All three are being lined up
for cabinet seats and a raft of more junior women are on the PM's list of stars to promote into government jobs.
Former Gordon Brown aide Mr Ashworth is shadow minister without portfolio and fills one of three valuable shadow
cabinet seats on Labour's ruling NEC.
A hung parliament could potentially see the Lib Dems holding the balance of power between likely Labour and Tory leaders Gordon Brown and David Cameron - with the chance
of cabinet seats if a power - sharing executive is formed.
He's already had to trawl the second eleven to fill the shadow
cabinet seats after the last set of resignations, and the talent pool of happy Corbynites is now even shallower than before.
And because he's nice and spends a lot of time with the president, he gets his
own Cabinet seat.»
... And one of three shadow
cabinet seats on Labour's ruling NEC will be handed from Jonathan Ashworth to Kate Osamor.
Mr Ashworth holds one of three
shadow cabinet seats on the powerful 35 - strong body that will be pivotal for Labour's future.
Cabinet seats could reflect the proportionate share of MPs from both parties.
Yet the Lib Dems still have five
cabinet seats and the deputy PM, plus a further 13 government ministers, which is an awful lot better than being in opposition.
And in all of this, it's well worth reminding ourselves of one fact: Nick Clegg has not given a single one of his five
cabinet seats to a female colleague.
Mr Clarke thought that «
Cabinet seats will undoubtedly be on the table» as part of any discussions between his party and the Liberal Democrats.
Cabinet seats were also a problem.
But this is clearly the most bittersweet victory for Clegg: his seat saved but his party decimated, his leadership in question,
his cabinet seat lost.
No wonder strategists around Mr Cameron are pondering handing
him a Cabinet seat in May, once he steps down as London Mayor.
[3] Since the 2000 election both the parties had 15 seats, so they had 4
cabinet seats each and shared the leadership of the council for 6 months each.
If he'd has his eye on
a cabinet seat I'd guess he'd have made considerable attempts to secure nomination in a safe seat in time for the next general election.
On Friday the local group voted to allow Hancock to keep
his cabinet seat as an independent councillor, which will entitle him to continue claiming expenses.
The prize came in 2010 when the party went into coalition with the Tories and Laws became Treasury chief secretary, the chancellor's number two, with
a cabinet seat.
Jon Cruddas, the first round ballot winner in the 2007 deputy leadership contest (and who, under first past the post, would currently serve as deputy leader, not Harman) actually stood on a platform of rejecting
a cabinet seat so he could instead devote his time to party development.
In
his cabinet seat will be Dmitry Livanov, rector of the National University of Science and Technology (MISIS), and Fursenko's deputy from 2005 to 2007.
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There could be a host of reasons why she won't be picked, but Shirley Ann Jackson, the president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute since 1999, at least embodies the qualities that would be great to see in
this cabinet seat.
The photo below shows
the cabinet seated in the brackets and after I installed one shelf (which is hung after the cabinet is installed.)