Who resigned as a government minister over 'The Sarah Keays Affair'?
"was abolished in 1981, he became Minister of the Arts. The call from 10 Downing Street came while he was swimming in the sea near his villa on the island of Mustique. He became Minister of State for Trade at the Department of Trade and Industry following the 1983 general election. He took charge of the department for two short periods, after Cecil Parkinson resigned following the Sara Keays affair in 1983, and while his successor, Norman Tebbit, recovered from his injuries sustained in the Brighton bombing in 1984. Channon became President of the Board of Trade and Secretary of"
"2 July. She received the British government's declaration of the renunciation on 8 July and the renunciation was registered on 11 July. A legal opinion by David Bennett , a former Commonwealth Solicitor-General, commissioned by the Liberal Party, is that Keay, along with Susan Lamb and Rebekha Sharkie, were ineligible under the High Court ruling because they were British citizens at nomination date. Keay claims that she had taken ""all reasonable steps"" for renunciation. After Gallagher was disqualified, Keay announced her resignation, triggering a by-election in Braddon. Labor MP Susan Lamb, born in Australia, had received advice that she may"
"ministry one day. Following the announcement of his resignation, despite claiming that he would not identify her, Briggs distributed a photograph of the complainant to some colleagues. The photograph later appeared in a national newspaper, along with sufficient detail to identify the woman. In April 2016, Briggs supported calls from two state Liberal parliamentarians for seal culling in South Australia, after witnessing a ""massacre"" of dozens of fairy penguins on Kangaroo Island. Briggs was beaten at the 2016 federal election by his former staffer Rebekha Sharkie, who successfully contested Mayo for the Nick Xenophon Team. He lost over 16 percent"
"intended to promote him to Foreign Secretary; however, before the election he warned her that this would be unwise, for his former secretary, Sara Keays, was pregnant with his child. Although Thatcher initially remonstrated with him that Anthony Eden's womanising had been no bar on his being Foreign Secretary, she instead appointed him Secretary of State for Trade and Industry. Parkinson was forced to resign on 14 October 1983, after the news of Sara Keays' pregnancy had become public knowledge. The child was born on New Year's Eve, and christened Flora Keays. Subsequently, as a result of a dispute over"
"was forced to resign after a scandal involving his so-called ""love child"" with a Conservative councillor, Julia Stent, who was born on 8 July 1993. Three years earlier, Yeo had said to the branch of Relate in his constituency, ""It is in everyone's interests to reduce broken families and the number of single parents. I have seen from my own constituency the consequences of marital breakdown."" The story broke on Boxing Day during a quiet news period and intense coverage was given to the scandal. Yeo resigned on 5 January 1994; he was the first ministerial casualty of the media"
"in the television industry with Southern Cross Television and WIN Television in Western Australia before gaining further qualifications from Murdoch University in Environmental Impact Assessment and Environmental Management and has received a Graduate Diploma in Psychology from Monash University. She returned to Tasmania and entered politics as an assistant to then Minister for Environment the Hon Bryan Green MP. On 9 May 2018, Keay announced her resignation from the House of Representatives following the High Court of Australia ruling that Senator Katy Gallagher was ineligible to contest the 2016 election. Like Gallagher, Keay had failed to renounce her British citizenship"
"It led to the resignations of Defense Secretary Michael Fallon, Cabinet Secretary (de facto deputy Prime Minister) Damian Green and Welsh minister Carl Sargeant (who took his own life, four days after his dismissal). In January 2018, reports of sexual harassment at the high-society Presidents Club charity dinner caused another scandal. In Canada, accusations against Just for Laughs comedy festival founder Gilbert Rozon led to his resignation, and 15 people accused Quebec radio host Éric Salvail of sexual misconduct. Broadcaster and former baseball player Gregg Zaun was fired. American journalists in conversation at NPR spoke of the allegations feeling like"
"felt that Kennett had given them short shrift during the previous term, and would not have even considered supporting any government led by Kennett. However, with the Liberals divided on Kennett's future role, Kennett resigned as premier and retired from politics. On 20 October, the Kennett Ministry resigned and the Bracks Ministry was sworn in. With Kennett retiring from politics, Dr Denis Napthine, a rural MP who was believed to bring a more consensus-style approach to leadership, succeeded him as Liberal leader. Nationals leader Pat McNamara retired from politics as well. His successor, Peter Ryan, tore up the Coalition agreement;"
"to assume the leadership. However, Keating quickly became dissatisfied with the lack of any indication from Hawke as to when he might stand down, and subsequently made a number of provocative speeches questioning the direction of the government. This caused tensions between the two men to grow very quickly, and Hawke told Keating that he would renege on the deal on the basis that Keating had been publicly disloyal. Keating eventually resigned from the Cabinet and challenged Hawke for the leadership in June 1991. Hawke won the ballot by 66 votes to 44, and in a press statement afterwards Keating"
"used hidden camera footage of the Minister leaving a sex club in Sydney's eastern suburbs. Upon being told the story would air, Campbell resigned as Minister an hour prior to the news bulletin, and his resignation was accepted by then Premier Kristina Keneally. Although former NSW Labor Premier Barrie Unsworth said Campbell's actions were ""deplorable"" for exposing himself to ""blackmail and compromise"" the story was criticized by other sections of the media and by politicians. Despite the criticism the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) ruled Seven's Campbell story was in the public interest. After Labor's 2011 election defeat Fairfax"
"cent at her word."" On 30 August 2014 Collins resigned her Cabinet positions following the leak of another e-mail written by Slater in 2011, which suggested she had also attempted to undermine another public servant, Adam Feeley. Feeley was Director of the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) and Collins was the Minister responsible for the SFO at the time. Collins says she resigned because she believed the attacks on her had become a distraction for the National Party leading up to the election. She called for an inquiry so she could clear her name. After the 2014 election, John Key left"
"of a veteran suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder came forward accusing him of poor treatment during a meeting in October 2016. The woman claimed he was ""very condescending"", gave her only two minutes of his time, when asked a question about the government denying maternity benefits he replied ""Well, Ms. McCrea, that is the old question, like asking ... 'When did you stop beating your wife?, and when asked about support for her family he responded ""you married him, he's your responsibility"" Hehr resigned from cabinet on January 25, 2018, amid allegations of sexual harassment. Kent Hehr Kent Hehr (born"
"that it would be improper for such events to continue. On 29 November 2015 Grant Shapps, who had previously held office as the co-Chairman of the Conservative Party, resigned as International Development Minister over the scandal centred around Mark Clarke's reintroduction to the Conservative Campaign Headquarters, for which he had admitted responsibility. Shapps had previously asserted he was unaware of the seriousness of the allegations of Clarke's alleged misconduct with the youth volunteers in the Party, however his predecessor as Chairman of the Conservative Party, Sayeeda Warsi, produced a letter that she had written to him making similar concerns clear"
"if she was willing to swap posts with him, with Mills becoming leader and Carney becoming deputy leader. Carney refused, instead calling a leadership spill. The vote was tied at two votes apiece. Under CLP rules, Carney could have theoretically remained leader. However, Carney announced that a tie was not a vote of confidence and resigned, echoing Prime Minister John Gorton's move in 1971. This left Mills to take the leadership unopposed on a second vote. Carney announced her resignation from parliament on 19 August 2010, effective 3 September. She cited health reasons as the primary cause of her resignation."
"to his role as Opposition House Leader. Wilson was sworn in as Minister of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade when the ministry was formed. Wilson resigned from cabinet and the Progressive Conservative caucus on November 2, 2018. A statement from the Office of the Premier stated that his resignation was to ""seek treatment for substance addiction"". Media later reported that Wilson's resignation was related to allegations of sexual misconduct against him. The Premier's Office initially refused to confirm or deny the reports. However, Premier Doug Ford confirmed on November 7, 2018, that Wilson was asked to resign from caucus"
"position. Macdonald then played a large part in the sacking of Rees in favour of Keneally. Macdonald was previously a member of the New South Wales Socialist Left faction, but was formally expelled in December 2009 for his role in Rees's downfall. Keneally restored Macdonald to the ministry following her election as Premier, making him the Minister for Major Events, Mineral and Forest Resources, State and Regional Development and Central Coast. Macdonald was plagued by scandal surrounding a trip to Dubai made in 2008, which led him to resign from the ministry on 4 June 2010 on the same day"
"of conduct. As of May 2018, the investigation into Joyce's travel expenses was ongoing. The Nationals received a formal complaint alleging that Joyce had sexually harassed a Western Australian woman. Joyce's spokesman called the complaint ""spurious and defamatory."" On 23 February, Joyce announced that he would formally resign on 26 February as leader of the National Party, step down from his ministerial portfolios and move to the backbench. On resignation, Joyce lost his Deputy Prime Minister’s and ministerial salaries of $416,000 a year, only to receive a backbencher’s salary of about $200,000. Regional Development Minister John McVeigh became Acting Minister"
"""Celebrity Big Brother"". She criticised Galloway for being paid as an MP during the time he was in the Big Brother house. Galloway responded by saying he planned to refund the taxpayer after his exit from the show as he would not know how much to refund until then. She formally resigned from the government on 27 June 2007 when Tony Blair resigned as Prime Minister. On becoming Prime Minister, Gordon Brown announced Armstrong's appointment as Chair of a Parliamentary Labour Party Manifesto Committee drawing up policy ideas covering children. On 4 July 2009, Armstrong announced her intention to stand"
"position as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Dawn Butler, then Shadow Secretary of State for Women and Equalities, along with five other Labour MPs resigning various Labour Party roles in protest at Labour's Brexit position. Leader Jeremy Corbyn had instructed his MPs to abstain in a vote which Britain would remain in the single market by joining the European Economic Area (EEA). The MPs resigned and voted in favour of the EEA. Duffield was criticised for campaigning, during her first election, against grammar schools at the same time as sending her children to local grammar schools. In October 2017, Duffield apologised"
"initially denied the existence of, and later denied being aware of aggressive departmental deportation targets, but eventually resigned on April 29, 2018 after news outlets published documents indicating that she knew of the targets. Prior to Rudd's resignation, Sajid Javid, her successor as Home Secretary, had expressed sympathy for the victims of the scandal, telling the ""Sunday Telegraph"" that ""I thought that could be my mum ... my dad ... my uncle ... it could be me.'"" In 2018, following campaigns and a petition started by Patrick Vernon for June 22 to be recognized as a national day to commemorate"
"number were wrongly detained, lost their jobs or homes, or were denied benefits or medical care to which they were entitled. A number of long-term UK residents were wrongly refused re-entry to the UK, and a larger number were threatened with immediate deportation by the Home Office. Linked by commentators to the ""hostile environment policy"" instituted by Theresa May during her time as Home Secretary, the scandal led to the resignation of Amber Rudd as Home Secretary in April 2018, and the appointment of Sajid Javid as her successor. The scandal also prompted a wider debate about British immigration policy"
"of Women in the Keating government. In May 1995, Premier Court requested the establishment of a Royal Commission to determine the circumstances of the tabling of the Easton affair petition. On 14 November 1995, the Royal Commission released a report which found that Lawrence had misled the Western Australian Parliament concerning her knowledge of and role in the tabling of the petition. Paul Keating denounced the Commission as a political stunt and accused the Commissioner, Kenneth Marks QC, of bias. At the 1996 federal election, the Keating government lost office and, following Paul Keating's resignation of the leadership, Kim Beazley,"
"appointed as minister of state at the Department for International Development. BBC political correspondent Chris Mason said the change appeared to be a demotion, while ""The Guardian""'s chief political correspondent, Nicholas Watt, went further, calling it ""a humiliating blow"". On 28 November 2015, Shapps stood down as minister of state due to allegations of bullying within the Conservative Party. It has been claimed that Shapps, in his previous role as party co-chairman, had ignored repeated allegations of bullying involving Mark Clarke, the then party youth organiser. Baroness Warsi, Shapps's predecessor as co-chair of the Conservative Party, had written to Shapps"
"invasion of privacy versus the public interest. On 27 November 2006, the Greens called for further investigation. On 12 December 2006, Don Brash resigned from the leadership of the National Party and subsequently retired from Parliament; the leadership of the party passed to John Key. Speculation exists that Don Brash resigned due to the allegations in Nicky Hager's book. However, Brash has said that the book was ""not a factor"" in his resignation. Most political commentators believe that Helen Clark misjudged the public mood on the alleged spending, calling it ""a beltway issue"" - that is, of interest only to"
"Clarke's resignation, not only from the opposition; Clarke reportedly offered to resign, but Tony Blair, the Prime Minister, refused to accept. However, in the wake of a poor Labour performance in the local council elections of 4 May 2006, Clarke was dismissed in the biggest cabinet upheaval in the history of the Blair governments, to be replaced by Defence Secretary John Reid. Having reputedly turned down the offer of Defence Secretary by Tony Blair, Clarke became a backbencher. At the end of June 2006, he did a series of interviews in which he criticised John Reid for claiming that the"
"Parris reflected that ""extravagance, genuine mistake, sly acquisitiveness and outright criminal fraud are now jumbled together in the national mind as though there were no moral differences"". On 11 June 2009 ex-communities secretary Hazel Blears, who chose to resign from the government just before the English county council and European elections, said that she regretted the timing of her decision. She also stated that her decision to wear a brooch with the words 'rocking the boat' on the same day as the resignation was a ""stupid thing to do"". Speaking to the ""Manchester Evening News"" she said of the brooch"
"incident in which he inadvertently left a briefing book at the home of his girlfriend at the time, Julie Couillard. Although these types of incidents were not unique, he was expected to be demoted, but accepted responsibility and offered to resign his cabinet post on May 26, 2008. Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who initially dismissed the relationship as irrelevant, accepted his resignation. Bernier explained that the incident made him rethink his political career and that he would avoid taking government information out of his parliamentary office in future. Recalling his tenure as Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bernier felt unsatisfied due"
"Sports rorts affair The ""sports rorts"" affair was the name by which Australian media and political commentators came to refer to events during the second Keating ministry in late 1993 and early 1994, where the then Sports Minister, Ros Kelly, was unable to appropriately explain the distribution of federal sporting grants to marginal electorates held by the governing Australian Labor Party. It led to a textbook demonstration of individual ministerial responsibility where, on 28 February 1994, Kelly resigned from her position under consistent pressure from the Australian Democrats and the Liberal opposition about the matter. Ultimately, the controversy also led"
"Cecil Parkinson Cecil Edward Parkinson, Baron Parkinson, PC (1 September 1931 – 22 January 2016) was a British Conservative politician and cabinet minister. A chartered accountant by training, he entered Parliament in November 1970, and was appointed a minister in Margaret Thatcher's first government in May 1979. He successfully managed the Conservative Party's 1983 election campaign, and was rewarded with an appointment as Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, but was forced to resign after revelations that his former secretary, Sara Keays, was pregnant with his child, whom she later bore and named Flora Keays. Parkinson subsequently served as"
"silence outside the Central Government Offices at 12:00. Schools and other public offices also observed a moment of silence. Condolence points were set up in each of the 18 districts during the mourning period. The government cancelled the 2013 National Day Fireworks as a result of the incident. On 2 October, British Prime Minister David Cameron sent Chief Executive Leung his condolences. Catherine Ashton, High Representative for Foreign Affairs of the European Union, also expressed her sadness and sent her condolences through a spokesman. The decision by the captain of the ""Sea Smooth"" to leave the scene sparked a heated"
"policy"". Audio then emerged of the event in question, which showed the Grant had not made the comments attributed to him. By the time the audio was released by ""Prospect Magazine"", the Prime Minister's spokesman had already backed Baker's claims. The spokesman later said that Baker had made a ""genuine mistake"". On 8 July 2018, Baker resigned following the resignation of the Brexit Secretary, David Davis after working on a Brexit white paper which Baker said ""did not accord with what was put to the cabinet"" a few days earlier. In the House of Commons he has sat on the"
"lost, the second-worst defeat ever of a sitting government in Australian history. With the scale of the defeat beyond doubt, Keating resigned as Labor leader on election night. He tendered his resignation as prime minister on 11 March, 13 years to the day after Bob Hawke had first taken office, and stepped down from Parliament just over a month later on 23 April 1996. Immediately after his defeat, Keating requested from Howard additional time to relocate his family from The Lodge to temporary rented accommodation at the former East German embassy in the Canberra suburb of Red Hill until his"
"ministers Robyn Parker, Don Page, Greg Smith and George Souris dumped to make way for Troy Grant, Jai Rowell, Rob Stokes and Paul Toole. The Nationals followed suit six months later, with leader and Deputy Premier Andrew Stoner stepping down due to undisclosed family issues on 15 October. Stoner was quickly removed from Cabinet, replaced by John Barilaro; Grant succeeded him as Nationals leader and Deputy Premier. Soon after taking office, Baird and Grant put a massive infrastructure program, funded by partial privatisation of the state's electricity networks, at the heart of the Government's re-election campaign. Labor soon faced leadership"