Sentences with phrase «cabinet over the war»

The only man who had the decency to resign from cabinet over the war when it actually made a difference (even Clare Short was slow off the mark).

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Because most cabinet ministers believed — or hoped — that the war would be over by Christmas, they resisted the field marshal's hugely expensive goal of putting a million Britons in uniform.

The accountability made possible by the net is often of the trivial, superficial sort (as with Emily Thornberry MP's resignation from cabinet for tweeting a picture of a van), while the major deceptions (over the NHS, foreign wars, tax havens) have not resulted in anyone being held to account.

A fresh defeat today over the Northern Irish border will pile pressure on Theresa May, who must this morning try to reach agreement with her Brexit war cabinet over post-Brexit customs arrangements.

But despite a series of tense showdowns at Theresa May's Brexit «War Cabinet» ministers continue to be deadlocked over what to do.

Despite a series of tense showdowns at Theresa May's «War Cabinet» (pictured in February) ministers continue to be deadlocked over what to do

[56] Attlee and Greenwood played a vital role in supporting Churchill during a series of War Cabinet debates over whether or not to negotiate peace terms with Hitler following the Fall of France in May 1940, both supported Churchill and gave him the majority he needed in the War Cabinet to continue Britain's resistance.

Currently, the minutes of the Cabinet meetings over the possibility of war with Iraq will not be available until 2033.

In the Commons tomorrow, Labour will use ancient parliamentary rules to force a binding vote which could see ministers having to hand over all the papers presented to the Brexit war Cabinet on the economic effects of both options.

He was the chancellor who presided over the most catastrophic financial crash since the second world war and he was a senior member of the cabinet that subsequently took Labour to its second worst defeat since the first world war.

There's an ongoing cold war between Benue State governor, Gabriel Suswam and the governor - elect, Samuel Ortom over the former's plan to impose members of his cabinet...

As the Civil War rages on, the president must also contend with the continued carnage on the battlefield, and the fights he even experiences with members in his own cabinet over the decision to emancipate the slaves.

It never truly explains why Lincoln's Cabinet is at odds, convinces us why this fight has to be waged and won even before the war is over, or makes the political double - dealers as interesting as the boys in blue or gray.

Lincoln manages to encompass many aspects of the president's last three months: his arguments with his unstable wife, Mary Todd (Sally Field); his determination to keep their eldest son, Robert (Joseph Gordon - Levitt), out of uniform; his grief over the recent death of their 11 - year - old son, Willie, and the thousands of other sons taken by the war; his magnanimous friendships with the former political enemies who joined his cabinet; and of course his assassination (which Spielberg ingeniously represents with a scene from a children's play).

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.

The members of the cabinet want Viscount Halifax (Stephen Dillane), but he treats the position like a hot potato, turning the role over to the last person they see as someone who can ensure peace or win the war.