Sentences with phrase «spent as a cabinet minister»

He will be given the honour for his time spent as a cabinet minister but his reward is still likely to be controversial with Brexit supporters because of his passionate opposition to leaving the EU, including writing a book called How to Stop Brexit (And Make Britain Great Again).

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The Autumn Statement is a mini-budget in which the chancellor updates the country on the government's taxation and spending plans, and it will be the new cabinet's first major economic announcement since May took over as prime minister.

Miliband is comprehensively losing the latter, as today's press conference from Cabinet ministers about Labour's uncosted spending commitments will demonstrate all too well.

The Chancellor was impressed and Javid then spent two years as a Treasury Minister before David Cameron promoted him to the Cabinet in April 2014 as Culture Secretary.

In yesterday's Observer Andrew Rawnsley reported that a Liberal Democrat Cabinet minister expects his party's support to fall to just 5 % as spending cuts bite.

Margaret Hodge, the former Islington leader, spent most of the Blair - Brown years as a minister, but still never made Cabinet.

Parliamentary time used to be a precious asset, contested between ministers at cabinet almost as bitterly as the public spending round.

But Mr Balls hinted that his roots were more provincial than those of the metropolitan Milibands, who have spent recent years «travelling around the world» as Cabinet ministers responsible for foreign affairs and climate change.»