MINISTER

Meaning of MINISTER in English

I. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a cabinet minister

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Cabinet ministers voted against the proposal.

a government minister

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A government minister said that there would be an inquiry.

minister of state

Prime Minister

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the British Prime Minister

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

cabinet

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During the Westland affair he provided that rare occasion, the resignation of a cabinet minister on a matter of principle.

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My salary more than doubled; at least on paper, I earned more money than a cabinet minister .

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Mo Mowlam, the retiring Cabinet Office minister , is believed to have refused a peerage.

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As a Cabinet minister , he is a member of the executive.

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Everyone puts his hand out, from cabinet ministers to loan underwriters.

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This is what happened when Mr Mbeki turned up in Harare with a few cabinet ministers in tow.

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He was the eighth of 18 Cabinet ministers to say he might abstain or vote against an agreement.

chief

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The power of the chief executive or minister can in this way be used to increase the power of some one else.

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He was rescued by chief minister Robert Harley, who put him to work as a government spy and propagandist.

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When he succeeded to the throne in 1625, Buckingham became his chief minister .

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After that, any chief minister daring to build his own political base stood in danger of being turned out.

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He was an archbishop, the king's chief minister , but he was also a cardinal of the Roman church.

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Sharad Pawar, chief minister of Maharashtra, is by far the strongest Congress state leader.

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In response, Kashmir's chief minister , Farooq Abdullah, produced new autonomy proposals.

deputy

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A deputy prime minister , Yulia Timoshenko, is facing criminal charges for tax fraud, smuggling and forgery.

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Kamal Ganzouri, the 62-year-old deputy prime minister , was asked to form a government after cabinet ministers quit.

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These are major obstacles to effective trade but they will be removed, assures deputy foreign minister Sadegh Kharazi.

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He is also deputy prime minister and commander of the 57, 000-strong National Guard.

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Mr Kasyanov, a deputy prime minister in the outgoing government, is urbane, polished and managerial.

foreign

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When a separate Foreign Ministry was established in 1952, he became his own foreign minister .

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As the standoff continued in Suva, Commonwealth foreign ministers met in London on Tuesday.

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Nesselrode, his foreign minister , remained pacific to the end.

junior

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He was a few weeks short of his fiftieth birthday, a somewhat elderly junior minister .

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Oh, yes, the nonentity of a junior health minister .

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The official opening ceremony was performed by junior health minister Tom Sackville, during a visit to the hospital.

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Nobody thanked the prime minister . Junior ministers have been inviting the sack by asking him to resign.

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Mr Fallon, a junior education minister , puts the figure being lost to Darlington schools at around £700,000 each year.

new

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None of the 11 new ministers named had previously served in the cabinet.

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However, the new minister on arrival soon found that he was faced with a seemingly impossible task.

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Only then could the new prime minister formally take up the vast burden of his office.

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This means restraint in public spending and holding back the natural enthusiasm of a clutch of new ministers to open the purse strings.

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Mr Bolona, the new finance minister , is a former head of the institute's economics department.

other

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Ministers proved reluctant to side with the Treasury in an attack on other ministers' programmes.

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According to some sources Goh was not Lee's first choice for the succession; at least one other minister reportedly declined the post.

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Like every other Cabinet minister , I was asked for my opinion.

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The other ministers were confirmed in their posts.

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Alan Cairn's view was echoed by most other ministers I talked to.

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The problem for President Roh is finding a suitable replacement for Mr Ro and possibly other ministers .

prime

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However, in parliamentary terms Mr Nelson has been long waiting for a call from a prime minister offering jobs.

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The president has limited power, and most control is exercised by the prime minister and cabinet.

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The prime minister re-defined the responsibilities of the Tory chief whip.

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Surely they were not going to ask the prime minister about his Trotskyist past again?

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He made his displeasure plain to the prime minister .

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The liberal Yabloko party campaigned for another former prime minister , Sergei Stepashin.

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Former prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu is under investigation on suspicion of bribery.

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Afterwards, he will offer less bustling prime ministers a whisky-and-soda.

senior

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The senior ministers fell easily into the habit of cooperation. but many in the party refused even to attempt the transition.

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Added to this was the deep suspicion felt by senior ministers , influential judges and lawyers about purists themselves.

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Like Attlee and his senior ministers in 1945, Churchill had seen the wartime machine and it had worked.

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Thousands of people received the letter, which purports to be signed by the senior minister of judicial affairs.

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No one is saying senior ministers shouldn't be entitled to certain perks.

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Warning of coup Senior ministers warned foreign journalists on Oct. 16 of a possible conservative-led coup against Yeltsin and the reforms.

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Each of the departments listed above has its senior minister , the secretary of state, in the Cabinet.

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defence

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The strongest force there is run by Ahmed Shah Masoud, the defence minister .

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He sent the defence minister , Peter Reith, in his place.

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So said defence minister Peter Blaker last week in response to a question from Tam Dalyell.

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General Powell was present at the meeting between the two defence ministers yesterday.

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Later on, we were on another job, looking after a defence minister from somewhere or other.

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The defence minister , General Pavel Grachev, called for a compromise and promised that the army would stay out of the dispute.

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In a weekend of violence, the defence minister , Khaled Nezzar, narrowly escaped from a car bomb attack.

defense

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Peres was named prime minister , his deputy Yitzhak Rabin became defense minister, and Shamir became foreign minister.

environment

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But the environment minister , Tom King, could not give any firm commitment to further government funds.

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The summit's failure to address environmental issues may however be mitigated by meeting of G7 environment ministers later this year.

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The environment ministers were due to make their decision late last month.

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The environment minister , Michael Meacher, conceded that the pyres could be a health risk.

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This afternoon that put them on environment minister Michael Howard's hit list.

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After Papandreou's electoral victory in 1981, Tritsis was appointed environment minister .

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Peter Gauweiler, Bavaria's environment minister , thinks his state is still well to the right of the nation.

finance

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Former finance minister Boris Fyodorov, who represents minority investors, was reelected to the board.

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Kubo succeeds as finance minister Sakigake Party head Masayoshi Takemura.

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There are two other candidates in the field, finance minister Albert Reynolds and foreign minister Gerard Collins.

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His finance minister was busy answering charges of bribery.

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The finance minister said now was the time for winning over greater interest in the stock exchange.

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And economic policy now has clearer direction since Mihaly Kupa was appointed finance minister and made economics supremo.

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Hashimoto served as finance minister from 1989 to 1991.

health

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Lord Hunt, the junior health minister , announced that an investigation was under way.

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The departure of health minister Andrea Fischer and farm minister Karl-Heinz Funke follows a collapse in consumer confidence.

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Oh, yes, the nonentity of a junior health minister .

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But health minister Marc-Yvan Cote said the monies won't be divided equally.

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Every health minister gets put into his mouth in his early months an ambitious and laudatory summons to voluntary effort.

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This law is arbitrary and gives the health minister too many powers...

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Mr Jereissati's main rival so far is Jose Serra, the health minister .

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According to Kenneth Clarke the health minister there's more to come.

justice

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The news leaked out last weekend, and pressure has mounted on the justice minister , Oliviero Diliberto, to investigate.

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Earlier this month the justice minister was forced to depart.

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Former justice minister Tzahi Hanegbi faces indictment on corruption charges.

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The justice minister is currently being investigated for insulting the police, who wanted to ban the League's praetorian guard.

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But the justice minister , Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, is against this.

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Mr Salazar is the ninth justice minister since August 1986.

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Wasn't it Lord Chief Justice Hewitt who first made this remark in 1967 when justice minister ?

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In 1967 he entered Lester Pearson's cabinet as justice minister .

office

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I now have a letter from the Foreign Office minister Douglas Hogg setting out the change in policy.

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Mo Mowlam, the retiring Cabinet Office minister , is believed to have refused a peerage.

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He asked Office minister David Mellor whether he still wished or instructed local authorities to enforce the law as it now stands.

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John Patten, 46, a long-serving Home Office minister , has been put in charge of Education.

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Home Office ministers and officials are currently wooing judges and magistrates to the new approach.

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Mr Mandelson, as the Cabinet Office minister , was in charge of the project.

transport

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If you were transport minister , what would be your first action?

■ VERB

appoint

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The Prime Minister appoints ministers , reshuffles Cabinets, dismisses ministers, and promotes ministers.

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The newly appointed finance minister , Wataru Kubo, is expected to deflect opposition criticism over the housing lender bailout.

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To ensure that our plans for science and technology diffuse throughout government Labour will appoint a minister for science.

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He thus emerged as champion of the free market, appointing western-educated technocrats as ministers .

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It appears that he appointed as his prime minister , Mr. Omer Arteh Qalib.

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A number of military commanders from the southern, central and northern regions were appointed as ministers on Sept. 24.

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Sólnes was appointed its first minister .

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The boards and commissions that run these organizations are commonly appointed by ministers and so provide an increase in ministerial patronage.

become

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When Lloyd George became prime minister in December 1916 he was backed by the Unionists in a coalition government.

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If a legislative majority can be created, their leader becomes prime minister .

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Neil Kinnock, 13 years in opposition, knows that he is finally about to become prime minister .

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Peres was named prime minister , his deputy Yitzhak Rabin became defense minister, and Shamir became foreign minister.

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When a separate Foreign Ministry was established in 1952, he became his own foreign minister .

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In 1996 Carter became an ordained minister and plans to become a full-time minister after football.

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Before becoming a minister , he was director-general of the World Trade Organisation, the body responsible for enforcing free trade.

meet

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As protesters battled the police in the streets outside the meeting , ministers argued inside, and the talks eventually collapsed.

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The first of its kind between Washington and Pyongyang, the meeting of foreign ministers was the message.

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This week he met environment minister Tony Baldry to discuss Government proposals to give local authorities greater powers to curb illegal camping.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

I give you the chairman/prime minister/groom etc

Minister/Department of the Interior

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Former officers at the camp were arrested after the revelations and the Deputy Minister of the Interior , Col.-Gen.

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He had accused the Minister of the Interior and police chiefs of taking bribes from drug traffickers.

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The Department of the Interior and many other federal and state natural resource agencies are moving toward this broader approach to conservation.

envoy/ambassador/minister extraordinary

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He was an Ambassador Extraordinary Plenipotentiaryfor all mankind.

president-elect/governor-elect/prime minister-elect etc

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

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The Russian foreign minister was also present at the meeting.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

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Chancellor Norman Lamont and fellow finance ministers began hammering out the final draft in Edinburgh yesterday afternoon.

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Federal and state ministers have met 20 times since the earlier massacres and failed to agree on change.

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For at least another thirty to forty-five seconds the former prime minister just stared back at them.

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He sent the defence minister , Peter Reith, in his place.

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In 1906-14 successive foreign ministers were authorised by the tsar to report to it on only five occasions.

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Socialist Franco Reviglio, previously budget minister , was made finance minister.

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Tactics that shunted money into the hands of prime ministers or sycophantic merchants did not generally help the citizens of a nation.

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The minister , it seemed, had an urge to hear Mitchell talk.

II. verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

affair

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Shadow consumer affairs minister Nigel Griffiths said last night the scandal looked like Trade Department negligence.

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But at 738, 000, said Ad Melkert, the social affairs minister , the number is still too high.

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After that, suspects deemed to be an ongoing risk to national security can be incarcerated indefinitely by the home affairs minister .

finance

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Perhaps the clearest indication of this was the difficulty he encountered in filling the job of finance minister in his new cabinet.

interior

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The interior minister , Jean-Pierre Cheve nement, has not set a better example than his predecessors.

prime

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This weekend, Persson outlined his policy goals for when he becomes prime minister .

school

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Then Stephen Byers, the schools minister , was moved to the Treasury.

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Estelle Morris, the school standards minister , hailed the success of the inspections, introduced by the government in 1997.