J - team.

The tone of the PM's comments will come as no shock to anyone — especially after his offical spokesperson revealed yesterday that the Cabinet had marked the imminent milestone by «an appropriate banging on the table of colleagues».

He also took a thinly - veiled swipe at his shadow cabinet colleagues who had come up with various reasons why Labour lost the Copeland by - election «I thought the loss in Copeland was really serious.

It comes five years after Cameron and his cabinet colleagues inadvertently offended Chinese officials by sporting poppies at a ceremony in Beijing's Great Hall.

The environment secretary is said to have angered cabinet colleagues by straying beyond his brief to speak at length about slightly obscure Treasury matters.

A senior source told The Sunday Telegraph that Mr Purnell, who claimed he had acted alone, had in fact been expecting Cabinet colleagues to follow his lead and that Mr Hutton, who said he resigned for family reasons, had been «shamed» into resigning by Mr Purnell.

Burnham, who is not persuaded by the case for air strikes, warned that colleagues who voted against the party's proposed position would be «thrown to the wolves» and said that he would not be a part of a «sham shadow cabinet».

The environment secretary has angered cabinet colleagues by straying beyond his brief in what is regarded as an attempt to persuade the prime minister to give him Philip Hammond's job.

In fact, the SNP's cabinet office spokesman takes such displeasure at not being able to address colleagues by name that he is currently courting Tory MPs and others to help push for the rules to be amended.

But if there is nothing dodgy about the # 487,000 received by George Osborne there is some real shock and anger amongst his shadow cabinet colleagues.

He faced a second attempt to launch a leadership challenge by former Cabinet colleagues Geoff Hoon and Patricia Hewitt in January 2010, but the plot failed to gather momentum and Brown remained as both Labour leader and Prime Minister to lead his party into the 2010 General Election.

Despite the misgivings of some cabinet colleagues, the Home Secretary stuck by the government decision to offer the citizens of Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic and five other East European nations unlimited access to the British labour market.

Friends of Jacqui Smith say she was attacked by some colleagues over her own expenses when they were published by the Sunday Express, with one cabinet colleague publicly declaring in a cabinet meeting that he had only claimed a «pittance» - only to be disproved by the Telegraph's allegations, which have left Smith looking far from alone.

Lord Mandelson was today accused by a former cabinet colleague of self - indulgent arrogance and running the party for more than a decade as a tool to engage in egotistical faction fights that only demoralised the party and the electorate.

The problem is partly the excessively tight control being exerted by the shadow Treasury team over all their colleagues» initiatives, but mainly that Ed Miliband is hamstrung by a shadow cabinet where a large majority didn't vote for him as their first - choice candidate.

He was promoted to the Tory frontbench by new Cabinet colleague William Hague.

Here is a short list for the fun of it: everything Sina Najafi and crew do at Cabinet magazine, the goings on at Mildred's Lane, the projects, journals and exhibitions by the great collective E-flux (Anton, Juliete, Brian), the entire Occupy movement, Philly's own Basekamp — in particular the Plausible Artworlds project, Charles Esche, Maria Lind, Chus Martinez, Jens Hoffmann, Ralph Rugoff, Sofia Hernandez, my ol' colleague Mark Beasly (a great curator), the experiments and levity of Joseph Del Pesco, just recently the people at Weeksville Heritage Center, the awesome constant rethinking of Kate Fowle at ICI, at times the experimental approach of Hans Ulrich Obrist (the man has so much energy), the education programs at the Walker and the Hammer, the projects of Christine Tohme at Ashkal Alwan in Beirut, the work of Fulya Erdemci and Theo Teeglaers at SKOR, the writings of Sue Bell Yank, Shannon Jackosn, Gregory Sholette, Yates McKee, Jahleh Mansoor, Boris Groys (though I don't usually agree with him), and Claire Bishop (though I don't agree often with her either, haha).

Environment minister Robert Hill, who led our delegation, was feted by his colleagues; indeed, he received a standing ovation at the first Cabinet meeting after his return.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt is taking action to address lead contamination across America by inviting his colleagues and fellow Cabinet members to join with EPA in developing a federal strategy to reduce childhood lead exposure.