Sentences with phrase «than the prime minister»

In a poll, the British public overwhelmingly says an independent commission rather than the prime minister should make appointments to the upper chamber.

These are huge stakes, far bigger than any prime minister's sense of entitlement, and far more important than the hand - to - hand combat going on just now.

Some say they were even more aggressive than the prime minister.

-- but if we want to win and win properly, we need to act with a little more mature wisdom than the prime minister has over the last twelve months.

If anyone running a quango wants to be paid more than the Prime Minister of the day, then they are going to have to justify that in person to the Chancellor of the day.

«The committee understands better than the prime minister that abolishing the 10p band will punish low income families and add to their already rising cost living,» Mr Osborne said.

I suggested that someone who could do with a bumper Louise Mowbray course isnone other than the Prime Minister.

He was patronising but I have been condescended to by far better people than the prime minister in my time and I can handle it.

Javid previously went further than the prime minister when he hit out at the president for endorsing a «vile, hate - filled racist organisation that hates me».

«The average pay of the chief executives in these seven trusts is higher than the prime minister's salary, with one chief executive's salary reaching # 225,000.

According to a poll of PVV supporters in the city, Rotterdam's Muslim mayor is more popular than the prime minister.

Christian Estrosi, regional government head in the greater Nice area, said policing was lighter than Prime Minister Manuel Valls claimed, and that concrete blocks were not deployed to seal roads off during the national holiday festivities of July 14.

Remember than Prime Minister Brian Mulroney brought in the legislation to permit the Banks into the Investment arena about 1986.

And while most of the mainline, liberal churches are coming to a new appreciation of their Jewish roots and are condemning old anti-Semitic attitudes — and while some right - wing evangelicals have become more Zionist than Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir — some strident Protestants still teach that the Jews were guilty of the death of Christ and that anti-Semitic acts and attitudes are justified.

Clean Seas is headquartered in Port Lincoln in South Australia, the home of a raft of tuna barons in a region that has more millionaires per capita than Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's electorate in Sydney's affluent eastern suburbs.

He added: «It was already plain that this race was far closer than the Prime Minister intended, and he must now be feeling discomfort at the thought that the outcome really could be in doubt.»

After two weeks of forensic questioning, he's successfully got himself to a position where he's making slightly less misleading claims about A&E waiting times than the prime minister.

He is even worse when irate than the prime minister.

He added that Winston Churchill's tax affairs «would have been more difficult to defend in public than Prime Minister David Cameron's».

• In 1967, after George Brown collapsed into a gutter, the Times supported him, saying «George Brown drunk is a better man than the prime minister [Harold Wilson] sober».

He said: «No one is better placed than the Prime Minister, representing a Scottish constituency, to deliver justice to English voters.

Trust in David Cameron fell two points, with Brexit backer Boris Johnson far more trusted on Europe than the Prime Minister.

Yet on too many occasions in the past the leader of the opposition has fluffed open goal chances like this and left himself even more red - faced than the prime minister.

Mr Cameron's focus on the family and the work life balance - including his statement at the weekend that he would rather be a good dad than prime minister - have won him increasing support from the public, and women in particular.

More... Council sacks the # 200,000 superhead who suspended seven pupils in first two days The bloated council where six bosses earn more than the Prime Minister Unions are already threatening to strike over plans to make members contribute more towards pensions.

It has been argued that, following a series of high - profile political scandals over the Code (David Blunkett resigned for a second time over a conflict of interest; and Tessa Jowell's husband was implicated — separately — in a furore over his financial dealings), that it should be administered by a more impartial figure than the Prime Minister.

The sum of Lord Ashcroft's stupendously sizeable poll about Boris Johnson this morning - Ashcroft Polls will soon be taking samples from the entire country - is that the London Mayor is more popular but less rated than the Prime Minister.

It's notable that two of Cameron's Cabinet colleagues who have broken cover in recent days — eurosceptic Michael Gove and europhile Kenneth Clarke — are far more widely thought than the Prime Minister to put strength of feeling ahead of tactics.

New annual accounts published by Harris, which runs 41 schools, show another seven staff members are also more than prime minister Theresa May's # 143,462 salary.

I'm more likely to read about presidents of the U.S. than prime ministers of Great Britain; baseball than soccer; Bob Dylan than Amy Winehouse.

Addressing the audience, MacDonald said: «The position of Lord Chancellor retains great prestige and, in the order of precedence, he ranks higher even than the Prime Minister as an officer of state.

What the judge really meant was: «You're a very naughty boy and if you were Sally Bercow, or anyone other than the prime minister, you'd probably be in a lot of trouble now young man.

The blame for the dispute has been attributed to those close to Mrs May, rather than the Prime Minister herself.

Varadkar still hopes to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump next March in Washington, saying links between the two countries are bigger than any prime minister or president.

Shadow chief secretary to the Treasury Angela Eagle said she had «been patronised by better people than the prime minister», and that any apology should be «for the dreadful growth figures that we've seen today».

Patrick Manning and the PNM were voted out of office in early 2010; we have a new female prime minister, Kamla Persad - Bissessar and a new party, and I think she's an awful lot better than any prime minister I've seen so far.

While the headlines of the report concentrate on concerns over the reappointment of the chairwoman of the board and the need for all staff earning more than the prime minister to have their salaries declared, it is six paragraphs half way through which could have the most far - reaching consequences.

and Charity boses now being paid more than our Prime Minister.

Lacking the self - awareness to acknowledge that he was a better campaigner (and, indeed Foreign Minister) than Prime Minister, he even refers to his 2010 overthrow as «the coup».

Lord Levy, a close ally of Tony Blair, is thought to be the only person to have known about # 14 million of undeclared loans made to the party before the general election, other than the prime minister and former Labour general secretary Matt Carter.

Paterson said his idea to trigger a British exit under article 50 of the Lisbon treaty was better than the prime minister's plan to renegotiate Britain's membership terms through a treaty revision.

Details of pay levels in Britain's local authorities reveal 14 town hall employees are earning more than the prime minister.

Ed Miliband is in the odd position of wanting to ask all his questions to the man next to the prime minister, rather than the prime minister himself.

«The Coalition Government's recently announced proposal to impose a cap so that heads can't earn more than the Prime Minister is grossly wide of the mark of what is required.

The Tory leader has expressed «astonishment» that 68 members of the quangocracy earn more than the Prime Minister.

The report will reveal key information for the 2015 - 16 academic year, such as the number of academy chiefs paid more than the prime minister; how much academy staff have been paid in severance deals; and how much academy chains pay to companies linked to their trustees.

Head teachers in some academies and free schools are receiving excessive salaries, with some earning more than the prime minister, a teachers» conference has heard.

Figures last year suggested that 41 head teachers were earning more than the prime minister's salary of # 142,000.