Sentences with phrase «former cabinet colleague»

«I don't think she's ever thought deeply about these questions,» Kenney says of former cabinet colleague Leitch

It's basically a personal attack on Cameron (which is fine) and on former Cabinet colleague John Reid (which, frankly, is not).

He faced a second attempt to launch a leadership challenge by former Cabinet colleagues Geoff Hoon and Patricia Hewitt in January 2010, but the plot failed to gather momentum and Brown remained as both Labour leader and Prime Minister to lead his party into the 2010 General Election.

In his first public criticism of the new prime minister, Tony Blair's former Cabinet colleague told the Guardian backbench MPs had been «appalled» by Gordon Brown's commitment to «British jobs for British workers» - made at the autumn conference - but could not speak out without appearing disloyal.

David Miliband tonight issued a lukewarm vote of confidence in the prime minister after two former cabinet colleagues called for a secret ballot by Labour MPs to settle the question of his leadership «once and for all».

Alongside former cabinet colleague Alan Milburn, Mr Clarke recently launched the 20:20 Vision website designed to «move the debate forward» on the future of the Labour government.

Asked about the jailing of former Cabinet colleague Chris Huhne, Prime Minister David Cameron said: «It's a reminder that no - one, however high and mighty, is out of the reach of the justice system.»

Leadership contender issues fiercest assault yet on former cabinet colleague's decision to publish his memoirs

«He has supporters from across Canada who will want to help him succeed in Alberta, which will draw some talent and money away from the national party in the short term,» said his former cabinet colleague James Moore, once rumoured to have leadership aspirations of his own.

The demob - happy ex-minister, who left the government in last week's reshuffle, used his first big interview since quitting to send a warning sign to his former Cabinet colleagues.

He has a warning for his former cabinet colleagues: «Serious uncertainty in your trading and political relationships with the rest of the world is dangerous if you allow it to persist.»

Was he making a threat: raise interest rates or my former cabinet colleagues may choose to abolish the Bank's independence?

As Blair penned his name, my lunch table conversation with one of his former cabinet colleagues turned to the famously scrawled handwriting of his successor in No 10.

With polls showing the contest is on course for a photo finish, Mr Clegg made a whistlestop visit to the constituency of his former Cabinet colleague who quit as an MP after pleading guilty to perverting the course of justice.

Opinion polls suggest that David Cameron's lead will grow as soon as he succeeds Tony Blair, his Budget flopped with voters, his nose excavation habits have become a pick of YouTube (thanks to Guido) and his former Cabinet colleague Charles Clarke is desperately organising a leadership challenge to him.

Burnham said there needed to be a «clean break» from the kind of politics depicted in the memoirs of his former cabinet colleague Lord Mandelson, which are being serialised in the Times this week.

Is this a way to speak of a former cabinet colleague?

Former Prime Minister David Cameron has admitted he would like to set some of his former cabinet colleagues adrift on a «dangerous river».

One of Mr Brown's former cabinet colleagues, Peter Hain, has confirmed that he held discussions with police officers investigating the potential hacking of his computers during the period when he was Northern Ireland Secretary.

Just moments after his former cabinet colleague Tom Watson released a carefully worded statement - Lord Falconer has tendered his resignation as Shadow Justice Secretary.

Lord Mandelson was today accused by a former cabinet colleague of self - indulgent arrogance and running the party for more than a decade as a tool to engage in egotistical faction fights that only demoralised the party and the electorate.

In an interview with the New Statesman, Dr Cable said his former Cabinet colleague had used words reminiscent of Hitler's autobiographical book of 1925, in which he set out his political beliefs.