Sentences with phrase «number of female cabinet»

No 10 sources later pointed out that the prime minister had the same number of female cabinet ministers as Gordon Brown, the last Labour prime minister.

The appointment of a greater number of female cabinet members in charge of important portfolios might also assist in this regard.

Not exact matches

Women's right groups savaged the reshuffle for drastically reducing the number of women in Cabinet, despite a pre-election promise to make a third of government ministers female.

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Alongside that troop of northerners yet to appear, we were told this would be an opportunity for both David Cameron and Ed Miliband to promote more women — the PM because he's pledged to get a third of government posts filled by female politicians by 2015 (and the number of women in cabinet fell last time), the Labour leader because, well, he's got loads of good ones.

1 pm: Crunching the maths, FT Westminster blog looks at the current number of Labour women MPs and concludes: «By proposing that half the cabinet should be female, Harman is - ironically - suggesting that the Labour women MPs are twice as talented as the men.»

The honours list is put together by nine independent committees set up by the Cabinet Office, and this year there are equal numbers of male and female recipients.