Sentences with phrase «foreign secretary who»

Palmerston is named after Prime Minister Viscount Palmerston, a foreign secretary who served almost 200 years ago before serving two terms as the country's Prime Minister.

Is it true that under Government contingency plans if the Prime Minister were killed in a terrorist attack it would be the Foreign Secretary who took charge of the Government until the Queen could choose a new Prime Minister?

The group includes some former remain supporters but its founding members are largely made up of those involved in the Brexit campaign, including Tory former chancellor Nigel Lawson, Tory donor Peter Cruddas, Digby Jones, who is a former head of the CBI, and David Owen, the former Labour foreign secretary who went on to help found the Social Democratic Party (SDP).

«I have the novel approach of having a shadow foreign secretary who I trust and William has made the position very clear.

His brother, David, the shadow foreign secretary who is also vying for the Labour crown, said that the higher tax rate should come to an end after five years.

Even Jack Straw, the foreign secretary who presided over the Iraq war, is lobbying MPs for change.

But how much longer will we have to put up with a foreign secretary who keeps hurting Britain and Britons abroad?

William Hague The Tory group is led by the shadow foreign secretary who is regarded as David Cameron's right - hand man.

He said: «They have a leader who will not sing the national anthem, a shadow chancellor who seems to admire the IRA more than he does the British Army, a shadow foreign secretary who sneers at the English flag and a shadow home secretary who seems to advocate unlimited immigration.

Not exact matches

Though the behavior of «playful Sue» may sound outlandish to some women, there are no shortage of high - powered and deeply serious professional women that admit to using their feminine charms to get what they want, including Clinton - era Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who has admitted to flirting with male foreign leaders on the job.

Among top - level appointees, Trump has now turned over a chief of staff, a chief strategist, two deputy chiefs of staff, a national security adviser, two deputy national security advisers, a staff secretary, a longtime personal aide and a deputy assistant to the president who was a foreign policy adviser.

We don't know why Trump decided to fire Flynn (the stated reason that he «lied to Mike Pence» doesn't pass the laugh test), whether he was told of the domestic abuse allegations against then - White House staff secretary Rob Porter, what's on the Apprentice outtake footage that producer Mark Burnett is keeping locked up, why exactly Trump handed some choice Israeli intelligence to the Russian foreign minister, who financed the hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels, or any of a dozen other major questions about Trump.

«It's a shame [Secretary of State] Rex Tillerson was in the same room as the North Korean foreign minister, who is a reasonable person, and that discussion didn't occur,» Delury said.

You are supposedly on his side - but you didn't lobby Theresa May or the actual foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, who are responsible for policy.

10:15 - And now here's the shadow foreign secretary, Douglas Alexander, who lays out the key objections of the opposition: «We do not believe an in - out referendum... is in the national interest,» he says.

The former Foreign Secretary also cited the story of how a woman during the uprising in Egypt had said that as a devout Muslim she believed in the dignity of the individual, and that also meant respecting the dignity of her neighbour who may not be a Muslim.

The foreign secretary is on a one - day tour of the country with French counterpart Bernard Kouchner, who already appears to have acknowledged their mission will not succeed.

There are few other positions important enough for the elder sibling, who has already been foreign secretary and is too unsympathetic to Ed Miliband's civil liberty agenda to go to the Home Office.

Wright tried to cheer her up by reminding her that by far the most popular and successful Foreign Secretary since the war had been Ernie Bevin, who had commented on a marginal reference to the phrase «mutatis muntandis»: «Please do not write in Greek;» I have never learned it».

Foreign secretary William Hague, who has been under pressure over his response to the Libyan uprising, insisted that the Foreign Office had not been overstretched by trying to deal with the global disaster while simultaneously managing events in the Middle East and north Africa.

At least eight MPs were certified insane, including Lord Dudley who was foreign secretary 1827 - 8.

Aid drops which Corbyn's shadow foreign secretary, Emily Thornberry, who was on stage with him has been calling for for over a year.

«If we vote to stay,» said the man who is now our Foreign Secretary, «then I am afraid the whole EU caravan carries blithely on; and when I think of the champagne - guzzling orgy of backslapping in Brussels that would follow a Remain vote on Friday, I want to weep.

Foreign secretary Margaret Beckett has said she is «genuinely relieved and grateful» that a Briton who has been on Pakistan's death row for 18 years is to be spared.

This was a man who was hoping to become foreign secretary in just a few days» time.

This was one of the key factors which led to the rise of groups like Isis, a point conceded by former UK foreign secretary David Miliband and even President Obama, who told Vice News: «Isis is a direct outgrowth of Al Qaeda in Iraq that grew out of our invasion.»

Those who suggested he would endorse David Miliband before voting closed on 22 September, or offer his second preference to the former foreign secretary in return for a guarantee of the shadow chancellorship, were victims of spin from the Mili - D camp.

«Geoff Hoon is desperate to get back in the game following the crushing snub earlier in the week from the foreign secretary, who wouldn't even let him answer questions on his own brief,» he said.

Who knew that Philip Hammond was foreign secretary for two years?

Of the other shadow cabinet members who are potential occupants of the major offices of state, Douglas Alexander, the shadow foreign secretary, is probably the most concerned for the future.

After his elimination, he switched his support to the eventual winner James Callaghan, who duly rewarded Crosland by appointing him Foreign Secretary on 8 April 1976.

They were joined by foreign secretary William Hague, who is also a judo fan.

He and his foreign secretary, William Hague, had warm words for their Lib Dem coalition partners, and ploughed a fresh furrow: that it is the Tories, as much as the Lib Dems, who have pushed for «cuddly» policies, in the language of the prime minister.

After the 2001 election, Blair moved him to the Foreign Office, perhaps out of a combined need for someone who was a «safe pair of hands» and who wouldn't challenge Blair as he became increasingly his own foreign secretary, a characteristic of many prime minForeign Office, perhaps out of a combined need for someone who was a «safe pair of hands» and who wouldn't challenge Blair as he became increasingly his own foreign secretary, a characteristic of many prime minforeign secretary, a characteristic of many prime ministers.

In one of his first acts as foreign secretary, Mr Hague has directly challenged the actions of his predecessor, David Miliband, who repeatedly insisted he had nothing to hide.

She will apparently be joined by former shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn as she launches her bid, who was sacked from his post recently after saying he had no confidence in Mr Corbyn.

Former defence secretary, Liam Fox, who also campaigned to leave the EU, was given the new job of international trade secretary and Boris Johnson, who was a leader of the official Leave campaign, is foreign secretary.

A shift of power from No 10 to the great offices of state: the Chancellor, the Foreign Secretary (who also would have resigned if Brown tried to move him), the Home Secretary (and heir - even - more - apparent)-- and of course the First Secretary and Grand Panjandrum, Lord Mandelson.

Mr Cameron said on Sunday there were many members of his shadow cabinet who attended state schools, including shadow foreign secretary William Hague, shadow defence secretary Liam Fox and party chairman Eric Pickles.

We're told Evans gave an «eloquent» toast to Osborne, who campaigned for the UK to stay in the European Union, and then, after voters decided to leave, was passed over for the role of foreign secretary by the new prime minister.

The problem is that many others - who have not met the foreign secretary in person - often still see him as a kind of upmarket Nigel Farage, a Eurosceptic clown with clout.

The shadow foreign secretary, Douglas Alexander, who represents Paisley and Renfrewshire South, told an audience at Glasgow University on Saturday that the time had arrived to make clear to the Scottish people that real change would follow a no vote.

The son of former Foreign Secretary Lord Hurd and MP for Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner - who is minister for civil society in the Coalition Government - is today marrying Lady Clare Kerr, the elder daughter of the Marquess of Lothian - better known as former Conservative Party chairman, Michael Ancram.

As well as being Prime Minister, he became his own Foreign Secretary, a dual role which he performed well enough, but which alienated the second man in the party, Arthur Henderson, who became Home Secretary.

Unlike David Miliband — who was foreign secretary, after all — they are not lucrative enough to be rescued by a prestigious international institution.

The leadership battle that follows Cook's resignation is essentially a two - horse race between the long - serving chancellor, Gordon Brown, and the man who Cook has surprisingly promoted to foreign secretary, David Miliband.

Those who could gain promotions into the cabinet include Dominic Raab and Damian Hinds, and May could also be looking to promote Amber Rudd — as foreign secretary if Johnson does step aside — and Karen Bradley.

The foreign secretary, who lost the 2001 general election as Tory leader after shifting to the right, spoke out after one rightwinger called on Downing Street to abandon «barmy» ideas such as pressing for the legalisation of gay marriage.

Notable exceptions are Peter, Lord Carrington, who served as Foreign Secretary from 1979 to 1982, and David, Lord Young, who was appointed Employment Secretary in 1985.

The decision left him contemplating withdrawing from the fray and backing either Ed Miliband or his brother David, the former foreign secretary, who remains the bookies» favourite.