* Earl Jellicoe and Lord Lambton sex scandal ( 1973 ): Conservatives, junior defence minister Lambton is arrested for using prostitutes and Cabinet minister Jellicoe also confesses.

They include the existence of a prime minister and Cabinet, the fact that the governor general is required to grant Royal Assent to bills adopted by both houses of parliament, and the requirement that the prime minister either resign or request a new general election upon losing a vote of non-confidence in the House of Commons.

The suggestion of suicide was emphatically rejected by Holt's son Sam, by his biographer Tom Frame, and by former prime minister and Holt's Cabinet colleague at the time, Malcolm Fraser.

The endgame began in February 1948, when a majority of the Cabinet directed the Communist interior minister, Václav Nosek, to stop packing the police force with Communists.

** Shadow minister, a member of a Shadow Cabinet of the opposition

A popular minister, Andrew Peacock, resigned from Cabinet and challenged Fraser's leadership.

The prime minister is assisted by the Federal Cabinet, a council of ministers whose members are appointed by the president on the advice of the prime minister.

The Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Australia is the highest minister of the Crown, leader of the Cabinet and head of government, holding office on commission from the Governor-General of Australia.

The Prime Minister of Canada () is the primary minister of the Crown, chairman of the Cabinet, and thus head of government for Canada, charged with advising the Canadian monarch or viceroy on the exercise of the executive powers vested in them by the constitution.

As such, the prime minister, supported by the Office of the Prime Minister ( PMO ), controls the appointments of many key figures in Canada's system of governance, including the governor general, the Cabinet, justices of the Supreme Court, senators, heads of crown corporations, ambassadors to foreign countries, the provincial lieutenant governors, and approximately 3, 100 other positions.

Further, the prime minister plays a prominent role in the legislative process — with the majority of bills put before parliament originating in the Cabinet — and the leadership of the Canadian Forces.

Savoie quoted an anonymous minister from the Liberal Party as saying Cabinet had become " a kind of focus group for the Prime Minister ," while Simpson called cabinet a " mini-sounding board ".

There do exist checks on the prime minister's power: parliament may revoke its confidence in an incumbent prime minister ; cabinet or caucus revolts can quickly bring down a sitting premier, and even mere threats of such action can persuade and / or compel a prime minister to resign his post, as happened with Jean Chrétien ; the Senate may delay or impede legislation put forward by the Cabinet, such as when Brian Mulroney's bill creating the Goods and Services Tax ( GST ) came before the upper chamber ; and, given Canada's federal nature, the jurisdiction of the federal government is limited to areas prescribed by the constitution.

However, during the first twenty years of his reign, he tried to be his own " prime minister " by controlling policy from outside the Cabinet, appointing and dismissing ministers, meeting privately with individual ministers, and giving them instructions.

If the prime minister is declared permanently incapacitated, or that period expires, the President of Israel oversees the process of assembling a new governing coalition, and in the meantime the acting prime minister or other incumbent minister is appointed by the Cabinet to serve as Interim Prime Minister.

* 20-Gareth Williams, Baron Williams of Mostyn, 62, British Cabinet minister, Leader of the House of Lords.

SLFP was founded by S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, who was the Cabinet minister of Local Administration, before he left the UNP in July 1951.

The department is headed by a minister of defence and national security, who is a civilian and a member of the president's Cabinet.

Cabinet members, also known as ministers, are appointed by the president on the advice of the prime minister.

However, 179 other Conservative MPs were defeated, including present and former Cabinet ministers such as Norman Lamont, Sir Malcolm Rifkind and Michael Portillo.

Past chairmen have included Conservative Party leader Michael Howard, Margaret Thatcher's longest-serving Cabinet Minister Geoffrey Howe, Chancellor of the Exchequer Norman Lamont and former British Telecom chairman Christopher Bland.

Just over two years later he was appointed Education Secretary in the final weeks of Thatcher's government, following Norman Tebbit's unwillingness to return to the Cabinet.

It is named for San Jose native Norman Yoshio Mineta, who was Transportation Secretary in the Cabinet of George W. Bush, and Commerce Secretary in the Cabinet of Bill Clinton, although the airport is also named to recognize Mineta's service as a Councilman for, and Mayor of, San Jose.

After a period as Minister for Water and Planning in 1988 – 89, during which he was responsible for implementing water privatisation in England and Wales, Howard was promoted to the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Employment in January 1990 following the resignation of Norman Fowler.

Keeler's affair with Profumo was terminated by the government's Cabinet Secretary, Sir Norman Brook, who spoke to him on the advice of Sir Roger Hollis, the head of MI5.

It was later revealed that the decision to withdraw had been agreed at an emergency meeting during the day between Norman Lamont, Prime Minister John Major, Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd, President of the Board of Trade Michael Heseltine and Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke ( the latter three all being strong pro-Europeans as well as senior Cabinet Ministers ), and that the interest rate hike to 15 percent had only been a temporary measure to prevent a rout in the pound that afternoon.

( Peter ) Norman Fowler, Baron Fowler, PC ( born 2 February 1938 ) is a British Conservative politician who was from 1981 to 1990 a member of Margaret Thatcher's Cabinet.

Labour under Norman Kirk won the 1972 election, and the Labour parliamentary caucus elevated Douglas, then aged 34, to Cabinet rank.

His father, and parliamentary colleague, Norman Douglas, failed to win a place in the ballot for Cabinet, and did not hide his bitter disappointment.

Whilst there, as chairman of the Cambridge University Conservative Association and later President of the Cambridge Union Society, he was a member of what became known as the Cambridge Mafia – a group of future Conservative Cabinet ministers, including Leon Brittan, Michael Howard, Kenneth Clarke, Norman Lamont, and Norman Fowler.

On an individual basis however, U. S. Cabinet members will occasionally change portfolios — for example, Norman Mineta previously served as Secretary of Commerce before becoming Secretary of Transportation.

* Sir Norman Fowler: Conservative Party Chairman ( Attending Cabinet )

* Sir Norman Fowler: Chairman of the Conservative Party ( Attending Cabinet )

Other notable inhabitants include Norman Tebbit, Baron Tebbit of Chingford ( a Cabinet minister in the Thatcher government ), and famous television and film actor Peter Vaughan with his actress wife, Lilias Walker.

In the 2008 general election Norman stood in the Rongotai electorate against senior Labour Cabinet Minister Annette King.

The current MP is Andrew Mitchell, former MP for Gedling in Nottinghamshire, who replaced the former Cabinet minister Sir Norman Fowler in 2001.

The Working Party was chaired by the Cabinet Secretary, Norman Brook.

The Working Party was charied by the Cabinet Secretary, Norman Brook.

The Clark Fork flows through downtown, heading north towards St. Regis, Montana and ultimately emptying into Lake Pend Oreille near Cabinet, Idaho.

At a conference on St Patrick ’ s Day 1922 Wilson advised an increase in the Special Constabulary, but urged that loyal Catholics be encouraged to join, rather than keeping it a purely Protestant body ( Craig did not pass on this recommendation to the Stormont Cabinet ).

Having been selected and elected for St. Albans, a safe Conservative seat, he served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Nigel Lawson, then as Economic Secretary to the Treasury and Financial Secretary to the Treasury before joining the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Trade and Industry to replace Nicholas Ridley in mid-1990 after the latter was forced to resign over an anti-German remark.

In 1953, Governor General Vincent Massey, on the advice of Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent, appointed Macdonald to the Canadian Senate, where he became Leader of the Government in the Canadian Senate and a minister without portfolio in the Canadian Cabinet.

After the talk, the Prime Minister decided that he should retire within a year, and that St. Laurent, who had recently threatened to leave Cabinet and return home to Quebec, should be the successor.

He also helped persuade St. Laurent to stand for the leadership, offering to remain in Cabinet to assist the Quebecer.

He also announced a Cabinet reshuffle ; both St. Laurent and Howe had urged the Prime Minister to move Howe, who had not enjoyed his work at the Ministry of Reconstruction and Supply.

At age 66, St. Laurent was only seven years younger than Mackenzie King, but was nevertheless seen as a breath of fresh air — except at Cabinet meetings, where he reversed Mackenzie King's smoking ban.

Fearful of another damaging confrontation between Howe and the Opposition, the Cabinet agreed that St. Laurent would guide the bill through, but after the first day of debate St. Laurent, who was prone to depression, absented himself.

Garson left provincial politics in 1948 to join the federal Liberal Cabinet of Louis St. Laurent.

Winters was appointed to Cabinet in 1948, and served as minister of public works, among other portfolios, under Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent.

In January 1981, St John-Stevas was the first of the Tory " wets " to be dismissed from the Cabinet by the Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher ( whom he had previously nicknamed " Tina " for her " there is no alternative " rhetoric ).

Only four members of the Cabinet ( Derby himself, St Leonards, Lonsdale, and Herries ) were existing Privy Councillors and many others were complete political unknowns.

King relied heavily on Dandurand and Ernest Lapointe for advice on Quebec as well as on international affairs and it was Dandurand who suggested Louis St. Laurent for King's Cabinet after Lapointe's death.

The riding has been represented by a number of notable Members of Parliament ( MPs ), including Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier ( 1877 – 1919 ), senior Cabinet member Ernest Lapointe ( 1919 – 1941 ) and Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent ( 1942 – 1958 ).

He continued as parliamentary secretary to St. Laurent when he became Prime Minister of Canada in 1948 until 1950 when St. Laurent brought Harris into the Canadian Cabinet.

Prominent buildings in the street include the Executive Building, which houses the Department of Premier and Cabinet, the Hotel Grand Chancellor and Federation Concert Hall, the Hobart Real Tennis Club, and what was the Davey St Telstra exchange ( now apartments ).

To the west of the road is St. James's Park and to the east are various government buildings, including the Horse Guards building, the Old Admiralty Buildings, the Cabinet Office, Downing Street, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and HM Treasury.

The seat's first, and so far only, MP is the former Cabinet minister Peter Lilley of the Conservative Party, who had previously represented St Albans from 1983.

The area burned included parts of the Bitterroot, Cabinet, Clearwater, Coeur d ' Alene, Flathead, Kaniksu, Kootenai, Lewis and Clark, Lolo, and St. Joe national forests.

commanded the First Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers during World War I and served as a Member of the Union Parliament, Cabinet Minister, Deputy Prime Minister ( 1939 – 1943 ), and South African High Commissioner ( 1944 ) to the Court of St. James's.

Bearers of the War Cross ( Krigskorset ) with sword, the Medal for Outstanding Civic Achievement ( Medaljen for Borgerdåd ), the Grand Cross of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav and the Royal Order of Merit's Grand Cross have rank and seat before Marshals of the Court and Cabinet Secretaries.