Sentences with phrase «junior ministers on»

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.

Not exact matches

And the PDAC is doing its best to ensure juniors don't get overlooked in the fray of politics on the Hill — which almost saw Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservative government toppled by an opposition coalition in December.

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.

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.

Junior ministers were moved on a virtually annual basis.

So, just like George Osborne sent his junior minister David Gauke into the Commons to answer tricky questions on Google and tax last week, the hapless David Lidington, Minister for Europe, was despatched to fave the wrath of Euro - scepminister David Gauke into the Commons to answer tricky questions on Google and tax last week, the hapless David Lidington, Minister for Europe, was despatched to fave the wrath of Euro - scepMinister for Europe, was despatched to fave the wrath of Euro - sceptic MPs.

Speaking on BBC Breakfast this morning Ellwood, now a junior defence minister, was visibly moved as he recalled returning home after the incident to find his young son in tears.

Jimmy - the only party to have had govt civil servants on their payroll is Labour and one of the leakers to Brown is now a junior minister.

Leaving aside the fact that civil society minister Nick Hurd is already supposed to be doing parts of this, the track record of centrally - driven change suggests it is unrealistic to expect a junior minister with no budget or levers to have any real impact on departmental secretaries of state?

The new prime minister also admitted that Britain was a «junior partner» to the US on a trip to Washington recently.

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.

Despite defending herself heroically in the face of the Paxman onslaught on Newsnight recently, I was distracted by the way junior Treasury minister Chloe Smith repeatedly drank her water and put her glass down soooo precisely.

The Welsh Government briefed that the Secretary of State, Cheryl Gillan, and her junior minister, David Jones, were trying to overturn the will of the Welsh people, as expressed in last year's referendum on the Assembly's powers.

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.

More sweeping changes in junior ministerial ranks on Tuesday are planned by the prime minister, it was claimed.

Tim Raison, a junior Home Office minister, went ostensibly to check on race matters but actually to ensure that Heseltine did not interfere in police matters.

«I remember one Budget day, I entertained a junior minister who leaned across the table and said: «Does power turn you on?

«The juniors, the ministers of state do play a very important role,» says Akash Paun of the Institute for Government, who has written an excellent report on the challenges facing any prime minister about to reshuffle.

Andy Burnham replied that as a junior Health minister he had taken previous legislation on this area through parliament, but he said that Labour did not go far enough in linking social care up with pain management or enshrining in the NHS constitution that patients can choose where they want to die.

Claim: It is claimed the junior minister had a # 450 widescreen television delivered to his family home in Wales and then claimed it on his allowance for his second home in London.

A junior government minister and the SNP's Westminster leader are among the victims of the ballot box on a night of political shocks.

Tony Blair was also the first PM to have no government experience since Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and the first Leader of the Opposition to have no government experience since the post was created in 1935 - Neil Kinnock was a PPS at the end of the Callaghan Government and John Smith was a Junior minister from the start on in the Wilson government, a Minister of State for much of the time and Secretary of State for Trade in the final 6 months of the Labour govminister from the start on in the Wilson government, a Minister of State for much of the time and Secretary of State for Trade in the final 6 months of the Labour govMinister of State for much of the time and Secretary of State for Trade in the final 6 months of the Labour government.

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.

with the wife of his junior minister and on that basis he should not have cast any stone at all, right?

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.

There is one thing, however, for which sections of the left will never forgive Miliband - as a junior minister, he supported the invasion of Iraq in March 2003 and, as foreign secretary, continued to defend the government's subsequent record on Iraq.

She has previously been spokeswoman on Scotland and Foreign Affairs and is a junior equalities minister.

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.

Junior Spanish foreign minister Bernardino Leon flew on the Iberia flight from Spain into Gibraltar's airport, which caused traffic jams when it landed at 13:00 GMT as the town's main road runs across the territory's only runway.

Tory education minister Liz Truss recalls being on holiday with her family and her three younger brothers receiving Junior Pilot badges from the airline.

«The Lord Dean of Harptree, who died on April 1 aged 84, was an accomplished junior pensions minister under Edward Heath who, after being shunned by Margaret Thatcher, spent his final decade in the Commons as a deputy Speaker.

Ed Miliband has accused George Osborne of «hiding away» over the decision to axe a planned 3p hike in fuel duty — as it emerged that he was dining with Tory MPs in Downing Street last night as his junior minister Chloe Smith was struggling on live TV to explain the move.

Remarks at odds with party leadership on day in which three junior shadow ministers resign in protest as Jeremy Corbyn struggles to assert authority

The Tory junior minister's performance on Newsnight following the government fuel tax U-turn has been widely criticised

Only this morning, the BBC reported on the decision by Elliot to demote a UUP Assembly member for suggesting that a UUP junior minister could work under a DUP first minister.

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.

On Sunday the new Prime Minister announced dozens more junior front bench jobs including for Sir Alan Duncan - who she made a beeline for to give a big hug when she was confirmed as Tory leader after he condemned the campaigning style of Andrea Leadsom.

MP for Tunbridge Wells in Kent since 2005, Clark, 48, began at the communities department as planning minister, then took on junior roles at the Treasury and Cabinet Office before becoming universities minister.

When she piloted fracking legislation through the Commons as its junior minister, she was accused by the opposition of reneging on pledges not to let the controversial gas extraction process occur in national parks.

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.

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.

WHEN I asked in the House of Commons for a statement on the government's investment policy for new developments at CERN, the European centre for particle physics, Robert Hughes the junior science minister responded.

Hunt has had some brushes with science, as junior energy minister in the mid-1980s and as Welsh Secretary between 1990 and 1993, when he was responsible for forming policy on industry, transport, health and education.

U.S. presidential science adviser John Holdren (left) meets with Ashwani Kumar, India's junior science minister, during the second annual session of the India - U.S. Strategic Dialogue in New Delhi on 19 July.

Nicholas Soames, the junior agriculture minister, tells me that the Fraddam case, reported to the local ministry office on 8 June, was immediately investigated by a wildlife biologist from the Agricultural Development and Advisory Service.

Baroness Cumberlege, the junior health minister, tells me that her department recognises that passive smoking is a health risk and has attempted to encourage employers, on a voluntary basis, to develop and implement policies to control smoking so that those who wish to can work in a smoke - free environment.

The Putney MP's appointment as education secretary was announced by the prime minister's office this morning, but the schools community may have to wait until tomorrow to find out which MPs will take on the junior ministerial roles in the department.

The disclosure comes on the same morning it was announced Lord Nash (pictured left) will become the new junior minister for the school system.

Western Saharan Campaign UK v. (1) HMRC and (2) Minister for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (High Court)[2016] 1 C.M.L.R. 36 Junior Counsel for the Claimant in challenge to legality of the EU - Morocco Association Agreement and the EU Morocco Fisheries Partnership Agreement on grounds of incompatibility with public international law obligations of the EU.

Western Saharan Campaign UK v. (1) HMRC and (2) Minister for Environment Food and Rural Affairs [2016] 1 C.M.L.R. 36 Junior Counsel for the Claimant in challenge to legality of the EU - Morocco Association Agreement and the EU Morocco Fisheries Partnership Agreement on grounds of incompatibility with public international law obligations of the EU.