Sentences with phrase «with cabinet ministers»

Ms Rudd will also hold meetings with cabinet ministers Priti Patel and Damian Green later this month

But, with cabinet ministers commissioning detailed backbench papers and policy submissions to feed into the next election manifesto, there are welcome signs of a deeper engagement with the parliamentary party over how Labour renews its appeal in office.

His push to become PM gained momentum with Cabinet ministers John Whittingdale and Liz Truss and junior ministers Dominic Raab and George Eustice all supporting him.

Martin had agreed to hold his pay at # 141,868 along with cabinet ministers this year, in recognition of dire economic conditions that have left millions of private - sector workers facing cuts.

The Liberal Democrats, led by outgoing Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, had their worst result since their formation in 1988, holding just eight out of their previous 57 seats with Cabinet ministers Vince Cable, Ed Davey and Danny Alexander losing their seats.

Lord Tebbit said the week - long conference was a great social event for the ordinary members to rub shoulders with cabinet ministers in the fuggy atmosphere of the conference hotel bars, or the banquets and dinner - dances organised by the seaside.»

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.

But with cabinet ministers, Labour MPs and Lib Dem activists all warning against excess Lib - Lab intimacy, that may prove a forlorn hope.

The findings follow a week in which details of the party's black and white ball, where meetings with cabinet ministers were auctioned off to wealthy donors, were revealed.

His website is peppered with pictures of him posing with Cabinet ministers, and he has given the party more than # 30,000.

If you're talking about a set - piece interview with a cabinet minister at 8.10, it's obvious we'd all do it differently, and if we didn't it would be ridiculous.

The political fallout from last week's Syria vote has continued with a Cabinet minister saying the results would be a matter for Ed Miliband's conscience and the shadow foreign secretary admitting he was not comfortable with the position Labour now finds itself in.

In May 08, as part of my «How Safe are your Savings» programme I managed to get an interview with the Cabinet Minister responsible, Chief Secretary to the Treasury Yvette Cooper, MP.

Not exact matches

Santi said a possible way around the impasse would be for a M5S - Lega government led by a compromise prime minister agreeable to both parties, «affording Lega control of some key ministries and leaving Forza Italia to play a less visible role, with direct or indirect control of some minor cabinet posts.»

Newly sworn - in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau walking on Parliament Hill with his recently appointed cabinet ministers.

This morning Justin Trudeau was sworn in as Prime Minister, along with the first cabinet in Canadian history to be split 50:50 between men and women.

Previously, as a ministry official, he had visited the Cabinet Office to discuss the MOF's intervention strategy and the importance of containing the yen with officials such as a junior minister named Shinzo Abe.

In contrast to the new U.S. administration, Canada's Liberal government has remained positive on free trade, with prime minister Justin Trudeau and various members of his cabinet touting the economic growth it creates and suggesting the country could benefit from its continued openness to global commerce.

Gantz is «ready to go to the next campaign with the same intelligence that we had in the last one» Yet the army «did not present the intelligence gaps,» a former cabinet minister said.

Those three and, more recently, Ya'alon's successor, Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman, have taken aim at Bennett for «playing politics» with national security discussions, all but accusing him outright of leaking information about cabinet meetings.

Freeland showed, when she was finalizing Canada's trade deal with the European Union, how a trade minister can make a mark — and secure a cabinet promotion.

All the while, Morneau's fellow cabinet minister, Karina Gould, tried to maintain calm even as time was wrapping up with several people still lined up at microphones, anxious to give the finance minister a piece of their minds.

On International Women's Day, it's easy to see why Canada — with our feminist Prime Minister and his gender - balanced cabinet — might be construed as a place where sexism is not really a problem.

With a new prime minister and a new cabinet coming into power, Heyman has a fresh set of politicians to brief on U.S. priorities.

With her Conservative Party split over Brexit, May will have to be careful to preserve the uneasy balance in the cabinet after the loss of such a senior pro-EU minister.

He was the Prime Minister's Security Adviser at No10 from 2007 - 10, with a particular focus on Islamist terrorism, and was responsible in the Cabinet Office for the coordination and funding of the UK agencies, MI5, GCHQ and SIS.

Add to these bureaucratic inefficiencies the curious case of Judy Sgro, the former immigration minister who resigned from cabinet in January following a pair of scandals involving the alleged preferential treatment of immigrants who were associated with her campaign office.

The Players: Plenty of cabinet ministers and other MPs (the restaurant straddles all political lines), along with hard - charging lobbyists on expense accounts, diplomatic agents and pollsters.

It was Ray Novak, the Prime Minister's chief of staff, who began phoning ministers and cabinet newcomers with their new assignments Saturday night, The Canadian Press reported.

The new cabinet, scheduled to be unveiled at 11 a.m. Monday at Rideau Hall, will also include «new faces and younger members, along with experienced hands,» one senior Conservative source said, with more female cabinet ministers in particular.

An obituary of a former Ontario cabinet minister, Sid Handleman, identified Kinsella with the «seamy side» of politics.

After Kinder Morgan made its announcement, he called an emergency cabinet meeting, at which he asked Finance Minister Bill Morneau to come up with a plan.

On Tuesday night government insiders insisted the prime minister had no intention of standing down, saying he would probably attempt to clear the political terrain with a cabinet reshuffle on Thursday.

Some Tory insiders are reportedly so disillusioned with the crop currently running that they're expressing their displeasure with former cabinet ministers like Jason Kenney, John Baird, Peter MacKay and James Moore for staying out of the contest.

Indeed there were many photographs of Mr. Harper and his accompanying cabinet ministers laughing and smiling and giving the impression that they thoroughly enjoyed interacting with leaders of the Chinese Communist Party.

snip snip: Dr. Jacqueline Shan, president of CV Technologies, Inc. of Edmonton, accompanied by hockey commentator and PAID company spokesman Don Cherry, met with 20 Tory MPs, including several cabinet ministers, in the exclusive Parliamentary Dining Room in the Centre Block on Parliament Hill.

«Our National Pensioners and Senior Citizens Federation told us that every time they had their lobby in Ottawa, Conservative Cabinet Ministers and Tory Members of Parliament refused to meet with them, whereas in previous governments at least the Minister in charge of seniors would meet with the seniors» delegation.

John, I «m going to start with you because there «s late word from the U.K. that the prime minister there may call an emergency cabinet meeting and that she has moved some submarines into position in case there is an airstrike.

Some cabinet ministers in the administrative capital of Putrajaya, rich with Islamic architecture, still hopefully wear an enamel number «1» badge pinned to their jackets.

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak after his mediocre showing in the May 5 general elections on May 15 announced a new 57 - member cabinet packed with traditionalists, which is also strikingly short of representatives from the Chinese minority.

Mr. Trudeau visited Washington on Monday with a cadre of cabinet ministers and several female business executives who participated in a roundtable on women entrepreneurs and business leaders.

Former cabinet minister Gary Mar entered the PC leadership contest with a slick campaign speech, his own Twitter hashtag — #GOGARY, and an endorsement from cabinet minister Iris Evans.

Some Progressive Conservative Party supporters are privately expressing frustration with the decision by Premier Jim Prentice and his cabinet ministers to openly campaign and endorse incumbent PC MLAs and Wildrose floor crossers facing nomination challenges.

We talked to former PC cabinet minister and life - long PC member, Heather Klimchuk about her life with the party that she loves, the women who have helped shape the party so far, and «the ugly side of politics» that has emerged in the past months.

Nicole Williams is a senior associate with Canadian Strategy Group and previously worked as an assistant to various MLAs and cabinet ministers in the old Progressive Conservative government.

Peter MacKay The former cabinet minister from Nova Scotia now working as a lawyer in Toronto is considering a run, and with Kenney's departure is believed to be an easy front - runner if he does.

Frank Oberle: Promoted from Associate Minister of Services for Persons with Disabilities to a full - cabinet position as Minister of Aboriginal Affairs.

As I wrote last week, appointing cabinet ministers from outside the Legislature is not entirely unheard of in Canadian politics but it does come with some risks.

Since Jason Kenney first announced his intention to run for the PC leadership, former PC cabinet minister and Edmonton Castle Downs MLA Thomas Lukaszuk, 47, has dogged his every step, with a relentle...

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