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v. t. e. The Cabinet of the United Kingdom is the senior decision-making body of the Government of the United Kingdom. [ 2] A committee of the Privy Council, it is chaired by the Prime Minister and its members include Secretaries of State and senior Ministers of State. Members of the Cabinet are appointed by the Prime Minister and are by ...
The Government frontbench in the Parliament of the United Kingdom, also known as the Treasury Bench, consists of the Cabinet and all other ministers. [ 1] Parliamentary opposition to the Government frontbench is provided by the Official Opposition frontbench and the Liberal Democrat frontbench team. This article is a list of the frontbench ...
June 1987 to July 1989. Margaret Thatcher – Prime Minister. The Viscount Whitelaw – Deputy Prime Minister and Leader of the House of Lords and Lord President of the Council. The Lord Havers – Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain. John Wakeham – Leader of the House of Commons and Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal.
Sixty-six women have been appointed to positions in the Cabinet of the United Kingdom, with three female Prime Ministers serving in cabinet.Since, by convention, members of the cabinet must be a member of either the House of Commons or House of Lords, [1] the Prime Minister could not appoint women to the cabinet until the Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act 1918 allowed women to stand for ...
The Cabinet Office Briefing Rooms are a group of meeting rooms in the Cabinet Office at 70 Whitehall in London, often used for different committees which co-ordinate the actions of bodies within the Government of the United Kingdom in response to instances of national or regional crisis, or during events abroad with major implications for the UK.
The Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet, or His Majesty’s Most Loyal Opposition Shadow Cabinet, but usually simply the Shadow Cabinet, is the committee of senior members of the Official Opposition who scrutinise the work of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom. Each Shadow Cabinet member is typically given a position which corresponds to that of ...
LONDON (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy addressed British government ministers on Friday, a rare appearance by a foreign leader at a cabinet meeting that new Prime Minister Keir ...
Minister for the Cabinet Office. Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Minister without Portfolio. Paymaster General (joint with HM Treasury) Minister of State without Portfolio. Minister of State for Veterans' Affairs. Minister of State at the Cabinet Office. Parliamentary Secretary for the Cabinet Office.