Sentences with phrase «key ministers on»

For now, the Brown camp had what it wanted: the key ministers on the record and on side.

The partisan quarrel comes as the Commons international trade committee is poised to meet Friday to consider a joint Conservative - NDP request for an emergency summer meeting to grill key ministers on Canada's approach to the NAFTA negotiations.

Not exact matches

In 2014 Steve was on the ground for CNBC in Kiev, Ukraine during the Russian annexation of Crimea and interviewed key players, including the President and Prime Minister of Ukraine throughout the conflict.

Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains has said the plan will broadly focus on three key areas: improving education, fostering ambitious research projects that can later be sold as commercial products and supporting innovative companies that compete globally.

Though the U.K.'s Finance minister will not be at the negotiating table, Hammond will be key to advise on the financial impact that certain negotiating points will have on the British economy.

European stocks closed mixed on Friday as investors digested a key speech from the U.K.'s prime minister on Brexit.

While the minister left the corporate tax rate unchanged, the government spending plan did include cash on several fronts to help Canadian businesses and further its key priorities including supporting women in the workforce.

Whether or not China will be able to bring India round to Belt and Road will likely be a key measure of the success of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's trip to China to meet Xi for an informal meeting on Friday and Saturday.

Victoria appears poised to reverse itself, deploying key ministers to a flurry of recent federal announcements on marine and pipeline safety.

Rail unions notably called for a rally in Paris» city center to «put pressure on the government» before a key meeting with Prime Minister Edouard Philippe next week.

The grade was determined by the Board of Trade's Government Budget and Finance Committee, based on four key criteria — economic vision, spending management, tax competitiveness, and debt management — which were originally submitted to Finance Minister Bill Morneau in December 2015.

Trade Minister Michael Fortier asserted at the negotiations that «our position on supply management will not change,» but this assertion did not have to be tested since the key players walked away from the table.

On June 6 Finance Minister Jim Flaherty reintroduced his spring federal budget, which was never passed in the rush to an election, with a key twist: Flaherty added a measure to phase out the $ 2 - per - vote subsidy to political parties by 2015 - 16.

Military politics The Edmonton Journal «s Graham Thomson recaps Foreign Affairs Minister David Emerson's whirlwind tour of Afghanistan, noting his comments on the security situation, corruption and other issues mirrored the trip itself: «low - key, cautious and short,» not to mention, in contrast with his predecessor, «gaffe - free.»

With Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al - Abadi declaring that victory over Islamic State extremists in Tikrit is near, Canadian Defence Minister Jason Kenney says Canada is keeping «a very close eye» on questions arising from Iran's key role in that military success.

Canadians have a debt problem — the key measure of a consumer's debt burden now stands at a record level — which is why Finance Minister Jim Flaherty and Mr. Poloz's predecessor Mark Carney urged households for months to put a lid on it.

The OPEC / non-OPEC deal is working, and the current underlying key assumption of Russia's economic policies — oil prices at US$ 40 — can allow it to live forever at that price or below, Russia's Economy Minister Maxim Oreshkin told Bloomberg in an interview on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum on Thursday.

Line ministers on key bilateral files — finance, immigration, public safety, trade, defence — must be ready with public statements as soon as a Trump presidency stops being hypothetical.

ISLAMABAD — Pakistan's foreign minister said Sunday that his country will deal with a key Taliban sanctuary along the Afghan border on its own timeline despite increasing U.S. pressure to move swiftly to help turn around the war in Afghanistan.

On Thursday, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said he would be open to a full judicial inquiry if the committee failed to answer key questions.

Another approach is for the minister to share his key ideas on a topic with a lay group several days or weeks before a sermon is preached.

The Minister for Agriculture, Simon Coveney will be racking up the air miles this week as following on from a key Council of Ministers meeting in Brussels on Monday, Minister Coveney departs this morning (Tuesday) for a US trade mission centred in the Chicago area.

Another recommendation of the study group was greater focus on resolving the Israeli - Palestinian conflict, as a key to resolving much of the unrest in the Middle East, and the prime minister backs this argument.

The first key point to understand is the difference between the Prime Minister's roles as head of the Cabinet, who wields executive power via the confidence of the House of Commons, and as Tory leader, whose authority rests on the faith colleagues have in you as a general election winner.

The strike action has been hailed as a key moment in the return of the unions, but David Cameron poured scorn on suggestions of mass disruption in prime minister's questions.

Mahmoud Abbas has been threatening to dismantle the Palestinian Authority over and over since April 2010, saying he would hand over «the keys» for the occupied West Bank to the Israeli government; while in 2011, Greek Prime Minister Papandreou threatened to leave the Eurozone and called a popular referendum on austerity measures, which implicitly questioned membership in the euro zone.

«This investment will enable councils to repair roads and key infrastructure like bridges — boosting reliability on our roads so people can stay connected with family, friends and employment, while also keeping businesses connected with customers,» said Transport Minister Jesse Norman.

Separate revelations in a new David Cameron biography, «Practically a Conservative», suggest he and the prime minister backed down on a key demand when they hired Mr Coulson as director of communications.

Theresa May, on the other hand, held fast to her public persona throughout, maintaining the image of a respected, experienced senior minister while those around her clamoured for the keys to Number 10.

On her UK tour day - trip last week, the prime minister was posed a key question.

LONDON (Reuters)- Theresa May became Britain's prime minister on Wednesday with the task of leading it out of the European Union, and quickly named leading «Brexit» supporters including former London mayor Boris Johnson to key positions in her new government.

Lord Levy, a close friend of Tony Blair (who was the Prime Minister's personal envoy to the Middle East, as well as tennis partner), had raised funds for Labour and was identified in the press as a key figure in arranging the loans and on 17 March 2006 it was announced that the Public Administration Select Committee of the House of Commons had invited him to give evidence on political financing.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown has named the Labour Party's five key election pledges and said keeping the country on the «road to recovery» is central to his strategy, as Gary Gibbon reports.

Members of the Niger Delta Dialogue Team, otherwise known as Pan Niger Delta Group, led by former Information Minister, Chief Edwin Clark, will today (Saturday) meet in Abuja to decide on the key issues to be discussed when they meet with President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday next week.

Senior ministers also discussed how to fix Britain's shocking record on productivity, which is seen as the key problem holding the economy back.

Dealing with the issue of illegal mining, popularly known as «galamsey», will be key on the agenda of the Lands and Natural resources ministry, minister - nominee John Peter Amewu has indicated.

openDemocracy has also uncovered new evidence that a number of other key figures in government — including Brexit ministers Steve Baker and Suella Fernandes — have remained active in the ERG after taking on government posts, and that the senior whip Chris Heaton - Harris has hosted meetings for them inside parliament.

Spades have yet to break the surface on key road and other building works due to over-cautious civil servants dragging their heels and ministers failing to smash their blocking techniques.

On the other side, exerting no less pressure, is the prime minister and some of his closest political advisors wanting an upbeat tone and promises to go on spending in key areas of public service provisioOn the other side, exerting no less pressure, is the prime minister and some of his closest political advisors wanting an upbeat tone and promises to go on spending in key areas of public service provisioon spending in key areas of public service provision.

After spending torrid years with then Candidate Akufo - Addo in opposition, leading all the fierce attacks on his fellow Northerner, former President John Mahama, and hoping to play a key role in a New Patriotic Party administration, Information Minister, Mustapha Abdul Hamid, is instead, reported playing second fiddle to his deputies.

Ahead of a key speech from the prime minister on Friday, the Liberal Democrat leader said the clamour for an in - or - out referendum was having a «chilling effect» on growth.

In a speech outlining how the government intends to improve the lives of the poorest people in society the prime minister focused on four key areas: family life, mental health and addiction, education and equal opportunities.

Similar workshops which would be organised countrywide under the Minister's watch, also sensitized key stakeholders on their required roles in the upcoming referendum to amend the 1992 constitution for the MMDCEs to be elected on partisan basis.

Iain Duncan Smith raised the prospect of the Prime Minister being forced out and replaced by Jeremy Corbyn if she is defeated on the key issue.

As we all contemplate the prospect of Jeremy Corbyn as Britain's next prime minister, it's worth remembering it is little more than 50 years since Sir Alec Douglas - Home emerged as the new Tory party leader and claimed the keys of No 10 on the basis of a secretive process denounced at the time as «the magic circle».

But the Prime Minister risks defeat on the Great Repeal Bill and other key Brexit bills because she only has a minority government.

On Thursday the justice minister, Simon Hughes, highlighted McDowell's key role in monitoring Grayling's shakeup.

The Deputy Minister stressed Nana Addo's current position on the subject is a significant endorsement of President Mahama's vision, especially when key NPP officials had sought to oppose and ridicule the technical university concept.

Asked on Sky News yesterday what steps the government would take to secure a ceasefire, Foreign Office minister Bill Rammell replied: «Well, we are literally working hour to hour, day to day talking to all the key partners.

Furthermore, the party maintains there is a «clear advantage» in Scotland having a first minister who can «make key interventions at Westminster on Scotland's behalf.»