And within DECC, Mr Davey's position must be weakened in some way by the advent of a minister with views very different from the previous incumbent, Charles Hendry, who was massively popular with the renewables industry.
However, analysts and democracy advocates believe militiamen are using the isolation law as a way to get rid of Prime Minister Ali Zidan, who has vowed to restore the authority of the state and disband the armed groups that have become a power unto themselves in Libya.
There are many who, I know, are sick of the story of "plebgate" or who long ago took the view that, whatever words Andrew Mitchell actually used, the minister behaved in a way that no member of the public would get away with.
They say that Lord Irvine made the request for donations as a senior member of the Labour Party, in the same way as any other minister would.
This is by way of a subtle message to the government of Prime Minister George Papandreou - an invitation to leave Athens in the same manner as the US military left Hanoi, and soon.
The present round of negotiations, initiated by Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe is unique in a way because this is the first time a power from outside the region is mediating.
However, the first minister admitted that a better way of allocating drugs to patients could be found.
Under current legislation, even a single objection to a proposal to close a school immediately triggers a lengthy statutory process, re-visiting in fine detail all aspects of the way a decision was taken, with the Minister then required to make a final determination, a process which in some cases has dragged on for several months given the complexity of many proposals.
It is probably the first time in Ecuador that a minister of health wants to make himself accountable to the public for the way health services are managed, while simultaneously advancing efforts to securing progressive universal and optimal care with dignity.
Mr Putin was barred by the constitution from running for a third consecutive presidential term in the elections of March 2008, and made way for his prime minister, Dmitry Medvedev.
If this policy is crude mercantilism, or a way to bolster the weak economic record so far of Prime Minister Abe, it is indefensible.
Second, the Turkish prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, must find a way of talking directly to the Greek-Cypriots.
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The prime minister has shown the way by swigging from a bottle of newater after a game of tennis.
Earlier this month, King Abdullah dissolved the House of Representatives half-way through its term and appointed a new caretaker prime minister.
But the moment a half-way assertive chief minister takes office in one of the regions, he will want to appoint his own top civil servants to do battle with Whitehall.
He will insist, as has the prime minister here in Cannes, that this is not a backdoor way of channelling funds to the eurozone - something he insisted Britain and the IMF would never do.
But there could still be one big obstacle in the way of such a neat resolution: Devlet Bahceli, the Nationalist leader and also a deputy prime minister.
Initial gloom in the Congress camp has given way to euphoria after Sonia, widow of Rajiv Gandhi, a former prime minister, announced this week that she would join the campaign.
This raises the possibility of a Minister in Cardiff Bay with the power to direct individual schools in the way they teach their pupils.
Mr Livingstone's private members' bill is expected to receive its second reading in the House of Commons in April - but it has been reported that the prime minister has become "attracted" to a proposal from the Middle Way group of MPs for an independent regulatory body for hunting.
Son of a Princeton, New Jersey Presbyterian minister, Morgan is convinced that the most effective way to help people, especially those who are addicted to drugs and alcohol, is through religious faith.
The idea has been advocated by the Italian finance minister, Giulio Tremonti, as well as billionaire investor George Soros as a way of providing cheap financing to struggling governments while also incentivising them to put their finances in order.
In his pitch for presiding officer, Mr Henry, a former education and deputy justice minister, said he would not stand in the way of an independence referendum, which the SNP is staging in the second half of the parliamentary term.
Home Office minister Jeremy Browne said the government would make way for a debate on Leveson, regardless of whether talks between the party leaders reached a deal or not.
No: Mr Prodi's people went out of their way to make clear that it was a deliberate snub to Guy Verhofstadt, the Belgian prime minister and the summit's host.
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The betting this week was on which of his own notoriously disloyal colleagues the prime minister would jettison in order to make way for half-a-dozen Labour people around the cabinet table.
Conservative voters also approve of the ceasefire, and the way Spain's prime minister, Jose Maria Aznar, has given it a cautious welcome.
If Lord Hutton criticises the government in any way, it will be a test of its integrity to accept collective responsibility and not simply allow one minister to take the wrap, he said.
But Arun Shourie, the minister for disinvestment (that is, privatisation), has found a way to revive a corner of his largely-stalled programme.
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