Sentences with phrase «cabinet ministers lost»

Five Conservative cabinet ministers lost their seats in that election, including Harold Macmillan.

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

Andrew Mitchell's foul - mouthed tirade against police officers on duty outside Downing Street was supposed to be nothing more than a Cabinet minister losing his temper so badly it damned the entire government as a bunch of not - caring Tory snobs.

The pain when a cabinet minister loses his or her seat in a general election is usually felt more by the individual than by their party.

These comments made up the only gaffe which had any tangible impact, after all: a Cabinet minister lost his job, no less.

This spawned the phrase, «Portillo moment», referring to a cabinet minister losing their seat at the fall of a government.

No serving Cabinet minister lost their seat at the election; Tony Blair aside, the Milibands and Ed Balls are the best Labour has.

Not exact matches

Smriti Irani and Arun Jaitley both lost the elections in the recent Lok Sabha elections in India, so how can they become cabinet ministers if they didn't even win the election?

David Cameron could lose one of his prized four female Cabinet ministers if MPs condemn culture secretary Maria Miller over her expenses claims

Miliband is comprehensively losing the latter, as today's press conference from Cabinet ministers about Labour's uncosted spending commitments will demonstrate all too well.

The Prime Minister is appointing new cabinet members in a reshuffle of her cabinet following an election that saw the Conservatives lose their majority.

[88][89] Prominent Liberal Democrat MPs who lost their seats included former leader Charles Kennedy, former deputy leaders Vince Cable and Simon Hughes, and several cabinet ministers.

If the swing of 16.49 per cent attained at Norwich North were replicated at the general election, the following cabinet ministers would lose their seats: Jim Murphy, Alistair Darling, Ben Bradshaw, Jack Straw, John Denham, Ed Balls, Ed Miliband and Douglas Alexander.

Both media reported that: «She became the second cabinet minister in the present administration to have lost her job over the Woyome judgment debt issue following closely on the heels of sacked Attorney General, Martin Amidu.»

And Tory Cabinet Minister Chris Grayling attacked Mr Balls as «the man who stood alongside Gordon Brown through the crash, the man who lost his seat at the general election, the man who presided over Norwich City's football fortunes as they got relegated».

The only Conservative minister to lose her seat was Esther McVey, employment minister, but the Conservative cabinet escaped unscathed and David Cameron continues as prime minister.

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.

Former cabinet minister Tim Yeo has lost his libel action against the Sunday Times, with the judge...

The man had noisily heckled new justice secretary David Lidington, causing the cabinet minister to lose his cool.

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.

Cabinet Office minister Ben Gummer lost his Ipswich seat to Labour by just 831 votes.

Nick Clegg's resignation followed a disastrous night at the polls for his party, which saw cabinet ministers Danny Alexander, Simon Hughes, Ed Davey and Lynne Featherstone lose their seats, along with former party leader Charles Kennedy.

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.

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.

Shadow cabinet minister says there has to be time for reflection «because we lost by 2 million votes.»

Former Cabinet minister Chris Huhne has lost a challenge against an order that he must pay # 77,750 costs from his prosecution for passing speeding points to his ex-wife.

Gordon Brown must now face this reality, after losing three cabinet ministers in three days, attempting to terminate his chancellor's career in public and reportedly offering a series of posts to people who refused to take them.

The Liberal Democrats, led by outgoing Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, had their worst result since their formation in 1988, holding just eight out of their previous 57 seats with Cabinet ministers Vince Cable, Ed Davey and Danny Alexander losing their seats.

Former cabinet minister Tim Yeo has lost his libel action against the Sunday Times, with the judge comparing him to a fish wriggling on a hook.

Former party chairman and cabinet minister Lord Tebbit has become the latest senior figure to stoke dissent, urging more «transition» measures to help the poorest and calling on the Treasury to say more clearly who would lose what.

Today Ms Morgan, who lost her Cabinet role when Theresa May became Prime Minister, indicated that she and some other Conservative MPs would vote against the proposals in their current form.

Buckingham Palace helped David Cameron and Nick Clegg keep Gordon Brown in Downing Street in the days after he lost the Election to make it easier for the Coalition to take power, a former Cabinet Minister claims tonight.

The former Conservative Cabinet minister Ken Clarke has warned David Cameron that any attempt to imitate UKIP will «drive moderate people to stick with the Liberal Democrats», adding: «I can't think of a more certain way to lose the general election than to go for a lurch to the right.»

It would hardly be «surprising» if the Conservatives lost the Eastleigh by - election, Ken Clarke has said, becoming the first Tory Cabinet minister to publicly admit the prospect of defeat - Telegraph

Another senior Tory said Cameron would have to allow his ministers to campaign as they wished «or else he will lose half his cabinet as a result».

Aren't these proposals a pretty sorry attempt to distract attention away from a Prime Minister who has lost his authority; a Cabinet full of second preferences; and a Labour Government that has led this country to the brink of bankruptcy?

To lose one cabinet minister, Jacqui Smith, may be regarded as a misfortune.

The point is that [C] raig brings cabinet ministers here and can get things done... Every time we communicate without the messages we are at best wasting our time and at worse losing votes.»

The man who had been praised by the prime minister as a pioneering reformer responsible for a new generation of free schools lost his full cabinet post, leaving him to joke about his prospects.

The next most vulnerable cabinet minister is Ben Bradshaw in Exeter, who would lose his seat on a 9.4 % swing.

«While there is merit in refocusing the former DCFS on its original role as the Department for Education, losing Family from any Cabinet minister's primary responsibility is a strange act, given the Conservative manifesto pledge to make Britain the most family - friendly country in Europe.

At least in modern times (the post WW2 era), most cabinet ministers have always had safeish seats, the main reason being that you generally need to have sat for a couple of parliamentary terms to get into the cabinet and if you have a marginal seat you tend to lose it before you get to cabinet level.

Tessa Jowell lost her place at the table when James Purnell became Culture Secretary but was given the right to attend Cabinet as the Olympics Minister and also became Paymaster General.

January 9, 2015 • Mahinda Rajapaksa, who presided over the end of the island nation's long and brutal civil war, lost to a former ally and Cabinet minister, Maithripala Sirisena.

Everything Conservative government Cabinet ministers and representatives said about their Bill C - 16 in the House of Commons and Senate made it clear that the legal effect of the Bill (which became law in May 2007) is to require the government (whether minority or majority) to lose a vote of confidence in the House of Commons before the Prime Minister can advise the Governor General to dissolve Parliament and call an election.

In the 1960s, Claude Wagner — the father of current Supreme Court justice Richard Wagner — was a judge, then a Quebec politician and cabinet minister, then after losing the Quebec Liberal leadership to Robert Bourassa in 1970, Wagner returned to the bench but then stepped down from the bench again to enter federal politics as a Conservative.