Sentence examples for an assistant whip from inspiring English sources

In February 1951 he became an assistant whip.

He became an assistant whip in 1973, and pairing whip the following year, when Labour returned to government.

Ann Taylor - subsequently Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons, but then only an assistant whip - volunteered to travel from Yorkshire with him.

A parliamentary private secretary to John Moore and an assistant whip by 1986, his 1987 re-election campaign attracted the support of lobbyist Ian Greer.

He made a cautious start in the Commons, but after the 1966 election was named an assistant whip in charge of pairing.

A Blairite from the 1994 beginnings of Blairism, Hughes was named to the eventual leader's campaign team following the death of John Smith, and was an assistant whip, in opposition and government, from 1996 until 2001.

"Looking for a job," says Jenny Willott, a former assistant whip and privy counsellor.

In a minor reshuffle, Conservative MP Karen Bradley will take up Mr Brokenshire's former post; fellow Tory John Penrose will become a government whip in the House of Commons; and Harriet Baldwin, also a Tory MP, becomes assistant whip in the Commons.

During Edward Heath's Conservative premiership, he served as an assistant Labour whip from 1971 to 1974, but stepped down when Harold Wilson became prime minister again.

A former coal-miner and National Union of Mineworkers' official, he represented the seat of Doncaster North from 1992 until 2005 and served as an assistant government whip in Tony Blair's first term in office from 1997 to 2001.

There followed a rapid rise: in July 1967, after Wilson's second and convincing victory in the 1966 election, Varley was appointed an assistant government whip, and a year later the prime minister chose him as his parliamentary private secretary.