Sentences with phrase «cabinet minister»

It's a familiar theme of former cabinet ministers who were less keen when in office.

In opposition he has served as a shadow minister and shadow cabinet minister in a number of positions.

A number of cabinet ministers have done so since 1979.

She told an amusing tale of returning home after becoming one of the most senior cabinet minister in the coalition government and finding a note on her doorstep.

The former Conservative cabinet minister says he would also let his name stand in any race to pick a leader for a newly formed party.

It was made worse by the fact that that someone was a senior shadow cabinet minister who I have quite a large crush on.

The former cabinet minister said he was «completely out of his comfort zone» and was only talking about the worst case scenario.

The word is that he has overwhelming support from cabinet ministers and other liberal insiders.

And with cabinet ministers lining up to brief against him, the chancellor might well fancy swapping his current set of colleagues for a new one.

«This could be the day that he won,» one shadow cabinet minister told me afterwards.

It's not every day some of the serving cabinet ministers refuse to back a cabinet colleague.

Two years later, she became the youngest female cabinet minister in Canadian history, taking on the role of minister of state for Western economic diversification.

A bumper crop of seven cabinet ministers lost their seats at that election.

But it takes a former cabinet minister put in prison for those among the political establishment to speak about the horrors of jail life.

The shadow cabinet minister also argued that universal free school meals would end the stigma around children not paying for lunch.

And a junior cabinet minister swiftly resigned this month just before a magazine was to publish a damaging article.

OK so we have open primaries - so how then do you ensure that your strongest candidates - your experienced cabinet ministers - get placed in the seats most likely to secure election?

This is a generous offer to let cabinet ministers break ranks and debate this because it is the biggest issue.

Only five shadow cabinet ministers registered more than a 0.5 % showing in our recent survey of party conference performers.

Asked to give cabinet ministers marks out of 10 for their performance, Labour members and supporters gave him an average of only 4.3.

Would it be appropriate to elect actual cabinet ministers?

Most notably, he was recently named as one of the two cabinet ministers applying heavy pressure on the prime minister to let them campaign for against him in the referendum.

«There's nobody more loyal,» one adviser to a Conservative cabinet minister said on condition of anonymity.

However, an equal number of cabinet ministers have appeared in public to insist he does a vital job and must stay.

There is a plethora of former cabinet ministers, as well as seasoned experts in the law, medicine, charities, the workplace, culture and much more.

However, one of the shadow cabinet ministers who resigned last week said the rebels were willing to play a «long game».

This is an excellent opportunity to give shadow cabinet ministers some real opportunities to develop policies in their portfolio areas.

Britain's partners in Europe, notably Germany, are increasingly losing interest in the government's «foot stamping demands» for a renegotiated relationship, according to former Labour cabinet minister Lord Mandelson.

Lord Fowler, formerly a Tory cabinet minister as Norman Fowler, said the report «presents the Lords with an important opportunity» to reform itself.

The inner circle of political advisers are said to be as powerful as cabinet ministers for the influence they wield on government policy.

If this is a real change of heart by the former Tory Cabinet Minister for Faith then she should be a valuable supporter of the ACCORD Coalition.

Mr Corbyn's commitment to the cause of remaining in the EU has frequently been questioned, with resigning Shadow Cabinet minister Chris Bryant suggesting today that the Labour leader may even have voted Leave.

«This week, I'm one of four Conservative Shadow Cabinet ministers making speeches on climate change, talking about how we will take action to cut emissions and green our economy.

Along with mass immigration, it is the most powerful case for leaving — and it was powerfully made a week earlier by Cabinet minister Iain Duncan Smith.

The Vice President was accompanied by the Finance Minister Ken Ofori Atta, Senior Minister Yaw Osarfo Marfo and other cabinet ministers who also used the opportunity to file their tax returns for the first quarter of the year.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Most Rev Justin Welby, former Labour Cabinet Minister Lord Adonis and others have also contributed to the book.

The rally featured Neal Bernard «The Roughneck» Hancock removing his shoes and throwing them at the doors of the Legislature, former federal cabinet minister Chris Alexander appearing to nod as protesters chanted «lock her up» in reference to Premier Rachel Notley, and climate change denying, anti-gay and anti-immigration messages on signs and pamphlets.

However, prominent remain campaigners including former Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg and New Labour cabinet minister Peter Mandelson voiced dismay at the proposals in the speech.

Delegates included Cabinet ministers such as Jack Straw, Andy Burnham, Liam Byrne, Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, and Dame Tessa Jowell; a former Home Office minister, Nick Herbert, and Labour's Shadow Business Secretary, Chuka Umunna.

Britain does not have to agree with everything the EU proposes to keep trading with Europe, the former Tory cabinet minister John Redwood wrote recently: «Nobody has ever explained why Germany would wish to stop selling us her BMWs or France her wine if we disagree strongly over the direction of travel for us.»

But the former Lib Dem cabinet minister does not include the papers tabled by his own side.

The audience included David MacNaughton, Canada's ambassador to the U.S., and Monique Smith, a former Liberal cabinet minister who is Ontario's representative in Washington, D.C.

His brother John Hare was a Conservative cabinet minister under Anthony Eden and Harold Macmillan.

The likes of Tony Benn, Michael Foot, Barbara Castle and Peter Shore, senior cabinet ministers at the time, were not awaiting Wilson's renegotiation before declaring their position.

Options under consideration include Liberal Democrat Cabinet minister Chris Huhne's Eastleigh, the SNP's Western Isles constituency and Conservative backbencher Louise Mensch's Corby seat.

I mean, who ever thought that «Having your cake and eating it» was ever a serious proposition from senior cabinet ministers like Boris Johnson and David Davis.