Sentences with phrase «other conservative ministers»

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Either it means that other members of his party — the finance minister, who is against the referendum — will come in and not hold a referendum at all, and try to keep Greece on the austerity plan, or there will be a fall in the government, a no - confidence vote, and people will presumably vote for the Conservative Party, which is very much like the Republican Party in the United States.

In any other job, breaking the law would likely be cause for dismissal, but this does not appear to be the case if you are a cabinet minister in Alberta's Progressive Conservative government.

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Earlier this year, then - Environment Minister Peter Kent said that, «significant work remains (to meet our targets),» and that, «(the Conservative Government) intends to continue to develop performance standards for other major sectors of the economy.»

It matters not whether we be conservative or liberal, traditionalist or modernist; in whatever category we may be placed, or place ourselves, the fact remains that insofar as we are Christian ministers, ordained by Christ in his Church to be his ministering agents, our preaching can be nothing other than the proclamation of God's Word for the wholeness of men.

If you want to have a reasonable guess as to what he would think about some issue, ask what other conservative Baptist ministers think about that issue today.

This question misstates my position slightly — I don't «encourage evangelicals» to do anything other than minister to other evangelicals — but it does exemplify the conservative Catholic mindset that I most wanted to disturb with my article.

Europe minister David Lidington has hit out against Conservative eurosceptics ahead of Wednesday's likely vote by telling them to focus on issues other than the in / out referendum tearing his party apart.

Critics have accused the Tories of selling access to May and other ministers, but a Conservative spokesman said: «This is an important opportunity to engage directly with businesses and to highlight how, as part of our plan to create an economy that works for everyone, we will continue to back business and enterprise.»

Mr Johnson has come under strong attacks from other Conservative party members, who suggest his decision is inspired by his desire to become the UK's next Prime Minister.

David Cameron became Prime Minister on 11 May after Gordon Brown's resignation and the Liberal Democrats formed a coalition government with the Conservative Party, with Nick Clegg as Deputy Prime Minister and other Liberal Democrats in the cabinet.

Shadow defence minister Kevan Jones told parliament that the government's pledge to ringfence the equipment budget meant there would be larger cuts on other areas and that the Conservative party had restricted how much they could spend with the «straitjacket» of the autumn statement.

Following the general election of 2010, the Liberal Democrats formed a coalition government with the Conservatives, resulting in party leader Nick Clegg becoming the Deputy Prime minister and many other members becoming ministers.

[19] With no party having an overall majority, the Lib Dems agreed to form a coalition government with the Conservatives, with Clegg becoming Deputy Prime Minister and other party members taking up ministerial positions.

As the dust settled, Liberal Democrats and Conservatives were issuing explicit threats to each other on television, the prime minister was shouting at his own MPs in public and Tory rebels were being ordered to go home to avoid their furious whips.

The other standard trackers all paint an equally bleak picture for the government, on the forced choice question (which I always tend to think of our best indicator of which way tactical voting is likely to go next time round, given that there are no regular tracker questions that ask directly about it) the Conservatives now enjoy a 12 point lead over Labour, they have an 8 point lead as the party most likely to run the economy well, David Cameron has an 8 point lead as Best Prime Minister.

The government stepped in amid fears that an amendment designed to give straight couples the right to civil partnerships, planned by Tim Loughton, the former children's minister, and two other Tory MPs, could disrupt the equal marriage bill, which is opposed by many Conservatives.

After Number 10's announcement that Conservative ministers would abstain, it turned into a fight between Labour and the Lib Dems on the one side and Conservative backbenchers (not all of them, but a significant number) on the other.

Since the report was published, Conservative ministers and spokesmen have pointed out that the commission found only «a series of administrative errors» and that other parties have been fined for their activity in the 2015 election too.

Other politicians to get the highest honour include Christopher Chope, a rightwing Conservative who was a junior minister under Margaret Thatcher and John Major, and Geoffrey Clifton - Brown, who served as a junior whip under William Hague.

The Prime Minister said: «I am determined to win this seat back at the next general election because anything other than a Conservative government will put our recovery at risk and Ed Miliband in Downing Street.»

As the Conservatives look around for people other than Theresa May to blame for the prime minister's disastrous speech, many are plumping for Tory chairman Patrick McLoughlin.

Cabinet ministers, Peers, captains of industry, journalists, celebrities and others gathered with Dr Fox at the Conservative Party's spiritual home, the Carlton Club, only a few days before Mr Grayling's Daily Telegraph article.

As the Conservatives look around for people other than Theresa May to blame for the prime minister»...

Dugher's comments stand in stark contrasts to those made over the past week by the prime minister and other leading Conservatives.

Commenting on Prime Minister Teresa May's speech to the Conservative Party Conference today, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «We welcome the fact that the Prime Minister clearly recognises that the education, social and economic policies of her predecessor have led to inequality across education and other public services.

On the other side of the house, businessman Adam Afriyie, Conservative MP for Windsor, is the shadow innovation minister.

There was some discussion after the election of the possibility of creating a Conservative minority government and, because the then Prime Minister Gordon Brown had the first opportunity to form a government, there were also talks about creating some sort of alliance between the Labour Party, the Liberal Democrats and other smaller parties.

The others were Lord Norman Warner, a former Health Minister and two Conservative MPs elected in 2015, Kelly Tolhurst and William Wragg.

The prime minister has been careful not to be too critical of Trump, although a number of other senior Conservatives have shown no such restraint.

Today Ms Morgan, who lost her Cabinet role when Theresa May became Prime Minister, indicated that she and some other Conservative MPs would vote against the proposals in their current form.

A senior Conservative minister has become the first member of the government to back proposals to field coalition candidates at the next general election.His comments to The Sunday Telegraph came as both parties began a battle to bolster the coalition in the wake of a week of damaging revelations made by Vince Cable and other Lib Dem ministers to undercover reporters.

Danny Alexander, Nick Clegg, Jeremy Browne, Sarah Teather, David Laws and various other ministers have tasted power now, and Conservatives have found them congenial and intelligent colleagues.

«Now when I receive something of that nature, as a minister, I say: «I don't give a monkey's whether he is a donor to the Conservative party, or the Labour party or any other party.»»

IDS» offensive has emerged as other Conservative Cabinet ministers prepare to place more pressure on Brussels.

But, in reality, it appears that when Labour said our Eurosceptic promises were all hot air, they were right; that when Heseltine said that in government every Conservative Prime Minister is Europhile, he was right; that when UKIP said Conservatives were not to be trusted on Europe, they were right; that when I and others said that the Conservative Party had changed, and that Cameron and Hague were genuinely convicted Eurosceptics who understood what must be done and would not let us down, we were wrong.

The opposition will join forces with Conservative remain supporters and other parties to block article 50 if the prime minister does not guarantee access to the single market, the Labour leader told the Sunday Mirror.

He also insisted the so - called «new politics» was «infecting other parties» after David Cameron announced Conservative ministers would be able to campaign for Brexit.

In his resignation letter to Prime Minister David Cameron, the Conservative MP said: «As Immigration Minister, who is taking legislation through Parliament which will toughen up our immigration laws, I should hold myself to a higher standard than expected of others.»

Rhodes Boyson, a Conservative Member of Parliament and an official in the government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, made these and other observations during a public address sponsored here last week by the Education Department's office for intergovernmental and interagency affairs.

It comes after two other members of the Conservative education team — schools minister Nick Gibb and skills minister Nick Boles — threw their support behind Gove.

Other senior fellows of the institute have been deeply involved in political activity Preston Manning is the founder of the right - wing Reform Party in Canada, which later merged with the Progressive Conservative Party to form the new Conservative Party, led by Stephen Harper who became Prime Minister in 2006.

The Chair of Pacific Future Energy is none other than former Conservative Cabinet Minister Stockwell Day, who served as Minister of Public Safety and then Minister of International Trade in the Harper government.

Margaret Thatcher, Conservative Prime Minister of Great Britain, also known as the Iron Lady, once offered this opinion: «The unfortunate thing about socialism is that sooner or later, you run out of other people's money.»