Sentences with phrase «last time minister»

Not exact matches

In a New York Times article last year, Perdue compared Trump to Winston Churchill, the former UK prime minister, saying that like the legendary World War II - era leader, Trump was «nobody's choir boy» and «a historic person of destiny at a time and place in America when we've got to make a right - hand turn here.»

Macron, who defeated the anti-Europe, far - right leader Marine Le Pen last month, said that he had always been a defender of globalisation and free trade during his time as minister but that leaders should hear from workers hit by globalisation.

Her comments follow media reports that the EU's Commission President Jean - Claude Juncker left London «10 times more skeptical» than he was before after a dinner with Prime Minister May last week.

The New York Times reported last week that the diaries of Grigory Rodchenkov, the former head of Russia's antidoping lab who's currently in hiding in the U.S., detail conversations with the then Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko about the cheating.

Last month, Bennett, who leads the right - wing Jewish Home party and was the economy minister at the time of the campaign, said the report would be an «earthquake» that would reveal the failures of the country's leaders during the conflict.

Flaherty, 64, served as Harper's only finance minister from the time the Conservatives won office in January 2006 until last month, when he stepped down, saying he would not run in the 2015 election and wanted more time with his family.

It allows the Minister to see what resonates with the press & the public and gives him a chance to massage the launch one last time before it becomes official.

Upon hearing of Goodyear's plan to sell the plant, which would put more than 1,000 people out of a job at a time when France is suffering a 10.9 percent unemployment rate, Industry Minister Arnaud Montebourg himself attempted to find a buyer for the plant last year.

The Eurogroup of euro zone finance ministers will meet again on Saturday at 16:00 London time in a last - ditch effort to find an agreement that could release a vital last tranche of bailout aid worth 7.2 billion euros.

While on a visit to Paris in August of last year, Sigmar Gabriel, Germany's foreign minister at that time, spelled it all out: «If we don't develop a (European) policy regarding China, then China will succeed in dividing Europe.»

As for the federal Conservatives, the last time Prime Minister Stephen Harper addressed the issue of natural resource exports, he was lobbying for American support of TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline.

The last time oil prices crashed in 2008, then Finance Minister Ron Liepert pledged to do the same.

The government was urged to do so by the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police last year, with Prime Minister Stephen Harper saying at the time he would consider it.

Prime Minister Najib Razak was the best thing going for the ruling coalition in Malaysia's last elections, but he's a hindrance this time because of financial scandals and government policies blamed for a rising cost of living.

And RBC head Gordon Nixon made $ 12.6 million last year, 25 % more than the year before — 40 times the salary of the Prime Minister, 33 times that of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada — and 274 times the average Canadian wage.

He had every reason to expect the Nazi regime to last for a long time and wanted the Church to continue ministering to the spiritual needs of Catholics.

The last time I witnessed and experienced severe abuse at the hands of the Christian religion and its ministers in 2002, I vowed that if ever I would go back into ministry again, I would work to resist this power, teach others to do the same, and work to free people from the dehumanizing oppression of religion and the Church.

The apostasy lasted until the time of Joseph Smith who through the grace and will of God brought back the authority through the ministering of angels.

But John, the last prophet of the Old Testament era, lived and ministered and served in the time that Jesus Christ, the Messiah, came to earth.

Last week's brutal assassination of Shahbaz Bhatti, Pakistan's Minorities Minister and sole Christian Cabinet minister, has united his coreligionists in despair — not for the firMinister and sole Christian Cabinet minister, has united his coreligionists in despair — not for the firminister, has united his coreligionists in despair — not for the first time.

I have read the bible cover to cover many times, and once was an ordained minister in California, but after the last 10 years of studying something other than the bible I found that the «light» in the bible is quite dim when compaired to the brightness found in the rest of humanity's collective knowledge on how the universe works and our origins.

As Ken Dryden, a six - time Stanley Cup — winning goalie and now Canada's Minister of Social Development, said, «There are a number of fans in this country who have sensed over the last... months that maybe [NHL hockey] was more habit than it was passion.»

However, they did not ban Hizb ut - Tahrir, which was brought to public attention last week by David Cameron in prime minister's question time.

Angela Merkel's stay at Chequers for David Cameron's birthday today will probably be the last time the two leaders get together before the British prime minister presents his renegotiation demands to all EU leaders in December.

Interestingly, the SNP wasted little time last week in framing the election in Scotland as a «two - horse race» between them and the Conservatives, a line repeated by first minister Nicola Sturgeon in her speech to the Scottish Trades Union Conference in Aviemore yesterday.

The last time the research was carried out, in 2010, Gordon Brown was rated as the third worst prime minister in modern history.

But last night opposition MPs raised concerns about the whole process, citing AEG's misrepresentation of residents» views and the controversy surrounding the firm's links with deputy prime minister John Prescott, who met with AEG's owner several times.

Tory and Lib Dem ministers split for the first time ever in the Lords last night, as the row over boundary changes stepped up another notch.

The process of choosing a venue for the new super-casino was mired in controversy last summer when it emerged that the deputy prime minister, John Prescott, had met the man who owned the Greenwich bid site several times and had even visited his Texas ranch.

However, analysis by The Times has shown that there are fewer women in office than when Gordon Brown held a reshuffle almost exactly ten years ago, and the number of state - educated ministers has fallen since last week.

I seem to recall Labour ministers (especially John Reid and Hazel Blears) spent large amounts of time in the last government desperately trying to look tough on immigrants, shaking up border control repeatedly, and posturing about how those naughty immigrants must be made to integrate.

«She has really decided to go for it now, and having had the last time to think about what she stands for, will be a much better candidate,» a former cabinet minister told Bush.

DC: What I said last time is I wanted a third of ministers in a Conservative government to be women, and in Conservative cabinet ministers we are now right up there at over 30 %.

It emerged last night that ministers have dropped plans to allow women who have taken time out of work to top - up their national insurance (NI) contributions with lump - sum payments.

Speaking on last night's Question Time, shadow security minister Dame Pauline Neville - Jones took a critical approach to the Sun's coverage this week, which saw it turn Mr Brown's misspellings in a letter to a bereaved army mother into a series of personal attacks.

The requirements from last March have been published and it is time for Liberal Democrat ministers to engage with what we have called for.

At the same time as Labour prepares to attack the party head - on, Ed Miliband and his shadow ministers have been referring disparagingly to a «Westminster elite» that must get back in touch with public concerns over the last week.

The strange personal confessions which followed the introduction of VAT on hot takeway food continued today, when the prime minister gave details about the last time he ate a pasty.

Prof Appleby warned: «While waiting times remain low in historical terms, the rise against key target measures since this time last year shows how difficult it will be for the NHS to meet the prime minister's pledge to keep waiting times low as the spending squeeze begins to bite.»

The political row over the housing benefit issue rumbled on last night after Ed Davey, Liberal Democrat employment minister, demanded that Boris Johnson retract his comments about the issue on Question Time.

Darlington will see Shadow Brexit Minister Jenny Chapman try to persuade last time's UKIP voters to back her.

Evoking memories of the end of the John Major's administration, ministers are pulling up the shutters, with the coalition government spending a third less time on legislation than the last Labour government.

Writing in the Sunday Times (paywall), the prime minister acknowledged there were «profound areas of disagreement» between the Liberal Democrats and members of the Conservative party, 91 of whom rebelled last week against a reform package for the upper house championed by Nick Clegg.

These reservations are shared widely in the Liberal Democrat Party, and have given rise to separate reports that Business Secretary, Vince Cable, who is a former member of the Labour Party, was deeply unhappy at the time of the deal being struck and made last ditch appeals to outgoing Prime Minister Gordon Brown in an attempt to strike a Coalition deal with Labour.

«The last time we had a good battling female Minister who stood up for Britain she was armed only with a handbag, yet with that one piece of equipment she came back with the biggest rebate we ever got: the rebate the Labour party stupidly gave away, and the rebate we need back.

Asked why the Brown did not accept the need for a secret ballot to take on his critics once and for all, Balls said the prime minister has «got more important things to do than be diverted by a very small minority of people who have been making difficulty time and time again over the last few days».

History remembers the last time a Tory prime minister went to Europe and came back waving a piece of paper, but the hungry beast to be appeased now is a coterie of backbench MP's, a hapless and hopeless crew blinded by stupidity and consumed by petty - minded hobby horses.

Questioned by Sir Menzies on the issue in the Commons last week, the prime minister said times had changed since the 2003 energy white paper described nuclear energy as an unattractive option in terms of cost and waste.

Last month Mr Osborne was rather ordinary when he stood in for David Cameron at Prime Minister's Questions for the first time, largely because Labour's Hillary Benn and Labour MPs skillfully steered their questions towards more tricky international issues rather than ask about the economy.

He will have a hard time as prime minister, and my hunch is his honeymoon won't last long.