Sentences with phrase «by junior ministers»

«Seven states of the North are only represented in my cabinet by junior ministers, ministers of state.

Some of the best political memoirs and diaries have been kept by junior ministers who, nevertheless, had access to the inner workings of government and the Prime Minister — think Alan Clark and Chris Mullin.

«The established process of approval means that most decisions are taken by junior ministers,» a spokesperson said.

... There was a time when research was segmented and could be put in a corner and handled by a junior minister.

At the moment the science and technology area is overseen by a junior Minister for Science, Ross Free, and a senior Minister for Industry, Technology and Commerce, John Button.

It is understood that the proposals will be announced by junior minister, Maria Miller, and the Conservative Party's family spokesman over the next few days.

Not exact matches

Take for example Quebec Premier Bernard Landry, who appointed David Levine as a junior health minister in 2002 only to see him lose a by - election shortly afterward.

And the PDAC is doing its best to ensure juniors don't get overlooked in the fray of politics on the Hill — which almost saw Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservative government toppled by an opposition coalition in December.

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Particularly among junior ministers, the level of churn has been so great in recent years that very often, by the time the minister has got close to understanding their subject, they are moved on.

By his own account he was an ineffective junior minister, not equipped for the cut and thrust of Whitehall life.

The View from the Foothills by Chris Mullin is just so accurate about life as a junior minister that it was painful to read at times.

To avoid the Baker scenario, the Liberal Democrats should deploy more than one junior minister in key departments that are led by the senior party of the coalition.

Nine - tenths of the M.P.'s who first won seats in the House of Commons in 1918 or thereafter, and who held some ministerial office in the years from 1918 to 1955, began their progress towards posts in a ministry or a Cabinet by serving as parliamentary secretaries or as junior ministers... Recruitment to the front bench clearly begins with these two offices.

Despite defending herself heroically in the face of the Paxman onslaught on Newsnight recently, I was distracted by the way junior Treasury minister Chloe Smith repeatedly drank her water and put her glass down soooo precisely.

He's had a rapid rise to the Shadow Cabinet since becoming an MP just two years ago and will be surrounded by former cabinet and junior ministers on the Labour benches as well as long - serving backbenchers.

Resignations by shadow junior ministers include Caerphilly MP Wayne David, Torfaen MP Nick Thomas - Symonds.

More sweeping changes in junior ministerial ranks on Tuesday are planned by the prime minister, it was claimed.

«Both Steve Baker and Suella Fernandes recognised this principle by resigning as the ERG's chair as each became junior ministers.

, addressed this problem by calling for junior ministers to have special advisers appointed to them.

Lewis recently surprised many by ruling himself out of a place in the top team, and has instead accepted a more junior role as shadow energy minister.

The 2001 comment by Lord Foulkes, then a junior Scotland Office minister, is telling,

First elected to the House of Commons in 1922 as the MP for Limehouse, Attlee rose quickly to become a junior minister in the first Labour minority government led by Ramsay MacDonald in 1924, and then joined the Cabinet during MacDonald's second ministry of 1929 — 31.

The post of chairman of the parliamentary party was filled by the former junior minister David Renton, the MP for Huntingdon since 1945, with veteran National Liberal Herbert Butcher (who sat for the seat of Holland with Boston) remaining their chief whip.

He was also attacked by James Callaghan (then a junior minister) for his lack of zeal about further nationalisation.

By comparison, when Margaret Thatcher formed her first government in 1979 her party gained 62 seats from other parties, but she was able to choose widely, from over 250 re-elected MPs from the previous parliament, the 100 or so cabinet and junior ministers.»

A fascinating insight into the practical workings of the Churchill coalition can be seen in the diary of James Chuter Ede, a Labour junior minister at the Board of Education, edited by Kevin Jefferys in Labour and the Wartime Coalition (1987).

«The Lord Dean of Harptree, who died on April 1 aged 84, was an accomplished junior pensions minister under Edward Heath who, after being shunned by Margaret Thatcher, spent his final decade in the Commons as a deputy Speaker.

Following the June election, when Patel was reappointed to DfID, two of her junior ministers, Rory Stewart and Alistair Burt, took joint positions across DfID and the Foreign Office, in what was perceived by some as a partial victory for Johnson's takeover plans.

Only this morning, the BBC reported on the decision by Elliot to demote a UUP Assembly member for suggesting that a UUP junior minister could work under a DUP first minister.

After her former junior minister confirmed that she had «ambitions» to increase the numbers being deported, the Guardian published in full Rudd's four - page letter to Theresa May in which she sets an «ambitious but deliverable» target to increase deportations by 10 %.

When she piloted fracking legislation through the Commons as its junior minister, she was accused by the opposition of reneging on pledges not to let the controversial gas extraction process occur in national parks.

She served as a junior minister in the Labour - Liberal Democrat coalition Scottish Executive from 2004 until the coalition's defeat by the Scottish National Party (SNP) in 2007.

Nicholas Soames, the junior agriculture minister, tells me that the Fraddam case, reported to the local ministry office on 8 June, was immediately investigated by a wildlife biologist from the Agricultural Development and Advisory Service.

Ian Taylor, junior minister in charge of science and technology, says «ROPAs by and large appear to be very successful».

The junior environment minister Lord Strathclyde replied saying that the use of nematodes for such purposes is not covered by the Control of Pesticides Regulations Act.

He follows Paul Smith who left his role as RSC for Lancashire and West Yorkshire less than 12 months in to become chief exeuctive of the Future Academies trust, founded and run by junior schools minister Lord Nash.

Schools Week can exclusively reveal that Mr Smith has been recruited to become the new chief executive officer of Future Academies, set up and chaired by Lord Nash, a junior schools minister.

The Putney MP's appointment as education secretary was announced by the prime minister's office this morning, but the schools community may have to wait until tomorrow to find out which MPs will take on the junior ministerial roles in the department.

The British Virgin Islands Tourist Board looks forward to hosting this event yearly as part of the regional Junior Minister of Tourism Speech Competition established by Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO).

Blessedly, I was spared having to vote for Barker, the new junior Climate Minister reportedly of dubious reputation, by a boundary change.

There were a few ministers among the 300 attendees, notably Brundtland, but most countries were represented by relatively junior people.

Britain's junior finance minister, John Glen, announced Monday that the government will launch new research aimed to explore the potential risks posed by cryptocurrencies like bitcoin.

It was considered by parliament that surrogacy is a fundamentally different arrangement to adoption or IVF treatment as the woman is making the agreement to hand over the child to someone else prior to conception, the junior health minister of the time stated that this arrangement was of such «magnitude» that it required a couple.