Many of the Tory life peers created during 18 years of Conservative rule were ex-Cabinet ministers who saw a peerage as a retirement perk.

ECONOMIST: Lords reform

But he has been hit by a lobbying scandal and a bungled cabinet shuffle, which saw two of his most popular, long-serving ministers quit.

ECONOMIST: Enter a soft-core nationalist

Last week saw the departure of six cabinet ministers from the government and devastating local election results for the Labour Party, which saw it lose control of its four councils and its vote share drop to an historic low of 23%.

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By the farthest window he saw a large cabinet with a separate drawer for each teacher.

NEWYORKER: Waiting

Last Wednesday's county council decision saw the authority's cabinet vote against progressing to the next stage of a process that would have seen studies take place in search of a suitable location for an underground nuclear dump.

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Some works, such as the ceramic saw-blades displayed in a cabinet with period paraphernalia, blend in so well that they have to be sought out.

BBC: Controversy at the classical Louvre

She also highlighted how the party saw Iain Duncan Smith's shadow cabinet as a gift to the Lib Dems.

BBC: Which way now for Lib Dems?

Pensioners in Wales lived through the 1960s campaign to create Wales's own political seat in the UK Cabinet, a Welsh Secretary, then in the 1970s they saw historic counties such as Cardiganshire disappear in a wide-ranging local government review.

BBC: Stroll down Assembly Road

As Bush saw it, the only reason he was not happily vetting Cabinet members was because the Democrats wanted to change the rules for deciding elections, and the Florida Supreme Court decided to let them.

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