Sentences with phrase «cabinet colleague david»

But pressed on whether the Home Secretary should resign, Ms Rudd's cabinet colleague David Gauke said the «implementation» of the policy was to blame rather than the policy itself.

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

Opinion polls suggest that David Cameron's lead will grow as soon as he succeeds Tony Blair, his Budget flopped with voters, his nose excavation habits have become a pick of YouTube (thanks to Guido) and his former Cabinet colleague Charles Clarke is desperately organising a leadership challenge to him.

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:

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».

Asked about the jailing of former Cabinet colleague Chris Huhne, Prime Minister David Cameron said: «It's a reminder that no - one, however high and mighty, is out of the reach of the justice system.»

Last weekend my colleague Mehdi Hasan asked if the increasingly «semi-detached» and «grumpy» Cable would be the first Lib Dem to leave David Cameron's cabinet voluntarily.

Former Prime Minister David Cameron has admitted he would like to set some of his former cabinet colleagues adrift on a «dangerous river».

As David Cameron wittily put it to cabinet colleagues in a suitably boozy analogy, Farage is the man in the pub quiz playing his joker in his specialist round.

And David Cameron concealed that knowledge of his benefactor's tax status until today, when he dispatched his shadow cabinet colleague to break the news.

Michael Gove has been forced to backtrack on his plan to abolish dedicated funding for school sport after cabinet colleagues convinced David Cameron the move was unwise.

In his speech to the Lib Dem conference on Tuesday, Huhne, who fell out with Conservative cabinet colleagues over their tactics during the Alternative Vote referendum in May, will warn David Cameron to keep the Tory right under control, saying: «We don't need the Tea Party tendency in Britain.»