Sentences with phrase «first cabinet post»

He was rewarded with his first cabinet post in the 1970 government and promoted to become leader of the House in 1972.

When Callaghan won, he rewarded Hattersley with his first cabinet post, as secretary for prices and consumer protection.

Not exact matches

President - elect Donald Trump is expected to name former Goldman Sachs partner and Hollywood financier Steven Mnuchin as his nominee for Treasury secretary, a source said on Tuesday, putting a Wall Street veteran in the top U.S. economic Cabinet post for the first time in eight years.

In 1990 he stepped down as Prime Minister in favor of Deputy Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong yet remained in the Cabinet, first as a «Senior Minister» and then as «Minister Mentor,» vaguely defined posts that allowed him to oscillate between speaking engagements abroad while advising his ministerial colleagues on matters of state.

He has also filled a wide range of cabinet posts since he was first elected 32 years ago (Environment, Career Development, Public Works, Economic Development and Tourism, and as Deputy Premier).

Great post I remember bringing my little one home for the first time and all we could afford at the time was a cheap model from the big W. Would have been much better to have the one with storage underneath so we didn't have to have a separate cabinet in the room just for baby supplies.

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.

It is fascinating to consider the fact that the Cabinet Secretariat owed its existence to the formation of the Lloyd George government in December 1916 and to first secretary, the hardworking and feline Maurice Hankey, who held the post down until just before the Second World War.

The post divides Cameron's cabinet into four major segments: the first incarnation, the reshuffle in September 2012, the cabinet as it lined up before Tuesday's movements and how it looks now - although several other minor shuffles took place after ministerial resignations.

Gordon Brown has briefed the Cabinet on planned constitutional changes which could see the first - past - the - post voting system scrapped in favour of alternative vote (AV).

But the Labour leader failed to land his first choices for a number of key shadow cabinet posts, according to insider accounts.

McKinnell became the fourth shadow minister — and the first with a shadow cabinet post — to step down in the space of a week following the resignations of Jonathan Reynolds, Kevan Jones and Stephen Doughty.

At first sight it felt less like a reshuffle and more like a re-appoint with more than half of the old cabinet - and almost all those in the top jobs - keeping their old posts.

In 1924 he was Secretary for Mines (not a Cabinet - level post)[9] in the First Labour Government.

However, in order to be taken as a serious government - in - waiting, politics has to come first and I was somewhat concerned recently to hear the following story about a member of the shadow cabinet: he had apparently already told David Cameron that he didn't want a higher profile post than that which he currently holds in advance of the general election, because he didn't want to give up other interests on account of time commitments or potential conflicts of interest involved in a different post.

But our first problem is that much of Labour's frontbenches are empty, as are some shadow cabinet posts.

Frances Perkins was the first woman to hold a U.S. cabinet post when she served as secretary of labor under President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1930s.

Since you first entered Parliament in 1970, and over forty years since your first Front Bench role as a PPS, your passion for getting things done and the energy you have brought to your Cabinet posts has not diminished one bit.

Jon Cruddas, the first round ballot winner in the 2007 deputy leadership contest (and who, under first past the post, would currently serve as deputy leader, not Harman) actually stood on a platform of rejecting a cabinet seat so he could instead devote his time to party development.

Since she came 35th in the shadow cabinet poll and this is the first junior post to be made public, it is an important signal that Ed Miliband (unlike much of the PLP who elected the shadow cabinet) wants -LSB-...]

Mayors work within combined authorities, with cabinets made up of council leaders — all of whom are indirectly elected through a broken First Past the Post voting system.

She becomes the fourth shadow minister — and the first with a shadow Cabinet post — to step down in the space of a week following the resignations of Jonathan Reynolds, Kevan Jones and Stephen Doughty last week.

How to make a basket liner video tutorial I first shared these baskets, with their ruffle linen liners, in my Laundry Room Cabinet Organization post.

Neither Betsy DeVos, who is 59, nor any of her children have ever attended a public school; her Cabinet post also marks her first full - time job in the education system.

Hehr resigned his cabinet post as minister for Sports and Persons with Disabilities in January when the accusations first emerged.

This includes enhanced access to government information, restoring relevance to Question Period, electoral reform, and an end to the «first past the post» voting system, the unmuzzling of government scientists, return of the long form census, an equal number of men and women in Cabinet, and the formation of a Youth Advisory Counsel so that young people can provide advice to the PM on issues that concern them.

I promise another post soon with all the details on how we designed on our IKEA kitchen and what the whole process looks like from the first sketches to cabinet delivery.

P.S. if you didn't read my blog on how we got these cabinets for free, and what they looked like before, you should check out this post first:)

The kitchen, which you may remember from my first cabinet repainting post.