Sentences with phrase «minister over government policy»

Tory backbencher Philip Davies said: «I find it absolutely extraordinary that a Cabinet minister can stay in his post after being so openly defiant of the prime minister over government policy.»

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Italy's government, divided over the Afghan war and ties with the U.S. military, lost a crucial vote on foreign policy on Wednesday that plunged Prime Minister Romano Prodi into his worst crisis since taking office in May.

The Minister claimed that the «International Monetary Fund's annual review of Canada's economic developments and policies, which strongly supports the Government's plan to return to balanced budgets over the medium term».

He'd even struggle to control his own government ministers as they fought over policy and budgets.

«Under the Prime Minister's watch, 3.7 million children in the UK are now living in poverty, a figure set to rise by 600,000 over the next two years, as a result of the Government's continuation of its economic and social policies.

However, the Labour chair of the European Scrutiny Committee last night raised concerns over whether the key policy issues in the treaty the government wants excluded, called «red lines», were being excluded as the prime minister claimed.

Baroness Warsi was hailed by David Cameron before the Conservatives came to power, but has now halted her rise through the party's ranks - quitting as Foreign Minister over the Government's policy on Gaza.

Baroness Warsi has said in an interview that a Government minister has talked to her about resigning in protest over policy toward Israel and Hamas.

Meanwhile former shadow Foreign Office Minister Stephen Doughty MP pledged to raise the matter with the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA), and the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner, stating: «These further revelations about the shadowy ERG and their influence over the government in pushing an ultra hard Brexit agenda, in conflict with official government policy, are deeply concerning.

«Although the conference floor can not dictate policy to the government this is a concerning development and one that BASC will be raising with MSPs and ministers over the coming months.

Meanwhile the highest ranking members of the Israeli government, along with Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (Lior Ashkenazi) and Minister of Defence Shimon Peres (Eddie Marsan) debate over Israel's policy of «never negotiate with terrorists».

The deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, has insisted the coalition government is united over the policy of providing free school meals for pupils under seven in England.

Education ministers had told MPs in April 2016 that there was «over # 500m» for the government's academy policy.

I've worked with ministers and prime ministers from both parties over a long period of time, and in all cases I think I've tried to draw a line between fearless scientific advice about issues and actual policy development, which I think is in the realm of government,» he said.

The Prime Minister told this highly select group that his Government was in political trouble over greenhouse policy as it was being out - manoeuvred by the NSW Government and by Mark Latham who was benefiting politically from his promise to ratify the Kyoto Protocol and support the renewable energy industries.

They've written letters to the government demanding that Ottawa stop a swarm of activist groups backed by foreign billionaires from hijacking — as the prime minister himself put it — the hearings over the Canadian Northern Gateway pipeline that would carry our oil from Alberta to B.C. Canadians have been calling into radio shows and writing blogs, and spreading the word in their communities about the fact that this crucial decision over Canada's national energy policy is being infiltrated by what are essentially the well - paid lobbyists of wealthy and powerful foreign interests.

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In Australia last week, the prime minister Julie Gillard delivered an historic and exceptionally moving national apology to thousands of unwed mothers who were forced by government policies to give up their babies for adoption over several decades.