Sentences with phrase «minister during the referendum campaign»

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Grayling's awkward interview comes after former deputy prime minister Michael Heseltine vented his fury ay Johnson on Tuesday, stating that the former London mayor may have ruined his chances of becoming prime minister by behaving «irresponsibly [and] recklessly» and making «preposterous, obscene political remarks» during the referendum campaign.

Mr Blair outlined the report and his reaction during a 20 minute debate in the cabinet on Thursday morning but he also insisted that ministers would not be allowed to campaign for one side or the other during a referendum campaign.

In the former case, this anomaly is reinforced by there being three obvious alternative debaters who are also SNP Prospective Parliamentary Candidates this May: the party's deputy leader Stewart Hosie MP, its Westminster leader Angus Robertson MP — and Alex Salmond, the former first minister at Holyrood, who has fresh experience of televised debates during the Scottish referendum campaign.

Former cabinet minister Lord Mandelson also weighed in, sayings that it had it become clear to many in the party during this referendum campaign «that Jeremy can't cut it».

David Cameron has written to ministers urging them to «treat each other with appropriate respect and courtesy» during the EU referendum campaign.

Nick Herbert, who led the Conservative remain campaign during the referendum, joined a number of senior Tories who are warning that there are still severe risks to the economy as government ministers try to work out a Brexit plan.

The North West Durham MP, who had been shadow Europe minister, was forced to apologise during the referendum campaign for branding a voter a «horrible racist».

After the 2015 election, this culminated in the suspension of collective cabinet responsibility during the referendum campaign, so that Eurosceptic ministers need not resign their posts, despite publicly contradicting everything that the PM and Chancellor were saying.

This lack of consensus led Wilson to propose an «agreement to differ» so that government ministers could argue against European integration during the referendum campaign without having to resign.

Lord Heseltine has said he would be «very surprised» if Boris Johnson became prime minister after his «preposterous, obscene» remarks during the European Union referendum campaign.