Sentences with phrase «cabinet role»

He previously held a junior cabinet role, as minister of state for small business and tourism.

Oliver Letwin, the Chancellor for the Duchy of Lancaster, has been sacked from his role in the cabinet

Labour's Tom Watson has resigned from his shadow cabinet role as the party's general election co-ordinator.

She was nevertheless promoted by Gordon Brown to her first proper Cabinet role as Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (having previously been «Labour Party Chair»).

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Lewis, a new MP who has served in the army in Afghanistan, said he would not be keen to take on a shadow cabinet role so quickly.

He served as Chancellor between 2007 - 2010 after a holding a range of Cabinet roles following Labour's election in 1997.

Northern Ireland secretary has not been an especially high - profile cabinet job since the Good Friday peace deal, but for Brokenshire it could be a tough first cabinet role.

Kenney's role as minister for employment and social development will go to Pierre Poilievre, an Ottawa - area MP who has held several smaller cabinet roles over the years.

Clarke would be unacceptable in any Ministerial or Cabinet role due to his divisive pro-EU views, and how easier would Clarke as Chancellor make any negotiations for a new arrangement with the EU to restore our sovereignty?

Mr Miliband said Mr Darling played a «crucial role in helping» Labour win power in 1997 and showed «both conviction and competence» in his various Cabinet roles.

Greening said: «Did I take a fourth cabinet role, running a fourth department, or did I carry on focusing on the issue that really drove me into politics and matters to me hugely which is social mobility, equality of opportunity.

The former chief whip was brought back to a frontline Cabinet role to oversee Tory plans to scrap the Human Rights Act; continue to «review our legal aid systems» (as the party's manifesto euphemistically put it); as well as stave off a brewing crisis in our prisons, sort out a demoralised police force etc..

The popular MP declined to stand in 2010 and stepped down from his shadow cabinet role in 2011 for personal reasons.

And in a piece of spectacularly bad timing the Olympics finally slipped behind time and over budget - just after Boris Johnson had assumed a Cabinet role as Olympics minister.

However a similar number (82 %) said the Basingstoke MP should have stepped down from her cabinet role once the report into her expenses had been made public.

In his cabinet roles so far he has, as BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg put it, avoided major calamity, although he faced questions as business secretary over Tata steel, and as communities secretary over the response to the Grenfell disaster.

How can anyone dumb enough to end up married to lying skank Betsy McCaughy Ross be approved to serve in a cabinet role?

Some reporters treated that as a hint she could be being lined up for a shadow Cabinet role.

Priti Patel is someone who has had extensive experience in national politics albeit outside parliament and probably could fit into a cabinet role quite quickly, most others don't have this experience.

Table 1 also shows that half of the chairs now had ministerial experience, with nine having had earlier cabinet or shadow cabinet roles — a testimony to the increasing salience of these chairing roles (which also attract a salary addition for the MPs involved).

Earlier today Tory grandee and former foreign secretary Malcolm Rifkind suggested Mrs May should move Mr Johnson to another Cabinet role after his latest gaffe.

Today Ms Morgan, who lost her Cabinet role when Theresa May became Prime Minister, indicated that she and some other Conservative MPs would vote against the proposals in their current form.

Ed Miliband had been attacking the number of women in the cabinet roles and quoted David Cameron's previous claims that a third of his cabinet would be women.

Communities Secretary Carl Sargeant has been sacked from his cabinet role and suspended from the Welsh Labour party following allegations made against him over personal conduct.

He is tipped for a Cabinet role in the Lords.

David was offered a shadow cabinet role but opted to leave British politics altogether, taking up a job as the head of the International Rescue charity in New York, avoiding speculation about rivalry with his younger brother that would surely have followed had he stayed around.

For the Education Secretary Justine Greening, a London MP, this could be a case of putting her cabinet role ahead of her constituency.

Chris Grayling, Gove's predecessor at the Ministry of Justice, campaigned for May's premiership and is expected to be given a Cabinet role.