Sentences with phrase «cabinet ministers break»

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

Not exact matches

Whitehall source says defence secretary will be asked to name his price to break deadlock

Pro-Brexit ministers fear Downing Street will try to pick off the defence secretary, Gavin Williamson, in the coming days — to break the cabinet deadlock and secure a majority for Theresa May's favoured customs...

In any other job, breaking the law would likely be cause for dismissal, but this does not appear to be the case if you are a cabinet minister in Alberta's Progressive Conservative government.

As the meeting broke up, minister for the Cabinet Office Francis Maude and chief secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander, said: «While the talks are ongoing it is obviously disappointing that some unions have decided on industrial action.

David Davis, the Cabinet minister for Exiting the EU, is top of the PM's form as we break for Christmas, I understand.

During the Olusegun Obasanjo administration, Kaduna State produced two ministers — El - Rufai, who was Minister of the Federal Capital Territory and Nenadi Usman, the Minister of Finance and so many others.But Buhari has reluctantly made only few, and if he had his way, he would have picked only one Minister from each of the six Geo - Political Zones, because Nigeria is too broke to support a huge cabinet.

The prime minister is recalling cabinet ministers from their Easter break to seek approval today.

The Prime Minister broke new ground by inviting Mr Ashdown to sit on a joint cabinet committee, and there will now be questions about whether his successor will be such an enthusiastic visitor to Downing Street.

«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.»

«Furthermore, Mr. President's recent announcement to the world that the nation, with its abundant human and natural resources, is broke and can not pay cabinet ministers not only sends a discouraging signal to the domestic and international business community, but also exposes the ineptitude of the present administration to meaningfully and sincerely exert itself and work with industrious and innovative investors to create and manage wealth.

We ask; how can any reasonable investor still have the confidence to invest in a country where the President himself continues to alert that his country reeks of corrupt people and that the government is broke to the extent it can not pay cabinet ministers?

Taken in association with the accusations put forward by Leighton Andrews — a former Welsh Government Cabinet Minister — there is a substantial body of evidence building which suggests Carwyn Jones has broken the ministerial code.

But Ms Abbott said the Cabinet minister's explanations «stretch credulity to the limit» and called for a probe into whether the ministerial code was broken.

When The Guardian probed claims that Priti Patel broke the ministerial code by holding undeclared meetings in Israel, the ambitious cabinet minister issued a stern response in a calculated bid to kill the story.

David Cameron's most senior ministers gathered for a school photo this morning as the Cabinet sat for the first time since the summer break.

Married couples should not «count on» the Government delivering them tax breaks before the 2015 general election, Cabinet minister Kenneth Clarke said today.

Former Cabinet minister Nicky Morgan has warned the Government that shutting British businesses out of the single market would break their own manifesto commitments.

A former Labour MP and cabinet minister, Williams was one of the group known as the «Gang of Four» who broke away from the Labour party in 1981 to form the SDP, which later joined with the Liberals in 1988 to create the Liberal Democrats.

• Michael Gove has said that the European Union is encouraging extremism across Europe as he joined five other cabinet ministers in breaking ranks with David Cameron to campaign to take Britain out of the EU.

Whilst I have been able to use the experience and the clout which came from having been a cabinet minister for the benefit of the constituency in getting a hearing, contributing to policy and providing a voice for local people and for Sheffield at national level, it is clear that the leadership of the party wish to see new faces in ministerial office and a clear break with the past.

It's notable that two of Cameron's Cabinet colleagues who have broken cover in recent days — eurosceptic Michael Gove and europhile Kenneth Clarke — are far more widely thought than the Prime Minister to put strength of feeling ahead of tactics.

However, she has already broken records by becoming the youngest female cabinet minister in British history when she was appointed to lead Defra two years ago at the age of 38.