Close to the Murdochs, a non-executive director of BSkyB and a member of the former government's creative industries task force cabinet, Rebuck's sphere of influence traverses publishing, politics and the media.
The urgency of the task has sent cabinet ministers scrambling to find cuts so quickly that speed may be overtaking sober reflection, critics say.
A cabinet task force reported on Thursday that the government's plan to eradicate the worst of the banks' bad debts would destroy 602,000 jobs, and 20 to 30percentt of those workers would not find new work.
In Glasgow East, Labour minders were tasked with keeping cabinet ministers hidden from reporters and the cameras: one colleague only met Geoff Hoon by chance because he doorstepped the family home.
This, along with the creation of a cross-government cabinet task force on mental health, a child and adolescent mental health services (Camhs) taskforce and select committee report, meant investing in and understanding this important part of health and care was in everyone's minds.
Flanked by his automobile task force of cabinet secretaries and business advisers in the White House's grand entranceway, Mr. Obama announced a plan that would allow the United Automobile Workers, through their retirement plan, to take control of Chrysler, with Fiat and the United States as junior partners.
The alliance was put together by Mark Francois, promoted for the task to the shadow cabinet.
If Enrico Letta is invited to form a government today, his first task is to appoint cabinet ministers.
Challenges: She arguably faces the toughest task of any Shadow Cabinet member, trying to impose a degree of discipline on a stunned parliamentary Labour Party.
Britain's prime minister, Tony Blair, is again being taken to task by a former cabinet colleague over his behavior leading up to the Iraq war.
The cabinet's task is to co-ordinate the legislative agenda and to seek a consensus with other political parties.That is how the legislative process has worked since the LDP came together in 1955.
