Sentences with phrase «minister over parliament»

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There's a school of thought around Parliament Hill that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Finance Minister Bill Morneau have stumbled unwittingly into the battle now raging over their proposal to seriously tighten up the rules on small - business taxation.

The Minister of Finance, Jim Flaherty, tabled a budget on June 6, 2011, just over two months after he tabled his last budget, which died on the order paper with the dissolution of Parliament due to the election.

Pro-Brexit members of parliament heaped pressure on British Prime Minister Theresa May on Wednesday over her future customs plans with the European Union, calling on her to drop what some say is her preferred proposal.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, B.C. Premier John Horgan, left, and Alberta Premier Rachel Notley, sit in Trudeau's office on Parliament Hill for a meeting on the deadlock over Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, in Ottawa on Sunday, April 15, 2018.

Greece's Parliament was to vote late Thursday on whether to launch criminal investigations into two former prime ministers and two finance ministers over how leaked data on Greeks who banked in Switzerland was handled.

Greece's parliament voted early Thursday following a marathon 20 - hour session to investigate 10 senior politicians, including two former prime ministers, over allegations they were involved in a pharmaceutical bribery scandal.

Parliament is back and Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce is feeling the heat over allegations stemming from his affair with a staffer.

The London Health Commission, set up by Boris Johnson last year under ex-Labour health minister Lord Darzi, has called on the mayor to make bylaws banning smoking in Trafalgar Square and Parliament Square and exert influence over the royal parks, where he appoints the board, to also ban smoking in their spaces.

The 2013 elections produced a highly fragmented and deeply polarised parliament, in which the strongest list — the right - wing Likud - Beiteinu, headed by incumbent prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu — secured just over one quarter of the Knesset's 120 seats.

According to Hilda Addo, members of the constituency had contacted her to lament over the Minister's inefficiency as their Member of Parliament.

Parliament is currently locked in a debate over the approval of Energy Minister - designate Boakye Kyeremateng Agyarko and Senior Minister - designate, Yaw Osafo Maafo.

Very recently, the prime minister of the United Kingdom committed to reasserting the sovereign primacy of his parliament over the decision of the European Human Rights Court.

Tory grandee Ken Clarke said: «On the question of the parliamentary role, I think the Prime Minister was not relying on the archaic, narrow interpretation of the Royal prerogative, which no government has invoked in this country for over 50 years - they have always come to Parliament for debates and votes if possible on any military action.

He strategically stayed off the position of a Minister of Parliamentary Affairs to enable him have an undivided focus on Parliament without looking over his shoulder to see whether the Executive whip is flopping behind him.

With the shadow of the Scottish independence referendum hanging over parliament, this was never going to be an ordinary prime minister's questions.

It is time to hold them to account and in advance of Britain's chairmanship, Parliament and backbench MPs need to have an opportunity to question ministers over their plans.

There is now a Tory Prime Minister with a majority in Parliament with the lowest share of the popular vote ever, who presided over the longest decline in living standards, yet Labour lost seats.

Foreign Affairs Minister and Member of Parliament for the Awutu Senya West Constituency, Hanna Tetteh, is livid over what she calls unsubstantiated allegations and sometimes «vicious personal attacks», targeted at the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Charlotte Osei.

On three occasions over the first term of the Parliament, he became Acting First Minister twice in 2000 due to at first the illness, and later the death, of the first First Minister Donald Dewar, and then again in 2001, after the resignation of Dewar's successor as First Minister, Henry McLeish.

Nick Clegg and the other Lib Dem negotiators called for a «a commitment not to raise the cap on tuition fees» (a watered - down version of their manifesto pledge to phase out tuition fees over six years), a cut in the number of government ministers, a four year fixed - term parliament and «a commitment to no public subsidy for nuclear power stations».

«Over 100 Conservative colleagues and I have urged the prime minister to bring the enabling legislation forward into this parliament,» Baron said.

Bercow is very happy to back parliament over ministers.

The Minority in Parliament raised serious concerns over the bond which they claimed was shrouded in secrecy and moved a motion to invite the Minister to come and explain the bond.

The government's grip over parliament is slipping, the data on the economic impact of Brexit is being prised from its grip, questions are being raised about the legitimacy of the referendum campaign, and ministers are starting to admit that they have been misleading the public.

Similarly, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk's centreright Civic Platform is likely to expand its advantage over its nationalist opponents with party member Jerzy Buzek on course to become the first president of the European Parliament from a former communist state.

In March of 2009, then Finance Minister, Dr. Kwabena Duffuor, serving in the NDC administration which had taken over office from the NPP, presented to parliament a number of water projects that were to take place.

The Defence and the Interior ministers have been summoned by Parliament over Wednesday's bloody clash between a group of soldiers...

The donations were given discreetly over the last two months but, due to be made public in the normal way by the Electoral Commission shortly, are also intended to encourage voters to think, vote tactically and elect a reforming parliament with a «Labour - led government headed by Ed Miliband as prime minister».

The Minority in Parliament is demanding the immediate dismissal of Deputy Agriculture Minister, William Quaitoo from the government over disparaging comments he made against northerners.

By comparison, when Margaret Thatcher formed her first government in 1979 her party gained 62 seats from other parties, but she was able to choose widely, from over 250 re-elected MPs from the previous parliament, the 100 or so cabinet and junior ministers.»

Read: Labour leader Ed Miliband clashed with the Prime Minister over the «bedroom tax» in parliament today.

Member of Parliament for Assin Central is pleading on Ghanaians to have mercy on Power Minister, Dr. Kwabena Donkor over his recent gaffe on the energy crisis in the country popularly known as dumsor.

The Prime Minister has full confidence in Conservative party chairman Grant Shapps, who is under fire over revelations about working under a pseudonym after entering parliament, David Cameron's official spokesman said.

David Cameron, however, will be prime minister, the head of the largest party and may even scrape over the line to get a majority in parliament.

In the Commons, Shadow Brexit Secretary Keir Starmer said Parliament had made clear that ministers must hand over the «full reports» without any editing or redaction.

«Over the course of this Parliament — and the next — I believe we can transform our fortunes,» the Prime Minister said.

Andrew Tyrie said today's confirmation by Cabinet Office minister Ken Clarke that the investigation would instead be handed over to Parliament's controversial Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) was «a mistake».

The pledge card, which mirrors New Labour's initiative in 1997, will promise free party membership for trade unionists, the building of 1m new homes over the course of a parliament, an increase in the minimum wage funded by a cut in employers» national insurance, a cost - of - living test for every policy item and a cabinet minister to «take action for the consumer against rip - off companies».

This is a Prime Minister who got ready for an election when he thought he could win it, then was too frightened to hold it, then has dragged out this miserable parliament to its fullest, bitter end, dithering and vacillating over every decision; a Prime Minister no one ever elected kept in office by Lord Mandelson who no one voted for at all, and who should have had the moral courage and political decisiveness to hold an election long ago.»

«Labour will ensure that the British people, through Parliament, have genuine accountability and oversight over the Brexit negotiations because no one voted to give Prime Minister Theresa May a free hand over our future.»

A former Scottish Office minister and Remain supporter, the Tory peer, above, defied Theresa May last year when he voted in the Lords to give Parliament the final say over Brexit and allow MPs a «meaningful vote» for any withdrawal deal.

These claims were denied by another former Minister, Baroness Amos, who is shortly to take over as Under Secretary General of Humanitarian Affairs at the United Nations, but were finally admitted to be true by Miliband to Parliament in 2008.

As a consequence, Labour's plans to borrow an additional # 50bn over the course of the parliament were derided by coalition ministers as irresponsible and potentially ruinous to our economic health.

Mr Hague said: «The Prime Minister and I have decided that the option we will put forward to Parliament and the country will be one that gives an effective veto to English MPs over matters only affecting England, or England and Wales, while maintaining the integrity of the United Kingdom Parliament.

When the time came, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Shirley Ayorkor Botchway, indicated in Parliament that the Akufo - Addo administration had not altered the formal agreement between Ghana and the United States over the two, thus keeping them in Ghana till the January 6, 2018, expiry date.

Francis Anthony Aylmer Maude, Baron Maude of Horsham PC (born 4 July 1953) is a British Conservative politician, who served over 25 years on the front bench in the House of Commons, [1] including posts as Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster - General, as well as Member of Parliament representing Horsham in Sussex, and then as Baron Maude of Horsham as Minister of State for Trade and Investment until April 2016.

Joint jurisdiction over defence and foreign affairs could be decided by ministers from both parliaments or representative Scottish MSPs coming to Westminster only when key defence or foreign affairs votes need to take place.

The deputy prime minister's press conference came as Cameron issued a radio interview in which he desperately tried to move on from the parliamentary manoeuvres over gay marriage and Europe which dominated the last few weeks in parliament.

The Minority Caucus in Parliament has become aware of findings contained in the decision of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) on a complaint filed against the Finance Minister over the infamous US$ 2.25 billion bond in March this year.

A former deputy Education Minister, Okudzeto Ablakwa has chastised the Member of Parliament for the Dome - Kwabenya constituency, Adwoa Safo over her claims that the erstwhile Mahama government should not be credited for the community day Senior High School project in her constituency.