Sentences with phrase «of cabinet seats»

A hung parliament could potentially see the Lib Dems holding the balance of power between likely Labour and Tory leaders Gordon Brown and David Cameron - with the chance of cabinet seats if a power - sharing executive is formed.

Not exact matches

In December 2010, Charles» hard work and dedication earned him a seat at the Cabinet table when he was appointed Minister of Labour.

Try using them to create a cushioned seat in the corner of a room or the corner of your kitchen cabinets.

Similar to the magnetic locks, these units use the durability of the 3M adhesive and work well for cabinets, drawers, toilet seats, and more.

The former Cabinet minister has served the seat since 1992 and was one of Tony Blair's closest supporters.

Labour ministers have been accused of using regional Cabinet meetings to help the party in key marginal seats.

With the 2016 general elections just five months away, this paper can authoritatively report that, among those nursing ambition to step into the shoes of President Mahama include; cabinet and regional ministers, deputy ministers, high ranking government officials at the seat of government and some party gurus in the legislature.

I can do my bit around the Cabinet table, but most of the seats at that table are occupied by Conservatives, not Liberal Democrats.»

@Stuart White: Of course there's a difference between (a) a minority government which a smaller party permits to remain in office by not using its votes to defeat its programme and legislation, either ad hoc or in accordance with some semi-formal pact, and (b) a coalition in which both parties hold seats in the Cabinet.

Cuomo has pledged to help Fiala, a former member of his cabinet, win the seat.

In the exceptional case that you describe of a Majority Leader losing her own seat, is similar to the situation that would occur were the PM to die in office (in that she would no longer be a member of the privy council, nor the Cabinet).

The geographical location of the Tory Cabinet members» seats.

Nine - tenths of the M.P.'s who first won seats in the House of Commons in 1918 or thereafter, and who held some ministerial office in the years from 1918 to 1955, began their progress towards posts in a ministry or a Cabinet by serving as parliamentary secretaries or as junior ministers... Recruitment to the front bench clearly begins with these two offices.

«In an ominous sign for rebellious ministers, Mr Pickles, one of the most hawkish members of the Cabinet, has been given a prime seat alongside the Chancellor.

And in all of this, it's well worth reminding ourselves of one fact: Nick Clegg has not given a single one of his five cabinet seats to a female colleague.

A slightly different formulation of this principle was invoked by Nick Clegg in 2010 when he stated that the party, which has won the most votes and the most seats, has the first right to seek to govern, either on its own or by reaching out to other parties (see Draft Cabinet Manual, 2010, p. 26, § 49, fn.

The Labour leader was attacked by backbench MPs and even members of his shadow cabinet after the party lost seats in England and Wales and were humiliated in Scotland, where they finished a distant third.

He (and 2 other Cabinet ministers I've spoken to this morning) emphasise a grand anti-Tory coalition that would mean pulling in all sorts of others, from the new Green Party MP to the new Alliance MP in Peter Robinson's old seat.

New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Joseph Martens, second from let, talks on hydraulic fracturing during a cabinet meeting at the Capitol on Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014, in Albany, N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration will move to prohibit fracking in the state, citing unresolved health issues and dubious economic benefits of the widely used gas - drilling technique.Acting health commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker is seated left.

Fighting any marginal seat is difficult but Jim's elevation to the Cabinet provides a new set of challenges, not least of which is the amount of money the Labour Party are pumping into his campaign for re-election.

In the summer of 1975 Heseltine persuaded the Shadow Cabinet not to oppose the Labour Government's bailout of British Leyland because of the risk to marginal seats (including some Cowley workers in northern wards of his own Henley seat).

If the swing of 16.49 per cent attained at Norwich North were replicated at the general election, the following cabinet ministers would lose their seats: Jim Murphy, Alistair Darling, Ben Bradshaw, Jack Straw, John Denham, Ed Balls, Ed Miliband and Douglas Alexander.

We are correctly quick to criticise the Milibands and Coopers, who move effortlessly from university to special adviser to safe seat to Cabinet without so much as a trip to Lidls in between... are we not in danger of creating a similar routeway?

The biggest beast of all though, Winston Churchill, was defeated when he had to contest a by - election in his seat in Manchester North West on his appointment to the cabinet in 1908.

A bumper crop of seven cabinet ministers lost their seats at that election.

[4] When Labour came to power under Ramsay MacDonald in January 1924, Buxton was appointed Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, [5] with a seat in the cabinet, and sworn of the Privy Council.

Liddell - Grainger was elected to parliament at the 2001 general election for the safe Conservative seat of Bridgwater in Somerset, succeeding former cabinet minister Tom King.

Jo Coburn spoke about the fortunes of each party with former Labour Cabinet minister Hazel Blears, Liberal Democrat Stephen Lloyd, Conservative Stuart Andrew, and UKIP's Nigel Farage who has previously stood in the seat and was seen in a Daily Politics film about the constituency.

The Liberal Democrats gained 3 seats from the Conservatives in the wards of Bridge, East and South, including defeating the cabinet member for leisure and Conservative deputy leader, Brian Moss, in Bridge.

However, in 1997, all 23 candidates won seats in Parliament and, after Labour assumed power, the Party gained its first members of the Cabinet since AV Alexander: Alun Michael 1998 — 99 (later First Minister for Wales) and Ed Balls 2007 — 2010.

The frowns on the faces of the coalition Cabinet members seated on the frontbench this morning indicate they appreciate the gravity of the choice being made.

On the other side of the Commons, Jeremy Corbyn» Islington North seat is scrapped, potentially pitting him against his shadow cabinet colleagues Emily Thornberry and Diane Abbott to represent a single seat.

First elected to the Commons in 1990, the former Tory leader is last link to a time when a Conservative cabinet sat in government without a gaggle of pesky Liberal Democrats taking up some seats round the table.

[3] Since the 2000 election both the parties had 15 seats, so they had 4 cabinet seats each and shared the leadership of the council for 6 months each.

Speaking on a day when several cabinet ministers suggested that Labour voters should cast their ballot for the Liberal Democrats in some seats, the former prime minister set himself against the tactic, and was contemptuous of Nick Clegg's party and its claim to represent real change.

Both leaders went out of their way to deny instant claims that the initiative - which caught all but a select handful of MPs and ministers by surprise - is a prelude to a merger, coalition or even the long - rumoured seat at the cabinet table for the Liberal Democrat leader.

A minority government, or minority cabinet or minority parliament, is a cabinet formed in a parliamentary system when a political party or coalition of parties does not have a majority of overall seats in the parliament.

Some cabinet ministers hope that Gordon Brown could defy the disaster of Labour coming third in the share of the vote by joining forces with the Liberal Democrats in a «progressive alliance» to keep the Tories out of power even though Mr Cameron might have won more seats and votes than Labour.

The disadvantages are that it takes away the final decision on who should be the Conservative candidate away from Conservative members and, critically, it means that high profile MPs, including members of the Cabinet, could lose their seats.

The Liberal Democrats, led by outgoing Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, had their worst result since their formation in 1988, holding just eight out of their previous 57 seats with Cabinet ministers Vince Cable, Ed Davey and Danny Alexander losing their seats.

At the cabinet meeting on Wednesday, Lt. Governor Kathy Hochul, who served as the public face of the Women's Equality Party during the campaign, was seated to the governor's left.

Morgan managed to win enough seats to form a Labour - only administration (the election was held under proportional representation, and Labour won 30 of the 60 seats in the Assembly and the overall majority was achieved when Dafydd Elis - Thomas AM was elected Presiding Officer of the Assembly) and named his cabinet on 9 May.

The All Progressives Congress Appeal Committee led by Alhaji Abdullahi Bello has dismissed an appeal filed by the Osun State Commissioner for Cabinet Matters, Senator Mudashir Hussein, an aspirant for the vacant seat of Osun West Senatorial primary election earlier scheduled to hold today June 12 2017.

This spawned the phrase, «Portillo moment», referring to a cabinet minister losing their seat at the fall of a government.

I'm not sure if the part - time politicians in the Shadow Cabinet haven noticed, but ConHome's poll of polls has Labour with the most seats.

The Guardian understands that Corbyn is considering convening an extra meeting of the shadow cabinet later this week to discuss the issue, which risks exacerbating the rift between MPs in post-industrial seats where there are profound concerns about immigration and those in constituencies that voted remain.

When Labour regained power, he was Secretary of State for Education and Science between 1974 and 1975, subsequently becoming Minister for Overseas Development with a seat in the cabinet until 1976.

Inside, Silver was seated behind a mostly bare desk in his bare - walled office with five phones, a small refrigerator and a cabinet holding two boxes of Raisin Bran.

The politician, who resigned from the cabinet in the wake of the expenses scandal and lost her seat in the 2010 election, upgraded the drug from class C to B - bringing in a tougher line against users and dealers.

[4] The Liberal Democrats took four seats and therefore finished with 13 councillors on the council., [5] while all three members of the Conservative council cabinet were re-elected, including the council leader Barry Norton in North Leigh ward.