Sentences with phrase «presiding over a cabinet»

Not exact matches

Major's former cabinet colleague Norman Fowler — now presiding over the upper chamber as Lord Speaker — recently warned in an interview with this magazine that the Lords could no longer justify its size, and must «stop faffing around» and significantly cut the number of peers.

«What the prime minister has done is ask the Cabinet secretary to preside over a joint review by MoD, the Treasury and the Cabinet Office looking at what further efficiency savings can be made within the MoD on top of the very aggressive efficiency plan we've already got in place without affecting frontline military capability,» he added.

Jeremy Corbyn says the PM is «presiding over a divided cabinet» and asks her preferred option for a new trade deal and when it would be ready.

Jeremy Corbyn said the prime minster was «presiding over a divided cabinet» and asked her what was her preferred option for a new trade deal and when it would be ready.

And Tory Cabinet Minister Chris Grayling attacked Mr Balls as «the man who stood alongside Gordon Brown through the crash, the man who lost his seat at the general election, the man who presided over Norwich City's football fortunes as they got relegated».

The other two cabinet members were however present in the meeting which held at the Council Chambers in the Presidential Villa, Abuja, yesterday and, as such, presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari.

He was the chancellor who presided over the most catastrophic financial crash since the second world war and he was a senior member of the cabinet that subsequently took Labour to its second worst defeat since the first world war.

Tony Blair succeeded a faction - plagued Prime Minister who had originally presided over a «Cabinet of chums».

January 9, 2015 • Mahinda Rajapaksa, who presided over the end of the island nation's long and brutal civil war, lost to a former ally and Cabinet minister, Maithripala Sirisena.

She presides over the smallest of the fifteen Cabinet departments, and the vast majority of education spending comes from state and local governments.

In many sculptures, such scenes of the detritus of human civilization are presided over by animals — parrots, gorillas, snails, etc. — that sit atop oil barrels and peer out of medicine cabinets, the innocent inheritors of our waste products.

White, black and brass accents preside over the master bedroom and bath; cabinets don vintage hardware sourced by Lee.