Sentences with phrase «ministerial jobs in»

He held nine difference ministerial jobs in his parliamentary career.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

He imagined it would be impractical to quit both jobs, uproot his wife and two young sons, and immerse himself in studies on a residential campus for up to three years to earn a coveted ministerial degree.

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.

Junior ministerial aide Aidan Burley's involvement in a Nazi - themed stag party has cost him his job.

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.

Blair - who gave Jowell her first ministerial job - noted her achievements on equal pay, Sure Start and the 2012 Olympics in London.

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.

By appointing half the Lib Dem MPs to ministerial jobs, Cameron gave himself a payroll vote with a promise of five years in office.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

He was distressed when, in 1997, he was passed over for ministerial office (too liberal, he thought), so he invented the job of deputy chief whip, speaking for those many departments with no Lords minister of their own, to much admiration, until, in 2005, he became himself a Department for Culture, Media and Sport minister, managing the gambling bill.

The most emotional speeches, predictably, were those of the pair of ministerial aides who had decided to quit their jobs in order to back the motion.

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.

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.

It is understood there are still more shadow junior ministerial announcements to come but the shadow cabinet movements are now concluded, with 17 women and 14 men in top jobs.

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.

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.

Last week, at the unveiling of the Jobs Task Force — a new ministerial level committee set up to address the urgent tasks of saving jobs and helping the unemployed with training and job - matching — the Minister of State for Education and Manpower, Mr. Ng Eng Hen, warned that many more professional, executive, and managerial positions may face the axe in the year ahead.