Sentences with phrase «culture secretary»

You should be extremely proud of what you have done - including as shadow culture secretary, and on the select committee for business and enterprise.

His first cabinet appointment came in 2014 as culture secretary.

Former culture secretary wrote: «As a working mother,» in her resignation letter.

There has been much discussion about the seemingly inherent lack of culture in those who have held the office of culture secretary.

He got his first cabinet job in just his fourth year in parliament when he was appointed culture secretary in 2014, and was appointed business secretary after the 2015 election.

Apparently, the former culture secretary will help «achieve a new common purpose that builds resilience into business and society».

As if deputy PM Nick Clegg hadn't been sidelined enough in the last parliamentary term, his version of PMQs - Deputy Prime Minister's Questions - was labelled «useless» in this morning's first culture questions put to new culture secretary Maria Miller and culture minister Hugh Robertson.

The call by Shadow Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt yesterday for a freeze in the Licence Fee, was a necessary first step in putting the public back in control.

Here are three highlights from Shadow Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt's opening of the debate:

The former shadow culture secretary said Mr Corbyn fired him because he «didn't like some of the things I had been writing».

The move comes as culture secretary John Whittingdale prepares to increase the BBC licence fee in line with inflation in return for the BBC taking on the costs of licence fees for the over 75's.

Trinity Mirror has been forced to keep the two parts of the business formally separate for now, after the Competition and Markets Authority and media regulator Ofcom decided to investigate the merger at the behest of culture secretary Matt Hancock.

In his column for Saturday's Daily Mail Simon Heffer argued that the new Culture Secretary Maria Miller should order a judge - led inquiry into the BBC's handling of the Jimmy Savile affair.

The government's Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill for England and Wales has officially been introduced in the House of Commons by Culture Secretary Maria Miller.

«July 7th last year was a day of infamy and heroism,» said culture secretary Tessa Jowell, but she added: «It is clear that more could have been done to support all those who were caught up in the attacks - on the day and in the weeks and months that followed.»

David Cameron has reiterated his support for Culture Secretary Maria Miller after she was forced to apologise to MPs over a report into her expenses claims.

He enters the public affairs world after four years at The Sun and eight months as special adviser to culture secretary Karen Bradley.

The resignation also meant a small ministerial reshuffle, with new Culture Secretary Sajid Javid becoming the first Asian man to hold cabinet office.

As Labour pointed out, the contrast with his refusal to do so over culture secretary Jeremy Hunt was somewhat strange.

Labour former culture secretary Ben Bradshaw urged the shadow cabinet to act swiftly to «save» the party.

Last time a unanimous Commons vote stopped him, after then culture secretary Jeremy Hunt's office was exposed for backroom dealings with Murdoch's people.

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.

Mr Doughty said he was quitting in disgust at the sackings on Tuesday of Shadow Culture Secretary Michael Dugher and Shadow Europe Minister Pat McFadden for supposed «disloyalty» to the leader.

«It is an enormously important moment», says Culture Secretary Chris Smith.

We need to know exactly what is happening on the streets nationwide,» said shadow culture secretary Hugo Swire.

The Leveson Inquiry returns tomorrow at 10 am to hear evidence from Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt.

News Corporation could yet acquire BSkyB, after culture secretary Jeremy Hunt ended the government's opposition to the merger on «media plurality» grounds.

Labour is pushing for a vote on culture secretary Jeremy Hunt's conduct in the BSkyB takeover bid.

Maria Miller tendered her resignation as Culture Secretary today, six days after she was ordered to apologise to MPs and pay back # 5,800 of overclaimed expenses.

Culture secretary also says corporation's approach to impartiality drives him «insane» in talk to Conservative students

As culture secretary James Purnell said: «The union flag is a powerful symbol of both our heritage and modern, diverse Britain.

Conservative Party Chairman Grant Shapps has said it is time to move on from the row about Culture Secretary Maria Miller's expenses.

His comments came after a week in which culture secretary Ben Bradshaw said he believed the BBC should be scrutinised by the National Audit Office, like government departments.

The ex-shadow culture secretary came out fighting as he became the only change announced to Labour's top team after 24 hours of talks.

It's unlikely though that he'll go as far as his former shadow culture secretary Ivan Lewis, who suggested at Labour Party conference last year that a register of journalists should be considered, where people can be «struck off» if they commit a serious error or offence.

Supporters of the amendment expressed irritation when culture secretary Maria Miller said it could function as a «wrecking amendment» to the gay marriage bill — an accusation she last used yesterday, albeit with more justification, on demands for civil ceremonies for heterosexual couples.

The Lib Dems» abstention, outlined by leader Nick Clegg to MPs at a meeting in Westminster earlier this week, has frustrated Conservative MPs keen to shield their embattled culture secretary from further criticism.

The way in which MPs» expenses are policed is «a matter for Parliament», Downing St has said, following yesterday's report into Culture Secretary Maria Miller.

The resignation of Culture Secretary following sustained pressure shows that, five years on, fury over expenses has only grown.

Davies is not the first man on the committee, chaired by the former Conservative culture secretary Maria Miller.

The BBC has confirmed that former Labour culture secretary James Purnell will succeed Helen Boaden as the corporation's director of radio.

So Ivan [Lewis, then shadow culture secretary], Ed Miliband, and me, developed a strategy to deliver it.

Shadow culture secretary Harriet Harman said before the debate that it represented an «important opportunity» to underline the need for secretaries of state to be «transparent and truthful to parliament».

The former culture secretary told ITV's Good Morning Britain that the Labour leader was putting the party's future in jeopardy.

Yesterday the Stuckists, whose co-founder Charles Thomson is standing against Culture Secretary Chris Smith in Islington, opened five exhibitions all called Vote Stuckist across London, to vie with the Turner announcement, which they described as «a national joke».

Almost three - quarters think culture secretary's apology was inadequate and David Cameron was wrong to offer support

«When compared to the expenditure by nations of a comparable size on their primary public service broadcaster, it is clear Scotland's current level of licence fee would be more than sufficient to provide a high - quality service,» Scottish culture secretary Fiona Hyslop says.

Culture secretary reveals legal protections for religious groups that may not want to conduct same - sex wedding ceremonies

Separately, Michael Dugher, the shadow Culture secretary who is also tipped to be moved, said the «revenge reshuffle» would leave the party with a «politburo of seven» and looking like a «religious cult.