Sentences with phrase «remain as a cabinet minister»

He said: «I would like to remain as a cabinet minister.

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In 1990 he stepped down as Prime Minister in favor of Deputy Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong yet remained in the Cabinet, first as a «Senior Minister» and then as «Minister Mentor,» vaguely defined posts that allowed him to oscillate between speaking engagements abroad while advising his ministerial colleagues on matters of state.

@Stuart White: The Cabinet Office rule - book (draft of chapter 6, approved by the House of Commons Select Committee on Justice and drawn up in consultation, I understand, with the party leaders and with constitutional experts) lays it down that after an election the incumbent prime minister has a duty, as well as a right, to remain in office until there's clear and incontrovertible evidence that someone else is definitely in a position to command majority support in the house of commons.

The reason for this cabinet minister's optimism was that the Remain campaign's private polling is being done «face - to - face», as he put it, and not over the phone or on the internet.

In the first of a series of speeches by senior cabinet ministers, Johnson wants to appeal to the instincts of those who voted remain, but his argument will be heavily criticised by those who see the EU as a major liberalising force.

The Wirral West MP remains in the Department for Work and Pensions as Minister for Employment, and will now attend cabinet meetings.

Following the party's decision to support the European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill 2017, at least three shadow cabinet ministers, all representing constituencies which voted to remain in the EU, resigned from their position as a result of the party's decision to invoke Article 50 under the bill.

It was meant as a send - up — in essence, deconstructing the argument that Baroness Warsi should remain in cabinet as she is the first female Muslim to serve as a minister (and not a non-white, male Conservative).

She will remain as employment minister, but will be allowed to attend cabinet.

He faced a second attempt to launch a leadership challenge by former Cabinet colleagues Geoff Hoon and Patricia Hewitt in January 2010, but the plot failed to gather momentum and Brown remained as both Labour leader and Prime Minister to lead his party into the 2010 General Election.

McVey, a former TV presenter and a member of the 2010 intake, remains as employment minister, although she will now attend cabinet.