Sentences with phrase «told cabinet colleagues»

He told cabinet colleagues there was no place for harassment or sex discrimination in Israel's «democratic, Western, liberal state».

Not exact matches

Former minister Andrew Percy told the chancellor to «put a sock in it» while his colleague Owen Paterson said «it would be good if all Cabinet ministers stuck to government policy».

Kirstjen Nielsen, the homeland security secretary, reportedly told colleagues she was close to resigning after Trump berated her yesterday in front of the entire cabinet for what he said was her failure to adequately secure the nation's borders.

Since his speech in favour of air strikes on Syria I am struck by the number of Hilary Benn's colleagues, those who have worked with him in cabinets or shadow cabinets, who tell me he has changed since the summer, finding his political voice or public definition in opposition to Jeremy Corbyn's leadership.

It comes after Morgan recently took a swipe at her eurosceptic cabinet colleague Iain Duncan Smith, telling the Independent on Sunday:

A senior source told The Sunday Telegraph that Mr Purnell, who claimed he had acted alone, had in fact been expecting Cabinet colleagues to follow his lead and that Mr Hutton, who said he resigned for family reasons, had been «shamed» into resigning by Mr Purnell.

2.49 pm: A former cabinet minister has just told one of my colleagues that Hoon and Hewitt will need to get the support of 150 backbenchers within 24 hours if their plan is going to get anywhere.

He told Channel 4 News: «A former Labour cabinet minister has confirmed to me this week that News International talked to my former colleagues in No 10 Downing Street to ask them whether I would withdraw my aggressive line of questioning.

This week, we've had one Cabinet Minister (Vince Cable) tell the Commons that he's minded to vote for his own policy, but may abstain; another (Danny Alexander) say that he's trying to persuade his colleagues to vote for Government policy, although they may not, and the most important one of all - Clegg himself - do his best to avoid answering the question.