Sentences with phrase «cabinet colleagues in»

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.

Over the past two years, it has been met with reservations from cabinet colleagues in the Cameron government and serious problems finding a robust definition of extremism that would survive legal challenge from a banned group or individual.

Education secretary Michael Gove came to the defence of his cabinet colleagues in last night's CPS Keith Joseph memorial lecture

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.

In 1990 he stepped down as Prime Minister in favor of Deputy Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong yet remained in the Cabinet, first as a «Senior Minister» and then as «Minister Mentor,» vaguely defined posts that allowed him to oscillate between speaking engagements abroad while advising his ministerial colleagues on matters of statIn 1990 he stepped down as Prime Minister in favor of Deputy Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong yet remained in the Cabinet, first as a «Senior Minister» and then as «Minister Mentor,» vaguely defined posts that allowed him to oscillate between speaking engagements abroad while advising his ministerial colleagues on matters of statin favor of Deputy Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong yet remained in the Cabinet, first as a «Senior Minister» and then as «Minister Mentor,» vaguely defined posts that allowed him to oscillate between speaking engagements abroad while advising his ministerial colleagues on matters of statin the Cabinet, first as a «Senior Minister» and then as «Minister Mentor,» vaguely defined posts that allowed him to oscillate between speaking engagements abroad while advising his ministerial colleagues on matters of state.

Grondin said his public appeal «likely helped» Vallée convince her cabinet colleagues on the need to make major investments in the justice system.

It is speculated that Mr. Anderson could end up with a cabinet post in early 2015, to the ire of his new caucus colleagues.

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.

In the coming months, the most important pre-budget consultation for Mr. Morneau will be with the Prime Minister and his Cabinet colleagues.

Under Gordon Brown he rose to a ministerial position at the Foreign Office, but back in Opposition he fell well short of the votes required amongst his colleagues to make the shadow cabinet.

The demob - happy ex-minister, who left the government in last week's reshuffle, used his first big interview since quitting to send a warning sign to his former Cabinet colleagues.

The first key point to understand is the difference between the Prime Minister's roles as head of the Cabinet, who wields executive power via the confidence of the House of Commons, and as Tory leader, whose authority rests on the faith colleagues have in you as a general election winner.

In an article for the New Statesman, the shadow chancellor accused his former shadow cabinet colleague of echoing the tactics of the unsuccessful EU Remain campaign.

Major's former cabinet colleague Norman Fowler — now presiding over the upper chamber as Lord Speaker — recently warned in an interview with this magazine that the Lords could no longer justify its size, and must «stop faffing around» and significantly cut the number of peers.

Former minister Andrew Percy told the chancellor to «put a sock in it» while his colleague Owen Paterson said «it would be good if all Cabinet ministers stuck to government policy».

Mrs May is, I gather, showing great focus in Cabinet and in her private meetings with colleagues.

Kirstjen Nielsen, the homeland security secretary, reportedly told colleagues she was close to resigning after Trump berated her yesterday in front of the entire cabinet for what he said was her failure to adequately secure the nation's borders.

In his speech following the debate, he attacked his Tory Cabinet colleagues, and received a huge ovation from his disciples.

He has a warning for his former cabinet colleagues: «Serious uncertainty in your trading and political relationships with the rest of the world is dangerous if you allow it to persist.»

And let me pay particular tribute to those parliamentary colleagues who stepped forward in the summer to fill the gaps in the shadow cabinet and ensure that Labour could function as an effective opposition in parliament.

And last year, a Labour councillor was accused of making death threats against one of his former group colleagues, Rania Khan, who now serves in Rahman's 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.

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.»

And in all of this, it's well worth reminding ourselves of one fact: Nick Clegg has not given a single one of his five cabinet seats to a female colleague.

In his statement today, Watson said: «I was deeply disappointed to see Hilary Benn sacked in the early hours of this morning and equally saddened that so many talented, able and hard - working colleagues felt they had to leave the shadow cabineIn his statement today, Watson said: «I was deeply disappointed to see Hilary Benn sacked in the early hours of this morning and equally saddened that so many talented, able and hard - working colleagues felt they had to leave the shadow cabinein the early hours of this morning and equally saddened that so many talented, able and hard - working colleagues felt they had to leave the shadow cabinet.

Increasingly, the pressure comes from his colleagues in the cabinet who want the Cameron — and the party as whole — to take a firm stance on Britain's membership of the EU.

As Blair penned his name, my lunch table conversation with one of his former cabinet colleagues turned to the famously scrawled handwriting of his successor in No 10.

I want my colleagues in Cabinet to be collectively responsible for the spending decisions we take.

My Lib Dem colleague in the Treasury, Danny Alexander MP, has been overseeing this Cabinet Office review and as a member of the «quad» his oversight has shown how seriously we are taking this review.

According to him, President Mahama who is a Gonja has only the Minister of Food and Agriculture Alhaji Mohammed Muniru - Limuna a colleague tribesman in cabinet.

Gordon Brown downgraded the job of Chief Secretary and removed from his Cabinet colleagues their right to be involved in the overall spending decisions of government.

Today Mr Clegg attempted to draw a line under his rivalry with Mr Huhne, insisting he could go back to being «colleagues» with the environment spokesman, who is now waiting to hear what position he will take in Mr Clegg's «shadow» Cabinet.

This Green Paper was Cheryl Gillan's attempt at rigging Wales» electoral map in the same way that her Cabinet colleagues were trying to gerrymander the results of the next general election.

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.

He told cabinet colleagues there was no place for harassment or sex discrimination in Israel's «democratic, Western, liberal state».

Nick Clegg, the former deputy prime minister, wrote to Clark, his former cabinet office colleague, warning that a series of deals for different industry sectors could cost the taxpayer «colossal amounts of money» in subsidies.

Vince Cable: Cable's time in office, as the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, has not been a happy one - for him or his Cabinet colleagues.

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.

What is more, had Party members been put in charge it seems very unlikely that they would have come to the same decision as Clive Lewis and his Shadow Cabinet colleagues.

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.

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.

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.

But it's even better to know that in this party, everyone: the Shadow Cabinet, the Members of Parliament, the council leaders and all our candidates and colleagues.

Johnson and Gove can afford to be irresponsible: they are rich enough to be buffered personally against the economic risks of Brexit and will leave it to their erstwhile colleagues in the cabinet to deal with the immediate speculative attack and longer term loss of investment that a vote for Leave would result in.

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.