Sentences with phrase «of cabinet figures»

Theresa May is preparing a new year reshuffle that could see a number of cabinet figures losing their positions in an attempt to refresh the Conservative front bench.

Not exact matches

And what troubles me greatly is, I'm not aware of any Cabinet - level kind of meeting, or any high - level attempt to actually get a handle on this, and to figure out how we're going to respond.

Obama's refusal to bow to Hagel's opponents, including pro-Israel groups, neoconservatives figures and some of Hagel's own Republican colleagues, signaled that the president would not allow a top Cabinet candidate to be derailed again.

Stages in the legislative process that make a bill law in the Canadian Parliament; ministers (not including the Prime Minister) on cabinet's powerful Priorities and Planning committee; former political figures (not including sovereigns or social activists) memorialized in bronze around Parliament Hill — twelve is the number in each of these interesting categories.

However, Najib said that he considered his selection «a balanced cabinet of experienced figures, technocrats and those who represent the young.»

After it sat in the cabinet for a couple of months we finally figured out that it's supposed to be for olives (if you can't tell, we're not very fancy people).

The Board is only interested in money not trophies they figure they have enough in the cabinet, Ridiculous wenger is only interested in his legacy, he wants to say he did it his way and he won the EPL and the CL, but this is where his legacy is distorted, his teams that he creates for the last couple years has played with HANDICAPs, several deficiencies compared compared to precious teams he created, the main failings is the frail midfielders he has taken a loving to, while in previous years if he had frail players in the midfield, he also had man mountains who could do the defensive work in the middle of the park.

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.

There are many impressive figures coming through the younger ranks of Labour MPs — and some have already landed in the cabinet.

It's hard enough to control the message with the kind of figures she has chosen for Cabinet.

They also struggle with appearing representative of the country given the number of millionaires in Cabinet and the public schooling of senior figures, such as David Cameron and George Osborne.

Several key figures, including most of Corbyn's defeated rivals, have said they will not serve in his shadow cabinet.

A spokesperson for Iain Duncan Smith today said that Byrnes's figures were «nonsense» and accused him of a «last - ditch attempt to keep his job in the shadow cabinet» following rumours that he is to be lose his job in a forthcoming reshuffle.

The poll comes amid new questions for David Cameron, after reports show the extent of the Cabinet ministers» meetings with News International figures.

To put the figures in perspective, while just 6 per cent of estates across the UK will benefit from the Tory plans, the figure is 56 per cent for Mr Cameron's shadow cabinet allies.

However, the Public and Commercial Services union dismissed the Cabinet Office's claims, saying: «No - one can trust this government to keep reliable figures, it can't even tell us what it's done with dozens of Home Office files.»

However, senior figures in the party have warned that hundreds of Labour MPs would refuse to serve under Corbyn, leaving him unable to form a shadow cabinet.

He is currently understood to be working out the reshuffle of his shadow Cabinet, in which older figures are expected to be jettisoned in favour of fresher faces.

She added: «As a cabinet minister and leader of his party in Scotland, Jim has been a hugely important figure in the Labour Party.

He admits towards the end of his book that every senior figure in the cabinet knew they were heading for a defeat he feared would be «colossal».

A House which boasts retired Generals, Admirals, Cabinet Secretaries, eminent academics and leading figures from every sector of our economy should surely be considered worthy of «preserving what is best».

Jeremy Corbyn has issued a defiant statement after 12 members of his Shadow Cabinet figures resigned and called on him to resign.

The former chief whip, who was forced out of the Cabinet after a storm over his alleged foul - mouthed rant against police officers on duty outside Downing Street, has questioned the impartiality of Scotland Yard's senior figures.

But the panel of judges, for Euractiv.com, found that Cameron's influence fell short of those wielded by lesser - known figures like Richard Corbett, a member of EU president Herman Van Rompuy's Cabinet, and Philip Lowe, the Commission director - general for energy.

The mid-term shuffling of the pack looks set to demote liberal Cabinet figures like Ken Clarke and leave the Liberal Democrats unchanged, while boosting traditionalist and right - wing figures in the Conservative party.

David Cameron and the older figures in his Cabinet are acutely conscious of this lesson from the Ancients.

Times columnist Rachel Sylvester notes that: «As the economic consequences of Brexit are becoming clear, quiet unflashy «Spreadsheet Phil» has become the pivotal figure in the cabinet.

«The shadow cabinet is bracing itself for a «revenge reshuffle» in the aftermath of Labour's victory in the Oldham byelection, with key senior figures voicing fears they will be sacrificed by Jeremy Corbyn to kill dissent.»

His targets included cabinet ministers, chief constables, the most senior figures at the Bank of England, the royal family and intelligence officers.

But Corbyn has been accused by some shadow cabinet members, most recently Michael Dugher, the shadow culture secretary, of sponsoring a faction rather than acting as a unifying figure in the whole of the Labour party.

Party membership figures are a controversial issue, with the former cabinet minister Peter Mandelson, who is opposed to Corbyn, telling a Labour meeting in the Lords last month that «30,000 long - term members have left the party, real members, tens of thousands».

David Mellor, a former member of John Major's cabinet, said the row highlighted the need to have a heavyweight figure as Tory chairman.

I usually refrain from making negative comments about senior party figures on here but I have to agree that if it is not sufficient for an MP to be in the Shadow Cabinet, they should decline the offer of the position.

But Mr Watson also dismissed the idea put forward by some Labour figures, most notably former Shadow Cabinet member Clive Lewis, that the party should agree a «progressive alliance» with some of its rivals to take on the Tories at the next election.

All are high profile cabinet figures who have voiced clear support in favour of the UK making a clean break with the EU.

Mr Woolas's supporters include MPs from every level of the party — including some of Labour's most senior figures from the last Cabinet.»

It also suggests that he has sided unambiguously with figures such as Michael Gove inside his cabinet rather than his party chairman, Lady Warsi, who has complained of fashionable Islamophobia.

However, findings of a poll of Labour Party members, who were asked which Cabinet ministers and other senior figures they thought were doing a good job, have been leaked.

Jeremy Corbyn has come under intense pressure to take some personal responsibility for Labour's historic byelection defeat in Copeland from senior party figures, including trade union leaders and even members of his own shadow cabinet.

Labour is split three ways on the issue, as Jeremy Corbyn has pledged to vote against the standing party policy of backing Trident renewal, key figures in the Shadow Cabinet will abstain, and the bulk of MPs are expected to vote in favour of the motion.

The figure of 52 wannabe Labour peers does not include the ranks of the as yet unennobled past or present cabinet ministers of the post-1997 era.

However, it is understood that Winterton's dismissal has had wider repercussions, with a number of prominent figures who had been tempted to return to the shadow cabinet being put off.

One campaign figure yesterday said Boris had already signed up «quite a large handful of Cabinet and other senior ministers».

ConservativeHome has reported on recent failures of the leader's kitchen cabinet to involve key party figures in policy announcements.

Mr Pope is the latest in a series of Labour figures to issue New Year calls for Mr Brown's removal as leader, following former Cabinet minister Charles Clarke and Commons Schools Committee chairman Barry Sheerman.

By 1995, 23 per cent of Japanese houses had some kind of Washlet, according to a Cabinet Office survey, and by the end of the next decade, the figure had doubled.

This time, I figured I'd just give you some ideas of what I stock my fridge and cabinets with.

I'm having a hard time figuring out how you added cabinets and counter to the right of your stove.

Lincoln and his cabinet must figure out how to navigate the swamps of grey morality in pursuit of true, eternal goodness.