British cabinet

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British cabinet minister Grant Shapps on Sunday emphasised the mounting costs of plans for a high-speed rail line serving northern England, which Prime Minister Rishi Sunak may decide to formally axe in coming days.

From Reuters • Sep. 24, 2023

“We are working hard with our partners to get vaccines to those that need them,” said a COP26 spokesperson from the British cabinet office, who by government protocol is not named.

From Washington Post • Aug. 16, 2021

Another British cabinet minister, Anne-Marie Trevelyan, the international development secretary, came into close contact with Ms. Dorries, and was self-isolating.

From New York Times • Mar. 13, 2020

Former Conservative chairwoman Baroness Warsi, the first Muslim woman to sit in a British cabinet, earlier called for disciplinary action against Mr Johnson if he did not apologise.

From BBC • Aug. 7, 2018

While the neutrality of the United States, so jealously guarded by Washington, was endangered by the intrigues of the French minister, it was put to imminent hazard by ill-advised measures of the British cabinet.

From The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools by Irving, Washington