Sentences with phrase «of ministerial jobs»

Ms Eagle, an MP since 1992, held a number of ministerial jobs during the last Labour government and in 2013 became chair of the Labour Party.

Before she was elected as chair of the public accounts committee in 2010, Hodge held a variety of ministerial jobs under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.

There were even hints of a ministerial job for him.

As a key ally of the then Shadow Foreign Secretary Robin Cook, Cousins was still hopeful of a ministerial job when Labour won the election in 1997, but his hopes were dashed and instead he became an influential member of the backbench Treasury Select Committee.

Not exact matches

Not only division over theological and ethical issues but also differing patterns of ministerial placement and job security cause deep concern for many otherwise sympathetic church leaders.

Ellen's final ministerial job as Minister of Education was cut short by her untimely death in 1947 but not before, against strong opposition, initiating the raising of the school leaving age to 15.

By appointing half the Lib Dem MPs to ministerial jobs, Cameron gave himself a payroll vote with a promise of five years in office.

Brown's closest ministerial ally, Ed Balls, said the email was a «damp squib» by a few disgruntled MPs and insisted that the cabinet was «absolutely united» behind Brown.But the number of cabinet voices emerging in support of Brown did not begin to rise to a chorus until early evening, among them two of the ministers tipped as possible successors to Brown — the home secretary, Alan Johnson, and the energy secretary, Ed Miliband, who said today's call by rebels would be seen as a «temporary distraction» from the job of fighting the Conservatives and laying out future plans for the country.

Following mass resignations during the summer, more than 50 shadow ministerial posts remain unfilled, with a number of people doing two jobs or more.

Although the arrangement rarely comes with guaranteed ministerial jobs, a confidence and supply deal would typically see some elements of the smaller party's manifesto enacted by the minority government in return for their support.

The MP for Richmond in Yorkshire since 2015, the son of a GP takes his first ministerial job as a number three at the newly renamed Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.

He was distressed when, in 1997, he was passed over for ministerial office (too liberal, he thought), so he invented the job of deputy chief whip, speaking for those many departments with no Lords minister of their own, to much admiration, until, in 2005, he became himself a Department for Culture, Media and Sport minister, managing the gambling bill.

The most emotional speeches, predictably, were those of the pair of ministerial aides who had decided to quit their jobs in order to back the motion.

Gordon Brown rewarded him with a ministerial job at Transport and 18 months later he found himself replacing his boss, Lord Adonis, who wasn't eligible to sit in the Shadow Cabinet, running the leadership campaign that ended the career of the Blairite candidate.

It's the job of the PM to make the decision about the ministerial code.»

A tight - knit party with most of its talent in ministerial jobs — and the Lib Dems» traditional tendency of spending huge energy cementing themselves into marginal seats — means there's been little in the way of organised factions among their backbenchers.

In a move that will do nothing to help relations between the SNP and Conservatives, the prime minister on Thursday gave a peerage and ministerial job in the Scotland Office to Andrew Dunlop, a former adviser to Margaret Thatcher at the time of the poll tax.

Her career has been devoted to the acquisition and deployment of executive power, always ready to fill a spare ministerial job.

Last week, at the unveiling of the Jobs Task Force — a new ministerial level committee set up to address the urgent tasks of saving jobs and helping the unemployed with training and job - matching — the Minister of State for Education and Manpower, Mr. Ng Eng Hen, warned that many more professional, executive, and managerial positions may face the axe in the year ahead.

Golf club official's the ideal pinnacle for many of these little f**ker s Hitlers corporals, but some actually manage to move on to bigger things... These characters would gladly take the job unpaid, simply for the ministerial briefcase and the chance to regulate your entire bloody life!