Sentences with phrase «cabinet as culture secretary»
She was promoted to the cabinet as culture secretary in 2001, with the Olympics added as a special responsibility in 2005.
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With the Prime Minister attempting to draw a line under the affair and preserve one of the few female members of his Cabinet, some 78 % of voters taking part in the poll said that Mrs Miller should be sacked as Culture Secretary, against just 10 % who said she should stay.
Culture Secretary Maria Miller ignored questions from journalists this morning, as she arrived for a Cabinet meeting at Downing Street.
In 2015 - 16, Mark Francois, Penny Mordaunt and Sajid Javid all paid their subscriptions to the organisation while holding jobs in government, and the ERG gained its first cabinet level minister, as Javid became Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport.
The Chancellor was impressed and Javid then spent two years as a Treasury Minister before David Cameron promoted him to the Cabinet in April 2014 as Culture Secretary.
«That's the argument that I, as culture secretary, intend to make at the Cabinet table, and in our negotiations with Treasury — and I need all your help in that endeavour,» she added.
His first cabinet appointment came in 2014 as culture secretary.
But Corbyn has been accused by some shadow cabinet members, most recently Michael Dugher, the shadow culture secretary, of sponsoring a faction rather than acting as a unifying figure in the whole of the Labour party.
And indeed, before the resignation of Maria Miller as secretary of state for culture, media and sport, Cameron's cabinet was one third female.
Ivan Lewis will take over as Shadow Culture Secretary from Ben Bradshaw, who failed to get enough votes in the Shadow Cabinet election to take up a place.
The former Tory leader could even be sacked from the Cabinet altogether, as could Eurosceptic Culture Secretary John Whittingdale.
[18] In David Cameron's reshuffle of 2 July 2007, Hunt joined the Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport.
Tessa Jowell lost her place at the table when James Purnell became Culture Secretary but was given the right to attend Cabinet as the Olympics Minister and also became Paymaster General.