Sentences with phrase «while junior ministers»

Permanent secretaries deal with strategic management — while junior ministers hardly count, as we've seen in the diaries of both the late Alan Clark MP and Chris Mullin.

Not exact matches

As Mullin observed, while a member of that committee, he had more face time with Blair than when he was a junior minister.

While some departments have handed Lib Dem junior ministers a dedicated assistant private secretary, the IfG argues special advisers are needed, especially in departments where the secretary of state is a Tory - health, education, justice, defence, work and pensions and the Foreign Office.

The triumphant result is that the drinks colossus Diageo, as an example, could go on meeting junior ministers and special advisers to argue against, say, minimum pricing for alcohol, while Alcohol Concern (annual income, less than # 1m) would have to jump through a chilling series of hoops in order to take part in any kind of campaigning, with the risk of criminal charges if it were found in breach of a law that the Electoral Commission says is so opaque it can not confidently predict how it will police it.

While accepting the need to make some compromises with Nick Clegg's party they feel Cameron has given away too much to the coalition's junior party — and want the prime minister to be more assertive as the next general election approaches.

Nick Gibb, the former schools minister, is getting an expanded brief under a new «school standards» remit, while many key responsibilities have been passed to Lord Nash, one of the department's more junior ministers.