Sentences with phrase «senior cabinet positions»

In Britain, a Labour government had Michael Foot and Tony Benn in senior cabinet positions; raised the top rate on earned income to 83 per cent and that on investment income to 98 per cent; tried to control prices and incomes across the economy; nationalised British Leyland and established a National Enterprise Board.

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However, most of the 35 already occupy senior shadow cabinet positions.

The likes of Tony Benn, Michael Foot, Barbara Castle and Peter Shore, senior cabinet ministers at the time, were not awaiting Wilson's renegotiation before declaring their position.

Corbyn came under criticism following his first round of Shadow Cabinet appointments, failing to appoint more women to senior positions and undermining his commitment to bring in «fresh faces».

Foot had shown loyalty to cabinet colleagues as a senior minister, so much so that his chief rival, former chancellor Denis Healey was prepared to take up the position of deputy leader.

With Andy Burnham as shadow home secretary and Hilary Benn as shadow foreign secretary, the five most senior positions in Corbyn's shadow cabinet will be filled by men.

If, however, he had other plans in regard to this and other senior positions in the Shadow Cabinet, it would be my intention to work for the Party from the backbenches.

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.

With the shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, expected to stay in place and Emily Thornberry likely to retain the foreign affairs brief, the four most senior positions in the shadow cabinet will all be held by London MPs.

Senior Tories - including Chris Grayling, Dominic Grieve and Theresa Villiers — lost out on full cabinet positions.

Naming a White House science adviser soon after the election would give the next president an adviser as he or she works to fill cabinet, sub-cabinet and senior agency positions related to science and technology, said the report.

But, on the position of Lord Chancellor he states: «The judiciary needs a voice in cabinet and it's important to have a reasonably senior and respected lawyer in cabinet».

Jim Prentice (who held three cabinet portfolios in Harper's government before resigning to take a senior position in a big Canadian bank) recently said: «The Crown obligation to engage first nations in a meaningful way has yet to be taken up.