Sentences with phrase «ministers lost their seats»

But it was a dreadful night for Theresa May's Tories, with a string of ministers losing their seats.

A bumper crop of seven cabinet ministers lost their seats at that election.

Five Conservative cabinet ministers lost their seats in that election, including Harold Macmillan.

The Lib Dems are expected to increase their number of MPs from eight to 12, although the former deputy prime minister lost his seat.

This spawned the phrase, «Portillo moment», referring to a cabinet minister losing their seat at the fall of a government.

No serving Cabinet minister lost their seat at the election; Tony Blair aside, the Milibands and Ed Balls are the best Labour has.

Meanwhile, the right of the party will itself split, between those who are willing to go down with the ship — Chris Huhne, Danny Alexander, Vince Cable — and those who are planning to take over when the ministers lose their seats: notably David Laws and Ed Davey.

Not exact matches

Eventually, MacDiarmid lost her Vancouver - Fairview seat in the 2013 election, and Whitmarsh was removed from his position as deputy health minister.

Manchester East 1906In the space of two months, Conservative Arthur Balfour not only lost his office as prime minister, he also lost his parliamentary seat.

James Wharton, who shot to fame when he tried to pilot the first EU referendum bill from the backbenches, lost his Stockton South seat and his job as an international development minister on 8 June.

The former Europe minister and Scottish secretary has kept a low profile since losing his seat to 20 - year - old Mhairi Black in 2015 and taking up a post at Harvard University in the US.

Sturgeon is paying tribute to Angus Robertson, the SNP's Westminster leader, who lost his seat last night: «A politician and parliamentarian of immense stature who week after week held the prime minister to account.

Shadow foreign minister Diana Johnson was told she could lose her seat if she votes for airstrikes in Syria.

Former leader Nick Clegg, a former Deputy Prime Minister, lost his Sheffield Hallam seat.

Tony McNulty - Labour Former home office minister Tony McNulty lost his Harrow East seat to Tory Bob Blackman by just over three thousand votes.

Bill Rammell - Labour The armed forces minister also lost his seat of Harlow to the Conservatives after a swing of 5.9 per cent.

Peter Robinson - Democratic Unionist Party Northern Ireland First Minister, Peter Robinson, has lost his Belfast East seat to the Alliance Party.

International development minister Lynne Featherstone, campaign manager for Chris Huhne when he fought Clegg for the leadership and whose London seat would likely be lost if these election results were repeated, praised him to the hilt: «He is brave and capable, and taking us into government has achieved remarkable progress.»

[88][89] Prominent Liberal Democrat MPs who lost their seats included former leader Charles Kennedy, former deputy leaders Vince Cable and Simon Hughes, and several cabinet ministers.

After the defeat in the 2005 election, in which the Social Democrats lost five seats and failed to regain the majority it had lost in the 2001 election, former Minister of Finance and party leader Mogens Lykketoft resigned his post, taking responsibility for the poor election results.

There is now a Tory Prime Minister with a majority in Parliament with the lowest share of the popular vote ever, who presided over the longest decline in living standards, yet Labour lost seats.

She said: «It is a fact that if we lose just six seats, we will lose our majority and Jeremy Corbyn will become prime minister.»

Nick Clegg, the former party leader and Deputy Prime Minister, lost his seat to Labour newcomer Jared O'Mara in Sheffield Hallam.

If the swing of 16.49 per cent attained at Norwich North were replicated at the general election, the following cabinet ministers would lose their seats: Jim Murphy, Alistair Darling, Ben Bradshaw, Jack Straw, John Denham, Ed Balls, Ed Miliband and Douglas Alexander.

And Tory Cabinet Minister Chris Grayling attacked Mr Balls as «the man who stood alongside Gordon Brown through the crash, the man who lost his seat at the general election, the man who presided over Norwich City's football fortunes as they got relegated».

The only Conservative minister to lose her seat was Esther McVey, employment minister, but the Conservative cabinet escaped unscathed and David Cameron continues as prime minister.

David Laws, another of the party's leading members, who served as education minister in the coalition but lost his seat in the party's 2015 near - wipeout, has strongly criticised Farron's views.

The pain when a cabinet minister loses his or her seat in a general election is usually felt more by the individual than by their party.

The housing minister Gavin Barwell lost his seat of Croydon Central after a spirited campaign by his Labour rival Sarah Jones which saw scores of party activists knocking on doors in the area.

«The prime minister could have done so much more to show interest in sorting out the disastrous mess she created for many of her colleagues who lost their seats.

The former employment minister, who sat in the Cabinet in the last Parliament before losing her seat in the general election, told Sky News she had been shocked by the way the EU operated.

The prime minister would lose his power to nominate people for seats in the House of Lords, he added, thereby breaking the link between honours and the upper House that led to the cash - for - honours police investigation.

The former employment minister lost her Wirral West seat at the 2015 general election.

Cabinet Office minister Ben Gummer lost his Ipswich seat to Labour by just 831 votes.

Nick Clegg's resignation followed a disastrous night at the polls for his party, which saw cabinet ministers Danny Alexander, Simon Hughes, Ed Davey and Lynne Featherstone lose their seats, along with former party leader Charles Kennedy.

Given that Labour is unlikely to recover in 2020 the 59 parliamentary seats lost in Scotland in 2015, and the boundary review will probably cost Labour a further 20 seats, a new leader before 2020 seems a much worse bet than Blair in 1994 to be the next Labour prime minister.

[186] The Conservatives gained 38 seats while losing 10, all to Labour, with Employment Minister Esther McVey the most senior Conservative to lose her seat.

The Liberal Democrats, led by outgoing Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, had their worst result since their formation in 1988, holding just eight out of their previous 57 seats with Cabinet ministers Vince Cable, Ed Davey and Danny Alexander losing their seats.

As a result, the deputy prime minister said he would instruct his MPs to vote against another bill which would have cut the number of MPs by redrawing the constituency boundaries — a change opposed by many of the 57 - strong Lib Dem MPs since it is expected they would lose 15 or more seats.

Since losing her seat by just 417 votes in the general election, the former work and pensions minister has clearly not been short of job offers.

More positively for the Lib Dems, former ministers Vince Cable and Jo Swinson both won back their seats after losing them in 2015.

The Lib Dems gained just three extra seats overall and former deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg lost his seat in Sheffield Hallam.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has said he is sorry a Queensland LNP member lost a preselection battle for her safe seat, but it is up to the local members to decide who represents the party.

The prime minister regularly plays fast and loose with the facts at prime minister's questions and he got it wrong again yesterday when he claimed that ex Labour MP Howard Stoat had lost his Dartford seat at the general election.

A Guardian analysis showed that the Lib Dems are on course to lose 20 of their parliamentary seats — nearly a third of the total — in what would be a blow to the authority of the deputy prime minister.

The DUP leader and Northern Ireland First Minister Peter Robinson has lost his East Belfast seat to Naomi Long of the Alliance Party.

Scotland's first minister last month predicted that his party would win 20 seats at the coming general election but the SNP has now lost two of the last three Scottish byelections to Labour.

He was also MP for Darlington from 1983 to 1992, serving as Education Minister to both Thatcher and Major before he lost his seat.

The next most vulnerable cabinet minister is Ben Bradshaw in Exeter, who would lose his seat on a 9.4 % swing.

Former Communities Minister Shahid Malik lost his seat in Dewsbury to the Conservatives.