Minister Accountability Quotes

Instead of useful members of the state, they [ministers] ought to be considered enemies of the community, ... and very justly deserved to be punished with signal severity .

I'm sick and tired of government ministers in this Labour government who simply blame other people when things go wrong.

What is Parliament for if it is not to be a means to make ministers accountable for the services for which they are responsible.

In my brief, home affairs, we have witnessed ministers issue countless dodgy dossiers, fiddle figures and fudge facts.

Ministers may not be responsible for administrative errors, but they are responsible for major policy blunders.

The fact that John Prescott is being paid large sums of money to do little or nothing adds to the general malaise surrounding this government and the feeling that ministers are incapable of tackling serious issues.

I have never tried to fiddle my role as leader of the city of Sheffield, as an MP or as a minister.

It's unreasonable to me that there's a government in which the culture minister attacks the institutions she's responsible for. The justice minister attacks the institutions she's responsible for. The internal security minister attacks the institutions he's responsible for. The Cabinet attacks the IDF, and the prime minister attacks everyone.

When I was on the London assembly it was quite common for government ministers to refuse to appear.