Sentences with phrase «cabinet minister under»

16 I accept the submissions of the appellant, that Parliament never intended nor contemplated that the authority of a provincial cabinet minister under the Code to designate technicians could turn on their name, rather than their duties and official status.

Mandelson, a former cabinet minister under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, told an event for the Jewish Chronicle that he was actively working to bring an end to Corbyn's leadership.

Lord Howell, a Cabinet minister under Mrs Thatcher, went in his capacity as president of the Royal Commonwealth Society in Britain.

The controversial diaries of Richard Crossman, a Labour cabinet minister under Harold Wilson, provided a key inspiration.

Alun Wyburn - Powell's latest book is Political Wings (published by Pen & Sword), a biography of William Wedgwood Benn, first Viscount Stansgate, father of Tony Benn, defector from the Liberals to Labour and cabinet minister under MacDonald and Attlee.

The magnificent Ken Clarke has been an MP since 1970, and served as a Cabinet Minister under Thatcher, Major and Cameron.

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

Kenney, a Conservative cabinet minister under former prime minister Stephen Harper, believes he has the majority of delegates needed to win.

Kenney, once a cabinet minister under former prime minister Stephen Harper, was long considered the front - runner to replace Harper as leader of the federal Conservatives.

David Ord, who becomes a knight in the new year, is a co-owner of Bristol ports and a member of the Conservative party's Leaders» Group, who were granted exclusive access to cabinet ministers under David Cameron and George Osborne.

Not exact matches

«Two former cabinet ministers, Harry Bloy and John Yap, did not, under the advice of counsel, ever provide statements to the RCMP.»

He held four cabinet posts under Premier Klein's government: in 1997 Stelmach became Minister of Agriculture, Food and Development; in May 1999, he was shuffled to the Infrastructure Ministry and later became Minister of Transport; and in 2004, he became the Alberta Intergovernmental Affairs Minister, a position he held until he resigned in June 2006 to become a party leadership candidate.

In splendid «Yes Minister» fashion, under the heading «Official: Sensitive», the Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood wrote to civil servants declaring: «Leaking is corrosive and undermines trust and good government.»

«Nigerians are aware that the Presidency has continued to shield fraudulent cabinet ministers including those known for extorting funds from agencies under them in addition to those indicted for corrupt enrichment.

Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude struggled when under forensic examination on the Today programme this morning, when he was seemingly unable to answer why public sector pension reform was needed when its cost as a share of GDP was set to fall.

According to Minister Hawa Koomson, only 30 % of the $ 1million will be allocated to the constituencies and even that one will be done under determinations by a 10 - member team approved by Cabinet.

[16] The newspaper was subsequently contacted by the British government's Cabinet Secretary, Sir Jeremy Heywood, under instruction from Prime Minister David Cameron and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, who ordered that the hard drives containing the information be destroyed.

He became the Member of Parliament (MP) for Doncaster North in 2005, being re-elected in 2010, 2015, and 2017, and served in the Cabinet from 2007 - 10 under Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

The polls simply don't bear out the claim that Cameron is suffering from having just four Cabinet ministers out of the 19 he is allowed to choose under coalition rules.

Meanwhile, Communication Director of the NPP, Nana Akomea, has sent signals he can't serve as deputy minister after he has served under ex-president Kufuor as a Cabinet Mminister after he has served under ex-president Kufuor as a Cabinet MinisterMinister.

Francis Maude, who as cabinet minister created GDS, recently admitted that if GDS had undertaken faster and more wholescale reform of legacy systems, it wouldn't be under threat now.

Akufo Addo was a Cabinet Minister in this NPP administration, under President Agyekum Kuffour.

Another former minister said: «What does it say to the rest of the Middle East if a senior Cabinet minister in charge of Britain's huge aid budget disappears for 48 hours from a family holiday in Israel and is under the wing of a pro-Israeli lobbyist?»

The cuts are then planned and executed by the bureaucracy under the direction of the cabinet and ministers within the country.

With the Prime Minister attempting to draw a line under the affair and preserve one of the few female members of his Cabinet, some 78 % of voters taking part in the poll said that Mrs Miller should be sacked as Culture Secretary, against just 10 % who said she should stay.

«Finally, I seize this opportunity to remind Lai Mohammed that under the Jonathan administration the ministry of information had annual ministerial briefing where the media and civil society groups interrogated cabinet ministers on the activities of their departments.

Wike, who was minister of state for Education under Jonathan and generally perceived as First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan's «anointed», attacked «most cabinet members» for taking advantage of the former president's gentlemanliness.

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.

The departmental structure around them is also shifting, with Remainer Damian Green taking over effectively as deputy prime minister in the Cabinet Office, which was linking the work being done in the Brexit department with Liam Fox's Department for International Trade and the Foreign Office under Boris Johnson.

May is under pressure from within her cabinet to counter Sturgeon's agitation, increasing expectations the prime minister could set out what Scotland will gain from Brexit when she addresses the Scottish Conservative annual conference in Glasgow on Friday.

Under the deal President Mugabe remains head of state, the cabinet and the armed services and MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai assumes the role of prime minister.

Some of the information released on Thursday came under the heading of «transparency» and Matthew Hancock, the Cabinet Office minister, said in a statement that «enhancing transparency and accountability continues to be at the heart of our approach to government».

Another former Conservative cabinet minister and ex-MP, David Mellor, was even more scathing, describing the Tories under Cameron as «this pale sad shadow of what the Tory party used to be» and warning that it was «ripping itself apart now because of the sense that David Cameron is a prisoner of Nick Clegg and the Lib Dems».

Following the party's decision to support the European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill 2017, at least three shadow cabinet ministers, all representing constituencies which voted to remain in the EU, resigned from their position as a result of the party's decision to invoke Article 50 under the bill.

[4] When Labour came to power under Ramsay MacDonald in January 1924, Buxton was appointed Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, [5] with a seat in the cabinet, and sworn of the Privy Council.

A report by former Tory cabinet minister Lord Heseltine aimed at boosting economic growth in the regions has come under attack from business groups.

Hewitt, health secretary under Tony Blair, echoed Hoon's insistence that they had not brought cabinet ministers into the loop about their plans as she maintained she had not spoken to the foreign secretary, David Miliband — seen as a possible successor to Brown — or any other member of the cabinet.

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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.

«When the time comes for the person to deal with corrupt officials, he will have the independent power and mind to handle all cases without interference from any Cabinet minister and also not fall under the presidency to control the actions of the Special Prosecutor,» he indicated.

The revised table of cabinet precedence - arguably more capricious under Labour post-1997 than under any previous administration - gives Harriet Harman the deputy's precedence she was previously denied, with Mandelson third; effectively they are being presented as joint deputy prime ministers, for different purposes.

Cabinet ministers are under orders to visit Scotland regularly.

The former Cabinet minister - who served under both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown - said Labour «is not dead and it can recover».

Senior party sources suggested that, although Cable backed the policy first proposed under Farron of a second referendum on Brexit, he wanted to lean heavily on his credibility as a former cabinet minister to give the party more gravitas.

Of Blair's first Cabinet, Jack Cunningham (Minister of Agriculture) had been an Energy Under - Secretary in the 1970s.

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.

Theresa May has told cabinet ministers it is «very important» that the government opposes the amendments, and a substantial whipping operation is under way.

Cabinet minister Oliver Letwin, who is heading Whitehall's Brexit unit to prepare the way for negotiations, said the legal advice was that article 50 of the Lisbon treaty can be invoked under the royal prerogative, which does not require parliamentary approval.

As one Cabinet minister said to me yesterday; under AV the losers win.

Mr Laws» return will require one of the five Lib Dem ministers currently in the Cabinet to give way, under informal terms agreed during the coalition's formation.