Had Mme Bourgeois's bequest been the only complication, Mr Robinson might still be a minister today.
Officials said she bugged cabinet meetings, and decided who should be a minister.
I'm not in politics to be a minister but to carry out ideas.
On ceasing to be a minister in 1997 we reverted to the normal rule of claiming additional costs in London.
Frank Field would not be a minister today had he not made his parliamentary reputation as chairman of the Social Security Committee.
He said it would not be possible for Sir Alan to be a minister or have a direct role in formulating government policy.
Mr Berlusconi will not be a minister but Mr Alfano, the PDL secretary and one of Mr Berlusconi's closest political allies, is the deputy PM as well as interior minister.
It would be unusual for a junior minister to be promoted to cabinet rank without a spell at minister of state level but these are unusual times.
Justine Greening moved to local government, Greg Hands became a shadow Treasury minister and John Penrose moved to be a shadow business minister.
Mr Naumann will not be a fully fledged minister but a kind of super state secretary in the chancellor's office.
Mr Kibaki's people had previously insisted that, if there were to be a prime minister, he should have limited executive powers.
Or if the state decides who ought to be a religious minister?
The Conservative Charles Walker, who discussed his own experience of OCD in the Commons in June, predicted Mr Barwell could rise to be a Cabinet minister - but added this bill might be the most important achievement of his career, if it became law.
It opens with its title character (Nina Pens Rode), an opera singer of a certain age, telling her husband (Bendt Rothe), a renowned lawyer about to be named a cabinet minister, that she will leave him for a poor young composer.
Energy Minister John Hayes is to move to be a Cabinet Office minister, becoming the prime minister's parliamentary adviser with a remit to act as a link man with backbench MPs.
In the new cabinet, it is believed Mr Lapid - a former TV presenter - will be finance minister and Mr Bennett, a high-tech millionaire, will be economic and trade minister.
And I hope there'll be a Tory prime minister after the election, but that will depend a great deal on the Conservative Party getting its act together at last.
In a gesture to those who object to a foreign-born prime minister, Mrs Gandhi said she would not be a candidate for prime minister.
It would be a judge and not a minister that decides whether to order a close material proceeding.
His critics hint that Mr Bildt would rather have a big international job than be prime minister, a charge his friends reject.
The prime minister and the chancellor have said it will be a financial decision, whereas the minister and the secretary of state have said it will be a defence-driven decision.
The Tories who argued for no press law of any sort now appear to have conceded the need for a legal clause designed to give parliament the assurance that the new press regulator cannot be amended by a minister under pressure from the press without the agreement of MPs.
So it's going to be a very clear indication of how effective a prime minister he'll be and, frankly, whether his government will be able to last.
But even then, Mr Brown could still turn out to be a good prime minister.
But now they'll expect him to be a listening prime minister from now on.
Whatever emerges will probably not be called a prime minister's department, a term which sounds too authoritarian for British tastes.
Immigration rules intended to encourage entrepreneurs to settle in the UK are being abused and need to be tightened, a minister has said.
He said putting the code on a statutory basis would end the "limbo" which currently exists and would mean it could not "be changed by a minister on a whim".
In the new cabinet, it is believed Yair Lapid - a former TV presenter who leads Yesh Atid - will be finance minister and Jewish Home's Naftali Bennett, a high-tech millionaire, will be economic and trade minister.
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