Sentences with phrase «deputy prime»

The coalition's economic rescue mission is not over yet, the deputy prime minister has told Liberal Democrat party members in his new year's message.

Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg, who absented himself from Mr Cameron's statement to the Commons yesterday, spoke after the PM and chancellor George Osborne.

Video games like Grand Theft Auto can have a «corrosive» effect on people's behaviour, the deputy prime minister has warned.

With his new title of First Secretary of State, previously held by William Hague, and no Deputy Prime Minister this time, George Osborne will now stand in at Prime Minister's Questions.

The former deputy prime minister had much to say on why people voted for Brexit, the «unassailable gridlock» in British politics right now and the «major fireworks» to come in the Tory party.

14:25 — Fresh from his very tough appearance opening up the Lords reform second reading debate (which will resume at about 16:15 this afternoon), deputy prime minister Nick Clegg faces his monthly hour answering questions at the despatch box this afternoon.

Here was the Lib Dem leader differentiating himself from the deputy prime minister.

The deputy prime minister's intervention comes after an e-petition surpassed the 100,000 signatures needed to potentially trigger a parliamentary debate.

When the deputy prime minister appeared on ITV News Calendar, he struggled to remember how much the minimum wage was — twice.

The ensuing Commons debate was a terrible mess, with the deputy prime minister issuing contradictory statements to the prime minister in scenes not seen since the 1930's.

People will remember Chris Huhne as the man who came within a hair's breadth of becoming deputy prime minister but ended up in «Brixton nick», Michael Gove has said.

The Conservatives plan to axe the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister in a bid to save # 2.3 billion a year.

The deputy prime minister claims we can send in book to prison libraries - but he doesn't understand how the system works.

No 10 said the process by which the deputy prime minister was kept informed of future developments on negotiations with Europe was discussed.

The deputy prime minister has announced that he will be in charge of the biggest shake - up in democracy since 1832.

The IMF's call for him to cease his austerity obsession, the disastrous GDP figures and now his own deputy prime minister's admission that it was wrong to shrink spending in the teeth of a global recession all tell the same story: you have got it seriously wrong.

The deputy prime minister's suggestion in an interview with the Guardian did not come with any real details and was quickly rejected by chancellor George Osborne.

Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg has denied claims by the Argentinean government that Britain has sent a nuclear submarine to the South Atlantic.

British deputy prime minister Nick Clegg is visiting Berlin alongside business secretary Vince Cable today, where they will meet a number of German ministers.

The deputy prime minister spoke in Leeds of restoring the public's faith in parliament through a change to the voting system.

Yesterday deputy prime minister Nick Clegg articulated the fundamental acknowledgement from those within power that they are likely to be punished by their approach.

The deputy prime minister has also set a deadline for early findings of November and asked for a final report by March next year.

It also saw several prominent politicians, from the home secretary to the deputy prime minister, emphatically fail to support him.

The Deputy Prime Minister can deliver Lords reform in this Parliament with support across the House but not with the 15 year Senators» Bill

«Now people will remember him only for the fall; from having been a few places away from being deputy prime minister to suddenly being in Brixton nick.»

The current quarter is set to be the most difficult for the jobs market since the recession, the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) has warned, on the day the deputy prime minister asks UK firms to sign up to the government's youth contract programme.

00:20 - Off topic slightly, but former deputy prime minister John Prescott was commendably honest about the Iraq war on the BBC just now.

The British Government's response to the Asian tsunami disaster was the quickest possible, the Deputy Prime Minister has said.

In addition there's been a solitary unsubstantiated policy announcement by the deputy prime minister in January 2011, and one consultation, about six months ago, angled towards promoting public order and police powers.

During his summing - up speech in Thursday's debate, deputy prime minister Nick Clegg was asked by Labour MP Andrew Gwynne to condemn the behaviour of No 10 officials who were reported as having said that Miliband was «giving succour» to the Assad regime by refusing to back the government over its plan for military action.

Tags: Culture media and sport, Deputy Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister's Question, DPMQs, Ed Miliband, Harriet Harman, Nick Clegg

The super-department Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions was created in 1997 for Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott.

«Vince Cable clearly didn't know a thing about a poll being conducted in Sheffield,» the Deputy Prime Minister told BBC Radio Sheffield.

She subsequently served as Shadow Deputy Prime Minister, combining the position with that of Shadow Secretary of State for International Development (2010 — 2011) and then Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport (2011 — 2015).

Professor Jane Green, Co-Investigator on the British Election Study, was interviewed by Charlie Stayt and Louise Minchin on BBC Breakfast News following the second leadership debate between Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage.

In it, he warns that the Liberal Democrats are «heading for disaster» if they keep Nick Clegg as leader - a final attempt to undermine the deputy Prime Minister.

However she was not appointed Deputy Prime Minister.

No - one voting to spite the Conservatives will support the deputy prime minister of a Tory - led government.

Svensson said the party was pleased with its campaign and was hoping that leader Jan Björklund would be made deputy prime minister, a role taken by the leader of the second largest governing party.

Unlike the previous Deputy Leader, John Prescott, Harman was not made Deputy Prime Minister.

Clegg wanted Cable to speak in favour of the call not to break from the coalition's agreed deficit reduction plan, with his aides pointing out that the deputy prime minister expected all Lib Dem MPs to turn up for the vote.

At the Liberal Democrat conference, the Deputy Prime Minister acknowledged that he was «no longer the «untainted... fresh - faced outsider», vowing to learn from the «mistake» of his infamous U-turn on university tuition fees.

... The Deputy Prime Minister revealed a meeting on Monday will take place on the future of Mike Hancock, the MP for Portsmouth South.»

Jonathan Isaby's pick: My moment of the year has to be the Downing Street Rose Garden press conference given by the newly installed Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister on May 12th, which I was privileged to witness at first hand.

The deputy prime minister made this bold plan just as recess ends, and as George Osborne came back from his summer holiday.

In this exclusive extract from his new book, the former deputy prime minister reveals the chaos behind closed doors in the early day of the coalition government

[22] She used this point to argue that she should become the next Deputy Prime Minister in an interview with the BBC.

Deputy Prime Minister's Questions was branded «useless» during this morning's culture questions

Sadiq Khan, who managed Miliband's successful leadership campaign, was appointed Shadow Justice Secretary and Shadow Lord Chancellor, and continuing Deputy Leader Harriet Harman continued to shadow Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, as well as being made Shadow International Development Secretary.

This was certainly an unusually eventful and rather eccentric oral questions session, covering asbestos in the House, calls for question time especially for London Mayor Boris Johnson and demands for Deputy Prime Minister Questions to be abolished because they are «useless».