Sentences with phrase «cabinet colleagues called»
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».
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VICTORIA — Energy Minister Bill Bennett called his own B.C. Liberals cabinet colleagues «a bunch of nervous politicians» who don't even know what the «upper range is yet» on the cost of the proposed Site C hydroelectric project.
As Brown prepared for Prime Minister's Questions, the former Cabinet ministers circulated a letter among colleagues calling for a secret ballot on his leadership.
He rejected calls for a withdrawal from some of his Cabinet colleagues, however, adding: «It's potentially very damaging to suggest rethinking in a fundamental way our relationship with the European Union.»
«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.
Jones resigned from Jeremy Corbyn's Shadow Cabinet, along with dozens of her colleagues, in June 2016 and, in calling Corbyn «unelectable», also urged him to resign as Labour leader.