Sentences with phrase «former junior minister»

After her former junior minister confirmed that she had «ambitions» to increase the numbers being deported, the Guardian published in full Rudd's four - page letter to Theresa May in which she sets an «ambitious but deliverable» target to increase deportations by 10 %.

Mr Dhanda is a former junior minister who ran unsuccessfully to be Speaker of the Commons in June.

The post of chairman of the parliamentary party was filled by the former junior minister David Renton, the MP for Huntingdon since 1945, with veteran National Liberal Herbert Butcher (who sat for the seat of Holland with Boston) remaining their chief whip.

Gloucester MP for eight years; former junior minister.

Former junior minister Chris Mullin has already delighted us with his edited diaries A View From the Foothills and now has produced a further selection Decline and Fall: Diaries 2005 - 2010 (Profile Books # 20).

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He shows all the strengths and weaknesses of Geoffrey Howe, notes that John Major's brief period as Foreign Secretary was an uphill task, but greatly admired Douglas Hurd, a former diplomat and junior Foreign Office minister.

Chris Mullin, in his excellent diaries, records the view of Janet Andersen, a former Labour whip and minister, on Tony Blair's attitude to junior ministerial posts: «He regards them as sweeties to be handed out to keep the children happy», she said.

One is Liz Kendall, Harriet Harman's former special adviser, and now a junior health minister.

The events themselves may have occurred in the 80s, but the scandal came when the former junior health minister revealed her affair with the prime minister in 2002.

He's had a rapid rise to the Shadow Cabinet since becoming an MP just two years ago and will be surrounded by former cabinet and junior ministers on the Labour benches as well as long - serving backbenchers.

Jeremy Corbyn has appointed an array of new MPs to frontbench Labour jobs as well as handing junior roles to recognisable names such as former shadow cabinet minister Gloria De Piero and Tracy Brabin, who replaced the murdered MP Jo Cox.

On the advice of his junior minister Lord Bellwin, a former leader of Leeds City Council, Heseltine ordered that nobody was to be hired without his personal approval.

The former junior equalities minister and ex-parliamentary private secretary to Nick Clegg is no stranger to advertising regulation, particularly surrounding the marketing industry's portrayal of women.

The former Foreign Office minister, whose book Race Plan is published this week, suggested this morning that Clegg had been forced to «meet his detractors halfway» and that this had undermined the coalition's junior party.

For reasons that nobody has quite figured out, the hightly - regarded Stewart - who is a former deputy governor in Iraq and a diplomat in Montenegro - has been made a junior justice minister.

Hill, a former political secretary to prime minister John Major, was said to have tried to resign as a junior education minister in last September's reshuffle but when Cameron apparently failed to notice Hill wanted to leave his post.

Response: Ms Ryan, a former junior Home Office minister, told the paper that the rules had required her to register her flat as her main home when she was in government because it was closest.

She was a former junior Home Office minister with responsibility for equality, then becoming junior minister with responsibility for international development.

Former Tory leadership contender David Davis added: «She's a junior minister at the moment leaping into the hardest job in the government at the hardest possible time.

His successor the former Conservative Chief Whip and junior minister, David Maclean sat as MP from 1983 to 2010 when he stood down due to the state of his health; he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1996.

A former district councillor, she became MP for South Northamptonshire in 2010 and - after serving as a junior Treasury minister and as a member of the Treasury select committee - she was made a junior minister in the energy and climate change department in May last year.

Femi Fani - Kayode, former Aviation Minister, has revealed that former Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon and late military officer, Captain S.G. Tokida saved his father's life on the night of Jan 15th, 1996 when the junior officers» coup took place in Nigeria.

A former MSP and a Westminster MP since 2005, Mundell also spent five years as the junior Scotland minister.

Lord Henley, the junior defence minister, tells me that he and his senior officials are busily classifying these MOD sites according to whether they were once used for radioactive processes such as radium luminising, or as part of a former chemical warfare programme, or were just subject to extreme flooding.

Nash was made a life peer in 2013 so he could become a junior schools minister under former education secretary Michael Gove.

Nick Gibb, the former schools minister, is getting an expanded brief under a new «school standards» remit, while many key responsibilities have been passed to Lord Nash, one of the department's more junior ministers.

Former investment banker Sam Gyimah and general practitioner Philip Lee become junior ministers.

Kerry McCallum, Associate Professor of Communication and Media Studies at the University of Canberra, and Lisa Waller, a former print journalist now doing a PhD at the University of Canberra, say that media logic — defined as «involving a range of skills and tools to monitor, pre-empt and react to news media representation of their policy field» — has permeated the practices of Indigenous affairs policy professionals at every level, from minister to junior bureaucrat.