Sentences with phrase «of cabinet resignations»

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.