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...Sir Simon Clarke, a former cabinet minister on the right of the Tory party, said: “In a dangerous world, we need to set out with greater conviction and clarity how we’d get to 2.5 per cent of GDP on defence...
...Former cabinet minister Sir Simon Clarke said it was “damn right” that Rowley should be summoned to explain the force’s thinking, after the commissioner said there were no legal grounds for banning the protest...
...Conservative MPs must oust Rishi Sunak or risk “extinction”, a former cabinet minister said on Tuesday, amid growing rightwing pressure on the prime minister....
...Badenoch said she had rebuked Sir Simon Clarke, a former cabinet minister, for publicly calling for Sunak to go last week....
...“This is just one MP,” Sunak’s press secretary said on Wednesday of Clarke, dismissing him as a “known critic” while stressing that other Conservative MPs “disagree” with his view of the prime minister....
...Clarke was made chief secretary to the Treasury by Boris Johnson in part because he was Johnson’s man not Sunak’s....
...Although the change was criticised by the Conservative opposition and by Reid’s immediate predecessor, Charles Clarke, it endures today. It has certainly made the home secretary’s job more manageable....
...Hunt’s 18-year parliamentary career has seen him take roles including foreign secretary and health secretary, but nothing prepared him for the chaos that greeted him when he became chancellor in October...
...For the Tory right, their alarm was summed up by Simon Clarke, a former cabinet minister, who said on the social media site X: “Some controversial choices here from the manager, putting it very mildly....
...Sir Matthew Rycroft, permanent secretary at the Home Office, wrote to the cabinet secretary Simon Case to confirm that he had updated his department’s guidance to instruct officials to “proceed with removal...
...Former cabinet minister Sir Simon Clarke said last week: “I recognise the value of the OBR in providing independent assessment, but this responsibility has morphed into their determining what the chancellor...
...Former Cabinet minister Sir Simon Clarke, a Tory MP on the right of the party, said the fiscal event felt “maximalist in terms of [the government’s] ambition” and signalled an election was “more imminent...
...Rishi Sunak’s allies have claimed that supporters of ex-home secretary Suella Braverman are running an “embarrassing” campaign to bring down the prime minister, at the end of another week of Tory infighting...
...One former Tory cabinet minister said: “I’d expect Labour to put up taxes on the other side of the election....
...Former home secretary Dame Priti Patel and former levelling up secretary Sir Simon Clarke are members....
...“We realised that having been out of government for a long time, cabinet ministers must not come in and immediately start thinking about the next million.”...
...Sir Simon Clarke, a former cabinet minister who was given a knighthood by Johnson on Friday, pointedly described Adams as “loyal to the last”....
...Simon Clarke, former levelling up secretary, has gone over the top calling for his ouster. He was followed by a little known aide called Will Dry. Not exactly household names here....
...Jim PickardOK, talking to cabinet ministers this week....
...Simon Clarke, levelling up secretary, has also been sacked, while development minister Vicky Ford, who attended cabinet, resigned. That brings the total number of ministers leaving to 10....
...Simon Clarke, the former cabinet minister heading the rebellion, claims more than 30 Conservative MPs now support his amendment to the levelling-up bill, which would make it easier for developers to build...
...“She took the requisite advice from the cabinet secretary before taking this decision,” he told MPs....
...One, Simon Clarke was disinvited after he called for Rishi Sunak to go. Another decided to sort of step away at the last minute....
...Clarke’s amendment would force Michael Gove, who replaced him as levelling-up secretary in Sunak’s cabinet, to allow onshore wind farm applications by revising the government guidance known as the National...
...But Starmer has his preferred shadow cabinet and a whomping opinion poll lead, while Sunak has Suella Braverman as home secretary....
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