"I'm not saying people should be sacked, but certainly they should be demoted.
Related: Grant Shapps sacked from cabinet in Cameron's reshuffle Two senior figures have lost the right to attend cabinet: Grant Shapps, the Tory chairman, who was demoted to an international development minister, and Eric Pickles, the communities secretary, who will become the government's anti-corruption tsar.
He was eventually promoted to become justice secretary in 2012 but was demoted to leader of the Commons after last month's general election.
Uncontrollable capital flows have demoted even the elected leaders of former imperial nation-states such as Britain and France into enablers of investor-friendly climates.
Former commander Richard Bryson, who was suspended pending an investigation into his failure to declare his own separate conflict of interest with Kamitsis, was last week demoted to superintendent after being found to have breached the police code of conduct.
The doubters in her own ranks appear to have been demoted or cast aside.
First, she is not in the cabinet; she was, but was subsequently demoted.
The financial reforms passed by Silvio Berlusconi's conservative government in 2009 demoted the institute to "disposable" status.
One World Trade Center has been officially crowned as the tallest building in the western hemisphere after a row that threatened to embarrass the building's designers and see it demoted to second place.
Grayling was demoted from his position of shadow home secretary at the time of the 2010 election – one of the most senior posts in the shadow cabinet – to the post of employment minister outside the cabinet after the election.
When other bodies in similar orbits were discovered, though, it was demoted, becoming just another of the newly named "asteroids".
