Sentence examples for ministers surely from inspiring English sources

Now, ministers surely need to look at this again and honour their promise to "take white collar crime as seriously as other crime".

Jamie Reed, Labour's shadow health minister, said: "When half of all hospital wards in England will be short-staffed tonight, ministers surely can't think it's a priority to send NHS managers to train in the United States".

In order to be able to decide to use my mental picture of Churchill to represent all prime ministers, surely I must already have a general concept of prime-ministerhood, or of the class of all prime ministers.

The prime minister surely understands this.

I can't say 'sorry' on behalf of Australia, but the prime minister surely can".

The prime minister surely has no idea whether his actions will weaken or strengthen Islamic State, let alone contribute to a broader settlement in Syria.

Even among supporters of the xenophobic Sweden Democrats defence is a question of little interest: they are interested in repelling immigrants, not invasions; while Stefan Löfven, the Social Democrat prime minister, surely spoke for his party when he announced that there was no submarine hunt under way, merely an intelligence investigation into whatever may be found beneath the waves.

Such criticism from ministers is surely uncomfortable for police.

One-day meetings of G20 leaders, or even G20 finance ministers, are surely surplus to requirements.

By dismissing the premium on "qualified teacher status", ministers are surely at risk of reducing the science of teaching to standing in front of an audience and talking informatively.

But much of the transformation of the Queen's image, from the chilly, notoriously philistinic matriarch who couldn't care less about Diana to an ever more droll and sympathetic mentor to pitifully grateful prime ministers is surely attributable to Mirren's superb acting, and to the writers who have increasingly depicted the monarch as – so long as you are not Margaret Thatcher – fabulous company.