Sentences with phrase «ministers backed a third»

Now he is running as an independent in a by - election all of his own making, after pledging in 2009 to resign as an MP if ministers backed a third runway at Heathrow.

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Investors have piled back into the market in response to the adoption of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's radical economic policies — coined «Abenomics» — which have fueled hope the world's third largest economy may be hauling itself out of a decade of stagnant economic growth.

Fellow cabinet minister Justine Greening also expressed her disappointment at the decision to back a third runway at Heathrow.

The Independence party leader, finance minister Bjarni Benediktsson, whose name also appeared in the leaked documents in connection with a Seychelles - based company of which he once owned a third, was holding talks with Grímsson, who flew back early from the US to sound out all of Iceland's parliamentary party representatives as the island's political crisis deepened on Tuesday.

In 2008 - 09 Sadiq Khan was a transport minister in Gordon Brown's government and backed a third runway at Heathrow.

Meanwhile the Guardian newspaper says party resignations are possible if ministers do not back down over proposals to build a third runway at Heathrow.

Two thirds of Labour's front bench roles would be left unfilled if Jeremy Corbyn wins the leadership because MPs will refuse to back his policies, shadow cabinet ministers have warned.