The average age for a Cabinet minister is just 36.

But they are not expected to wait very long, said a senior cabinet minister who was in the meeting.

Does she think they have influence over a cabinet minister's wife?

In my view, he's not the first cabinet minister of this government to do that either.

But then so do many of the other Cabinet ministers.

The cabinet ministers were rather older than he had expected to find them.

"We'll have to start again as we did in 1992," a former cabinet minister says.

He ran for a second term as a cabinet minister in the 2008 general election.

A number of his former students became cabinet ministers in the British government.

He was the first member of the Jewish community to become a cabinet minister.