Tory grandee Sir Desmond Swayne dismissed suggestions that a second
Cabinet resignation in a week would be a «catastrophe».
[3] Turley resigned in June 2016 as part of a mass shadow
cabinet resignation in protest at Corbyn's leadership.
Former shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna said: «After eight years of Tory misrule, most people thoroughly tired of austerity, a disastrous Brexit negotiation, the Windrush outrage and four
cabinet resignations in six months, we should be well ahead and we are not.
Not exact matches
Recent
resignations have left Mr. Harper with holes to fill
in his
cabinet, meaning that new faces won't necessarily force familiar ones out entirely.
Bouchard's
resignation from Mulroney's
cabinet in 1990 consolidated the collapse of the Progressive Conservative coalition.
Dave Hancock appointed Premier Long - time PC
cabinet minister Dave Hancock was appointed Premier and interim leader of the PC Party following the
resignation of Alison Redford
in March 2014.
I don't think anyone has forgotten or missed that we have been asking for D / M or C / B's and a striker last season, it is the very reason why so many supporters are asking for his
resignation becouse it's now been two seasons we are playing with shortage or players below par and as always those positions let us down, if he had just bolster those areas (which the whole world was shouting about even our enemies were telling us day and day out) we wouldn't be so angry with him and maybe we could of had extra silverwear
in our display
cabinet.
The
Cabinet Manual merely notes «[r] ecent examples suggest that previous Prime Ministers have not offered their
resignations until there was a situation
in which clear advice could be given to the Sovereign on who should be asked to form a government.
His devastating
resignation speech on leaving the
cabinet in 1990 was widely seen as the central factor
in forcing Thatcher from Downing Street.
The
resignation of Davies after his late - night amble around Clapham Common apparently caused as progressive a figure as Blair to worry that «we could get away with Ron as a one - off aberration, but if the public start to think the whole
cabinet is engaging
in gay sex we could have a bit of a political problem».
Officials probing the issue are taking a long time to work out whether Huhne should face charges or not; we'll have to wait until next year's top ten to see whether this one actually results
in a second Lib Dem
Cabinet resignation.
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.
Andrew Adonis,
in first full interview since his
resignation, says Theresa May's
cabinet has landed Whitehall with a «nervous breakdown»
As the country split down the middle, former and current
Cabinet ministers toyed with
resignation, the UN went to vote, and the international community became entrenched
in one of the most divisive issues of a generation, Brown stayed silent.
David Cameron became Prime Minister on 11 May after Gordon Brown's
resignation and the Liberal Democrats formed a coalition government with the Conservative Party, with Nick Clegg as Deputy Prime Minister and other Liberal Democrats
in the
cabinet.
The en masse
resignations from the shadow
cabinet, followed by a vote of no confidence from 81 per cent of MPs, shows that Jeremy Corbyn has lost the trust of his peers (or perhaps he never really managed to obtain it
in the first place).
On 12 June 2008, Davis resigned from the Shadow
Cabinet and announced his
resignation as an MP,
in order to force a by - election, and cause a wider debate on the single issue of what he believed to be the erosion of civil liberties.
Trade unions
in Scotland have called for Jim Murphy to step down as leader of Scottish Labour as Neil Findlay who stood against Murphy for the leadership last year with the backing of the Left and almost all trade unions announced his
resignation from the shadow
cabinet at Holyrood where he held the fair work, skills and training brief.
The former work and pensions secretary, whose
resignation from the
cabinet and criticism of Gordon Brown last June nearly toppled the prime minister, has told his constituency Labour party
in Stalybridge and Hyde he will be standing down as their MP but that his decision is personal and, after 20 years
in the Westminster political system, no reflection on Labour's chances at the next general election.
«Where an election does not result
in a clear majority for a single party, the incumbent Government remains
in office unless and until the Prime Minister tenders his and the Government's
resignation to the Monarch,»
Cabinet Office guidance states.
Owen Smith's
resignation as Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary means all three Welsh MPs who served
in Jeremy Corbyn's Shadow
Cabinet have quit the Labour front bench.
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.
Her
resignation looked a lot more like disappointment at not being put
in the
Cabinet than having the seriousness of James Purnell.
Admittedly he was an afterthought for the role, only moving into the
Cabinet once the
resignation of David Laws saw Danny Alexander shifted from Scotland to the Treasury, but his time there has been impressive: Moore navigated the Scotland Act through Parliament and was doing a good job
in ensuring the referendum on Scottish independence was being held on the government's terms.
The inquiry is part of measures by Brown to try to regain the initiative after he headed off a rebellion
in his ruling Labour Party following disastrous European elections and several
cabinet resignations this month.
This time Corbyn contemplated sweeping changes to his shadow
cabinet, recognised that such a move would trigger unwanted
resignations on an impossibly big scale, stepped back from such a move but still sacked stroppy dissenters and made a significant move
in relation to defence policy.
And it's
in that role, even after Corbyn's shock election as Labour leader, shadow
cabinet resignations, removals and refusals to serve, that Falconer remains, looking ever more like something of a Blairite cuckoo
in the Corbyn nest.
Anticipating their usual drubbing
in local elections, Brown was hit by a wave of
resignations from Labour
Cabinet ministers.
McKinnell became the fourth shadow minister — and the first with a shadow
cabinet post — to step down
in the space of a week following the
resignations of Jonathan Reynolds, Kevan Jones and Stephen Doughty.
In a significant concession to traditionalists, which emerged less than 24 hours after Paddy Ashdown announced his planned
resignation as Lib Dem leader, Mr Blair promised he would not launch any more initiatives to extend the remit of the Lib - Lab
cabinet committee without talking to senior MPs.
It seems then that Seema's query is why someone
in the shadow
cabinet leader's office had the key to a / all the room / s of the shadow
cabinet (with further confusion caused by the
resignation and that for some reason she was not able to vacate the shadow
cabinet room / area as expected).
After multiple
resignations in the Shadow
Cabinet, she was promoted to Shadow Health Secretary, and further promoted to Shadow Home Secretary after Andy Burnham left to contest the Manchester Mayoral election.
Jeremy Corbyn moved quickly to unveil his new Shadow
Cabinet this morning - as he was warned he will find it impossible to fill all the vacancies caused by the wave of
resignation in the last 24 hours.
Despite the tumultuous events of the last week after a string of shadow
cabinet resignations, Corbyn appeared to be
in high spirits and even stopped to pose for a selfie with one supporter.
His interview with Peter Mandelson
in 2001 triggered the Northern Ireland Secretary's second
resignation from the
Cabinet.
With accusations that he didn't give 100 % to campaigning for remaining
in the EU over the past few months, and
resignations coming thick and fast from multiple shadow
cabinet members, it's increasingly likely that Jeremy Corbyn will need to stand down as leader of the Labour party.
Brown's
cabinet began to rebel; there were several key
resignations in the run up to local elections
in June 2009.
The Leeds Central MP said there was «widespread» worry among Labour MPs and
in the shadow
cabinet over Mr Corbyn's ability to win a snap election
in the wake of David Cameron's
resignation.
During the
cabinet reshuffle
in 2018, Bradley was appointed Secretary of State for Northern Ireland after the
resignation of James Brokenshire due to ill health.
Commenting on Ms Maskell and Ms Butler's
resignations, the Labour leader said: «I would like to thank Dawn and Rachael for their work
in the Shadow
Cabinet.
He has been forced to replace most of his shadow
cabinet in the past week after mass
resignations and repeated calls for him to quit.
It comes after weeks of tension between Mr Corbyn and Mr Watson following the mass
resignation of the shadow
cabinet in June.
Three more MPs who quit
in a wave of 64 frontbench
resignations in June have returned to the shadow
cabinet.
In 2008 he helped prompt the
resignation from the
cabinet of Peter Hain, the secretary of state for Wales and for work and pensions, by revealing that donations to his unsuccessful campaign for the Labour deputy leadership had been declared months late.
Then
in the summer of 2009, he suffered a flood of
Cabinet resignations - Hazel Blears, Jacqui Smith and even James Purnell who went on the day of the European elections when Labour came third with just 16 % of the vote.
With the recent
resignation of David Davis, the number of science graduates
in the present Shadow
Cabinet has been halved, leaving Dr Liam Fox as the solitary scientist.
Read more: Labour
resignations live: Ministers quit
in response to reshuffle - restarting Jeremy Corbyn's Shadow
Cabinet shake - up
Less than 12 months later, his return to the
cabinet as work and pensions secretary ended
in resignation amid a row over his business interests.
In September 2004, Prime Minister Tony Blair appointed Johnson to the
Cabinet as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions after the
resignation of Andrew Smith.
She becomes the fourth shadow minister — and the first with a shadow
Cabinet post — to step down
in the space of a week following the
resignations of Jonathan Reynolds, Kevan Jones and Stephen Doughty last week.