Sentences with phrase «senior cabinet figures»

I can't myself identify which other resignations of senior Cabinet figures would be pretty likely if those two are staying.

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McDonnell also wants to win and to get the chance that he never thought he would have, to be a senior figure in a cabinet.

They also struggle with appearing representative of the country given the number of millionaires in Cabinet and the public schooling of senior figures, such as David Cameron and George Osborne.

David Davis and Philip Hammond are the latest Tory cabinet ministers to hire senior figures from...

However, senior figures in the party have warned that hundreds of Labour MPs would refuse to serve under Corbyn, leaving him unable to form a shadow cabinet.

He admits towards the end of his book that every senior figure in the cabinet knew they were heading for a defeat he feared would be «colossal».

Sacking Damian Green will have left Theresa May more isolated in cabinet but more popular with backbench MPs and members, senior party figures have said.

His claim came as Former Defence Secretary Liam Fox, who served in Mr Cameron's Cabinet, became the most senior figure to declare he will campaign to leave Europe.

In a statement to MPs on Wednesday Mr Cameron proposed amending the ministerial code to require all Cabinet - level ministers to publish all meetings with senior media figures on a quarterly basis.

The former chief whip, who was forced out of the Cabinet after a storm over his alleged foul - mouthed rant against police officers on duty outside Downing Street, has questioned the impartiality of Scotland Yard's senior figures.

In response to the division over policy it was not only some in Corbyn's inner circle who told him that he needed to appoint senior figures to his shadow cabinet who agreed with him.

«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.»

Normally, with the more junior appointments, the lucky person will be contacted by a senior whip, or a Cabinet level figure, to be given the good news.

His targets included cabinet ministers, chief constables, the most senior figures at the Bank of England, the royal family and intelligence officers.

Former Shadow Cabinet member Lilian Greenwood used the meeting to list the excuses given by senior party figures - including Baroness Chakrabarti - for the Copeland defeat.

Former party chairman and cabinet minister Lord Tebbit has become the latest senior figure to stoke dissent, urging more «transition» measures to help the poorest and calling on the Treasury to say more clearly who would lose what.

I usually refrain from making negative comments about senior party figures on here but I have to agree that if it is not sufficient for an MP to be in the Shadow Cabinet, they should decline the offer of the position.

The argument goes that senior figures need to be allowed to return with dignity, and that the shadow cabinet should therefore be chosen by MPs rather than comprise Corbyn's own picks.

Mr Woolas's supporters include MPs from every level of the party — including some of Labour's most senior figures from the last Cabinet.»

[75][76][77] Cameron appointed his first Cabinet, which included several senior Conservative and Liberal Democrat figures.

However, findings of a poll of Labour Party members, who were asked which Cabinet ministers and other senior figures they thought were doing a good job, have been leaked.

Jeremy Corbyn has come under intense pressure to take some personal responsibility for Labour's historic byelection defeat in Copeland from senior party figures, including trade union leaders and even members of his own shadow cabinet.

One campaign figure yesterday said Boris had already signed up «quite a large handful of Cabinet and other senior ministers».

Stephen Byers, the Blairite former cabinet minister, has become the first senior Labour figure to acknowledge that ID cards may have to be shelved.