Sentences with phrase «coalition ministers when»

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The coalition of business associations is urging Ottawa to refrain from issuing an order, however, which was last used in 2013 - 14 by former prime minister Stephen Harper when grain shipments were similarly backlogged.

When the Alberta government released its Climate Leadership plan in November 2015, I said that Premier Rachel Notley and Environment and Parks Minister Shannon Phillips had made pigs fly by uniting a coalition of industry leaders and environmental leaders in our province.

Labor first proposed the idea of an inspector - general for animal welfare in 2013, but former agriculture minister Barnaby Joyce dumped it when the Coalition came to power.

In parliamentary systems, that compromise is often made by politicians after elections, when they form coalitions to choose a prime minister.

Meanwhile at the party headquarters of the far right Laos party, sitting under paintings of classical Greek scenes, vice-president Georgios Georgiou explains why they left the current governing coalition (formed under Lucas Papademos last November when the Papandreou government collapsed): «I suggested we leave the coalition... we said not to touch pensions and wages and to get rid of the two million illegal immigrants... you can not have Germans coming in sitting in ministries ordering ministers what to do.»

The question remains that when there is another chance to have real impact in general, how far will the deputy prime minister stick to his bold words about the Liberal Democrats «spreading our wings», stamping some sort of authority on the coalition?

But a letter from planning minister Nick Boles to coalition MPs suggested the government now believes an extra 40,000 annual extensions are now possible - making the states of the policy much higher when the division bell rings later.

You know it's worst of all when the prime minister's veiled comments appear to criticise his coalition partners, rather than the opposition, in PMQs.

«Mr Peter Bone (Wellingborough)(Con): The whole country will be grateful for what the Prime Minister has done, especially because he has said, if I have understood him correctly, that when he is returned as Prime Minister, without the pesky Liberal Democrats in coalition, he will renegotiate with the European Union and put a referendum to the people in which they can vote yes for the renegotiation or no to come out.

She retained the position of Deputy Minister for Social Services when the coalition government of Labour and Plaid Cymru was announced on 19 July.

The deputy prime minister told David Cameron that the Conservatives needed to be seen kicking Tory supporters where it hurts if only to demonstrate that the coalition partners are «in this together» when it comes to busting election pledges.

When Neville Chamberlain resigned in the spring of 1940, incoming Prime Minister Winston Churchill decided to bring the other main parties into a coalition similar to that of the First World War.

The most recent occasion when the monarch has had to exercise these powers was in February 1974, when Edward Heath resigned from the position of prime minister after failing to win an overall majority at the General Election or to negotiate a coalition.

Bridges» article is being viewed as an attack on the prime minister's approach to politics, at a time when the coalition is wrestling with questions on Europe and about how much to make the rich contribute to its deficit reduction strategy.

Environment secretary Caroline Spelman demanded an explanation for her dismissal, according to reports, and objected when the prime minister said her handling of the forestry — which led to the coalition's humiliating first U-turn — was to blame.

When the coalition came to power in 2010, there was a brief window in which civil liberties were exalted by ministers and some of the more draconian Labour laws were repealed.

Earlier this week the coalition received support from an unexpected quarter, when former prime minister Tony Blair attacked the civil service for being «hopelessly bureaucratic».

Nevertheless, Brown did not resign as Prime Minister until 11 May, when it became clear that the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats would be able to form a governing coalition.

The former cabinet minister argued there was a long history of the government «dragging its heels» when it came to the tax practices of its own overseas territories, claiming he witnessed the lack of action when he was in the coalition government.

This constituency had been a loyal Labour Party seat having returned a Labour MP in all 29 elections since 1918 and specifically since 1922 when MP Wedgwood defected from the highly centrist and compromising Liberal Party at the time to the Labour Party — his was among a great series of defections at this time see for example ex-Prime Minister H. H. Asquith's strong criticism of the Coalition Liberals particularly David Lloyd - George.

«But Plaid Cymru are equally guilty here, as it was one of their ministers while in Coalition with Labour who seemingly continued this land purchasing programme, and failed to sell these assets off when the project was supposed to have been cancelled.

More often, a minority government is formed when one of the cabinet's coalition partners withdraws its support, or when all ministers of a given parliamentary party resign.

«At a gathering of Tory Cabinet Ministers on Monday, the Prime Minister's political secretary Stephen Gilbert presented polling evidence to them which showed that when asked what the Coalition was doing, the public thought only of the cuts.»

The Party signed up to this at the March conference when agreeing a new strategy whereby ministers lead the way in communicating not only those Coalition policies that are clearly Liberal Democrat ones, but also those which we accept as a result of being in Coalition and those Tory policies we've successfully blocked or amended.

When the prime minister first became an MP he appeared open - minded to drug reform, but Clegg said he showed no interest in the issue when the pair worked together during the previous coalition governmWhen the prime minister first became an MP he appeared open - minded to drug reform, but Clegg said he showed no interest in the issue when the pair worked together during the previous coalition governmwhen the pair worked together during the previous coalition government.

Mr Cameron was defending the Coalition's health reforms when he rounded on Angela Eagle, a shadow Treasury minister.

He will have heard the answer that the right hon. Member for Blackburn (Mr Straw) gave when I asked him whether it had been the case that the outgoing Labour Prime Minister had offered, during the coalition negotiations, to ram through the alternative vote without a referendum.

Patel claims she was on a family holiday on 24 August when she met Yair Lapid, the leader of Israel's Yesh Atid party and a former finance minister in Netanyahu's coalition government.

Cable, who had repeated run - ins with Osborne when the two were ministers in the coalition government, said his presence underlined how important he believed the issue was for the future of the country.

I'm not aware of a serious previous proposal by a backbencher to debate with the Prime Minister - especially not when that backbencher is part of the Coalition the Prime Minister leads.

It makes for a strong contrast with the coalition honeymoon, in August 2010, when 50 % of respondents believed that the deputy prime minister was doing a good job and his net score stood at +19.

When the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats formed a coalition following the 2010 general election, Hunt was appointed Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport (combining the roles of leading the Department for Culture, Media and Sport with that of Minister for the Olympics).

When the Tory - Lib Dem coalition took office he became Europe minister, also covering Nato, a post he held until his latest promotion.

Former minister David Laws said he was «very happy to be a backbench supporter» of the coalition, when he was asked if he would return to government.

«It doesn't get you off the hook on carbon,» Nitin Desai, a member of the Indian prime minister's climate change council, said earlier this week when asked about the coalition.

Britain's new science minister, David Willetts of the Conservative Party, today made good a manifesto pledge today when he announced that the coalition government would delay for 1 year the implementation of the controversial Research Excellence Framework (REF), a system of assessing university departments for the distribution of funding.

When, in the first half of The Deadly Hallows, the shifty Rufus Scrimgeour, minister of magic, says: «These are dark times», he could be any member of the coalition stepping up to the dispatch box.

When Churchill (Gary Oldman) emerges as the only Tory who can succeed Chamberlain as prime minister and form a coalition government, he finds himself in a political no - man's land.

Having governed Malaysia without interruption since 1957, the United Malays National Organization (UMNO) appeared poised for a historic defeat on May 5th, when it appeared the ruling coalition, Barisan Nasional (BN) led by incumbent Prime Minister Najib Razak, might lose the general elections for the first time in Malaysia's history to the opposition coalition, Pakatan Rakyat (PR), headed by long - serving political firebrand and ex-political prisoner, Anwar Ibrahim.

For example, well before Labor promised no school would lose a dollar, the Coalition did exactly the same thing in 2001 when it introduced its socioeconomic status (SES) model under Prime Minister John Howard.

The first minister pointed out that Estyn's report covered a period when Plaid was in coalition with Labour.

Mr Laws said that when he served as education minister in the coalition government there had been internal data showing weaknesses in academy trusts, but there had been a reluctance to publish such information when ministers were promoting academy expansion.

When Coalition ministers are asked to name an economist who believes their Direct Action plan to be better than a carbon price, the only one they can come up with is «Danny Price».

The emissions - trading orthodoxy had no competition in the mainstream debate until very recently, when a broad coalition of prominent Australians and organisations signed an open letter to the Prime Minister.

The Parti Québécois tried to make political hay in early February when it jumped on a La Presse story that revealed that 46 of the 180 lawyers with the Montreal - based business law firm BCF had contributed a total of $ 20,000 to the coffers of Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ), a new right - wing provincial political party led by former PQ cabinet minister and businessman François Legault — and for which BCF co-founder and managing partner Mario Charpentier is in charge of finances.

The review declared the 25 year strategy, launched by then Labor Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in 2008, had been «effectively abandoned» after five years — when the Coalition won office and introduced the much - criticised Indigenous Advancement Strategy, which took $ 500 million out of Indigenous funding in its first year.