Sentences with phrase «then cabinet secretary»

As allegations that Fox had breached the ministerial code mounted — it was alleged that Werritty was improperly using business cards claiming he was an adviser to Fox, and had gained access to high - level meetings — an inquiry was launched by the Ministry of Defence's permanent secretary and by the then cabinet secretary, Gus O'Donnell.

Had Gus O'Donnell, then Cabinet secretary, not warned Cameron about Coulson?

Cameron refused to answer directly whether Gus O'Donnell, then Cabinet secretary, had tried to warn him about Coulson.

Not exact matches

Colin Powell, then US Secretary of State and the most credible person in George W. Bush's cabinet, made the case for war in Iraq on February 5, 2003.

Tim started his career at the Department of Finance, Canada, and then held positions at the Privy Council Office — where he was Secretary to various Cabinet committees — and Agriculture and Agri - food Canada.

He has a long career in government and has served as deputy secretary to the cabinet at the Privy Council Office, associate deputy minister and then acting deputy minister at Public Safety Canada, associate assistant deputy minister of energy policy and assistant deputy minister of international trade and finance.

Mirosal, you might want to take a tour down history lane... Ezra Taft Benson, a sitting member of the Mormon Quorum of Apostles, served in the Eisenhower Admin as Secretary of Agriculture... no problems way back then with either his service as a Cabinet Secretary OR as a leader in his church.

Gove first took up Twitter then but he's continued to tweet since returning to the Cabinet table as environment secretary.

Then, in an astounding coup, and in the week after the end of the conference, the über - Blairite Peter Mandelson returned to cabinet as Business Secretary.

He was appointed in September 2004 by then Conservative leader Michael Howard to the Shadow Cabinet, as Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury.

The Cabinet Secretary didn't then start to question the police log.

Des McNulty (born 28 July 1952, Stockport (then Cheshire, England), UK) is a Labour politician, and was a Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Clydebank and Milngavie constituency from 1999 to 2011, serving as Labour's Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning until he was defeated for re-election at the 2011 election.

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.

His Cabinet colleague Home Secretary Amber Rudd also said the Brexit letter did not contain a threat but pointed out that the UK is the largest contributor to Europol and that «if we left Europol then we would take our information.»

But the article goes on to say that despite the majority of Cameron's cabinet ministers agreeing to it the move was vetoed by then Home Secretary Theresa May.

The then prime minister, who appointed Miliband to the cabinet as environment secretary in 2006, called his protégé the «Wayne Rooney» of his ministerial team.

He has the highest - level experience of the five MPs vying for the top job - having served in the cabinet as environment secretary and then foreign secretary - and is perhaps the most intellectual, if not intelligent, person running for the leadership.

Young then served as Financial Secretary to the Treasury from 1994 to 1995, and in Cabinet as Secretary of State for Transport from 1995 to 1997.

Gould was a member of Neil Kinnock's Shadow Cabinet, serving first as Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, then as spokesman on Trade and Industry, the Environment, [4] and later on Heritage.

He also served on the Environmental Audit Select Committee until the cabinet reshuffle of May 2006 when he was appointed as the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the then Minister of State for Schools Jim Knight.

[1][2] His post was then split into three positions: he was succeeded as Cabinet Secretary by Sir Jeremy Heywood, as Head of the Home Civil Service by Sir Bob Kerslake (in a part - time role), and as Permanent Secretary in the Cabinet Office by Ian Watmore.

Then there was the shadow cabinet reshuffle where the strongly pro-HS2 Shadow Transport Secretary Angela Eagle was moved to make way for the more sceptical Mary Creagh.

If you ask me when, I will not be able to say, but I am sure pretty soon the Cabinet Secretary will get a day when the entire Cabinet will retreat in order to look at this bill properly and then when we have a final consensus on it, we can then take it to Parliament,» he added.

The Home Secretary later appeared on LBC, repeating her message about Cabinet unity, saying: «Good cabinet government is about having disagreements, challenging each other, and then agreeing on our position - not sharing it with the gentlemen and ladies with the press.Cabinet unity, saying: «Good cabinet government is about having disagreements, challenging each other, and then agreeing on our position - not sharing it with the gentlemen and ladies with the press.cabinet government is about having disagreements, challenging each other, and then agreeing on our position - not sharing it with the gentlemen and ladies with the press.»

«David has a long history of supporting the UK science economy, with his distinguished Parliamentary career seeing him serving as first the Shadow Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills and then as part of the Coalition Government's cabinet as minister for Universities and Science.

From 1998 through 2002, József Pálinkás served first as Secretary of State, then as Cabinet Minister of Education in the Hungarian Government.

And the unions themselves didn't want to provoke a public split with a president their rank - and - file members adored, so they concentrated all their anger on Obama's Education secretaries, focusing their ire first on Arne Duncan, and then his successor John King, as though Obama himself were unaware of the reforms his Cabinet officials were carrying out on his behalf.

She then entered the cabinet in October 2011 as transport secretary, a role she held until September the following year when she became international development secretary.

The British journalist, TV presenter, former Deputy Conservative Party leader and Cabinet Minister first rose to public attention during the Thatcher years before then becoming Secretary of State for Defence (and later Employment) during the John Major government.

The Prime Minister has form of course: in 2011, when she was Home Secretary, she tried to dismantle the SFO, but was thwarted by her cabinet colleagues, most notably Ken Clarke, who was the then Justice Secretary — and reportedly tried to revive the plan in 2014.