Sentences with phrase «cabinet resignations in»

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.

[3] Turley resigned in June 2016 as part of a mass shadow cabinet resignation in protest at Corbyn's leadership.

Tory grandee Sir Desmond Swayne dismissed suggestions that a second Cabinet resignation in a week would be a «catastrophe».

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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.

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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.