Then in the summer of 2009, he suffered a flood
of Cabinet resignations - Hazel Blears, Jacqui Smith and even James Purnell who went on the day of the European elections when Labour came third with just 16 % of the vote.
But the prime minister indicated it might be held sooner during a tense meeting of the parliamentary Labour party last week where he faced calls for his resignation after a week
of cabinet resignations and the European election drubbing.
The chances
of Cabinet resignations prompted by issues outside of Scotland's cleaner are slim.
Not exact matches
Bouchard's
resignation from Mulroney's
cabinet in 1990 consolidated the collapse
of the Progressive Conservative coalition.
Dave Hancock appointed Premier Long - time PC
cabinet minister Dave Hancock was appointed Premier and interim leader
of the PC Party following the
resignation of Alison Redford in March 2014.
Amid the violent protesting between citizens and police that has led to thousands
of injuries, Egypt's
cabinet offered
resignation today.
I don't think anyone has forgotten or missed that we have been asking for D / M or C / B's and a striker last season, it is the very reason why so many supporters are asking for his
resignation becouse it's now been two seasons we are playing with shortage or players below par and as always those positions let us down, if he had just bolster those areas (which the whole world was shouting about even our enemies were telling us day and day out) we wouldn't be so angry with him and maybe we could
of had extra silverwear in our display
cabinet.
The
resignation of Davies after his late - night amble around Clapham Common apparently caused as progressive a figure as Blair to worry that «we could get away with Ron as a one - off aberration, but if the public start to think the whole
cabinet is engaging in gay sex we could have a bit
of a political problem».
I can't myself identify which other
resignations of senior
Cabinet figures would be pretty likely if those two are staying.
The accountability made possible by the net is often
of the trivial, superficial sort (as with Emily Thornberry MP's
resignation from
cabinet for tweeting a picture
of a van), while the major deceptions (over the NHS, foreign wars, tax havens) have not resulted in anyone being held to account.
His botched handling
of his shadow
cabinet reshuffle and the series
of resignations that have followed this morning, will completely overshadow any positive coverage he might otherwise have received for his performance today.
Here it is, then: the only
Cabinet resignation of the year.
Resignations and
Cabinet Office enquiries are not helping but yet, the government has weathered major storms and these are the tests
of survivability that some predicted it would fail.
The co-ordinated string
of resignations from the shadow
cabinet that followed the Brexit vote was designed to pressure Corbyn to resign as leader
of the party.
[3] Turley resigned in June 2016 as part
of a mass shadow
cabinet resignation in protest at Corbyn's leadership.
And he is sanguine about the splits at the top
of the party triggered by Iain Duncan Smith's
resignation from the
Cabinet: «If you look at the evidence, the party is united around me, for me to win on 5 May... They [the party] also understand that this is the biggest election between now and the general election, so it matters politically as well.
Despite the mass
resignation of shadow
cabinet members, Corbyn feels emboldened to resist calls to go.
Jeremy Corbyn has lost control
of his MPs with 46
resignations from his Shadow
Cabinet and frontbench.
More recently, the accidental leaking
of Ruth Kelly's
resignation from the
cabinet (and all kinds
of hints and rumours as to how it happened) showed a pretty amateurish approach to news management.
As the country split down the middle, former and current
Cabinet ministers toyed with
resignation, the UN went to vote, and the international community became entrenched in one
of the most divisive issues
of a generation, Brown stayed silent.
The
Cabinet Manual specifies that alternative as follows: Upon
resignation of the incumbent, «the Sovereign will invite the person who appears most likely to be able to command the confidence
of the House to serve as Prime Minister and to form a government» (§ 2.8).
On the 20th
of February, 2013 the premier submitted his
cabinet's
resignation.
The en masse
resignations from the shadow
cabinet, followed by a vote
of no confidence from 81 per cent
of MPs, shows that Jeremy Corbyn has lost the trust
of his peers (or perhaps he never really managed to obtain it in the first place).
On 12 June 2008, Davis resigned from the Shadow
Cabinet and announced his
resignation as an MP, in order to force a by - election, and cause a wider debate on the single issue
of what he believed to be the erosion
of civil liberties.
Trade unions in Scotland have called for Jim Murphy to step down as leader
of Scottish Labour as Neil Findlay who stood against Murphy for the leadership last year with the backing
of the Left and almost all trade unions announced his
resignation from the shadow
cabinet at Holyrood where he held the fair work, skills and training brief.
Apparently there's been some sort
of problem relating to a friend
of a
Cabinet secretary, whose shady links to the world
of lobbying prompted a major
resignation.
The boundary changes defeat matters far more to the outcome
of the next election than even the coalition's biggest U-turn, or the
resignation of a
Cabinet minister.
The former work and pensions secretary, whose
resignation from the
cabinet and criticism
of Gordon Brown last June nearly toppled the prime minister, has told his constituency Labour party in Stalybridge and Hyde he will be standing down as their MP but that his decision is personal and, after 20 years in the Westminster political system, no reflection on Labour's chances at the next general election.
Mr Flynn's unexpected double promotion is a result
of the mass
resignations from Jeremy Corbyn's Shadow
Cabinet.
Former shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna said: «After eight years
of Tory misrule, most people thoroughly tired
of austerity, a disastrous Brexit negotiation, the Windrush outrage and four
cabinet resignations in six months, we should be well ahead and we are not.
As for his distaste for Mandelson's «rush into print», you might recall it was David's denigration
of serving
cabinet colleagues to his biographer that had caused support to vanish by the time
of his first
resignation.
The Bristol MP, who stepped down from Jeremy Corbyn's shadow
cabinet amid the mass
resignations that followed the Brexit referendum, said she felt compelled to come forward after Etemadzadeh was criticised for her account
of a recent encounter with Hopkins.
Her
resignation looked a lot more like disappointment at not being put in the
Cabinet than having the seriousness
of James Purnell.
Admittedly he was an afterthought for the role, only moving into the
Cabinet once the
resignation of David Laws saw Danny Alexander shifted from Scotland to the Treasury, but his time there has been impressive: Moore navigated the Scotland Act through Parliament and was doing a good job in ensuring the referendum on Scottish independence was being held on the government's terms.
Following Hilary Benn's departure there was a mass
resignation of shadow
cabinet members and, at the time
of writing, the party's MPs have backed a vote
of no confidence by an overwhelming margin.
The inquiry is part
of measures by Brown to try to regain the initiative after he headed off a rebellion in his ruling Labour Party following disastrous European elections and several
cabinet resignations this month.
And it's in that role, even after Corbyn's shock election as Labour leader, shadow
cabinet resignations, removals and refusals to serve, that Falconer remains, looking ever more like something
of a Blairite cuckoo in the Corbyn nest.
Labour leader Ed Miliband issues a statement as he reshuffles his shadow
Cabinet, following the
resignation of shadow chancellor Alan Johnson:
Anticipating their usual drubbing in local elections, Brown was hit by a wave
of resignations from Labour
Cabinet ministers.
Another frontbencher also told the BBC: «There will be
resignations among senior members
of the shadow
cabinet over this.»
Labour was hit by the
resignation of one
of its top shadow
cabinet talents as the government's Brexit bill was passed overwhelmingly by MPs.
McKinnell became the fourth shadow minister — and the first with a shadow
cabinet post — to step down in the space
of a week following the
resignations of Jonathan Reynolds, Kevan Jones and Stephen Doughty.
Gordon Brown's re-shuffled
Cabinet began work today as the prime minister's new year «fight - back» was set - back by the
resignation of Peter Hain.
It explains partly why the biggest winners out
of the Liam Fox
cabinet resignation were two women — Justine Greening and Chloe Smith.
This follows the
resignation last week
of Jo Stevens from the shadow
cabinet and Tulip Siddiq from Labour's front bench.
The indications coming out
of John McDonnell and Jeremy Corbyn yesterday were that the shadow ministers would be able to keep their jobs, with McDonnell suggesting that defiance
of a three - line whip only mandated the
resignation of a Shadow
Cabinet member and Corbyn stressing that he is «very lenient».
In a significant concession to traditionalists, which emerged less than 24 hours after Paddy Ashdown announced his planned
resignation as Lib Dem leader, Mr Blair promised he would not launch any more initiatives to extend the remit
of the Lib - Lab
cabinet committee without talking to senior MPs.
It seems then that Seema's query is why someone in the shadow
cabinet leader's office had the key to a / all the room / s
of the shadow
cabinet (with further confusion caused by the
resignation and that for some reason she was not able to vacate the shadow
cabinet room / area as expected).
Her
resignation will delight Brexiteers who had been very outspoken on Windrush, but it will make precious little difference to the
cabinet dynamics as those close to May are adamant that the remain - leave balance
of the
cabinet must be maintained and that the next home secretary would have to be a like - for - like replacement for Rudd.
Just as received wisdom on Thursday, as rumours
of an imminent
Cabinet resignation swirled, suggested that Gordon Brown would be finished if these proved to be true, so the departure
of James Purnell, following those
of Beverley Hughes, Jacqui Smith and Hazel Blears, was shown to mark nothing
of the sort.