Sentences with phrase «cabinet minister told»

One Blairite cabinet minister told me yesterday that not only are the wheels «definitely» coming off the government: «I don't think anyone's driving the car.»

If the whip is now in favour of leaving Nato, of a completely new policy on Trident... I just can not see how many people will be prepared to accept that responsibility,» one shadow cabinet minister told this newspaper.

One cabinet minister told the Guardian: «Some have described it as Orwellian, and it is.

«Gove is the key,» as one cabinet minister told the FT recently.

One Cabinet minister told the Sunday Times of Downing Street's handling of the issue: «It was just awful.

A Cabinet Minister told me earlier this week that its real aim is the welfare budget.

One shadow cabinet minister told friends: «I am expecting a busy Christmas, and a very quiet new year.»

One Cabinet minister told me to view this parliament as an Australian - style three year term that will begin after Brexit has been rejected and end in a snap election in 2019 — shortly after the new Tory leader has been chosen.

«She has really decided to go for it now, and having had the last time to think about what she stands for, will be a much better candidate,» a former cabinet minister told Bush.

Meanwhile an unnamed Cabinet minister tells The Guardian's Pippa Crerar that the latest approach to Brexit will inevitably lead to a big slice of customs fudge: «The prime minister wants to find a way through this that keeps the party together.

One rattled Shadow Cabinet Minister tells me: «What is going on is terrifying.»

Not exact matches

Opinion polls showed that just 22 % of New Brunswickers supported the deal, and a two - month - long diet of protests and loud public outrage convinced five of Graham's Liberal MLAs, including three cabinet ministers, to tell the premier in early January that they couldn't support the transaction.

«Our National Pensioners and Senior Citizens Federation told us that every time they had their lobby in Ottawa, Conservative Cabinet Ministers and Tory Members of Parliament refused to meet with them, whereas in previous governments at least the Minister in charge of seniors would meet with the seniors» delegation.

When asked about the expected $ 1,000,000 severance he could collect for having served as an MLA and cabinet minister since 1979, Speaker Kowalski told the media not to worry, because «I'll never collect it,» «I'll die in office.»

Minister for Faith and Communities Baroness Warsi told Premier's News Hour she thinks the women appointed to cabinet have earned their new positions, she said: «Liz Truss, who've I've known for many years Nicky Morgan, Esther McVey; phenomenally talented women who quite rightly should be in cabinet, and it was right that they've built up their experience over the last few years since being elected and now they're going to serve at the top table.»

«I will continue to make that point to the minister and I hope that he will be the champion I want him to be in cabinet, in ERC [Expenditure Review Committee] fighting for dollars for health,» Dr Gannon told The Australian Financial Review.

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 well remembers the «orchestrated and scripted» control exerted by Mr Cameron where Cabinet ministers were told what to say and to whom after weekly meetings.

It's now clear what happens when a shadow Cabinet minister publicly expresses their difference of opinion with the Labour leader: They either get sacked or they get told to shut up, as shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn has been.

«Early deselections would be an absolute nightmare,» a Shadow Cabinet Minister loyal to Corbyn told me.

Although Thatcher initially vowed to «fight on», a succession of Cabinet ministers trooped into Number 10 to tell her the game was up.

Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude told her the implementation of Iain Duncan Smith's flagship policy had been «pretty lamentable» and that it was «very regrettable» so much money — # 34m, to be precise — had been wasted in the process.

McDonnell also hit out at former Labour shadow cabinet minister Caroline Flint, after she told the BBC's Sunday Politics programme yesterday that his ambition that the party «hang on» in the recent local elections was not good enough.

Within the past week, one senior Cabinet minister has told me the election campaign was a «horror show», but says that No. 10 is now functioning much better.

In response to Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude's admission that the implementation of the Universal Credit system has been «pretty lamentable», the Department for Work and Pensions has told ITV News Iain Duncan Smith has «not shied away from any tough decisions» over the policy:

Labour MPs from west London told the Guardian that a new strategy will target cabinet ministers individually, the most «significant» of whom would be the business secretary, Peter Mandelson.

Cabinet Minister Francis Maude has told ITV's Daybreak that Peter Cruddas» cash for access claims are «embarrassing and wrong, and not true.»

In May 1998, the then Chairman of the Political Honours Scrutiny Committee, former Conservative Cabinet Minister Lord Pym, told a House of Commons Select Committee that the committee considered a political donation a point in a nominee's favour as it indicated involvement in public life, and that the nominee had «put their money where his mouth is».

The former work and pensions secretary, whose resignation from the cabinet and criticism of Gordon Brown last June nearly toppled the prime minister, has told his constituency Labour party in Stalybridge and Hyde he will be standing down as their MP but that his decision is personal and, after 20 years in the Westminster political system, no reflection on Labour's chances at the next general election.

Senior MPs told the Guardian Corbyn and his team were already holding «interviews» with potential recruits to the shadow cabinet, though there have been disputes about the «terms and conditions», including whether Corbyn's allies can vet new shadow ministers» political advisers.

They specifically told him that they are only in support of one of the South - West ministers in his cabinet.

But Theresa May, the Home Secretary, and Michael Gove, the Education Secretary, were among the cabinet ministers who refused to say whether they had been told about the plan in advance when questioned publicly.

The signatories — including 10 former shadow cabinet ministers — told Mr. Corbyn that the «extremely worrying trend of escalating abuse and hostility» is «being done in your name.»

The former chancellor told the Daily Mail: «It would clearly be sensible in terms of party management to allow Cabinet ministers to speak out on both sides — once the date for the referendum is set — not least to enable the Conservative party to reunite easily once the referendum is over, whatever the result.

Former Cabinet minister Yvette Cooper told Mr Corbyn: «In your heart, do you really think you can bring the country and party together?

Consequently, when on 26th June 2015 Murtala Mohammed, the Deputy Minister of Information and Media Relations, repeated the Koku Anyidoho lies by telling the Ghanaian Times that I «was dismissed by late President John Atta Mills for failing to name the members of his cabinet, who were directly involved with judgment debt saga» I wrote a rejoinder to the Ghanaian Times.

He told Sky News: «As you'll see this afternoon, the cabinet is fully behind Gordon Brown, the prime minister.

TORY Cabinet ministers were urged last night to get off the fence and tell voters where they stand on an EU referendum — In or Out.

Osborne therefore dutifully failed to tell Cabinet of his decision, gave ministers «Labour hypocrisy» attack lines just hours before the announcement» and packed off an under - briefed junior minister to face the Jeremy Paxman monstering machine.

Mr Miliband had told the BBC last week that he was «not a candidate» to take over from Mr Blair, but political commentators said his remarks still left the cabinet minister room to later put himself forward in any ensuing leadership battle.

Bower's account also tells how repeated requests by Cabinet ministers for papers on Iraq were ignored.

The former employment minister, who sat in the Cabinet in the last Parliament before losing her seat in the general election, told Sky News she had been shocked by the way the EU operated.

The widely - respected former Labour cabinet minister Alan Johnson has already criticised Corbyn, telling the BBC last month:

Shapps told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the solution to the leadership crisis is not «to bury our heads in the sand» and claimed to have the support of about 30 MPs including five former cabinet ministers.

«David Cameron also told the country before the election that he'd tell any cabinet minister making cuts to frontline services to go and think again.

One shadow minister told PoliticsHome: «By writing a letter to Labour MPs opposing military action, Jeremy Corbyn has declared war on his own Shadow Cabinet.»

«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 ardent Brexiteer and former cabinet minister Owen Paterson also looked like he was reasonably pleased with the speech when he told The Guardian that it was «very good really, generous in tone and content».

Former Cabinet minister Tessa Jowell, who served in Government under both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, told BBC News that while she was «sure» Ed Miliband was aware of the activities of the then - prime minister's special adviser, it would not damage his position now.

An unnamed minister told the Sunday Telegraph that Miller should lose her cabinet post because her conduct was «incompatible» with her role as a cabinet minister.