Sentences with phrase «minister after the general election»

Appointing the Prime Minister — The Queen is responsible for appointing the Prime Minister after a general election or a resignation, in a General Election The Queen will appoint the candidate who is likely to have the most support of the House of Commons.

Nick Clegg has said that he will not be prime minister after the General Election in the final televised leaders event before the poll next Thursday.

More than half (55 %) of Britons would prefer to see David Cameron carry on as prime minister after the general election.

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He explained that the current Eurogroup President Jeroen Dijsselbloem, who's also the Dutch finance minister, gathers significant support among the other finance ministers but failed to get enough backing to continue with his European role after having lost the general election, putting an end, at least for now, to the idea of a permanent president.

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak after his mediocre showing in the May 5 general elections on May 15 announced a new 57 - member cabinet packed with traditionalists, which is also strikingly short of representatives from the Chinese minority.

Pressure is mounting on the Prime Minister and Chancellor to relax austerity, with several Tory MPs calling for an end to the pay cap after the party disastrously lost its majority in the General Election to anti-austerity Labour, which has pledged to scrap the 1 per cent ceiling.

With the final report due after the General Election in May, the decision will be sitting on the in - coming Transport Minister's desk.

Khan, who as shadow minister for London, will have a role in setting the process to select the next mayor, has refused to announce his own intentions until after the general election.

And a year later, after her general election blunder, when she needed a trusted ally to be her deputy prime minister in all but name, we shouldn't have been surprised that she sent for Damian once again.

«The prime minister's view is that it is no bad thing for a spotlight to be shone on his commitment that should he remain the prime minister [after the 2015 general election] he will have an in - out referendum and that will happen following a period of renegotiation,» the prime minister's spokesperson added.

With the 2015 UK general election David Cameron became the first Prime Minister to be re-elected immediately after a full term with a larger popular vote share since 1900 and the only Prime Minister other than Margaret Thatcher to be re-elected immediately after a full term with a greater number of seats to - date.

When Theresa May's Conservative government hobbled back into Downing Street, bloodied and bruised, after 2017's general election, the smart money was on the British prime minister not lasting until Christmas.

After Labour's 1997 general election win, she was appointed minister for local government and housing at the Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions, and had special responsibility for neighbourhood renewal.

The Electoral Commission must, within 6 months of the return of the writ after a general election, report in writing to the Minister on the administration of that election, including --

After the 2005 general election, he was given the role of Minister of State for Europe, part of the Foreign Office, with special provision to attend Cabinet.

But after all these years, it will be just months before his first general election as prime minister.

It's worth remembering that the House of Commons does not meet immediately after a general election anyway — and the process of determining who will be prime minister need not be swift just because the media and the public expect it to be.

Tanner joins the agency as its chief policy adviser having resigned as deputy head of the Number 10 policy unit just days after the general election — and hot on the heels of the prime minister's chiefs of staff Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill.

The former Dulwich and West Norwood MP, who stood down at the general election after 20 years in Parliament, earned widespread plaudits for the role she played in London's bid for the 2012 Olympics and her subsequent performance as Olympics minister.

The former work and pensions secretary, whose resignation from the cabinet and criticism of Gordon Brown last June nearly toppled the prime minister, has told his constituency Labour party in Stalybridge and Hyde he will be standing down as their MP but that his decision is personal and, after 20 years in the Westminster political system, no reflection on Labour's chances at the next general election.

The party has been broadly united in public since the general election, though shaken over the weekend by Corbyn's sacking of shadow ministers who defied the party whip to vote in favour of an amendment to the Queen's speech brought by Chuka Umunna, committing to keeping the UK in the single market after Brexit.

Following the General Election, and after failing to persuade the Lib Dems to form a coalition government with Labour, Gordon Brown resigned as Prime Minister and leader of the party on 11th May 2010.

The general election result — when the Conservative Treasury minister Jane Ellison was swept out of her Battersea seat after a 10 % swing to Labour — has given activists hope of taking Wandsworth for the first time in 40 years, but in several wards the party would need a significantly bigger swing to take the number of councillors needed for a majority.

If a government falls and an opposition can muster up a majority then an opposition leader could become Prime Minister without an election (but would probably want to call a General Election soonelection (but would probably want to call a General Election soonElection soon after).

On the basis of a close relationship with the Prime Minister, Paddy Ashdown predicts there will be Lib Dem MPs in government after the next general election.

After the defeats in the 1997 general election and 2001 general election, the Conservative Party began decisive moves towards becoming more centrist; the 2002 — 2003 party chairman and future Prime Minister, Theresa May, would later state that it had been perceived by voters as the «Nasty Party».

The Prime Minister called for an early general election on Tuesday just weeks after starting the formal process of Britain leaving the EU, causing exasperation amongst some EU leaders.

The most recent occasion when the monarch has had to exercise these powers was in February 1974, when Edward Heath resigned from the position of prime minister after failing to win an overall majority at the General Election or to negotiate a coalition.

The former minister's proposal is likely to be rejected outright by Conservative ministers, after the party pledged to protect payments to older people in their 2010 general election manifesto.

The prime minister's policy board was wound down after the general election, PoliticsHome reported...

The Labour grandee, who served as Olympics minister between 2005 - 2010, also dismissed calls for the leadership race to be halted amid the recent surge in party membership after the general election.

That adds up to 65 per cent of those polled expecting David Cameron to return to Downing Street as Prime Minister after the next general election.

After the 1924 general election, he served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the then Leader of the Opposition Ramsay MacDonald, [2] continuing to serve as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister after MacDonald's elevation to the PremierAfter the 1924 general election, he served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the then Leader of the Opposition Ramsay MacDonald, [2] continuing to serve as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister after MacDonald's elevation to the Premierafter MacDonald's elevation to the Premiership.

Councillors elected in this election will serve an extended five - year term, after local government minister Carl Sargeant announced the next elections would be moved from 2016 to 2017 to avoid clashing with the National Assembly for Wales election, 2016 which in turn had been delayed a year to avoid clashing with the United Kingdom general election, 2015.

The referendum was called after Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron made a manifesto commitment in the 2015 UK general election to undertake a renegotiation of the UK's membership to the European Union which would be followed by a in - out referendum.

She was made shadow minister for the disabled by Jeremy Corbyn in 2015 and was promoted to the shadow cabinet after last year's general election.

Jeremy Corbyn hit back at Tony Blair after the former Labour prime minister advised voters to consider backing Conservative or Liberal Democrat candidates in June's general election, if they promise to have an open mind about the terms of the final Brexit deal.

After the Conservatives won the general election in May 2015, Freud was promoted to Minister of State at the DWP, where he was given an enhanced role in overseeing the expansion of the Universal Credit scheme.

After Prime Minister Theresa May announced that she is calling for an early general election Labour and the Lib Dems started to prepare.

She became Prime Minister after winning the 1979 general election.

The first poll after the General Election has put Labour ahead by six points, while Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn were tied on «who would make the best prime minister».

Tony Blair originally formed the Blair ministry in May 1997 after being invited by Queen Elizabeth II to form a new government following the resignation of the previous Prime Minister, John Major of the Conservative Party, as a result of the Labour Party's landslide victory at the 1997 general election.

Timpson was Minister of State for Children and Families after the 2015 general election, being promoted from Parliamentary Under - Secretary of State at the Department for Education.

In the cabinet appointed after the 2015 general election, exactly a third of all ministers permitted to attend cabinet were women — although they made up just 20 % of those appointed as ministers of state — the highest rank of junior minister.

Shadow justice minister Eleanor Laing will stand again at the next general election, after being overwhelmingly backed by her local party.

After the 2010 general election, as part of the Liberal Democrat — Conservative coalition, he was made Minister for the Armed Forces.

Senior Eurosceptics say Hunt is lining himself up as an alternative to Boris Johnson as the main Brexiteer candidate for prime minister after publicly switching his support from «remain» since the general election.

Nick Timothy, who quit the prime minister's office after last year's general election, claimed the former education secretary and universities minister blocked proposals to reduce interest rates on student loan repayments and allow institutions to charge different fees.

Corbyn's comments came just hours after Prime Minister Theresa May announced she wants to hold a snap General Election on 8 June this year.

After the 2015 general election, Prime Minister David Cameron promoted Gove as Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary in his newly formed Cabinet.