Sentences with phrase «cabinet secretaries from»

This goes someway to explaining way the «no» camp is dominated by former Cabinet secretaries from Labour and the Tories.

It's relatively rare for Presidents to appoint cabinet secretaries from the other party.

A very large distance separates a committee hearing from a law on the books, and a deep chasm divides a sympathetic hearing by a Cabinet secretary from effective protection of workers.

Not exact matches

Arguably the biggest promotion in today's federal cabinet shuffle goes to François - Philippe Champagne, who vaults from parliamentary secretary to Finance Minister Bill Morneau, a supporting role just outside cabinet, to succeeding Chrystia Freeland in the high - profile post of minister of international trade.

Our view: Full Senate should approve Mike Pompeo as secretary of state despite his hawkish outlook After more than two centuries, the list of cabinet nominees to be either rejected by the U.S. Senate or withdrawn from nomination is on the order of once...

Interestingly, there's been far less turnover in Trump's Cabinet so far, with the only change being John Kelly's move from secretary of homeland security to White House chief of staff.

An April 5 Associated Press story followed by a similar April 7 Washington Post story both asserted that White House Chief of Staff John Kelly was suffering from diminished clout in the White House, as a more confident President Trump feels comfortable taking matters directly to new hires like John Bolton and Larry Kudlow, chatting on the phone with outside advisers, and firing Cabinet secretaries over Kelly's objections.

The latest tally of fire safety checks was presented to Cabinet by Communities and Local Government Secretary Sajid Javid, who has issued an urgent call for all councils to send in samples of cladding from tall buildings.

The Catholic position had become so clear, indeed, that there had been calls from anti-Catholic quarters for Ms. Kelly to resign, on the basis of rumours that she had been trying to weaken or delay the regulations: as Toby Helm, the Telegraph's chief political correspondent had reported the previous October, under the headline «Kelly «must resign over delay to gay rights law»», «A fierce Cabinet battle has broken out over gay rights after Ruth Kelly, the Communities Secretary, delayed plans that would penalise organisations — such as hotels — for denying their services tohomosexuals.

People who go from fledgling MP to Cabinet secretary to leadership frontrunner in five years rarely are.

Unlike the cabinet (e.g., Secretary of State, Attorney General, Secretary of Defense, etc.), and the White House Staff (e.g., Chief - of - Staff, Press Secretary, etc.) the office of the Vice President, his term and the requirements for his removal from office are all established explicitly in Article II of the Constitution.

It was rather more a «disappointed» word passed on from the Cabinet Secretary via my Permanent Secretary to me and my special advisers.

Another Lib Dem Cabinet casualty, the energy and climate change secretary's departure from parliament ends the speculation heard during the campaign that he might be a possible leadership candidate.

All that is really needed is a swearing in ceremony after a quick meeting of the Cabinet secretaries and (possibly) a letter is sent from the Vice President to both President pro tem of the Senate and the Speaker of the House given these facts, if the parties wish to strictly adhere to the 25th Amendment.

And now we have a more explicit outlining of an emerging new Tory constitutional doctrine in an extraordinary Guardian report on Tuesday — based on anonymous briefings from «senior shadow Cabinet members» — that the Conservatives intend to mount a partisan attack on existing constitutional conventions, and the Cabinet Secretary's protocols for handling a hung Parliament, even though a primary motivation for these has been to protect the Monarchy from being dragged into party political controversy.

On 15 May 2012, Miliband appointed Owen Smith to replace Peter Hain — who retired from frontline politics — as Shadow Welsh Secretary, and also promoted Jon Cruddas to the Shadow Cabinet, putting him in charge of overseeing Labour's ongoing policy review with a view to draft Labour's manifesto for the next election.

[16] The newspaper was subsequently contacted by the British government's Cabinet Secretary, Sir Jeremy Heywood, under instruction from Prime Minister David Cameron and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, who ordered that the hard drives containing the information be destroyed.

But after rolling mass resignations from the shadow cabinet, which have continued into Tuesday with Pat Glass resigning as shadow education secretary just two days after being appointed, Milband said it was time for Labour to unite around an alternative candidate.

Meanwhile, Liz Truss was effectively demoted to Chief Secretary to the Treasury «attending Cabinet» from her previous role as Justice Secretary.

Nine - tenths of the M.P.'s who first won seats in the House of Commons in 1918 or thereafter, and who held some ministerial office in the years from 1918 to 1955, began their progress towards posts in a ministry or a Cabinet by serving as parliamentary secretaries or as junior ministers... Recruitment to the front bench clearly begins with these two offices.

Recent admissions that he had dinner with James Murdoch, Rebekah Brooks and their partners just two days after taking away responsibility for the BSkyB deal from Vince Cable have prompted the Lib Dems» deputy leader Simon Hughes and party president Tim Farron to report the prime minister to the Cabinet Office secretary.

Labour MPs from west London told the Guardian that a new strategy will target cabinet ministers individually, the most «significant» of whom would be the business secretary, Peter Mandelson.

Andrew Cuomo's fiscal and economic policy takes more of a centrist cue from former President Bill Clinton, in whose cabinet he served as housing secretary; Mr. Cuomo remains close to Mr. Clinton, and the possibility that Mr. Clinton's wife, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, could run for president in 2016 is a significant complication for Msecretary; Mr. Cuomo remains close to Mr. Clinton, and the possibility that Mr. Clinton's wife, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, could run for president in 2016 is a significant complication for MSecretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, could run for president in 2016 is a significant complication for Mr. Cuomo.

Culture Secretary Maria Miller ignored questions from journalists this morning, as she arrived for a Cabinet meeting at Downing Street.

[1] Blind since birth, and coming from a poor family in one of Sheffield's most deprived districts, he rose to become Education and Employment Secretary, Home Secretary and Work and Pensions Secretary in Tony Blair's Cabinet following Labour's victory in the 1997 general election.

PMQs was followed by an official statement from leader of the House Sir George Young on the Cabinet secretary report.

The energy secretary prompted a bitter argument in Cabinet earlier this week when he repeatedly tried to get David Cameron and George Osborne to disassociate themselves from «no» camp tactics, prompting a flurry of speculation about his leadership ambitions.

Gordon Brown downgraded the job of Chief Secretary and removed from his Cabinet colleagues their right to be involved in the overall spending decisions of government.

4 pm Soft Power and the UK's Influence Subject: Soft Power and the UK's Influence Witness (es): (at 4.20 pm) evidence will be heard from Nicholas Beadle CMG, Senior Associate Fellow of the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), Lt General Simon Mayall CB, Defence Senior Adviser for Middle East, Ministry of Defence and Steve McCarthy — Director of International Security Policy, Ministry of Defence Location: Committee Room 1, Palace of Westminster Tuesday 9th July 9.30 am Public Administration Subject: Work of the Cabinet Office Witness (es): Richard Heaton CB, Permanent Secretary, Cabinet Office Location: Room 15, Palace of Westminster

A recent Cabinet Secretary who serviced Thatcher, Major and Blair and is active in the House of Lords is Robin Butler and his biography Robin Butler At the Heart of Power from Heath to Blair (Biteback) is by Michae Jago.

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.

Statement from prime minister Gordon Brown On 2 February, I announced that I had asked the Cabinet Secretary to prepare a Cabinet Manual, bringing together the existing conventions that determine the formation of governments including where no party has an overall majority.

«Who will answer questions from [the cabinet secretary] Gus O'Donnell in future if they think they can be briefed?»

Funding for the new teachers comes from the # 36m fund to reduce infant class sizes set up by Welsh Liberal Democrat Cabinet Secretary for Education Kirsty Williams.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt all met with officials from the White House counsel's office and the Cabinet liaison.

The Welsh Liberal Democrats have welcomed the announcement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Services that the Nurse Staffing Levels (Wales) Act will be implemented in full from today (6th April 2018).

Pupils across Wales are set to benefit from a new # 2.5 million Welsh Government small and rural schools grant announced today by Welsh Liberal Democrat Cabinet Secretary for Education Kirsty Williams.

The Welsh Liberal Democrats have welcomed a written statement from the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Services reiterating the Welsh Government's commitment to Gender Identity Services in Wales.

Sir Richard Clive Mottram, GCB (born 23 April 1946) is a former British civil servant, who retired in 2007 from his most recent senior post as Permanent Secretary, Intelligence, Security and Resilience in the Cabinet Office.

Brown's closest ministerial ally, Ed Balls, said the email was a «damp squib» by a few disgruntled MPs and insisted that the cabinet was «absolutely united» behind Brown.But the number of cabinet voices emerging in support of Brown did not begin to rise to a chorus until early evening, among them two of the ministers tipped as possible successors to Brown — the home secretary, Alan Johnson, and the energy secretary, Ed Miliband, who said today's call by rebels would be seen as a «temporary distraction» from the job of fighting the Conservatives and laying out future plans for the country.

Des McNulty (born 28 July 1952, Stockport (then Cheshire, England), UK) is a Labour politician, and was a Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Clydebank and Milngavie constituency from 1999 to 2011, serving as Labour's Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning until he was defeated for re-election at the 2011 election.

Senior members of the Cabinet including Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson are among those understood to have expressed concern at any proposals on addressing the past which did not seek to prevent soldiers from being prosecuted.

They attracted criticism from Tooting MP Sadiq Khan, who won promotion to the shadow Cabinet after the 2010 general election and is now shadow justice secretary.

He said: «In the meantime he has agreed to a request from Cabinet secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell to undertake a short piece of work on cross-government matters until Christmas.»

As the «women problem» perennially plagues David Cameron, whether from people defending the PM or slamming him for seemingly inching away from filling his cabinet with more women, the business secretary acknowledged: «Women are underrepresented in both sides of the coalition, and in Parliament, which should be representative of the country... We're not doing enough.»

Before that he was Permanent Secretary for the Cabinet Office (from August 2012).

Of course the cabinet minister's push for a slimmed - down session earned him a rebuke from Committee chair Hillary Benn, who said it was part of the Brexit secretary's job description to face scrutiny from MPs.

And the move to national living wage was also criticised today from within the cabinet, with culture secretary John Whittingdale warning the move would lead to increased immigration unless the UK left the EU.

The comments, from the person once dubbed the most powerful Muslim woman in Britain, come on top of supportive statements from Caroline Spelman, environment secretary and the second most powerful woman in the Cabinet, who stressed that burkhas could be empowering for women.

At the same meeting, Cabinet secretary Ed Miliband confirmed a noticeable shift to the left from within the party, when he argued «markets had become too powerful».