Sentences with phrase «junior ministers under»

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.

Other politicians to get the highest honour include Christopher Chope, a rightwing Conservative who was a junior minister under Margaret Thatcher and John Major, and Geoffrey Clifton - Brown, who served as a junior whip under William Hague.

Mullin's first diary, A View From the Foothills, charted his life as a junior minister under Blair.

He was first elected to the House of Commons in 1983, and served as a junior minister under John Major.

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Under Blair in the Lords he served as a junior MAFF minister for two years and his Westminster Diary Volumes 1 and 2 show not only his old Labour sympathies but his love of the arts and the turf.

They've met with Brandon Lewis, immigration minister, Robin Walker, parliamentary under secretary at the Brexit department, and David Jones, junior minister.

He dithers over whether he really wants to be a junior minister rather than chairman of a select committee, and eventually is disappointed when he's only ever appointed to the most junior jobs as a parliamentary under - secretary.

Heath made him a government whip and then under Thatcher he was a shadow minister and then a junior transport minister in government.

Jeremy Corbyn is under further pressure today after numerous junior shadow ministers led a fresh wave of resignations from his frontbench team.

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.

Clegg and the rest of the coalition's junior party were still under - resourced in government, so the end of 2011 saw the appointment of more special advisers for Lib Dem ministers and a drastically reinforced office for Clegg himself.

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.

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.

«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.

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.

A big promotion for Ms Bradley, who was a junior Home Office minister under May, and will be sitting around the Cabinet table for the first time in her career.

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

Following a period as shadow minister for transport, following the 1997 general election, she was appointed as parliamentary under secretary of state (a junior minister) in the government of Prime Minister Tony Blair, [27] with responsibility for London Transport, a post from which she resigned in 1999 before an unsuccessful attempt to be nominated as the Labour Party candidate for the election of the first Mayor of London minister for transport, following the 1997 general election, she was appointed as parliamentary under secretary of state (a junior minister) in the government of Prime Minister Tony Blair, [27] with responsibility for London Transport, a post from which she resigned in 1999 before an unsuccessful attempt to be nominated as the Labour Party candidate for the election of the first Mayor of London minister) in the government of Prime Minister Tony Blair, [27] with responsibility for London Transport, a post from which she resigned in 1999 before an unsuccessful attempt to be nominated as the Labour Party candidate for the election of the first Mayor of London Minister Tony Blair, [27] with responsibility for London Transport, a post from which she resigned in 1999 before an unsuccessful attempt to be nominated as the Labour Party candidate for the election of the first Mayor of London in 2000.

Just before Christmas, Charles Wardle, junior minister at the Department of Trade and Industry, announced that 141 projects, with a combined capacity of 630 megawatts, have been approved under the third round of the NFFO.

Neil Hamilton, the junior minister for corporate affairs at the DTI, replied saying that his department's role under the Insurance Companies Act 1982 was primarily concerned with the solvency of insurance companies and with the fitness of their directors, senior managers and major shareholders.

Nash was made a life peer in 2013 so he could become a junior schools minister under former education secretary Michael Gove.

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.