Sentences with phrase «cabinet post when»

She was tipped for a shadow cabinet post when Michael Howard became leader.

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.

They were shadow home secretary Chris Grayling and shadow transport secretary Theresa Villiers - both, intriguingly, were not given Cabinet posts when the Coalition eventually formed.

Not exact matches

a prominent CEO asked me when he was offered a post in George W. Bush's cabinet.

He had been a Labour councillor for 25 years when he defected to the Conservatives and has held a number of civic posts including chair of Housing, chair of Planning, chair of Recycling and Waste, Cabinet member for the Environment, deputy leader of the council and Mayor of Ealing.

Tory Party chairman Baroness Warsi has issued an appeal to David Cameron to keep her in her post when he carries out his forthcoming Cabinet reshuffle.

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.

Mr Hain quit his Cabinet post to clear his name and the committee appear to have taken that on - board when specifying a punishment.

What wasn't true was Jaquie Smith's porkie pie when she shouted «not true'about 16 hours ago from web» It was not at all clear to me that Dorries knew the answer to her question, hence this post; but if she did already state at the weekend on Any Questions that there were no AWS women in the Cabinet, then that can be substantiated.

Mr Grayling acquired a reputation for being highly effective in attacking Labour ministers when he was an up - and - coming Conservative MP but has made a series of errors since being elevated to the party's high command and has shown a less sure touch since he was promoted to one of the four most senior posts in the Shadow Cabinet.

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.

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

Ms Harman said she would expect Labour MPs who were offered posts in the reshuffle to accept them: «I think he can choose who he wants to have in his shadow cabinet and I would expect that anybody he asks in the PLP would be prepared to serve now, because what he's shown is that he can lead us forward at a time when the Conservatives were expecting to make gains.»

Incidentally, your other point re experience is less so these days, with Cameron and Osborne being particularly good examples of having short stints as MPs before the Cabinet, when compared with all of their post WWII predecessors.

I posted before about what I keep in my medicine cabinet (and in my purse when traveling), but since we are once again in the height of flu season, I thought more information could be helpful.

Mr. Obama foreshadowed the new post on the campaign trail in April when he told a voter that Mr. Gore would be offered a special Cabinet post overseeing climate change.

Earlier this month, former senior cabinet minister Jim Prentice told the Financial Post that he thought «environmental organizations based outside the country [should] be required to reveal who gives them funding when they participate in Canada's regulatory process to influence Canada's internal decisions.»

At least one legal blogger was in the audience last night when Attorney General Michael Mukasey collapsed while delivering a speech at the annual dinner of the Federal Society in Washington, D.C. Laurie Lin, a contributor to the blog Above the Law and author of her own blog, The Kitchen Cabinet, provided an eyewitness account of the incident to ATL editor David Lat, who posted it last night at 10:30 p.m. Mukasey «literally collapsed mid-sentence at the podium,» she reported.

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

While Wilson - Raybould was on every observer's short list for a cabinet post, it took many by surprise when Trudeau named the rookie MP justice minister.

Keep in mind, when applying to a specific teacher job posting to always include the competition number, or your document could end up in the wrong folder or the filing cabinet.

It's funny that you posted this today because I'm sitting at work daydreaming about painting my bathroom and installing the new vanity top when I still have touch up painting to do in the office — cabinet doors to replace in the kitchen - toekick and shoe molding to put on — picture ledges to hang (frames to buy and pictures to print * ahem * to put in frames)....

A few years back I stumbled onto home blogs by accident and came upon your blog.I could not believe my eyes when I saw the kitchen in your last house.I must have looked at it hundreds of times!I'm now a devoted follower and want you to know that your home is truly» inspired» andI look forward to many more beautiful and practical ideas.Because of your post several years ago, I removed the cabinet doors in my galley kitchen and it feels like a huge weight lifted!

When you posted the pic with the binoculars on books in a jar, I had just brought up a curio cabinet from the basement to display my sea shells... What a cute idea for binoculars on old books!

I was actually researching apron sink when your post came into my email so Apron sink — check, tongue and grove ceiling - check, white shaker cabinets — almost check, lol.