Sentences with phrase «with cabinet colleagues»

After the vote, Ms Williams said: «I look forward to working with the first minister, with cabinet colleagues, and with other progressives to reduce class sizes, deliver more nurses, be ambitious in our approach to housing, ending mental health discrimination, and supporting teachers and our young people to achieve the highest standards.»

When U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings leaves office along with her Cabinet colleagues, President George W. Bush surely will heap praise upon his good friend and adviser who oversaw his prized domestic accomplishment: the No Child Left Behind Act.

The justice secretary, one of the prime minister's closest political friends, posed for for a photo with his cabinet colleagues at the headquarters of the Vote Leave campaign group shortly after a rare Saturday cabinet meeting.

But now he's fighting for his political life after his first Budget in March ended in a U-turn, and he spent the summer clashing with Cabinet colleagues over Brexit.

«I look forward to working with the First Minister, with cabinet colleagues, and with other progressives to reduce class sizes, deliver more nurses, be ambitious in our approach to housing, ending mental health discrimination, and supporting teachers and our young people to achieve the highest standards.

Meanwhile, rumours abound that Gove has lost a battle with Cabinet colleagues on the proposed powers of the watchdog.

«On Monday, I met with my cabinet colleagues to discuss the options and would like to confirm the position of the cabinet on integration.

Former business secretary Sir Vince Cable said the new PM had clashed with Cabinet colleagues before over the # 18 billion project.

She'll then fly to Poland with some Cabinet colleagues for a charm offensive as she begins the painstaking task of building fresh strategic relationships.

OTTAWA — Finance Minister Jim Flaherty is saying little about a report that he had sharp words with a cabinet colleague for criticizing Toronto's embattled mayor, but hinted it had

Today Mr Crabb will hold talks with this cabinet colleague, the Transport Secretary, Patrick McLoughlin.

I cite as evidence his long - rolling row with his Cabinet colleague Caroline Spelman over waste collection, and what the Communities Secretary has splendidly labelled the right of every Englishman and women to have the remnants of their chicken tikka masala collected weekly.

He will already be friendly with Cabinet colleague Ken Clarke, having worked with him at the Britain in Europe group.

Not exact matches

It is speculated that Mr. Anderson could end up with a cabinet post in early 2015, to the ire of his new caucus colleagues.

In the coming months, the most important pre-budget consultation for Mr. Morneau will be with the Prime Minister and his Cabinet colleagues.

Major's former cabinet colleague Norman Fowler — now presiding over the upper chamber as Lord Speaker — recently warned in an interview with this magazine that the Lords could no longer justify its size, and must «stop faffing around» and significantly cut the number of peers.

His Lib Dem colleague Danny Alexander and Tory Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude dealt with union leaders.

Mrs May is, I gather, showing great focus in Cabinet and in her private meetings with colleagues.

He has a warning for his former cabinet colleagues: «Serious uncertainty in your trading and political relationships with the rest of the world is dangerous if you allow it to persist.»

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.

He rejected calls for a withdrawal from some of his Cabinet colleagues, however, adding: «It's potentially very damaging to suggest rethinking in a fundamental way our relationship with the European Union.»

As Blair penned his name, my lunch table conversation with one of his former cabinet colleagues turned to the famously scrawled handwriting of his successor in No 10.

And with our zero - based review — a review of every pound spent by government from the bottom up — Rachel Reeves and my Shadow Cabinet colleagues have begun the work of identifying savings so that we can switch resources to Labour's priorities.

Today Mr Clegg attempted to draw a line under his rivalry with Mr Huhne, insisting he could go back to being «colleagues» with the environment spokesman, who is now waiting to hear what position he will take in Mr Clegg's «shadow» Cabinet.

Opinion polls suggest that David Cameron's lead will grow as soon as he succeeds Tony Blair, his Budget flopped with voters, his nose excavation habits have become a pick of YouTube (thanks to Guido) and his former Cabinet colleague Charles Clarke is desperately organising a leadership challenge to him.

«Now his successor and Cabinet colleague Philip Hammond still can not achieve this, yet continues with the same failed economic policy.»

The co-chairs of various Lib Dem policy teams have been invited to attend the regular «forward looks» that Tory cabinet ministers hold with departmental colleagues.

Jones resigned from Jeremy Corbyn's Shadow Cabinet, along with dozens of her colleagues, in June 2016 and, in calling Corbyn «unelectable», also urged him to resign as Labour leader.

He does so by ingeniously entwining Ted Heath as an MP and party whip in the 1960s with the chief of staff and his colleague in the offi ce of a member of today's shadow cabinet.

Johnson and Gove can afford to be irresponsible: they are rich enough to be buffered personally against the economic risks of Brexit and will leave it to their erstwhile colleagues in the cabinet to deal with the immediate speculative attack and longer term loss of investment that a vote for Leave would result in.

He also took a thinly - veiled swipe at his shadow cabinet colleagues who had come up with various reasons why Labour lost the Copeland by - election «I thought the loss in Copeland was really serious.

And with cabinet ministers lining up to brief against him, the chancellor might well fancy swapping his current set of colleagues for a new one.

He was dismissed from the cabinet over the claims in 1970, along with colleague Neil Blaney, but was later cleared of all charges in a court of law.

With the elevation of Emily Thornberry, the Labour leader's Islington North constituency is now sandwiched in between the constituencies of two of his top shadow cabinet colleagues.

As the justice secretary he has been at loggerheads with May throughout the year, which may have explained why he got so carried away in lashing out at a Cabinet colleague - someone supposedly on his side.

The top Tory is accused of bamboozling his current cabinet colleagues with «long, economicky words».

Mr Osborne has used his new role as Evening Standard editor to make a series of attacks on Mrs May, who he clashed with repeatedly during their six years as Cabinet colleagues.

But Mr Pickles's record compares well with his Tory Cabinet colleagues, which gives rise to a question.

«And I look forward to the work my excellent colleague the Chief Secretary is now doing, with the Cabinet Office, to find further efficiencies.

This particular gaffe is similar in scale to John Major's comments following an interview with ITN in which he referred to several of his Cabinet colleagues as «bastards».

«They are supposed to be our representatives yet the Labour dominated Council simply went along with their colleagues in RCT Cabinet.»

One of Mr Brown's former cabinet colleagues, Peter Hain, has confirmed that he held discussions with police officers investigating the potential hacking of his computers during the period when he was Northern Ireland Secretary.

But Sir Patrick's government colleagues insist he must take the public blame, with one Cabinet Minister saying: «The pressure will be on the party chairman - conference was a shambles.

Over the past two years, it has been met with reservations from cabinet colleagues in the Cameron government and serious problems finding a robust definition of extremism that would survive legal challenge from a banned group or individual.

Friends of Jacqui Smith say she was attacked by some colleagues over her own expenses when they were published by the Sunday Express, with one cabinet colleague publicly declaring in a cabinet meeting that he had only claimed a «pittance» - only to be disproved by the Telegraph's allegations, which have left Smith looking far from alone.

In an interview with the New Statesman, Dr Cable said his former Cabinet colleague had used words reminiscent of Hitler's autobiographical book of 1925, in which he set out his political beliefs.

Although my cabinet colleague Jack Straw has agreed to appear with Griffin on 22 October, my argument is not with him, but with the BBC for putting ministers in the impossible position of empty - chairing the Labour party.

«When you have an Attorney General who is a cabinet member and is the most powerful person in terms of fighting corruption, how is that possible in our part of the world that you sit there with your colleague and you are the one who will look at your colleague and say you are a thief, you have stolen money from the state and you have done something against us?

Ms Rudd was a committed Remain campaigner, who raised eyebrows with the highly personalised attacks she launched on her now Cabinet colleague Boris Johnson.

In his speech to the Lib Dem conference on Tuesday, Huhne, who fell out with Conservative cabinet colleagues over their tactics during the Alternative Vote referendum in May, will warn David Cameron to keep the Tory right under control, saying: «We don't need the Tea Party tendency in Britain.»