Sentences with phrase «reshuffled his cabinet for»

On 4 September 2012, David Cameron reshuffled his cabinet for the first time.

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A government may, for instance, reshuffle its cabinet, but nothing really new has been brought it.

Women's right groups savaged the reshuffle for drastically reducing the number of women in Cabinet, despite a pre-election promise to make a third of government ministers female.

With all the furore over his cabinet reshuffle, Wednesday's PMQs was set to be tough going for Jeremy Corbyn.

The loss of the Britain's first female Muslim Cabinet member will be a major blow for Cameron, coming soon after a reshuffle in which he attempted have a more diverse set of faces in government.

His botched handling of his shadow cabinet reshuffle and the series of resignations that have followed this morning, will completely overshadow any positive coverage he might otherwise have received for his performance today.

Find out what the Federation of Small Businesses have to say about David Cameron's first cabinet reshuffle, George Osborne's plans for a small business bank, changes to the planning laws, and other news from this week.

On 7 October 2013, Miliband reshuffled his Shadow Cabinet for the third time, saying that this would be the last reshuffle before the general election.

The younger brother of David Miliband, who was promoted to environment secretary in the reshuffle, Ed Miliband will report to Hilary Armstrong, the newly appointed cabinet - level minister for social exclusion.

Theresa May's much - heralded cabinet reshuffle swiftly turned into a metaphor for her administration.

With calls growing for a Cabinet reshuffle, David Singleton profiles the MPs Conservatives hope can provide the intellectual fuel for the party's future

Liam Fox has been reappointed as Secretary of State for International Trade in Theresa May's cabinet reshuffle.

A spokesperson for Iain Duncan Smith today said that Byrnes's figures were «nonsense» and accused him of a «last - ditch attempt to keep his job in the shadow cabinet» following rumours that he is to be lose his job in a forthcoming reshuffle.

His speech at the Centre for Social Justice will be his first major policy announcement since he became justice secretary back in September's Cabinet reshuffle.

This realisation forced him into a large Cabinet reshuffle in an attempt to find more presentable faces for the Tories.

There's no change for Pontypridd MP Owen Smith following Ed Miliband's Shadow Cabinet reshuffle.

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Her omission has caused some to scratch their heads, and observers have hinted that Leadsom is in line for promotion in a possible cabinet reshuffle.

However timing is of the essence for a man that still has big ambitions, especially as Tories Michael Fallon and Matthew Hancock have already been throwing their weight around, having been placed by the prime minister in BIS during the recent cabinet reshuffle.

Today's confirmation of Gove's drive to abolish the qualification for good is a major step, coming before the impending Cabinet reshuffle, which is driven by a desire to end complaints about «grade inflation» and reverse Britain's educational decline behind other countries» literacy and numeracy rates.

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) released figures showing the former justice secretary succeeded in arresting the rise in prison numbers, despite his demotion in the recent Cabinet reshuffle.

«The shadow cabinet is bracing itself for a «revenge reshuffle» in the aftermath of Labour's victory in the Oldham byelection, with key senior figures voicing fears they will be sacrificed by Jeremy Corbyn to kill dissent.»

The so - called reshuffle saw Justine Greening and Patrick McLoughlin sacked from their jobs and leaving the cabinet, while James Brokenshire stood down for health reasons.

Meanwhile, pressure was being reported from Tory MPs for a Cabinet reshuffle to replace Caroline Spelman, the environment secretary who was forced to conduct the U-turn on forestry policy, along with a host of other ministers who are thought to be struggling.

In a minor reshuffle, she was promoted to be Minister for the Cabinet Office on 9 September 2004, replacing Douglas Alexander.

He has to have the reshuffle power in reserve, at least, in case he suspects that his Cabinet colleagues are coming for him and needs to move first.

The reshuffle, which was criticised by the opposition for resulting in a cabinet with only four female members out of twenty - two, [3] ultimately shifted Cameron's government significantly to the right on business, justice, and the environment, and rid the government of perceived weaknesses, while maintaining stability at the top.

During the cabinet reshuffle in 2018, Bradley was appointed Secretary of State for Northern Ireland after the resignation of James Brokenshire due to ill health.

[22] At the June 2009 Cabinet reshuffle, she replaced Shahid Malik as the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Justice.

He also served on the Environmental Audit Select Committee until the cabinet reshuffle of May 2006 when he was appointed as the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the then Minister of State for Schools Jim Knight.

On 15 July 2014, Gove's four - year stint in charge of the Department for Education came to an end when he was replaced as Secretary of State for Education by former Treasury Minister Nicky Morgan in a wide - ranging cabinet reshuffle and moved to the post of Government Chief Whip.

Then there was the shadow cabinet reshuffle where the strongly pro-HS2 Shadow Transport Secretary Angela Eagle was moved to make way for the more sceptical Mary Creagh.

He put Kate Osamor forward for the powerful NEC to replace Jonathan Ashworth - despite former Gordon Brown aide Mr Ashworth being promoted in his shadow cabinet reshuffle.

Following the second major cabinet reshuffle by President Mills, Amidu became the Attorney general and Minister for Justice of Ghana.

Prominent Eurosceptics Priti Patel (left) and Liam Fox (right) are being lined up for Cabinet jobs as part of a «unity reshuffle» after the EU referendum, while Boris Johnson could be made defence secretary

Prominent Eurosceptics Priti Patel and Liam Fox are being lined up for Cabinet jobs as part of a «unity reshuffle» after the EU referendum.

She replaced Michael Gove as Secretary of State for Education in a Cabinet reshuffle in July 2014.

In what must surely be seen as a significant demotion, secretary of state for education, Michael Gove, has been moved to become chief whip in David Cameron's cabinet reshuffle.

Patrick Wintour has clearly been briefed that Byrne's shadow cabinet position is possibly up for grabs in a future reshuffle, and it's well - known that Miliband is keen to get a grip on the policy review process, potentially with the aim of speeding it up.

A reshuffle in the ministerial ranks outside cabinet, which had been pencilled in for this week, now looks likely to take place in the autumn.

Mr Corbyn put Kate Osamor forward for the powerful NEC to replace Jonathan Ashworth - despite promoting him in a shadow cabinet reshuffle

[18] In David Cameron's reshuffle of 2 July 2007, Hunt joined the Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport.

Chancellor George Osborne, who is expected to be replaced in Mrs May's reshuffled cabinet, added his praise for Mr Cameron before the meeting was concluded with another louder round of table banging.

One of Jeremy Corbyn's Shadow Cabinet ministers has hit out over the decision to sack Pat McFadden and called the recent Labour reshuffle «an amazing distraction» for the party.

«For all the media sound and fury, last week's shadow cabinet reshuffle has made us a stronger, more diverse and more coherent leadership team,» he said.

William Waldegrave ended his two - year stint as science minister in last week's Cabinet reshuffle amid plaudits even from the pressure group Save British Science for his enthusiasm and commitment.

Unfortunately for the denizens of the Beehive, most Kiwi singles just don't swoon for campaign slogans and sigh at the thought of cabinet reshuffles.

David Cameron's cabinet reshuffle has seen Michael Gove replaced as Secretary of State for Education by Nicky Morgan, MP for Loughborough.

The subsequent cabinet reshuffle saw the Rt Hon Justine Greening MP replace Nicky Morgan MP at the Department for Education and all these movements leave us — the Design and Technology Association and the education, creative, design, manufacturing and engineering sectors — with a number of questions.

Nadhim Zahawi, who is the MP for Stratford - upon - Avon has been named education minister in the cabinet reshuffle.