Sentences with phrase «junior minister»

After all, dozens of junior ministers can not provide a focal point for public attention equivalent to that of the prime minister and would soon generate mixed messages.

«The established process of approval means that most decisions are taken by junior ministers,» a spokesperson said.

Most junior ministers have a lower public profile than their senior colleagues and media engagement is generally a minor part of the job.

Worse still, imagine being a Lib Dem junior minister.

Let junior ministers announce small initiatives, he advised.

One or two Conservative junior ministers, who are pushing for immediate promotion to the cabinet, might learn something from this.

Since he became junior minister at the DCMS 18 months ago, he has attacked investors in film for being «unimaginative and conservative», simultaneously complaining that there are too many «arty farty» films and too much «heritage movie - making».

Shadow Communities Secretary Jon Trickett confirmed the news, tweeting: «Delighted to have Emma as additional junior minister in our team».

Theresa Villiers, Caroline Spelman, Chris Grayling, Andrew Lansley need some time as junior ministers of state so that they have enough experience to be good cabinet members as do Michael Gove & Jeremy Hunt.

Marlène Schiappa, whose successful blog Maman Works saw her dubbed the «spokeswoman for working mums», becomes junior minister for equality between women and men.

The Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Rachel Reeves is expecting to debate the issue with a more junior minister from the government department.

I find it amusing to hear today colleagues who were junior ministers under Thatcher extolling a tough line on public services but who at the time flinched when faced with opposition.

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

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

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

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.

Rudd, who served as a more junior minister at DECC before the election, is said to be in favour of expanding renewable energy usage.

When a debate on Burma took place in 2007 in the aftermath of the regime's brutal suppression of peaceful protests in Burma, William Hague insisted on opening for the Opposition, even though David Miliband was on paternity leave and his then junior minister Meg Munn was deputed to speak for the government.

Downing Street has confirmed that Vale of Glamorgan MP Alun Cairns is the new junior minister at the Wales Office.

Lord Sainsbury, holder of Sainsbury's shares worth # 1.4 billion, was appointed junior minister at the DTI, joining Peter Mandelson and Lord Simon, former chair of British Petroleum.

Should the new junior minister Lord Agnew wish to look at the performance of open free schools, it would be wise to ponder what form the schools we want should take, and how they can be helped, rather than the label attached to them.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Stephen Harper tabbed Joe Oliver on Wednesday to take over from Jim Flaherty in the all - important Finance portfolio, and also promoted junior minister Greg Rickford to succeed Oliver at Natural Resources.

After the session, the prime minister's spokesperson insisted it was standard procedure for the chancellor to announce a policy in the Commons and then send junior ministers to defend it in TV interviews.

A ten week consultation is currently under way to look into the feasibility and possible impact of the move, but it is understood that home secretary Theresa May and her Liberal Democrat junior minister Jeremy Browne are opposed.

Resignations by shadow junior ministers include Caerphilly MP Wayne David, Torfaen MP Nick Thomas - Symonds.

Former justice minister Shailesh Vara, a solicitor, and former junior minister Dominic Raab, a solicitor, return to the back benches.

platform that include travelling to another country to compete against junior ministers from other Caribbean islands and public speaking opportunities within the BVI,» said Tourist Board Training Coordinator Natalie Penn..»

Permanent secretaries deal with strategic management — while junior ministers hardly count, as we've seen in the diaries of both the late Alan Clark MP and Chris Mullin.

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.

«The standard circulation for cabinet memoranda includes the Queen, the Prince of Wales, all members of the cabinet, any other ministers in charge of departments, the attorney general and the chief whip... Ministers of state and junior ministers do not normally receive memoranda.»

The famously maverick - ish junior minister from the Beauce, in Quebec, seems to think the country should decide the fate of its reddest chamber.

Amber Rudd and Sajid Javid the two get Cabinet roles after operating with the Chancellor at the Treasury & # 13 & # 13 & # 13 & #thirteen & # 13 Picture: Reuters & #thirteen & # 13 George Osborne has strengthened his part in govt even more with the appointment of two of his previous junior ministers to Cupboard...

When junior minister Simon Burns was heard to call him - in the Commons chamber, no less - a «stupid, sanctimonious dwarf» there was unsurprisingly uproar.

Particularly among junior ministers, the level of churn has been so great in recent years that very often, by the time the minister has got close to understanding their subject, they are moved on.

By his own account he was an ineffective junior minister, not equipped for the cut and thrust of Whitehall life.

According to many in the media, this was the result of a series of public rows with junior minister Frank Field, though others also cited her decision to cut benefits to lone parents as a factor.

It was revealed last night that Home Office minister Tony McNulty and junior minister Joan Ryan knew that files of 27,000 offenders had not been properly entered onto UK police databases - and therefore were unknown to British authorities - last October.

However, it's not good democratic practice that their departments are accountable to the Commons through junior ministers.

A letter urging a hard Brexit has been supported by Davis» junior minister Steve Baker, one of the new Eurosceptic MPs and a former chairman of the European Research Group (ERG), founded by Daniel Hannan MEP, which coordinates some 60 hard Brexit Tory MPs behind a password - protected website and the WhatsApp group called «ERG DExEU / DIT Suppt Group».

Johann Lamont, former Scottish Labour Leader and MSP since 1999, faces off against popular SNP Junior Minister Humsa Yousaf, elected to the regional list in 2011.

kaylouise @kaybaysally RT @MartinShovel: I like junior ministers, but I couldn't eat a whole one!

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).

De Piero, who was shadow minister for women and equalities in Ed Miliband's shadow cabinet but quit as a shadow junior minister before the leadership challenge to Corbyn last summer, has a new role as shadow justice minister.

Unlike when Peter Thorneycroft (Chancellor of the Exchequer) resigned in 1958 or Lord Carrington (Foreign Secretary) in 1982, Heseltine's junior ministers Norman Lamont and John Lee did not resign with him.

It culminated in September 2006 with Brown once again at the centre of an alleged plot to topple his old friend, as a string of junior ministers resigned over the prime minister's refusal to name a departure date.

Junior Minister Mark Hoban replied that last year it was # 790.

Junior minister Jim McGovern has announced his resignation over the government's plans to sell off a significant part of Royal Mail.

Osborne therefore dutifully failed to tell Cabinet of his decision, gave ministers «Labour hypocrisy» attack lines just hours before the announcement» and packed off an under - briefed junior minister to face the Jeremy Paxman monstering machine.