If things continue as they are, with the economy in good shape, the polls still in the government's favour and no unforeseen "events" erupting to upset the apple cart, there is little reason for the prime minister to wait.
The average age of a full cabinet minister remains a little over 64 years, though the average age of a minister is now 58.
The deputy prime minister had little to offer party members bruised by their defeat in the AV referendum, the loss of more than 700 councillors in May and dire poll ratings.
For example, surrendering the prime minister's exclusive right to dissolve Parliament (and thus call an election) will matter little so long as the prime minister commands a majority in the House of Commons.
The deputy prime minister said there was "little margin for error" but denied the government is helpless in the face of the worsening outlook.
Unless Labour decides to abstain to cause the prime minister trouble there is little chance it would be passed.
Beyond the call for "a more flexible, adaptable and open European Union" there was very little about what changes the prime minister will argue for.
But newcomers like Morteza Haji, the education minister, and Ali Sufi, the minister for co-operatives, are obscure bureaucrats, known for little save their loyalty to Mr Khatami.
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Liberal Democrat AM Peter Black described the statement as "a bit of an anti climax" as he felt it had "very little information of the direction the minister is going in".
Both leaders will have to spend the next few weeks convincing their domestic audiences that they have gained and not yielded to the other - a task perhaps a little easier for the recently re-elected Indian prime minister than for his Pakistani counterpart, who is politically on shakier ground.
Not doing this was outside the normal procedures of the assembly and was part of a plan by Sinn Fein and the DUP to appoint "a puppet minister", which gave little integrity or authority to the position.
Not doing this was outside the normal procedures of the assembly and was part of a plan by Sinn Fein and the DUP to appoint "a puppet minister", which gave little integrity or authority to the position, he said.
On March 19th, six days after the schoolgirls were killed, Jordan's prime minister, Abd al-Karim Kabariti, submitted his resignation, which the king accepted with little grace, replacing him with Abd al-Salam Majali, a former prime minister who signed the 1994 treaty with Israel.
There had in fact been some American unease during the campaign when the Awami League, the party of the outgoing prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, claimed that there was little to distinguish the ideology of the Jamaat-i-Islami and the smaller Islami Oika Jote parties from that of the Taliban of Afghanistan.
Although the margin of Mr Key's election victory gives him a strong mandate, he will have little time to settle into the prime minister's role.
Both the cabinet and shadow cabinet have been told to abstain when the bill comes before parliament and the prime minister's spokeswoman has said the government wants to do "as little as possible" to comply with the court ruling.
The charitable reading of the prime minister's intentions sees last month's offer as little more than a postponement of the inevitable showdown inside the cabinet when the firm withdrawal plans, however modest, are eventually submitted.
Down on the Iberian peninsula, the prime minister of Spain gave speculators a little advice.
In most European countries the appointment of a minister for culture creates little stir (and often yawns).
But Jurij Bajec, an economic adviser to the Serbian prime minister, says that several indicators in the past few weeks are making him a little less worried than he was two months ago.
His latest little sensation the sacking of one prime minister and the appointment of another, his fifth in 17 months is consistent with either view (see article).
The man just promoted by the prime minister to discipline Tory backbenchers showed very little of that discipline himself when told by a police officer that he couldn't ride his bike out of Downing Street using the main gate.
Petersburg, including Dmitry Medvedev, simultaneously chairman of the Gazprom board and Putin's first deputy prime minister, and installed Miller, then an unknown technocrat with little direct experience in the gas industry.
The prime minister had already been warned the interim report was "very damning" of police but attached "little or no blame" to Liverpool fans.
Earlier this month, culture minister Hugh Robertson said there was little evidence the machines caused serious problems.
Cutting spending holds little appeal to the likes of Yoshiro Mori, the prime minister, who is a firm believer in traditional pork-barrel politics.
In this context, Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev's little noted speech to the United Nations on 28 September -- in which he enunciated a Russian policy reminiscent of the odious Brezhnev doctrine -- is particularly troublesome.
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There is little doubt that the latest revelations will add more colour to the prime minister's background.
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