Sentences with phrase «minister reshuffled his cabinet»

Mr Mundell's appointment was one of several made by Mr Cameron over the past two days as the prime minister reshuffled his cabinet in the wake of his Conservative Party winning an overall majority in last Thursday's general election.

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July 28 - Najib carries out a cabinet reshuffle, dropping several ministers including Deputy PM Muhyiddin Yassin and Rural and Regional Development Minister Shafie Apdal.

The dollar rallied as much as 2.5 % against South Africa's rand to 13.613, its highest since early February, after President Jacob Zuma fired finance minister Pravin Gordhan in a cabinet reshuffle following days of speculation that has rocked the country's markets and currency.

Announced on Tuesday, the Cabinet reshuffle involved the sacking of Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin after he called on Najib to explain the controversy surrounding a Wall Street Journal (WSJ) report earlier this month that revealed nearly $ 700 million from quasi-sovereign wealth fund One Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) was deposited into the Prime Minister's personal bank accounts.

On Tuesday night government insiders insisted the prime minister had no intention of standing down, saying he would probably attempt to clear the political terrain with a cabinet reshuffle on Thursday.

The new education secretary named in Prime Minister David Cameron's cabinet reshuffle is a Christian and a trustee of the Conservative Christian Fellowship.

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Nationals backbencher David Littleproud and deputy leader Bridget McKenzie are among five new faces being promoted to the Federal Cabinet as part of the Prime Minister's reshuffle.

Women's right groups savaged the reshuffle for drastically reducing the number of women in Cabinet, despite a pre-election promise to make a third of government ministers female.

David Cameron's first major Cabinet reshuffle since becoming Prime Minister in May 2010 was accused or hailed as signifying a «shift to the right».

In the September Cabinet reshuffle, Transport Secretary Justine Greening, known to be strongly opposed to a third runway, was moved to become International Development Secretary and Transport minister Theresa Villiers, who also did not support a third runway, was promoted to Northern Ireland Secretary.

The younger brother of David Miliband, who was promoted to environment secretary in the reshuffle, Ed Miliband will report to Hilary Armstrong, the newly appointed cabinet - level minister for social exclusion.

The Prime Minister is appointing new cabinet members in a reshuffle of her cabinet following an election that saw the Conservatives lose their majority.

A former Minister in Alex Salmond's Cabinet, he was reshuffled by Nicola Sturgeon when she won the leadership after the referendum.

[147] In his Shadow Cabinet reshuffle of May 2004, Howard appointed Johnson to the position of shadow arts minister.

Last Friday, Alan Sugar was appointed as enterprise tsar by the prime minister as part of his cabinet reshuffle and government overhaul.

There are reports that with the inauguration of the new ministers, Osinbajo may effect minor cabinet reshuffle to accommodate them.

Stephen Crabb MP has been confirmed as the new Welsh Secretary, as part of the Prime Minister's Cabinet reshuffle.

Prime Minister David Cameron made ministerial changes, while Labour leader Ed Miliband reshuffled his shadow cabinet, with Caerphilly MP Wayne David becoming his PPS.

Theresa May will carry out a reshuffle of her cabinet and junior ministers this week, Downing Street has confirmed.

However, the employment minister, who was promoted to attend Cabinet meetings in yesterday's reshuffle, said: «I think it's great news that people are talking about powerful women walking up in to Downing Street.

Just as the formation of the Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition tipped the balance towards the privately educated, Oxbridge - educated ministers are in the majority in the cabinet - although the number has dipped very, very slightly with this latest reshuffle.

Since the Conservatives took power, the majority of the cabinet has been comprised of privately educated ministers, although the proportion has fallen with every reshuffle.

However timing is of the essence for a man that still has big ambitions, especially as Tories Michael Fallon and Matthew Hancock have already been throwing their weight around, having been placed by the prime minister in BIS during the recent cabinet reshuffle.

He narrowly escaped being sacked from the Cabinet in the post-2017 reshuffle after clashing with the Prime Minister in Cabinet.

Nick Herbert, the ex-policing minister who resigned after he was not offered a place in the Cabinet, had reportedly cleared his desk at the Home Office before the reshuffle began.

Liam Fox became the first of Cameron's Conservative cabinet ministers to leave in the 17 - month life of the coalition and now triggers the prime minister's first reshuffle, an operation he had wanted to avoid until half way through the parliament.

Meanwhile, pressure was being reported from Tory MPs for a Cabinet reshuffle to replace Caroline Spelman, the environment secretary who was forced to conduct the U-turn on forestry policy, along with a host of other ministers who are thought to be struggling.

Harold Macmillan's 1962 reshuffle was famously dubbed the «night of the long knifes» after the then Conservative prime minister dismissed seven members of his cabinet.

«The best birthday present I could want is the shadow chancellor staying in the shadow cabinet», the prime minister bellowed at Ed Balls, freshly rewrapped and unwrapped after Ed Milband's reshuffling of his Labour team.

Further, Cameron's personal aversion to reshuffles and belief that ministers were most effective when given time at a department led to him viewing many cabinet members, including the holders of the Great Offices of State, as immovable.

In a minor reshuffle, she was promoted to be Minister for the Cabinet Office on 9 September 2004, replacing Douglas Alexander.

But he can not last if his cabinet refuses to back him, faced with an inward - looking and isolationist reshuffle that leaves the prime minister at odds with the mood of his own parliamentary party.

He also served on the Environmental Audit Select Committee until the cabinet reshuffle of May 2006 when he was appointed as the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the then Minister of State for Schools Jim Knight.

On 15 July 2014, Gove's four - year stint in charge of the Department for Education came to an end when he was replaced as Secretary of State for Education by former Treasury Minister Nicky Morgan in a wide - ranging cabinet reshuffle and moved to the post of Government Chief Whip.

Mr Brown, of course, had to bring forward his reshuffle today, partly because cabinet ministers like James Purnell keep resigning.

The comments were denied but the spin doctors knew that they had a potentially toxic mix of a story about the cabinet reshuffle and disaffected senior ministers about to hit the airwaves.

Following the second major cabinet reshuffle by President Mills, Amidu became the Attorney general and Minister for Justice of Ghana.

January - Mr Corbyn's first minor cabinet reshuffle prompts three shadow ministers - Kevan Jones, Jonathan Reynolds and Stephen Doughty - to quit of their own accord.

But her title of these roles were replaced in the 2016 cabinet reshuffle after Theresa May became Prime Minister on July 13.

Mr Brown has been reshuffling his junior ministers, following last week's cabinet reshuffle and departure of six cabinet ministers and several other ministers.

A Bedfordshire MP has been made prisons minister as David Cameron continues his cabinet reshuffle.

Ringing the changes: Jeremy Corbyn finally completed his Shadow Cabinet reshuffle last night - but now ministers are shuffling themselves out of his frontbench team

There was a cabinet reshuffle when Theresa May became Prime Minister on 13 July 13 2016 and his role of Foreign Secretary was passed down.

One of Jeremy Corbyn's Shadow Cabinet ministers has hit out over the decision to sack Pat McFadden and called the recent Labour reshuffle «an amazing distraction» for the party.

The West Suffolk MP Matt Hancock is to attend Cabinet as Business Minister was a result of David Cameron's reshuffle.

William Waldegrave ended his two - year stint as science minister in last week's Cabinet reshuffle amid plaudits even from the pressure group Save British Science for his enthusiasm and commitment.

Greening was appointed as the Education Secretary as part of May's swift Cabinet reshuffle, following her appointment as Prime Minister.

Nick Gibb has kept his position as Schools Minister following Prime Minister Theresa May's Cabinet reshuffle.

Nadhim Zahawi, who is the MP for Stratford - upon - Avon has been named education minister in the cabinet reshuffle.