Sentences with phrase «minister steps down»

Nicky Morgan, the education secretary, who has been touted as a potential rival to Osborne for the Conservative leadership when the prime minister steps down, is expected to give more details of the plan for the education shakeup when she opens the House of Commons debate on the budget on Thursday.

The situation could become more dangerous when the prime minister steps down.

A Populus opinion poll published in The Times newspaper yesterday added further woe for Mr Brown, suggesting that 55 per cent of Labour voters thought the chances of success in the next election would improve if the prime minister stepped down.

Justice minister stepping down: Gord Wyant to seek Saskatchewan Party leadership, Canadian Press

Not exact matches

There is speculation that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe may step down in June.

«These companies are moving out of Asia and coming to Africa to save labor costs,» said Fitsum Arega, who recently stepped down as head of the Ethiopian Investment Commission to become an adviser to the new prime minister.

Questions about where Mr. Low and the prime minister's stepson — a movie producer behind films including «The Wolf of Wall Street» — obtained money for the United States properties have helped fuel political unrest in Malaysia, where several political leaders in the opposition and in Mr. Najib's own party have called for the prime minister to step down.

But if Brexit succeeds, «he'd have to step down as Prime Minister, and the job would go to someone from the «leave» camp, probably former London mayor Boris Johnson,» says Raoul Ruparel, co-director of Open Europe, a London think tank that's neutral on the issue.

Update (6/24/16 10:16 a.m. EST): Britain has voted to leave the E.U. Shortly after results were announced (the «leave» campaign won by 52 percent), Prime Minister David Cameron said he would be stepping down.

Flaherty, 64, served as Harper's only finance minister from the time the Conservatives won office in January 2006 until last month, when he stepped down, saying he would not run in the 2015 election and wanted more time with his family.

However some Fine Gael members who spoke on condition of anonymity were livid, and local media reported that a number of the party's ministers privately said she must step down.

The appointment to a seven - year term follows a lengthy five - month search process set in motion by Finance Minister Jim Flaherty after Carney announced he would step down June 1.

«It's fair to say that the policy and character of my government would be, or the government which I lead, would be very different to that of President Trump,» said Varadkar, 38, who was elected prime minister by the ruling Fine Gael party in June after former leader Enda Kenny stepped down.

Near the end of 2013, rumours were circulating that Prime Minister Stephen Harper is considering stepping down from his role in 2014.

In 1990 he stepped down as Prime Minister in favor of Deputy Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong yet remained in the Cabinet, first as a «Senior Minister» and then as «Minister Mentor,» vaguely defined posts that allowed him to oscillate between speaking engagements abroad while advising his ministerial colleagues on matters of state.

Tens of thousands of protestors have taken to the streets of Johannesburg demanding Zuma to step down, especially following his firing of Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan.

Andrea Nahles will step down as labor minister to lead the SPD following Martin Schulz's decision to resign.

Mr. Hill, who was MP for Prince George - Peace River starting in 1993 and served as Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government house leader and chief whip before stepping down from national politics in August 2010, didn't respond to a request for comment.

Japan's defense minister forced to step down While much of the world has been focused on goings on in Washington, Japan has had to deal with a series of scandals that have undermined Prime Minister Shiminister forced to step down While much of the world has been focused on goings on in Washington, Japan has had to deal with a series of scandals that have undermined Prime Minister ShiMinister Shinzo Abe.

Standard Charterted's chairman Mervyn Davies has just stepped down to become the UK government as trade minister.

These negotiations will take place without David Cameron, who unexpectedly announced early Friday morning that he was stepping down as prime minister.

Britain's next prime minister will definitely be a woman — 25 years after Margaret Thatcher stepped down from the position.

The immediate political and economic effects were dramatic, with then - Prime Minister David Cameron stepping down and world markets dipping violently.

And if he is guilty, he needs to repent and step down from the pulpit and be ministered to.

The story — and the controversy it generated — led Mr Joyce to eventually step down from his role as deputy prime minister.

Assistant health minister says staffer who pulled down healthy food rating website has taken steps against conflict of interest

Northern Ireland's deputy first minister Martin McGuinness is to resign over Arlene Foster's refusal to step down.

The former agriculture minister made perhaps the most infamous expenses claim when he put in a bill which included the cleaning of his moat in his country estate, and was awarded the dubious honour of being the first MP to step down over the scandal.

The Blairite ex-Cabinet minister has served the seat since 1997, and will be stepping down to «pursue other interests».

Mr Clegg in particular will be keen to have replacements available should one of his ministers - most obviously Vince Cable or Chris Huhne - decide to step down from Cabinet.

In 2009 for instance, former German defence minister Franz Joseph Jung had to step down over an airstrike in Afghanistan which caused the death of more than 100 civilians.

George Osborne, the former finance minister who stepped down at the election, told ITV that the results were «catastrophic» for his party.

Michael Howard today marked his final prime minister's questions as Conservative party leader with dogged questioning on when Tony Blair himself would step down.

Since Ed Miliband would probably have to step down as Prime Minister at the moment of independence (in my scenario of no Labour majority in rump UK), the Scottish government would find itself negotiating with someone whose job depended on the negotiations» failing for as long as possible.

Tony Blair has said he wants a job with «a real purpose to it» after he steps down as prime minister next year.

Lord Malloch Brown, the Foreign Office minister who is stepping down this week, said the latest offensive in the war zone had not been sufficiently explained to the British people.

24th July 2017, The Sun: What happens if Theresa May resigns and who is favourite to replace her if she steps down as Prime Minister?

Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has reportedly agreed to step down next year and bring forward elections in return for a deal on pensions, according to a report by La Repubblica newspaper.

Some have suggested that is a veiled swipe at Prime Minister Theresa May's former joint chiefs - of - staff Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill, who stepped down in June after taking the blame for the Conservatives poor election result.

13:07 - Another Japanese journalist, again on the finance minister: «Was it natural for him to step down and if Alistair Darling did the same thing what would have happened?»

In a raucous session of prime minister's question time this afternoon, Conservative leader David Cameron suggested Mr Blair should take personal responsibility for the «shambles» in the Home Office - with the clear implication that he should step down.

Tony Blair will step down as prime minister «well before» the next general election, one of his cabinet colleagues has said.

On Tuesday night, William Agyapong Quaitoo resigned as the deputy minister of agric after he faced calls to step down from his job after he made disparaging comments against northerners.

LIKE some bargain basement Macbeth, the ex-party chairman Grant Shapps, dagger in hand has been forced from the shadows to publicly call for the Prime Minister to step down.

Tony Lloyd, the former Stretford MP who stepped down to become Greater Manchester police and crime commissioner and was later beaten by Andy Burnham for the nomination to be Greater Manchester mayor, has been made a shadow housing minister.

«I didn't step down because I had been an unsuccessful minister or past my shelf life.

But if the result is Lab 287, Con 283, then Cameron will have little choice but to resign as Prime Minister and, in all probability, step down as Conservative Party leader.

The current government has one year left of its four - year mandate and the prime minister, Jyrki Katainen, has announced he will step down in July and accept instead a position in Brussels — presumably as the Finnish Commissioner, or another key EU position.

The head of the Better Together campaign, Alistair Darling, has paid tribute to his former opponent, Alex Salmond, following his recent decision to step down as First Minister.

Mr Salmond, who has announced his intention to step down as First Minister, is expected to reflect on the independence referendum and put pressure on the victorious unionist parties to deliver on their devolution pledges in a statement to the Scottish Parliament.