Sentences with phrase «cabinet post as»

Hehr resigned his cabinet post as minister for Sports and Persons with Disabilities in January when the accusations first emerged.

Anna Soubry was sacked from a Cabinet post as Business Minister, then quit rather than take a lesser role.

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That period would prove important for another reason: the government posted Kuroda for a year as special adviser to the cabinet of Junichiro Koizumi, giving the civil servant sustained exposure to politicians at the highest levels.

As Sy explains, the President - elect's picks for various cabinet posts — apart from his selection of Rep. Tom Price to head the Department of Health and Human Services — could well have a significant effect on Americans» health and well - being over the next several years.

President - elect Donald Trump is expected to name former Goldman Sachs partner and Hollywood financier Steven Mnuchin as his nominee for Treasury secretary, a source said on Tuesday, putting a Wall Street veteran in the top U.S. economic Cabinet post for the first time in eight years.

In 1990 he stepped down as Prime Minister in favor of Deputy Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong yet remained in the Cabinet, first as a «Senior Minister» and then as «Minister Mentor,» vaguely defined posts that allowed him to oscillate between speaking engagements abroad while advising his ministerial colleagues on matters of state.

However, as The Washington Post noted, even selling off their holdings offers an opportunity for Trump's cabinet members to enhance their fortunes.

According to a transcript of a Florida Cabinet Meeting, «MR. [VP of Georgia - Pacific Palatka Ted] KENNEDY: However, as part of the administrative order, the DEP, EPA and Georgia - Pacific agreed that post installation of the technologies and subsequent optimization and testing period of a year each, we would test as to whether we could meet water quality standards in Rice Creek.

He has also filled a wide range of cabinet posts since he was first elected 32 years ago (Environment, Career Development, Public Works, Economic Development and Tourism, and as Deputy Premier).

An April 5 Associated Press story followed by a similar April 7 Washington Post story both asserted that White House Chief of Staff John Kelly was suffering from diminished clout in the White House, as a more confident President Trump feels comfortable taking matters directly to new hires like John Bolton and Larry Kudlow, chatting on the phone with outside advisers, and firing Cabinet secretaries over Kelly's objections.

He joined the board after serving six years as an elected MLA and cabinet minister for the government of British Columbia, where his various responsibilities included three cabinet posts encompassing economic development, labour and small business.

As I shared on social media last week, President Donald Trump has filled his Secretary of Agriculture post, the last of his open cabinet positions.

Arthur Wellesley - 1st Duke of Wellington1841 - 1846Renowned for his post as Commander of the Allied Army and for defeating Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo, Wellington was Prime Minister of Great Britain twice and later served simultaneously as Minister without Portfolio and Leader of the House of Lords in Robert Peel's second cabinet.

The former work and pensions secretary, who resigned his Cabinet post in June 2009 as part of a plot to oust Gordon Brown as leader, has decided he doesn't want to spend his life in frontline politics.

Trump is nearly finished choosing nominees for his Cabinet and the top tier of his administration, and four posts await appointments as he wraps up the year and begins final preparations for his inauguration.

Some sites claim that the proposed upcoming presidential cabinet and cabinet - level posts set a new record for its members» total personal fortunes: one estimate suggests it «could be worth as much as $...

David Cameron will stand down, but says: «I will continue in post as PM with my cabinet for the next three months» https://t.co/zQYMaVoIq7

The post of NUS president has traditionally served as a good stepping stone for Labour cabinet ministers.

Senate Democrats, for their part, can still point to their role in derailing Ronny Jackson's nomination to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs, another Cabinet post often seen as above politics in previous administrations.

Nine - tenths of the M.P.'s who first won seats in the House of Commons in 1918 or thereafter, and who held some ministerial office in the years from 1918 to 1955, began their progress towards posts in a ministry or a Cabinet by serving as parliamentary secretaries or as junior ministers... Recruitment to the front bench clearly begins with these two offices.

Theresa May has sacked Michael Gove from the Cabinet as she continues to ring the changes in top ministerial posts.

The newly created cabinet post of special assistant for community affairs, which Bottcher will fill, is seen as a signal of Cuomo's intentions to push marriage equality in the coming months.

Sir Richard Clive Mottram, GCB (born 23 April 1946) is a former British civil servant, who retired in 2007 from his most recent senior post as Permanent Secretary, Intelligence, Security and Resilience in the Cabinet Office.

The post divides Cameron's cabinet into four major segments: the first incarnation, the reshuffle in September 2012, the cabinet as it lined up before Tuesday's movements and how it looks now - although several other minor shuffles took place after ministerial resignations.

His post was subsequently retitled as Permanent Secretary Intelligence, Security, and Resilience, Cabinet Office.

He resumed the post in 1929 (once again as a member of the cabinet) when Labour returned to office under MacDonald, [7] and held it until 1930, when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Noel - Buxton, of Aylsham in the County of Norfolk.

President Ronald Reagan promised during the 1980 presidential election to eliminate the Department of Education as a cabinet post, [1] but he was not able to do so with a Democratic House of Representatives.

Mr Grayling is expected to be given another Cabinet post — also as a reward for his behaviour during the referendum campaign so far.

Having chosen Lord Hill as his representative to Europe, David Cameron has replaced him with Baroness Stowell, while immediately demoting the post so she is no longer a full member of cabinet — this is unprecedented.

Since taking up the post of Shadow Leader of the House I have worked as constructively as possible with you and your office and tried to take the fight to the Tories on television, on the radio and every Thursday morning in Business Questions and I have regularly called for the party to unite in the Shadow Cabinet and in public.

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.

«It's hard to imagine how, as a former wunderkind cabinet secretary, he could find a higher post in a Hillary administration,» Shnayerson wrote in an email.

She recounts one almost farcical encounter with Brown, in which he asked her to defend him publicly against charges of using women as window dressing, while refusing to give her, his elected deputy leader, the cabinet post that would make her title meaningful.

In my earlier post about Gordon Brown's performance at his press conference on CentreRight, I also mentioned that the Prime Minister failed to answer Ben Brogan's question about whether or not he would honour Tony Blair's previous promise to give David Cameron and the shadow cabinet access to the civil service as of the New Year.

However, in order to be taken as a serious government - in - waiting, politics has to come first and I was somewhat concerned recently to hear the following story about a member of the shadow cabinet: he had apparently already told David Cameron that he didn't want a higher profile post than that which he currently holds in advance of the general election, because he didn't want to give up other interests on account of time commitments or potential conflicts of interest involved in a different post.

Peter Hain and Shaun Woodward keep their roles as the Shadow Secretaries for Wales and Northern Ireland despite failing to get enough votes to win another Cabinet post in the election.

Mr Corbyn's team do not want to being back wholesale shadow cabinet elections but are considering allowing a small number of shadow cabinet posts to be elected as a peace offering to their divided party.

But our first problem is that much of Labour's frontbenches are empty, as are some shadow cabinet posts.

Frances Perkins was the first woman to hold a U.S. cabinet post when she served as secretary of labor under President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1930s.

On 15 July 2014, Gove's four - year stint in charge of the Department for Education came to an end when he was replaced as Secretary of State for Education by former Treasury Minister Nicky Morgan in a wide - ranging cabinet reshuffle and moved to the post of Government Chief Whip.

Most former cabinet ministers will now shadow their old posts, but there are a few notable exceptions, the most obvious being Gordon Brown, who has returned to the backbenches after quitting as Labour leader.

[1][2] His post was then split into three positions: he was succeeded as Cabinet Secretary by Sir Jeremy Heywood, as Head of the Home Civil Service by Sir Bob Kerslake (in a part - time role), and as Permanent Secretary in the Cabinet Office by Ian Watmore.

Since you first entered Parliament in 1970, and over forty years since your first Front Bench role as a PPS, your passion for getting things done and the energy you have brought to your Cabinet posts has not diminished one bit.

When Callaghan won, he rewarded Hattersley with his first cabinet post, as secretary for prices and consumer protection.

Jon Cruddas, the first round ballot winner in the 2007 deputy leadership contest (and who, under first past the post, would currently serve as deputy leader, not Harman) actually stood on a platform of rejecting a cabinet seat so he could instead devote his time to party development.

If you want to see them (which even MPs with votes don't), they're posted at Labour Uncut but here's a summary of what we think will be the composition of the new Shadow Cabinet: A Miliband as Leader Harriet -LSB-...]

Until or unless his name is cleared, therefore, he is in no position to make a Cabinet comeback - assuming that David Cameron would want this to happen - let alone resume his former post as Chief Whip under this Government.

But the progress was incremental as the number of women in full cabinet posts increased from three to five.

Downing Street was forced to embark on some emergency repairs on Tuesday evening after Lady Stowell, who replaces Lord Hill of Oareford as leader of the Lords after his nomination as Britain's next European commissioner, saw the post downgraded from a full cabinet post with a # 22,000 reduction in pay.

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.