Sentences with phrase «key cabinet posts»

They condition the probability with which different parties enter the cabinet, affect a cabinet's majority and coalition status, and may also have an influence on the relative advantage of different parties in securing key cabinet posts (formateur advantage).

Greg Clark and Greg Hands both hitched their wagons to the chancellor's after entering the Commons in 2005 and now occupy key cabinet posts.

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Santi said a possible way around the impasse would be for a M5S - Lega government led by a compromise prime minister agreeable to both parties, «affording Lega control of some key ministries and leaving Forza Italia to play a less visible role, with direct or indirect control of some minor cabinet posts.»

Ed Miliband has dramatically reshaped his shadow cabinet ready for the general election, demoting Blairites and installing women in key posts, however the Labour leader was quickly accused of appeasing the unions with the moves.

But the Labour leader failed to land his first choices for a number of key shadow cabinet posts, according to insider accounts.