Sentences with phrase «ministerial job as»

The Mid Norfolk MP George Freeman has been given his first ministerial job as Minister for Life Sciences jointly in the Department for Health and Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.

The MP for Richmond in Yorkshire since 2015, the son of a GP takes his first ministerial job as a number three at the newly renamed Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.

Ellen's final ministerial job as Minister of Education was cut short by her untimely death in 1947 but not before, against strong opposition, initiating the raising of the school leaving age to 15.

Not exact matches

British politics is lambasted as only marginally less corrupt than that in West Africa, and British ex-politicians denounced for accepting appointments in the private sector that are indirectly linked to their previous ministerial jobs.

Before she was elected as chair of the public accounts committee in 2010, Hodge held a variety of ministerial jobs under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.

Shadow media secretary Harriet Harman said: «Jeremy Hunt should not be in his job now as he has broken the ministerial code and misled parliament.

Brown's closest ministerial ally, Ed Balls, said the email was a «damp squib» by a few disgruntled MPs and insisted that the cabinet was «absolutely united» behind Brown.But the number of cabinet voices emerging in support of Brown did not begin to rise to a chorus until early evening, among them two of the ministers tipped as possible successors to Brown — the home secretary, Alan Johnson, and the energy secretary, Ed Miliband, who said today's call by rebels would be seen as a «temporary distraction» from the job of fighting the Conservatives and laying out future plans for the country.

Besides, he argued that Buhari was not screened for the ministerial job by the Senate as required by the constitution.

As a key ally of the then Shadow Foreign Secretary Robin Cook, Cousins was still hopeful of a ministerial job when Labour won the election in 1997, but his hopes were dashed and instead he became an influential member of the backbench Treasury Select Committee.