Sentences with phrase «with ministerial jobs»

Gordon Brown rewarded him with a ministerial job at Transport and 18 months later he found himself replacing his boss, Lord Adonis, who wasn't eligible to sit in the Shadow Cabinet, running the leadership campaign that ended the career of the Blairite candidate.

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At issue is whether the Americans with Disabilities Act applies to hiring and firing decisions involving «ministerial employees» like teachers who may have primarily secular job duties.

By appointing half the Lib Dem MPs to ministerial jobs, Cameron gave himself a payroll vote with a promise of five years in office.

Following mass resignations during the summer, more than 50 shadow ministerial posts remain unfilled, with a number of people doing two jobs or more.

Although the arrangement rarely comes with guaranteed ministerial jobs, a confidence and supply deal would typically see some elements of the smaller party's manifesto enacted by the minority government in return for their support.

He was distressed when, in 1997, he was passed over for ministerial office (too liberal, he thought), so he invented the job of deputy chief whip, speaking for those many departments with no Lords minister of their own, to much admiration, until, in 2005, he became himself a Department for Culture, Media and Sport minister, managing the gambling bill.

Unless Cameron and Clegg can come up with some prestigious government job outside the ministerial structure.

It is understood there are still more shadow junior ministerial announcements to come but the shadow cabinet movements are now concluded, with 17 women and 14 men in top jobs.

A tight - knit party with most of its talent in ministerial jobs — and the Lib Dems» traditional tendency of spending huge energy cementing themselves into marginal seats — means there's been little in the way of organised factions among their backbenchers.

Last week, at the unveiling of the Jobs Task Force — a new ministerial level committee set up to address the urgent tasks of saving jobs and helping the unemployed with training and job - matching — the Minister of State for Education and Manpower, Mr. Ng Eng Hen, warned that many more professional, executive, and managerial positions may face the axe in the year ahead.