Sentences with phrase «even as a cabinet minister»

Throughout his long parliamentary career, even as a cabinet minister, Straw nurtured his constituency and drew strength from his visits.

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All the while, Morneau's fellow cabinet minister, Karina Gould, tried to maintain calm even as time was wrapping up with several people still lined up at microphones, anxious to give the finance minister a piece of their minds.

These began on Monday evening and immediately after the cabinet meeting when Gordon Brown announced that he would stand down later this year as Labour leader and Prime Minister.

Incompetence is when a Flagbearer who is making claims of being able to transform Ghana, was unable to provide even basic potable water to his own constituency even though he was MP for 12 years and cabinet minister as 7 years.

It was significant, I thought, that the first senior Cabinet minister to turn up in Downing Street on Sunday evening for pre-talks talks - or as No 10 put it «to discuss the latest state of play on the EU renegotiation» — was Theresa May, the Euro - sceptic leaning Home Secretary.

The Prime Minister finds himself as politically impotent as at any time in his troubled premiership, at once unable to dominate the economic argument and stripped of moral authority, even around his own cabinet table.

This is crucial with Blair's way of Prime Ministerial government as he preferred informal meetings with no official minutes and the exclusion of senior officials like the Cabinet Secretary and even responsible ministers.

The minister for the cabinet office, Francis Maude, even described Michael Spencer as a «personal friend of the prime minister and the prime minister's wife».

Another former Conservative cabinet minister and ex-MP, David Mellor, was even more scathing, describing the Tories under Cameron as «this pale sad shadow of what the Tory party used to be» and warning that it was «ripping itself apart now because of the sense that David Cameron is a prisoner of Nick Clegg and the Lib Dems».

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.

When members of parliament, and even Cabinet ministers, publicly condemn individual citizens for exercising their right to litigate in our courts, and trash the judges who properly hear those cases as «defying the will of the people», the separation of powers teeters on the brink.

As a result, many ministers had been in place not just since the government was elected in 2010, but had covered the portfolio in Cameron's shadow cabinet or even earlier; Andrew Lansley had covered the health brief since 2004, when Michael Howard led the Conservatives in opposition.

May, who has announced that funding for brain cancer research would be doubled and better diagnostic tests rolled out to all NHS hospitals in tribute, said the former Labour cabinet minister's dignity and courage were «as humbling as they were inspirational», adding: «Even at what must have been some of her most difficult moments, her compassion for others shone through.»

As pointed out with Harman, Jon Cruddas when standing for deputy leader, didn't even want to be in the cabinet, he didn't want to be Deputy prime minister, regarding sexism how did Jack dromey get elected on a all women short list, or is it the working class who suffer under positive discrimination not the fact it's supposed to help women

But on Tuesday 86 parliamentarians, including eight former cabinet ministers, wrote a letter to the Guardian calling on the government to oppose statutory regulation, even if it is dressed up as «underpinning».

Labour's miserable poll ratings have now sparked internal conflict about what several cabinet ministers damn as a lacklustre campaign, which is failing even to mobilise the party's core vote — leaving the Lib Dems to make the running with a fairness agenda they regard as Labour's own.

William Waldegrave ended his two - year stint as science minister in last week's Cabinet reshuffle amid plaudits even from the pressure group Save British Science for his enthusiasm and commitment.