Sentences with phrase «junior ministers»

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

A number of key policy areas have been given to Nash, despite him being one of the more junior ministers in the department.

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.

Now the party has five cabinet ministers and more than a dozen junior ministers; for the first time in living memory, announcements of government policy are being made at a Lib Dem party conference.

In a speech to the Institute of Government in London this morning, the deputy prime minister described the last Labour government's approach as «short - termist», and said the regular shuffling of junior ministers underminded the stability of government.

The political damage from George Osborne's U-turn on plans to increase fuel duty deepened on Tuesday night when he was accused of leaving one of his junior ministers to carry the can during an interview in which she struggled to explain how the freeze would be funded.

His push to become PM gained momentum with Cabinet ministers John Whittingdale and Liz Truss and junior ministers Dominic Raab and George Eustice all supporting him.

They include current chairs of select committees as well as past and still serving middle - ranking and junior ministers.

(The DfE website defines its role as «responsible for education and children's services», with the only formal responsibility for families disclosed so far delegated to junior ministers.)

Edwina Currie (Health) and John Major (Social Security) both served under him as junior ministers.

He rose through the ranks of junior ministers in the Treasury before his promotion to culture secretary.

[73] McKellen described Howard's junior ministers, Conservatives David Wilshire and Dame Jill Knight, who were the architects of Section 28, as the «ugly sisters» of a political pantomime.

Mr Brown has been reshuffling his junior ministers, following last week's cabinet reshuffle and departure of six cabinet ministers and several other ministers.

«In (the) South - East, I got 198,000 votes but I have four substantive ministers and seven junior ministers from there.

Following the June election, when Patel was reappointed to DfID, two of her junior ministers, Rory Stewart and Alistair Burt, took joint positions across DfID and the Foreign Office, in what was perceived by some as a partial victory for Johnson's takeover plans.

«Our revelations led to the demotion of a member of the Cabinet, apologies from a string of junior ministers and condemnation from their party leader,» he added.

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.»

[5] Junior ministers were also said to be frustrated at Cabinet ministers for propping up a Prime Minister with no authority in order to further their careers with some ministers preparing to resign in order to trigger a leadership election.

The triumphant result is that the drinks colossus Diageo, as an example, could go on meeting junior ministers and special advisers to argue against, say, minimum pricing for alcohol, while Alcohol Concern (annual income, less than # 1m) would have to jump through a chilling series of hoops in order to take part in any kind of campaigning, with the risk of criminal charges if it were found in breach of a law that the Electoral Commission says is so opaque it can not confidently predict how it will police it.

Let junior ministers announce small initiatives, he advised.

The Shadow Secretary helps hold the Transport Secretary and junior ministers to account and is the lead spokesperson on transport matters for his or her party.

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.

10.24 am: Glen Oglaza on Sky says Brown is asking junior ministers to give him a personal pledge of loyalty as a condition for accepting a government job.

Where Lib Dem junior ministers are being moved around - Sarah Teather is going, and Lynne Featherstone looks under threat too - there's a real danger that those all - important relationships will be sacrificed.

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

, addressed this problem by calling for junior ministers to have special advisers appointed to them.

Ajimobi said,» We are indeed very grateful to Mr. President for giving us (Oyo State) the portfolio of a substantial minister after several years that we had been having junior ministers.

First of all, Cameron is likely to want to seize the agenda at some point with a last major reshuffle before the general election (and indeed some junior ministers may get moved during the summer).

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.

While some departments have handed Lib Dem junior ministers a dedicated assistant private secretary, the IfG argues special advisers are needed, especially in departments where the secretary of state is a Tory - health, education, justice, defence, work and pensions and the Foreign Office.

«In South East, I got 198,000 votes but I have four substantive ministers and seven junior ministers from there.

«Seven states of the North are only represented in my cabinet by junior ministers, ministers of state.

«Both Steve Baker and Suella Fernandes recognised this principle by resigning as the ERG's chair as each became junior ministers.

His junior ministers were Neil Hamilton and Edward Leigh, both Thatcherites.

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.

Theresa May will carry out a reshuffle of her cabinet and junior ministers this week, Downing Street has confirmed.

In terms of junior ministers who've performed well in their briefs and are knocking at the door of the Cabinet any list must include Greg Clark, Nick Herbert, Maria Miller and Grant Shapps.

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

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.

Some of the best political memoirs and diaries have been kept by junior ministers who, nevertheless, had access to the inner workings of government and the Prime Minister — think Alan Clark and Chris Mullin.

To discover what happened after 1997 Bower interviewed dozens of civil servants ranging from juniors to Permanent Secretaries, many junior ministers and Cabinet ministers, and the principal senior military officers.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Nine - tenths of the M.P.'s who first won seats in the House of Commons in 1918 or thereafter, and who held some ministerial office in the years from 1918 to 1955, began their progress towards posts in a ministry or a Cabinet by serving as parliamentary secretaries or as junior ministers... Recruitment to the front bench clearly begins with these two offices.

With rare exceptions, Liberal Democrat junior ministers either «went native» in their departments, like Jeremy Browne or felt, like Norman Baker, they were the «the cuckoo in the nest».