Sentences with phrase «ministerial jobs»
"Ministerial jobs" refer to roles or positions within a government where individuals are responsible for leading and managing specific government departments or ministries. They are often in charge of making important decisions, implementing policies, and representing the government to address issues and meet the needs of the people. Full definition
He held nine difference ministerial jobs in his parliamentary career.
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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.
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.
Mrs May's hope is that in any coalition, the DUP would be satisfied with ministerial jobs at just below cabinet rank.
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.
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.
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.
Ms Eagle, an MP since 1992, held a number of ministerial jobs during the last Labour government and in 2013 became chair of the Labour Party.
Although the arrangement rarely comes with guaranteed ministerial jobs, a confidence and supply deal would typically see some elements of the smaller party's manifesto enacted by the minority government in return for their support.
Heather Wheeler Wheeler, MP for South Derbyshire since 2010, like Griffiths moves from assistant whip to a third - tier ministerial job, hers at the housing and communities department.
Margaret Thatcher was said to have given the hapless Tory MP, John Patten, his first ministerial job thinking he was the far more talented Chris Patten.
Her career has been devoted to the acquisition and deployment of executive power, always ready to fill a spare ministerial job.
Tracey Crouch holds the new ministerial job to help single people feel less isolated.
In a move that will do nothing to help relations between the SNP and Conservatives, the prime minister on Thursday gave a peerage and ministerial job in the Scotland Office to Andrew Dunlop, a former adviser to Margaret Thatcher at the time of the poll tax.
Blair - who gave Jowell her first ministerial job - noted her achievements on equal pay, Sure Start and the 2012 Olympics in London.
She and her husband operated a ministerial job - share, living on one stipend.
They are elected MPs and that doesn't end with their ministerial job.
By appointing half the Lib Dem MPs to ministerial jobs, Cameron gave himself a payroll vote with a promise of five years in office.
Such disloyalty is unlikely to be ignored by the prime minister next time she is dishing out ministerial jobs and deciding who to sack.
There were even hints of a ministerial job for him.
Gordon Brown rewarded him with a ministerial job at Transport and 18 months later he found himself replacing his boss, Lord Adonis, who wasn't eligible to sit in the Shadow Cabinet, running the leadership campaign that ended the career of the Blairite candidate.
Besides, he argued that Buhari was not screened for the ministerial job by the Senate as required by the constitution.
«I think this is a Tory budget - the Liberals have sold their souls for ministerial jobs.
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.
A tight - knit party with most of its talent in ministerial jobs — and the Lib Dems» traditional tendency of spending huge energy cementing themselves into marginal seats — means there's been little in the way of organised factions among their backbenchers.
She adds that without the Lib Dems in government, the prime minister will have «patronage» and ministerial jobs to give, which will put some of those potential rebels, «on the payroll» and make them less likely to defy the whip.
He has said he won't join Labour but that doesn't preclude him from taking a ministerial job in return for supporting the govt.
They argue that ditching the Lib Dems would allow the party to govern properly, and free up 23 ministerial jobs to aid party management.