Sentences with phrase «resigned as minister»

As further allegations surfaced in the wake of Johnson's death, Shapps resigned as a minister in November over his appointment of Clarke; he denied wrongdoing but said «responsibility should rest somewhere».

Brooks Newmark resigned as Minister for Civil Society after he sent suggestive pictures to a reporter posing as a young Conservative campaigner.

Brooks Newmark resigned as Minister for Civil Society after Sunday Mirror revelations that he had exchanged suggestive pictures with a reporter posing as a young Tory campaigner.

Lord McNally resigned as Minister of State for Justice on 18 December 2013 following his appointment as Chair of the Youth Justice Board.

Mr Watson, who resigned as minister for digital engagement at the reshuffle, backs a call by the Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, for a ban on anonymous briefings to lobby journalists, and calls for internet bloggers to be given the same access to Westminster as the lobby.

Baroness Anelay of St Johns resigned as Minister of State at the Department for Exiting the European Union.

As a result, he formally resigned as minister in July of 1858 and moved to Madras where he worked as minister of a church supported by the ABCFM Madras Mission.

Although it is the case that in one famous clash between the two Browne was forced to resign as Minister for Health, in the long run it was Browne's view of the proper place of the Church in a secular republic that prevailed.

The Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Kayode Fayemi, says he will resign as a minister in the next two weeks.

Today the Sun has made him their villain of the week «for the double standards shown in resigning as minister».

The state PDP had insisted that Amaechi should resign as minister following a bribery allegation levelled against him by some arrested judges in order to influence the ruling on some election petition cases.

Not exact matches

Cameron resigned as prime minister and was succeeded by May.

A political source in the Catholics - to - communists ruling coalition expected Prodi to survive the ordeal but said D'Alema, who is also deputy prime minister, would likely resign as foreign minister.

In October, Hammond was forced to deny that he would resign as chancellor, after tensions within the cabinet arose from his repeated warnings about the «economic realities» of Brexit, which many pro-Leave ministers saw as overly pessimistic.

It seems equally appropriate to describe Jim Flaherty, whose unexpected death today came less than a month after he resigned as federal Finance Minister.

Andrea Nahles will step down as labor minister to lead the SPD following Martin Schulz's decision to resign.

Back to the federal Conservative leadership, Fildebrandt has endorsed leadership candidate Maxime Bernier, the Quebec MP known for his libertarian views briefly served as Minister of Foreign Affairs before resigning in 2008 after he acknowledged leaving sensitive government documents out in the open, apparently at his former girlfriend's home.

Wolfgang Schauble has been the Federal Minister of Finance since 2009 and has recently resigned in order to do bigger and better things as Angela Merkel's new Speaker of the Bundestag.

The Liberal Democratic Party's victory in Japan's parliamentary election Sunday virtually ensures that Shinzo Abe, who resigned as prime minister for health reasons in 2007 after just a year in office, will get a second chance to try to lead Japan out...

The report referred to «open speculation» in Ottawa that Harper will return from his trip «and announce he plans to resign as Prime Minister before Parliament returns for the spring session.»

As allegations of sexual harassment mount and a government minister resigns, Premier's political editor Martyn Eden suggests a way forward

Earlier this year, I resigned from my position as youth minister as our family had some needs that required us to move out of state.

As allegations of sexual harassment mount and a government minister resigns, Premier's political editor Martyn Eden suggests a way forward More

After vowing to stay on, Barnaby Joyce has announced he is resigning as leader of the National Party and Deputy Prime Minister.

Nationals MPs remain uncertain on how to deal with Barnaby Joyce's political future, as they begin to discuss the possibility of asking the Deputy Prime Minister to resign.

The highly unusual move comes amid mounting controversy over the phone - hacking scandal, with the prime minister criticised for going on a trade trip to South Africa as the Met commissioner resigned and Rebekah Brooks was arrested.

He had in fact resigned as Prime Minister on 5 April 1908, after suffering a series of heart attacks, but remained in residence until he died on 22 April.

That crucial gap was from 4 October 1956 to 3 February 1957, when Anthony Eden resigned and Macmillan succeeded him as party leader and prime minister.

What is racist however is to say that «we have a problem with Pakistani men raping white girls», as Labour's Sarah Champion did before resigning as shadow equalities minister.

Now he is running as an independent in a by - election all of his own making, after pledging in 2009 to resign as an MP if ministers backed a third runway at Heathrow.

He then stated that he sees no reason why he should resign as Prime Minister if Britain did vote to leave the EU, suggesting that he would not view such an outcome as disastrous or as a personal defeat.

A second minister has resigned from the Foreign Office in as many weeks, forcing David Cameron to make yet more changes to his government.

Been asked to resign as Vice Chairman, refused, so sacked over HS2 and my views on a recent Cabinet Minister.

In 2007, Blair resigned as Prime Minister after ten years and John Prescott resigned as Deputy Prime Minister and Deputy Labour Leader.

Lidington became a member of the Shadow Cabinet in May 2002, replacing Ann Winterton as Shadow Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (later Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) after she resigned.

Over 1,000 people went to the Cotroceni Palace, President Basescu's residence in Bucharest, to demand not only that Raed Arafat's recommendations regarding the health law be respected and that he be reinstalled in his function as Minister of Health, but, even more brazenly, that the President resign.

The interests of men and boys have been ever more assaulted in the UK for more than 30 years - a trend accelerating after Margaret Thatcher, a true meritocrat, resigned as prime minister in 1990.

After the elections results were declared on 15 August 2014, Erdoğan was legally obliged to resign from his post as prime minister, but he chose to wait till 28 August, when Gül's term ended.

24th July 2017, The Sun: What happens if Theresa May resigns and who is favourite to replace her if she steps down as Prime Minister?

Here's how it could work... Clegg announces that he will resign as party leader but continue as Deputy Prime Minister: «I have a duty, on behalf of my party and my country, to see through the job that I signed up to,» he would nobly say.

If, for example, Cameron can not form another government, but negotiations between the other parties stall — as happened in 2010 — it will again raise the question of exactly when a prime minister in such a position ought to resign.

David Cameron has announced he is to resign as prime minister by October.

Tanner joins the agency as its chief policy adviser having resigned as deputy head of the Number 10 policy unit just days after the general election — and hot on the heels of the prime minister's chiefs of staff Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill.

The question was not whether Cameron would continue as Prime Minister, but when he would resign and in what way.

Gabon's justice minister resigned Monday over the government's refusal to recount the ballots, as Ping has demanded.

Forced to resign as Prime Minister in May 1940, following a reduction in the government's majority in a parliamentary vote, he was replaced by Churchill.

His announcement firmly ends speculation he would resign today or tomorrow to mark the tenth anniversary as prime minister - and deflect from Labour's likely losses in the forthcoming elections.

And if the commitment isn't made, then we're stuck at the end of your second paragraph: Brown resigns as Prime Minister, and probably as leader of the Labour Party, too, and there's no Prime Minister or PM - designate at all — which is the outcome all of this constitutional stuff is supposed to avoid.

On Tuesday night, William Agyapong Quaitoo resigned as the deputy minister of agric after he faced calls to step down from his job after he made disparaging comments against northerners.

The prime minister has complimented Amber Rudd, saying she had been «very sorry» when told of the decision to resign: «I think she can look back with pride as home secretary.»