Sentences with phrase «cabinet government works»

But, like it or not, that's the way cabinet government works.

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Mr Prosser has worked in the public service for more than 20 years in both Commonwealth and State government departments — including a stint as an Aboriginal heritage project officer with the Victorian Department of Premier and Cabinet.

In 1979 Handleman had left the cabinet, was recovering from two heart attacks, and was thinking about leaving the government to look for other work.

She worked as Minister across nine Canadian government departments, and her service included the role of Vice Chair of the Treasury Board and chair of the cabinet committee for public safety, justice and aboriginal issues.

Nicole Williams is a senior associate with Canadian Strategy Group and previously worked as an assistant to various MLAs and cabinet ministers in the old Progressive Conservative government.

While I spent a considerable amount of time knocking on doors for candidates in Edmonton, I was also working with a group of MLAs, lawyers and former PC cabinet ministers on what would have been the plan to transition the Liberals into government if the party had won that election ten years ago today.

«We are hopeful that this report will get favorable response from the Federal Government especially given the fact that the Honourable Minister of Works, Power and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola (SAN) was a passionate advocate of this issue during his tenure as the Governor of Lagos State and is also now a representative of Lagos State in the Federal Cabinet.»

Andrew Greenway is a former deputy director of data analysis and horizon scanning at the Government Office for Science and has also been a programme manager working on digital projects for the Cabinet Office.

Although the Cabinet Manual says it is for the political parties to work out who can command confidence in the new parliament, there is a risk of confusion and uncertainty if there is a standoff, with both main parties claiming to be able to form a government.

... I have asked the Cabinet Secretary to lead work to consolidate the existing unwritten, piecemeal conventions that government much of the way central government operates under our existing constitution into a single written document... And if we are to decide to have a written constitution, the time for its completion should be the 800th anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta in Runnymede in 1215.

Furthermore, and something which Francis Maude in the Cabinet Office is considering, Raab recommends that the government should not subsidise the unions by paying staff for working full or part - time on union activities.

A senior Cabinet minister has admitted the government's past stance on knife crime was not working.

And with our zero - based review — a review of every pound spent by government from the bottom up — Rachel Reeves and my Shadow Cabinet colleagues have begun the work of identifying savings so that we can switch resources to Labour's priorities.

Mr Clarke, who served as chancellor under John Major, wants a return to proper cabinet government, arguing it is essential «to make government work better and to reverse public cynicism about the tacky system of government and politics which New Labour has imposed upon us.»

Many feel that Derbyshire County Council will be the toughest nut to crack in local government for us on 4th June, but one needs to remember that Labour have not faced us when there has not been a General Election on the same day since 1993... and that was not a good year for Conservatives anyway!Accordingly, we have worked hard to establish a Shadow Cabinet, engage in active but constructive opposition and really get to grips with the workings of the County Council so that we can put our vision for the future in place quickly; to employ a cliché: «to hit the ground running».

Fallon will now work with another Lib Dem Cabinet minister - Ed Davey - to ensure that the Government accelerates the policies towards the nuclear, renewables and gas industries that will achieve a rebalancing of the UK economy and an energy prices regime that supports manufacturing.

It will be a huge honour to work with the Shadow Cabinet Office ministerial team preparing the Conservative Party for a return to government under David Cameron.

The Labour leader said: «I look forward to working with the strengthened Shadow Cabinet as we prepare a government in waiting to carry out our manifesto for the many not the few.

«There is nothing as insulting as wealthy cabinet ministers dishing out tax breaks to the super-wealthy, allowing massive assets to sit idle in bank accounts doing nothing for the common good, yet working people wait in fear for the letter telling them the government is cutting their income and ponder joining the foodbank queue.»

«The government is very grateful to Sir William McKay and his colleagues for their work,» a Cabinet Office spokesman said.

But Cabinet government means working together as a team — and it doesn't come naturally to all.

Nick Robinson thinks Alan Johnson will be missed: «Alan Johnson was picked for the job because the former postman who rose to be his union's leader and then a cabinet minister could connect with the working class voters Labour had lost touch with and yet was a Blairite who worried about government spending too much.

«So for us here, we want the mining activities to go on so jobs are created in this area so were are pleading with the government, Nana Akufo - Addo, his ministers, his cabinet, to get behind Exton Cubic and allow them to work,» Amankwa Maafo II said at a press conference in Kumasi on Tuesday,

Ed Balls went to a good public school, to Oxford, over to Harvard for a stint teaching, returning to write leaders for the FT, on to working for Gordon Brown in opposition and government, to MP and into the cabinet two years after entering parliament.

Francis Maude, the shadow Cabinet Office minister, warned that the «years of plenty» in the public sector were over and said that the Tories would bring in outsiders to oversee the work of government departments and ensure they were delivering on their business plans.

19 July 2007: Jack Straw, in his new position of justice secretary in the cabinet of Gordon Brown, insists the government is determined to proceed with Lords reform and that the powers of the chamber, the method of election, financial packages and the number of members will (yet again) be discussed by a cross-party working group.

«It's going to be a book of my experiences, my thoughts, my thoughts about government and the role of government, some of the things I've worked on, some of the lessons I've drawned on what we've worked on,» he said today at a cabinet meeting.

So, with this I think the next wiser step left for Osoba is to lead his people out of (Egypt) APC to promised land.Moreso, with what his on grand now in ogun state toward 2015 election, am sorry for Amosu, especially when all who is who in ogun politics are ready to work with Osoba and there is strong alliance discussion going on in opposition party, but people even in Amosun cabinet were leaving APC day by day, I foresee what happened in Ekiti and kwara between Olushola SARAKI and then governor Lawal again in ogun come 2015, The victory of Aregbesola for APC in osun is so diffrent with this: some few month to election in osun many politician especially former governors were started joining APC to support Aregbesola while reverse is the case in ogun here, many even in cabinet are leaving the government to oppose Amosun, just imagine ew months to election now all former governors were agaist Amosun, all senators, Reps, and many assembly members were leaving APC agaist him and this is just the begining.Though,» ETI O WUN A WI TI OLUWA LASE» yet All EYI O WUN TI A NWI NI 2001, ILE OSOBA NI OLUWA TI FI ADE SI NI 2011.

Graham Stringer, who served as a Cabinet Office minister in the early years of Tony Blair's government, told the BBC: «Ed doesn't have an immediate appeal to the electorate — then the Labour party has to work harder on getting his policies across.»

The document published today, modelled on the programmes drawn up in Germany by a series of coalition governments dating back decades, showed the depth of work by the Tory and Lib Dem negotiators who toiled for five days in the Cabinet Office.

Working for a member of cabinet teaches you how the government works — in good times and in bad.

«The government needs to co-ordinate the social justice agenda from the centre and should give a Minister in the Cabinet Office specific responsibility to lead on this work and to ensure that the policies deliver in improving opportunities for all.»

«The president and his Cabinet are working collaboratively to create a leaner, more efficient government that does more with less of taxpayers» hard - earned dollars,» the official said.

With over 30 years of public - sector involvement at every level of government, from mayor to congressional committee chairman to cabinet member, Mineta will address the need for every business executive in the pet industry to establish and maintain working relationships with elected officials.

Wilson - Raybould says the part of her mandate letter that resonates with her the most is not necessarily the daunting to - do list but the opening paragraphs that are contained in every minister's letter, describing how the Liberals intend to be a government of cabinet and work together as a team.

There's a joint effort by the Work and Pensions and Business committees with Carillion's top brass, and, intriguingly, the Liaison Committee, the super committee of all the select committee chairs, has an evidence session with David Lidington the Cabinet Office minister coordinating the government's response to Carillion.

I have worked both in industry and within government, even at the Governor cabinet level.

For those seeking to understand the health ramifications of the Prime Minister's statement and the WA Government's actions, check out this text, «Working Together», which was part - funded by the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, and is freely available online.