Sentences with phrase «ministers over a proposal»

The row grew today as Mrs May faced a showdown with senior Cabinet ministers over a proposal Brexiteers see as a watering down of the pledge to leave the EU Customs Union after Britain leaves the EU.

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There's a school of thought around Parliament Hill that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Finance Minister Bill Morneau have stumbled unwittingly into the battle now raging over their proposal to seriously tighten up the rules on small - business taxation.

Pro-Brexit members of parliament heaped pressure on British Prime Minister Theresa May on Wednesday over her future customs plans with the European Union, calling on her to drop what some say is her preferred proposal.

Finance Minister Bill Morneau is not the first Canadian politician to hold the job who's been confronted with outrage over tax reform proposals.

However, it is expected that the proposals will affirm that nominated ministers and deacons could be granted authority to preside over gay weddings provided there are protections for the «conscientious refusal» of clergy who do not wish to officiate them.

A Russian proposal for Syria to hand over its chemical weapons supply should be taken seriously, the prime minister said today.

A group of sporting and land management organisations have voiced their concerns over a number of land reform proposals in an open letter to Dr Aileen McLeod, the Minister responsible for Land Reform in Scotland.

UK prime minister makes progress on proposal to avoid hard border, despite claims of disarray over Brexit strategy

Prime minister Gordon Brown has faced opposition from his own party over the plans resulting in chancellor Alistair Darling telling the House of Commons that a proposal to assist pensioners under 65 and workers with no children was under consideration.

The letter was released as Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat deputy prime minister, prepared to appeal for unity over proposals for an 80 % - elected upper chamber as he opened a two - day debate on the bill on Monday afternoon.

The prime minister, speaking to reporters in New York after meetings with world leaders, said he had talked to «every continent in the last few hours» over a number of proposals he is putting forward.

Conservative and Lib Dem ministers have struggled to win over Labour to their proposals, which had concentrated on former justice secretary Jack Straw's work in a white paper published towards the end of the New Labour government.

After a meeting at Chequers between the Prime Minister and backbench MPs, it emerged that the Tories plan to press ahead with what were said to be «robust proposals» to give English MPs control over English laws.

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

Former prime minister Tony Blair suffered his first parliamentary defeat over the terror detention issue in November 2005, when his 90 - day detention limit proposal was voted down by the Commons.

The ex-Cabinet Minister led a Tory backlash against party leader Mr Cameron's clear signal that he is unlikely to reverse Labour's proposal to raise the top rate of tax to 45p in the pound on earnings over # 150,000 a year.

At least five cabinet ministers have joined the Tory revolt over House of Lords reform, amid growing fears that proposals for a largely elected second chamber could destroy the coalition.

The Science Minister Chris Schacht already has CSIRO and the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) up in arms over proposals to carve off three divisions of CSIRO to form a new marine institute and to merge ANSTO with CSIRO.

The reform of gravest concern to the scientific community, however, relates to proposal review, as described in a June 27 open letter to Canada's Minister of Health Jane Philpott, signed by over 1,300 scientists.

The chairman of the Education Select Committee, Neil Carmichael, who led calls for the subject to be made compulsory, accused ministers of «brushing over» the proposals and providing a «feeble» response, as it has already taken them six months to make it.

Letter to the Minister of Labour, with submission to the Board, highlights concerns over the downside risk waiver, complexity of forms, and proposal to limit oral hearings.

The latest flurry of counter-terror proposals started over the last May Bank Holiday when Home Office Minister Tony McNulty mooted the idea of new «stop and question» laws.

It is understood that the proposals will be announced by junior minister, Maria Miller, and the Conservative Party's family spokesman over the next few days.