Sentence examples for cabinet rift from inspiring English sources

The fresh cabinet rift followed Boris Johnson's open disagreement over NHS funding earlier this week and came at a fragile moment for the prime minister's leadership as a string of Conservative MPs told the Guardian some of their colleagues were considering another attempt at ousting her if the local elections in May go badly.

Under a single party government they would have been portrayed as an enormous cabinet rift.

The prime minister's official spokesman sought to play down any suggestion of a cabinet rift over what is one of the coalition's flagship policies.

The UK is to put in place the most ambitious targets on greenhouse gases of any developed country, by halving carbon dioxide emissions by 2025, after a tumultuous week of cabinet rifts on the issue.

Cabinet rifts over Brexit continue to get widespread coverage.

The fall-out from the UK vote to leave the European Union over the weekend seems to have surpassed just about what anyone could ever have foreseen, with mass resignations from shadow cabinet, a leadership rift among the Conservatives, reports of racism fuelled by the result, concerns voiced in China and Japan over the threat to the global economy, and oh so much more.

Grant's independent, at times problematic, manner in choosing his cabinet started a rift between Republican party veterans who were denied consultation.

The Bruges speech – which Powell helped to write – deepened a rift with cabinet colleagues and helped to widen policy splits that eventually led to her fall from power.

Fox's response to the US commerce secretary's comments on Tuesday are markedly different to his previous approach to the issue, which led to a rift with cabinet colleagues.

A Liberal frontbencher denies there's a rift in cabinet after trade minister Andrew Robb took aim at his government's decision to block the foreign sale of S Kidman & Co. Robb told Fairfax treasurer Scott Morrison's call to not sell Australia's largest private land owner to an overseas buyer on national interest grounds was "political".

This week one of the Democrats' coalition partners, the Social Action Party (SAP), was in danger of tearing itself apart in a rift (mainly over cabinet seats).