Sentences with phrase «serious cabinet government»
Whilst my journalistic instinct is to be fascinated at the prospect of their publication a very long time before the thirty - year rule kicks in, has this ruling not the potential to damage the likelihood of serious Cabinet government being restored?
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Its demise raises serious question about corporate management at every level of government, from local authorities to the Cabinet Office.
If there is to be a renewal of serious political argument from the government, it must come from elsewhere in the cabinet.
She said: «The government, the police and the security services make clear, and as the prime minister reiterated this morning at Cabinet, we are currently facing the most serious and sustained threat to our security from international terrorism.
The release of the information would do «serious damage» to Cabinet government and outweighed public interest needs, Mr Straw said.
Mr Straw, continuing against heckling from the opposition backbenches, added: «To permit the tribunal's view of the public interest to prevail would risk serious damage to Cabinet government; an essential principle of British parliamentary democracy.
Ten months later he repeated this position in spades in a shadow cabinet meeting: «the shadow chancellor bluntly warned colleagues that even under a Labour government there would have to be serious cuts», perhaps referring to the Coalition's # 30 billion «hit list» being drawn up in the treasury.
However, in order to be taken as a serious government - in - waiting, politics has to come first and I was somewhat concerned recently to hear the following story about a member of the shadow cabinet: he had apparently already told David Cameron that he didn't want a higher profile post than that which he currently holds in advance of the general election, because he didn't want to give up other interests on account of time commitments or potential conflicts of interest involved in a different post.
He could have expected a serious Cabinet job in a David Cameron government but sacrificed those career prospects on a point of principle - a rare act in politics these days.
Over the past two years, it has been met with reservations from cabinet colleagues in the Cameron government and serious problems finding a robust definition of extremism that would survive legal challenge from a banned group or individual.
Francis Maude, the Cabinet Minister, will say tomorrow that the progress towards the «ambition» of 25pc of spending to SMEs by 2015 was a sign that the Government was serious.
«The decision of the Cabinet and the generous endorsement of the Premier are signals of government's serious intent to promote the establishment of an international arbitration centre in the BVI, which will offer a service of the highest quality and integrity to its users.