Sentences with phrase «then junior minister»

When a debate on Burma took place in 2007 in the aftermath of the regime's brutal suppression of peaceful protests in Burma, William Hague insisted on opening for the Opposition, even though David Miliband was on paternity leave and his then junior minister Meg Munn was deputed to speak for the government.

They range from Ken Clarke, then a junior minister, arguing to «blow up a few ships but nothing more» to West Devon MP Peter Mills who warned «my constituents want blood».

He was also attacked by James Callaghan (then a junior minister) for his lack of zeal about further nationalisation.

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After the session, the prime minister's spokesperson insisted it was standard procedure for the chancellor to announce a policy in the Commons and then send junior ministers to defend it in TV interviews.

Heath made him a government whip and then under Thatcher he was a shadow minister and then a junior transport minister in government.

Mr Johnson then text Mr Gove, saying the junior minister wanted him to tweet announcing her joining their campaign, but according to Mr Shipman's book he failed to reply.

The Donaldson brothers and DUP MPs Ian Paisley Junior and Emma Little Pengelly, who was a special adviser to the DUP's then - first minister Peter Robinson, set up another company to give peace - building advice to overseas governments and organisations.

The case would go to the more junior Foreign Office minister Alistair Burt, who would say he would raise it with Johnson, whose office would then hand it back to Burt.

In 1973 the News of the World published photographs of Lord Lambton, then a junior defence minister, naked in bed with two call girls and smoking cannabis.

Since then PCS has met several times with secretary of state Liam Fox and with junior defence ministers and had come to an agreement that the job cut targets were not set in stone and could be reduced if savings could be made elsewhere.

The letter was sent to Patricia Hewitt, then health secretary, David Lammy, then culture secretary and junior health ministers Rosie Winterton and Ivan Lewis.

The 2001 comment by Lord Foulkes, then a junior Scotland Office minister, is telling,

Claim: It is claimed the junior minister had a # 450 widescreen television delivered to his family home in Wales and then claimed it on his allowance for his second home in London.

First elected to the House of Commons in 1922 as the MP for Limehouse, Attlee rose quickly to become a junior minister in the first Labour minority government led by Ramsay MacDonald in 1924, and then joined the Cabinet during MacDonald's second ministry of 1929 — 31.

The junior minister in charge of constitutional reform, Mark Harper, acknowledged then that «currently the first three members of the royal family in line to the throne are all male and so we have some time until there may be a pressing issue to address».

She was a former junior Home Office minister with responsibility for equality, then becoming junior minister with responsibility for international development.

MP for Tunbridge Wells in Kent since 2005, Clark, 48, began at the communities department as planning minister, then took on junior roles at the Treasury and Cabinet Office before becoming universities minister.

Douglas Hogg, then junior home office minister, told the Commons that some solicitors in Northern Ireland were «unduly sympathetic to the cause of the IRA».