Sentences with phrase «of junior ministers»

In a speech to the Institute of Government in London this morning, the deputy prime minister described the last Labour government's approach as «short - termist», and said the regular shuffling of junior ministers underminded the stability of government.

The political damage from George Osborne's U-turn on plans to increase fuel duty deepened on Tuesday night when he was accused of leaving one of his junior ministers to carry the can during an interview in which she struggled to explain how the freeze would be funded.

He rose through the ranks of junior ministers in the Treasury before his promotion to culture secretary.

Following the June election, when Patel was reappointed to DfID, two of her junior ministers, Rory Stewart and Alistair Burt, took joint positions across DfID and the Foreign Office, in what was perceived by some as a partial victory for Johnson's takeover plans.

«Our revelations led to the demotion of a member of the Cabinet, apologies from a string of junior ministers and condemnation from their party leader,» he added.

After all, dozens of junior ministers can not provide a focal point for public attention equivalent to that of the prime minister and would soon generate mixed messages.

In terms of junior ministers who've performed well in their briefs and are knocking at the door of the Cabinet any list must include Greg Clark, Nick Herbert, Maria Miller and Grant Shapps.

And the lure of shadow cabinet elections - which Corbyn has promised to re-introduce - could well prove irresistible to a number of junior ministers and wannabe ministers.

On the advice of his junior minister Lord Bellwin, a former leader of Leeds City Council, Heseltine ordered that nobody was to be hired without his personal approval.

with the wife of his junior minister and on that basis he should not have cast any stone at all, right?

In the cabinet appointed after the 2015 general election, exactly a third of all ministers permitted to attend cabinet were women — although they made up just 20 % of those appointed as ministers of state — the highest rank of junior minister.

Not exact matches

«The standard circulation for cabinet memoranda includes the Queen, the Prince of Wales, all members of the cabinet, any other ministers in charge of departments, the attorney general and the chief whip... Ministers of state and junior ministers do not normally receive memoranda.»

Previously, as a ministry official, he had visited the Cabinet Office to discuss the MOF's intervention strategy and the importance of containing the yen with officials such as a junior minister named Shinzo Abe.

The junior Minister of Finance also says the same thing; the contingency reserve is at play and the government will have a surplus no matter what.

After earlier stints as a junior finance minister and deputy governor, he took over as Governor of the Bank of Canada seven months before the global recession really began to bite in September 2008, and is credited with keeping his homeland free from the worst ravages of the crisis.

The famously maverick - ish junior minister from the Beauce, in Quebec, seems to think the country should decide the fate of its reddest chamber.

And the PDAC is doing its best to ensure juniors don't get overlooked in the fray of politics on the Hill — which almost saw Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservative government toppled by an opposition coalition in December.

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Particularly among junior ministers, the level of churn has been so great in recent years that very often, by the time the minister has got close to understanding their subject, they are moved on.

By his own account he was an ineffective junior minister, not equipped for the cut and thrust of Whitehall life.

He shows all the strengths and weaknesses of Geoffrey Howe, notes that John Major's brief period as Foreign Secretary was an uphill task, but greatly admired Douglas Hurd, a former diplomat and junior Foreign Office minister.

Under Blair in the Lords he served as a junior MAFF minister for two years and his Westminster Diary Volumes 1 and 2 show not only his old Labour sympathies but his love of the arts and the turf.

He found that one junior minister, Tim Eggar, was a rather macho figure who «later developed a strong interest in diplomatic car parking and non-payment of parking fines.»

Chris Mullin, in his excellent diaries, records the view of Janet Andersen, a former Labour whip and minister, on Tony Blair's attitude to junior ministerial posts: «He regards them as sweeties to be handed out to keep the children happy», she said.

To be frank, I suspect that the chair of the home affairs select committee will be more able to get a public platform and more able to influence policy than a shadow cabinet minister or even the most junior ministers in government.

So, just like George Osborne sent his junior minister David Gauke into the Commons to answer tricky questions on Google and tax last week, the hapless David Lidington, Minister for Europe, was despatched to fave the wrath of Euro - scepminister David Gauke into the Commons to answer tricky questions on Google and tax last week, the hapless David Lidington, Minister for Europe, was despatched to fave the wrath of Euro - scepMinister for Europe, was despatched to fave the wrath of Euro - sceptic MPs.

He served as a junior minister in the Northern Ireland Office, the Department for Productivity, Energy and Industry, the Department of Trade and Industry and finally in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

To avoid the Baker scenario, the Liberal Democrats should deploy more than one junior minister in key departments that are led by the senior party of the coalition.

They included 11 out of 28 Commons members of the shadow cabinet, six junior shadow ministers and three -LSB-...]

Jimmy - the only party to have had govt civil servants on their payroll is Labour and one of the leakers to Brown is now a junior minister.

During the tenure of different governments the title of Minister of / for Transport has been used to refer to the Secretary of State for Transport, one or more of the junior Ministers or even both the Secretary of State and the junior Ministers at the same time.

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.

Leaving aside the fact that civil society minister Nick Hurd is already supposed to be doing parts of this, the track record of centrally - driven change suggests it is unrealistic to expect a junior minister with no budget or levers to have any real impact on departmental secretaries of state?

That was what prompted yesterday's unedifying performance at prime minister's questions in parliament yesterday: Liam Fox and the PM, both gung - ho for nuclear weapons, reducing what should be a serious discussion about Britain's security needs to a bout of junior common room point - scoring.

It was revealed last night that Home Office minister Tony McNulty and junior minister Joan Ryan knew that files of 27,000 offenders had not been properly entered onto UK police databases - and therefore were unknown to British authorities - last October.

But Davis has trouble in his own department, with a junior minister accused of undermining his negotiating position.

Permanent secretaries deal with strategic management — while junior ministers hardly count, as we've seen in the diaries of both the late Alan Clark MP and Chris Mullin.

«The established process of approval means that most decisions are taken by junior ministers,» a spokesperson said.

Despite defending herself heroically in the face of the Paxman onslaught on Newsnight recently, I was distracted by the way junior Treasury minister Chloe Smith repeatedly drank her water and put her glass down soooo precisely.

To discover what happened after 1997 Bower interviewed dozens of civil servants ranging from juniors to Permanent Secretaries, many junior ministers and Cabinet ministers, and the principal senior military officers.

He dithers over whether he really wants to be a junior minister rather than chairman of a select committee, and eventually is disappointed when he's only ever appointed to the most junior jobs as a parliamentary under - secretary.

As Mullin observed, while a member of that committee, he had more face time with Blair than when he was a junior minister.

Some of the best political memoirs and diaries have been kept by junior ministers who, nevertheless, had access to the inner workings of government and the Prime Minister — think Alan Clark and Chris Mullin.

Downing Street has confirmed that Vale of Glamorgan MP Alun Cairns is the new junior minister at the Wales Office.

For the first time there is clear evidence that the prime minister, as opposed to a junior cabinet minister or special adviser, directly manipulated the quasi-judicial process considering News Corporation's bid for BSkyB, in favour of the Murdochs.

He said Welsh ministers had found the new Secretary of State «pragmatic and reasonable» to deal with during his time as a junior minister at the Wales Office.

After a spell as a trade union officer, Watson became an MP in 2001 and rose fast, becoming a junior whip in 2004 and junior defence minister two years later, when his nightly ministerial papers included details of British soldiers killed in Iraq, a conflict he voted in favour of.

The Welsh Government briefed that the Secretary of State, Cheryl Gillan, and her junior minister, David Jones, were trying to overturn the will of the Welsh people, as expressed in last year's referendum on the Assembly's powers.

Jeremy Corbyn has appointed an array of new MPs to frontbench Labour jobs as well as handing junior roles to recognisable names such as former shadow cabinet minister Gloria De Piero and Tracy Brabin, who replaced the murdered MP Jo Cox.