Sentences with phrase «great number of ministers»

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Others, who also see the situation only as a result of human failure, believe that ministers and schools have been deflected from their purpose and have lost their sense of mission because they have succumbed to the temptation to improve their personal and professional status by doing anything that might make them pleasing to the greatest number of people.

With the 2015 UK general election David Cameron became the first Prime Minister to be re-elected immediately after a full term with a larger popular vote share since 1900 and the only Prime Minister other than Margaret Thatcher to be re-elected immediately after a full term with a greater number of seats to - date.

There's no great rush, but if obfuscatory noises are coming out of Downing Street at, say, this time next year, the Chairman of the»22 should quietly have a word with the Prime Minister, and tell him that the Committee will begin its own policy development process the following summer, if there's no movement from Number Ten in the meantime.

Mediocre ministers mean Sturgeon and her number two are involved in a great deal of micromanagement rather than driving forward any kind of meaningful agenda.

After a great deal of horse trading, a timetable for the election debates has been set, culminating in a head - to - head between the prime minister, David Cameron, and his opposite number Ed Miliband a week before voters go to the polls.

Watkin accepted that ministers had to look to sixth - form colleges to fuel its need for an «ever - greater number of sponsors.