At the end of the transitional period, he retained the defense portfolio when he appointed a new government under Doté in June 2005, and he also kept it in a September 2006 cabinet reshuffle.

After the Labour Party suffered major defeats in local elections on 4 May 2006, losing 317 seats in balloting for 176 councils, Tony Blair acted the following day with a major reshuffle of his ministers during which he moved Straw from Foreign Secretary to Leader of the House of Commons and Lord Privy Seal.

Announcing his cabinet reshuffle on 24 January 2006, the Prime Minister John Howard promoted Turnbull from the backbench to Parliamentary Secretary, with special responsibility for water.

In the Cabinet reshuffle of May 2006, he was moved to the position of Secretary of State for Trade and Industry ; Douglas Alexander replaced him as both Secretary of State for Transport and Secretary of State for Scotland.

In September 2006, the FSB was shaken by a major reshuffle, which, combined with some earlier reassignments ( most remarkably, those of FSB Deputy Directors Yury Zaostrovtsev and Vladimir Anisimov in 2004 and 2005, respectively ), were widely believed to be linked to the Three Whales Corruption Scandal that had slowly unfolded since 2000.

He served as foreign minister until 12 July 2006 when he became finance minister during a cabinet reshuffle.

In 2005 Michael was moved to a ministerial post in the Department of Trade and Industry as Minister of State for Industry and the Regions, where he served only a year before he was ousted in the Cabinet reshuffle in May 2006.

In a cabinet reshuffle following Council Elections on 4 May 2006 Tony Blair appointed her Party Chair replacing Ian McCartney.

In the May 2006 reshuffle, Tony Blair named Woodward Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport with responsibilities for the digital handover for TV.

He moved to DEFRA at the May 2006 reshuffle and left the Government in June 2007.

In the May 2006 Government reshuffle he was promoted to serve as an Assistant Government Whip until Gordon Brown became Prime Minister.

Shortly after being appointed Minister for Drugs & Crime Reduction in the May 2006 reshuffle, he revealed to the Coventry Evening Telegraph that, as a student, he had smoked cannabis.

She was promoted to the Tony Blair government following the 2001 general election as a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Work and Pensions, and after the 2005 general election, she was the Minister for Children at the Department for Education and Skills, until the May 2006 reshuffle moved her to Northern Ireland, where she was Minister for more than one department at a time, including a period at the Department for Employment and Learning, on 29 June 2007 she moved to the Ministry of Justice.

In the reshuffle of May 2006, he entered the government as an assistant whip.

He was Minister for Environment and Agri-Environment in DEFRA but left government in the May 2006 reshuffle.

* 2006 reshuffle

She left the government on 5 May 2006 during a wide-ranging reshuffle.

Lewis was moved to a junior ministerial position in the Department of Health in the Cabinet reshuffle in May 2006.

In the PM's 2006 reshuffle, he was appointed as Minister of State for Climate Change and Environment at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

In the May 2006 reshuffle he was moved to the Home Office, as Minister for Prisons and the Probation Service.

She was later promoted to Minister for Education, Science and Training and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Women's Issues in the cabinet reshuffle on 24 January 2006 and served in those positions until the defeat of the Coalition government at the federal election held on 24 November 2007.

Following the Shadow Ministerial reshuffle in December 2006 ( when Kevin Rudd assumed the leadership of the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party ) Plibersek was promoted to be Shadow Minister for Human Services, Housing, Youth and Women.

He was Minister for Forestry from a reshuffle of the Howard ministry in January 2006 until its defeat at the 2007 election.

After the reshuffle, Mr. Souef was named Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Comoros to the United Nations in New York ( April 2006 ).

In April 2006, Margaret Witt, a major in the United States Air Force who was being investigated for homosexuality filed suit in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington seeking declaratory and injunctive relief on the grounds that DADT violates substantive due process, the Equal Protection Clause, and procedural due process.

* Spellings, Margaret, " A Test of Leadership: Charting the Future of U. S. Higher Education ", A Report of the Commission Appointed by Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, September 2006.

Other notable alumni include Margaret Beckett, a politician who in 2006 became Foreign Secretary.

Eastwood was born in San Francisco, to Clinton Eastwood, Sr. ( 1906 – 70 ), a steelworker and migrant worker, and Margaret Ruth ( Runner ) Eastwood ( 1909 – 2006 ), a factory worker.

* Margaret George wrote an epic adult novel, Helen of Troy, in 2006, told through Helen's first-person narrative.

* Dearest Munx: The Letters of Christina Stead and William J. Blake, edited by Margaret Harris ( 2006 ) ISBN 0-522-85173-8

* Tess of the d ' Urbervilles is referred to in Margaret Atwood's short story " My Last Duchess ", published in Moral Disorder ( 2006 ).

Pike has significant roles in the Pocket Books novels Enterprise: The First Adventure ( Vonda N. McIntyre, 1986 ), Final Frontier ( Diane Carey, 1988 ), Vulcan's Glory ( D. C. Fontana, 1989 ), and Burning Dreams ( Margaret Wander Bonanno, 2006 ).

In July 2006, a short story based on the manga was published in issue 15 of Margaret magazine.

In 2006 he took the lead role in a BBC production of Random Quest adapted from the short story by John Wyndham and the next year played Ted Heath in Margaret Thatcher-The Long Walk to Finchley, also for the BBC.

* Horrid Henry's Evil Enemies ( 2006 ): Stories comprise: Horrid Henry and Moody Margaret, Horrid Henry and The Secret Club, Horrid Henry's Christmas, Horrid Henry's Haunted House, Moody Margaret Moves In, Horrid Henry's Raid, Horrid Henry Goes To Work, Horrid Henry's Stinkbomb, Moody Margaret Casts A Spell, Horrid Henry and The Bogey Babysitter.

This England: The Histories was revived in 2006, as part of the Complete Works festival at the Courtyard Theatre, with the Henry VI plays again directed by Boyd, and starring Chuk Iwuji as Henry, Katy Stephens as Margaret, Jonathan Slinger as York and, reprising his role from 2000, Richard Cordery as Gloucester.

This England: The Histories was revived in 2006, as part of the Complete Works festival at the Courtyard Theatre, with the Henry VI plays again directed by Boyd, and starring Chuk Iwuji as Henry, Katy Stephens as Margaret, Forbes Masson as Edward and Jonathan Slinger as Richard.

Though he robustly defended the policy at the time, in his 2006 book Not Quite the Diplomat ( published in the United States as Cousins and Strangers: America, Britain and Europe in the New Century ) he claims to have thought it was a mistake on Margaret Thatcher's part.

Penny Rimbaud performing with Last Amendment at The Vortex, Hackney, 30 November 2006 He also wrote Rocky Eyed, an extended poem attacking then prime minister Margaret Thatcher and her government following the 1982 Falklands War which was recorded as the Crass album Yes Sir, I Will, The Death of Imagination ( a ' musical drama in 4 parts '), The Diamond Signature ( published by AK Press ) and Oh America, a response to the September 11, 2001 attacks and America's subsequent War on Terror which includes the line Give us justice which is not the searing spite of revenge, peace which is not the product of war nor dependent upon it.

In 2006, Blair appointed her Foreign Secretary, making her the first woman to hold the position, and — after Margaret Thatcher — the second woman to hold one of the Great Offices of State.

Following the 2006 local elections, Tony Blair demoted Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, and appointed Margaret Beckett as his successor.

This was even noted in the interview by Margaret Cho and Amy Hill that they gave in the show's 2006 DVD release.

* 2006: The Unotchit, invented by Margaret Atwood, is scheduled for release.

On 20 July 2006, Broadcasting Minister Shaun Woodward and Industry Minister Margaret Hodge announced that Whitehaven would be the pilot site for the switchover to digital terrestrial television in the United Kingdom.

Autistic savant whose pictures in crayon were admired by Margaret Thatcher and Pope John Paul II, The Daily Telegraph, London, March 11, 2006