Sentences with phrase «government over the cabinet»

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The Autumn Statement is a mini-budget in which the chancellor updates the country on the government's taxation and spending plans, and it will be the new cabinet's first major economic announcement since May took over as prime minister.

Fault lines have emerged in the new government even before its first cabinet meeting, with tensions evident over the sequencing and extent of reforms.

During his opening speech to the Cabinet, Tsipras said that the «national salvation» government must eliminate political favoritism and corruption, and implement the reforms that could not be implemented over the past 40 years.

But when the courts dallied, the new cabinet voted to deny GMR the right to operate the airport, and on December 6, 2012, the Singapore Court of Appeals — where the case was being considered — gave the green light for the government to take over.

Today, Premier Christy Clark reiterated the approach her cabinet ministers have taken over the past months, calling for the federal government to take action on pill presses.

Over the past eleven months, Premier Redford, cabinet ministers, and backbench Tory MLAs have traveled extensively on government business.

Victorian Liberal MP Sharman Stone has reignited a divisive debate within the Abbott government over assistance to struggling businesses, criticising members of cabinet who are resisting a request from SPC Ardmona (SPCA) for $ 50 million as motivated by free - market «dogma».

The holder of the office has ultimate power over, and responsibility for, all policies made and implemented by government, seeing all Cabinet papers and being the sole arbiter of disputes between the organs of government.

Two Cabinet ministers and civil servants at the Department for Transport are fighting an increasingly bitter blame game behind closed doors over the collapse of the government's system for awarding rail franchises.

It marks a positive change from a mode of governance that has in the past enabled the Cabinet leadership to manipulate electoral accountability for partisan advantage and to exercise dominance over government backbenchers and the legislature.

DC: What I said last time is I wanted a third of ministers in a Conservative government to be women, and in Conservative cabinet ministers we are now right up there at over 30 %.

We'll look at the main areas being suggested for further devolution in Scotland by the Smith Commission — powers over the economy and the Welfare State — and examine how they apply to Wales; and then look at how devolution to England and the recommendations of UK Government's Cabinet committee under William Hague will impact on the workings of the UK, and what its future should be.

The NAO have also criticised the government for refusing to hand over Cabinet committee papers relating to the decision to construct the two new Queen Elizabeth class aircraft carriers.

Tory backbencher Philip Davies said: «I find it absolutely extraordinary that a Cabinet minister can stay in his post after being so openly defiant of the prime minister over government policy.»

The Prime Minister is expected to make changes to his cabinet over the next 24 hours and there's speculation that Welsh Secretary David Jones could be one of those to leave government.

Liberal Democrat Cabinet minister Vince Cable is to warn the government against complacency over the economy in a speech on Wednesday.

A prominent campaigner for remain, the former education secretary has used her position at the helm of the Treasury select committee since losing her cabinet position to press the government over its plans for leaving the EU — often acting as a voice for business in parliament in her efforts to prevent a no - deal Brexit.

Pro-EU Housing Minister Brandon Lewis is expected to get a major Cabinet portfolio after impressing in the job and defending Mr Cameron over his family's tax affairs, while former Police Minister Nick Herbert will return to Government after leading the Conservative In campaign.

In 2013, Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood intervened with David Cameron to try to bring an end to the «concerted political briefing campaign» against Devereux over problems with the Government's Universal Credit programme.

No reason was given for the cabinet changes, but some analysts said there were reports of friction among some government officials over Magufuli's strict leadership style.

Over recent days we've also heard my shadow cabinet colleagues, Emma Reynolds and Tristram Hunt, talk about how a Labour government will ensure we get the house building we need to strengthen our economy and improve people's quality of life, and about how we raise standards in our schools to ensure our children are equipped to succeed.

In a sign of ongoing government solipsism over Brexit, Westminster's initial reaction to Amber Rudd's replacement by Sajid Javid has been to scrutinise what it means for the balance of power among soft and hard Brexiteers around the cabinet table.

Ed Balls went to a good public school, to Oxford, over to Harvard for a stint teaching, returning to write leaders for the FT, on to working for Gordon Brown in opposition and government, to MP and into the cabinet two years after entering parliament.

Shockingly, the cabinet papers also show that the Tories were willing to go as far as declaring a state of emergency and deploying the Army in order to gain victory over the striking miners and the unions — confirmation that it was a central tenet of government policy to regard tax - paying, law - abiding colliery workers, locked in struggle to defend their jobs and their way of life, as (to use that awful phrase of Margaret Thatcher's) «the enemy within».

Francis Maude, the shadow Cabinet Office minister, warned that the «years of plenty» in the public sector were over and said that the Tories would bring in outsiders to oversee the work of government departments and ensure they were delivering on their business plans.

By comparison, when Margaret Thatcher formed her first government in 1979 her party gained 62 seats from other parties, but she was able to choose widely, from over 250 re-elected MPs from the previous parliament, the 100 or so cabinet and junior ministers.»

The prime minister has committed «seven mortal sins» that have degraded politics, Sir Alistair continued, including; the cash for honours scandal, his alleged disregard for cabinet government, the «shocking political interferenace» in the fraud investigation of BAE's arms deal in Saudi Arabia, his dismissal of concerns over postal voting, the handling of investigations in ministerial disconduct, an «undue reliance on spin», and «politicising» the civil service.

Over the past two years, it has been met with reservations from cabinet colleagues in the Cameron government and serious problems finding a robust definition of extremism that would survive legal challenge from a banned group or individual.

Unsourced briefings to several newspapers over Christmas, attributed to people in Corbyn's camp, claimed that members of the shadow cabinet — including Dugher, as well as the shadow foreign secretary, Hilary Benn, and the shadow defence secretary, Maria Eagle — could be removed as revenge for siding with the government over the question of whether to extend airstrikes against Isis to Syria.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's goal of seeking broader authority over moving money between state authorities and inking certain contracts isn't about power, but streamling government, he told reporters at a cabinet meeting earlier this afternoon.

The Cabinet star was one of the stars of the Out campaign — leading the attacks on the Government over its record on immigration.

A Cabinet Office spokeswoman said: «The decision over when the house should return after an election is a matter for the government, not the cabinet secretary or the civil service.Cabinet Office spokeswoman said: «The decision over when the house should return after an election is a matter for the government, not the cabinet secretary or the civil service.cabinet secretary or the civil service.»

A number of prominent Conservative MPs on Theresa May's Cabinet, including Liam Fox and David Davis, have been vocal proponents of grammar schools, and Education Secretary Justine Greening has said that the government should be «open minded» to the idea of new grammar schools as the education landscape has changed over the last few years.

She presides over the smallest of the fifteen Cabinet departments, and the vast majority of education spending comes from state and local governments.

The disclosure — revealed in leaked cabinet letters obtained by the BBC — shows the government lied to schools over its real motive for introducing the troublesome checks, first revealed by Schools Week.

Having said that, the pound hit the ground running as bulls began bidding the pound higher when the new trading week opened, thanks to news over the weekend that Theresa May plans to reshuffle her cabinet in order to have firmer control in government, as well as rumors making the rounds at the time that the U.K. office for National Statistics (ONS) will supposedly issue corrections because it made a mistake when calculating the U.K.'s unit labor costs.

With over 30 years of public - sector involvement at every level of government, from mayor to congressional committee chairman to cabinet member, Mineta will address the need for every business executive in the pet industry to establish and maintain working relationships with elected officials.

«For over one and a half centuries, the annual Gracious Address has been drafted inside Government and agreed by the Cabinet far from the public arena, but I believe that it is right, in the interests of good and open government and public debate, that each year the Prime Minister make a summer statement to the House so that initial thinking, previously private, can be the subject of widespread and informed public debaGovernment and agreed by the Cabinet far from the public arena, but I believe that it is right, in the interests of good and open government and public debate, that each year the Prime Minister make a summer statement to the House so that initial thinking, previously private, can be the subject of widespread and informed public debagovernment and public debate, that each year the Prime Minister make a summer statement to the House so that initial thinking, previously private, can be the subject of widespread and informed public debate.»

On the eve of Wednesday's caucus and cabinet meetings, grassroots Liberal activists and MPPs were privately expressing concern over the debacle and what it says about the government's principles and its competence.

The government estimates that defective products seriously injure over three million people a year, and many of these products are already in your backyard, garage, or medicine cabinet.

A Cabinet Office spokesperson said: «The government has been actively considering this issue over the summer.

In a move that will benefit over 6 lakh government employees and pensioners as well as their dependents in Punjab, the State Cabinet has given its nodRead More

The Close the Gap Campaign has released its position paper on the Federal Budget 2015 - 16, calling on Government to restore cuts of up to $ 534.4 million over five years from the rationalisation of Indigenous Affairs programs, grants and activities administered by the Prime Minister and Cabinet and Health portfolios.

Also at the symposium, Professor Ian Anderson, Deputy Secretary of Indigenous Affairs in the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, urged delegates to get involved with the Council of Australian Government's Closing the Gap refresh over the coming months.

The Government through the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet is supporting me and my team to conduct engagements over the course of 2018 in urban, rural and remote settings across Australia.

I realize that Melanie Aitken is a political appointee and that she has been given free reign to pursue her agenda as she sees fit, but so too are cabinet ministers within the government; how many of the latter have been fired over the years?