Sentences with phrase «cabinet responsibility»

The price of abandoning collective cabinet responsibility could be very high.

A government is a government - with cabinet responsibility for the whole programme.

The «crisis» he and his namesake Smith refer to is entirely the creation of Smith and others who walked away from their Shadow Cabinet responsibilities in a manner calculated to cause the maximum political damage possible.

Third, the doctrine of collective shadow cabinet responsibility for policy should be relaxed in all but the most extreme cases, to allow senior MPs and shadow ministers the right to disagree in public about party policies.

«I have one more question on the record then, which is not about Cabinet responsibility but about the manifesto.

The fact is that the doctrine of collective cabinet responsibility means that unless one is a mindless automaton who agrees with every aspect of govt policy (and to be fair, increasing numbers of ministers are) then you are compelled to be a hypocrite if you serve in any UK government.

Not only did she have to allow a suspension of collective Cabinet responsibility over Heathrow but she had to swallow Goldsmith's vanity byelection, and then allow him to run unopposed.

After the 2015 election, this culminated in the suspension of collective cabinet responsibility during the referendum campaign, so that Eurosceptic ministers need not resign their posts, despite publicly contradicting everything that the PM and Chancellor were saying.

Sadiq Khan who is said to be Ed Miliband's preferred candidate (hence his additional Shadow Cabinet responsibility as «shadow Minister for London») emerges in fourth place with a disappointing 14 %, behind David Lammy.

Earlier today Premier Christy Clark announced changes in cabinet responsibilities.

«There is now no collective shadow cabinet responsibility in our party, no clarity on economic policy and no credible leadership.»

His comments about collective Cabinet responsibility are the standard response to issues of record, but they're no weaker for it.

If we got rid of collective cabinet responsibility - which IMHO is a daft idea anyway - it might help ministers speak their mind a bit more.

And the stretched twig of collective Cabinet responsibility is literally at melting point this morning (one for The Day Today fans, there), with culture secretary John Whittingdale all - but confirming to The House that he will campaign for Brexit.

Except, of course, all along he'd been «clear» that his threat to use collective cabinet responsibility to squeeze out dissenters was in force only for the period of the renegotiation.

«At the very heart of that system is the constitutional convention of collective Cabinet responsibility.»

Mr Cameron used a Commons statement to declare his suspension of collective Cabinet responsibility, meaning ministers have to resign if they do not toe the Government line.