Sentences with phrase «secretary said»

The Education Secretary said: «Ed Miliband made a cynical calculation to put his political interests ahead of national security and humanitarian intervention.

On Tuesday, Trump's transportation secretary said the two states need to put up more money to pay for the estimated $ 13 billion project.

The Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary said at the time she had not agreed to stand aside and claimed she had been a victim of a «bullying culture of the worst kind».

The Culture Secretary said in a statement: «I have accepted the Committee's report in full and I will apologise.

But the shadow defence secretary said when they got it right «we should support them», although he went on to ridicule a series of defence policies.

The secretary said the commission would hold its stakeholders» meeting at the Senatorial District headquarters and Local Government headquarters on Oct 10.

The former Foreign Secretary said that UKIP poses no threat to the Conservative Party because people understood that withdrawal from Europe was an «utterly reckless and untenable proposition.»

The shadow health secretary said the bill would pit «doctor against doctor, hospital against hospital».

The former shadow Northern Ireland secretary said:

The foreign secretary said the first ten years of New Labour foreign policy had been «uncompromising» in its defences of values and unapologetic in demanding freedom and democracy for all.

Asked about Chapman's recent outbursts on ITV's Good Morning Britain show today, the Brexit secretary said: «Dear old James did a great job as my chief of staff, but even on the day he arrived he was a Remainer.»

In a gaffe made worse by the speculation that Mr Miliband himself might one day stand for the Labour leadership, the environment secretary said that within six months of the chancellor taking over, the public would want Mr Blair back.

The colourful clash between David Cameron and Chris Bryant continued today, when the shadow immigration secretary said the prime minister was acting like an «agitated fifteenth century pope».

But the Shadow International Development Secretary said Mr Farage was misleading voters.

The foreign secretary said cooperation between Britain and Pakistan on counter-terrorism issues had «substantially improved in recent times» during an evidence session with MPs.

The foreign secretary said the comparison worked because money was «invisibly» taken from people travelling between Camden and Westminster when he was London mayor.

The home secretary said the government disagrees strongly with the European court of human rights» (ECHR) ruling last month preventing Qatada's deportation to Jordan, where he is wanted on terror charges.

The international development secretary said the move was designed to improve awareness of Britain's involvement in aid projects.

Last week, the business secretary said Mr Murdoch's media company and the Tories had «effectively formed a contract».

Last night, the former Tory home secretary said the government had been forced into «the most humiliating U-turn».

The Education Secretary said he loves music like Wagner which «marks you out as a right - wing lunatic, if not sexually confused or repressed from the beginning».

The communities secretary said it was unacceptable for home buyers to be exploited by unfair practices.

In a letter to the Times, the business secretary said he met with Oleg Deripaska for the first time in 2004 and not between 2006 and 2007 as the European Commission had said.

The Government's own Work and Pensions Secretary said the budget was «deeply unfair» as he spectacularly resigned 48 hours after it was unveiled.

The former Shadow Home Secretary said he expected the Tories to call some sort of referendum, possibly on Britain's future relationship with Europe.

The Business Secretary said the figure, if accepted by the Government, would be the first real - terms increase since 2008.

In a keynote speech to Progress, the Blairite thinktank, the business secretary said the government recognised the need to «prioritise and economise» once Britain emerges from recession, but would do so while protecting frontline services.

The Business Secretary said this morning:

The group in a statement signed by Hon. Austin Braimoh, Chairman and Chief Cassidy Madueke, Secretary said «We condemn the utterances of the former minister because of its potential to create division among various groups in the country.

Supporters of the elder Miliband reject the charge that David is a «technocrat», a word the former foreign secretary said was being «bandied around» at the NS debate.

After days of speculation as to whether a challenge will be launched, the former Shadow Business Secretary said she would «resolve this impasse» if Mr Corbyn did not act soon.

Defying his anti-war leader Jeremy Corbyn, the Shadow Foreign Secretary said his party's «internationalist» traditions meant they should attack the «fascists» of Isil.

The publicity secretary said that he was neither for nor against creation of cattle colonies to tackle farmers / herdsmen clash.

Tonight the shadow foreign secretary said he has only known for a few months that the Tory peer hadn't kept his promise to become a permanent UK resident.

As a poll found that 82 % of Tories believed that Miller should lose her job over her expenses, the work and pensions secretary said he was «very open» to a proposal by parliament's expenses watchdog to introduce independent regulation of MPs.

The former Defence Secretary said it would «damage the Chancellor's credibility» and even «put his own position in jeopardy».

The Shadow Health Secretary said it would be «easy to guess» the kind of exchanges going on between members of Labour's ruling National Executive Committee.

The former Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary said last week he was «ready to do anything I can to save and serve the party».

But the former health secretary said the revelations were «at the heart» of why he wanted to stand.

The Business Secretary said he sometimes had to tell Mr Brown to stop deliberating over an issue.

The former foreign secretary said Europe «can not be the alibi for the collapse of our economy» over the last 18 months.

«One of the weaknesses that we've had recently is that people worry that Labour isn't serious about security, that it's a lesser issue for Jeremy as it were,» the former Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary said.

The trade union general secretary said that the smears would not be revealed for 30 years, when classified documents are released to the public.

The press secretary said the repentance and swearing initiative was supervised by the Special Adviser to the Kebbi State Governor on Security, Mohammed Danhanne, and other members of his committee.

Over 100,000 people have signed a petition demanding Iain Duncan Smith live on # 53 a week, after the work and pensions secretary said he would be able to make do on the money.

The communities secretary said new guidance would give local authorities an easier job shutting down illegal sites and protest camps.

The foreign secretary said that jokes can be an «effective way of getting your diplomatic message across»

Speaking to the Sunday Telegraph newspaper, the Welsh and Northern Ireland secretary said the huge amount paid out to City high - flyers in bonuses could divide society.

The new education secretary said the government would «push ahead with a refreshed and revitalised radicalism in our schools policy», insisting that this constant drive was what had kept the political left together.

In a move which highlighted how powerless the government was to force publishers into the state regulator, the media secretary said the «most important thing that happens now is for the press to go forward with their own self - regulatory body».