Sentences with phrase «business secretary tells»

Vince Cable spent five years in government as Business Secretary tells me he had few problems with the unions between 2010 - 2015.

The Business Secretary told ITV News that the major objective of privatisation had been to allow Royal Mail to go out and compete and raise money on the open market for investment, which it had — raising # 500 million to date.

As opinion polls continue to signal no overall election winner, the shadow business secretary told The Daily Telegraph that the Conservative starting point would be to refuse a compromise on economic plans.

Competition among global banks is good for small businesses and will provide better rates on loans taken out by small to medium enterprises, the shadow business secretary told Daybreak.

Not exact matches

UCIW secretary Gordon Thompson told WA Business News in March this year he was taking a wait - and - see approach to the merger plan, with the composition of the merged company's board one of his main considerations.

A source close to Davis told Business Insider that the Brexit Secretary was merely referring to what is «theoretically possible» and did not suggest it was part of the government's plans.

Looking back on her early days in the real - estate business, Shark Tank star Barbara Corcoran recalls the moment when her boyfriend and business partner Ramon Simone told her — after seven years together — that he was going to marry the company's secretary.

«He's been running this [transition] somewhat like «The Apprentice,» but in the end he chooses people much like himself,» Robert Shapiro, an adviser to the International Monetary Fund and former under secretary of commerce for economic affairs under President Bill Clinton, told Business Insider.

US and Chinese officials will hold highly anticipated trade talks in China on Thursday and Friday, US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told Fox Business Network, saying he was «cautiously optimistic» about the meeting.

«We're not seeing job losses yet, but there is a lot of generalized angst among members,» the secretary treasurer / business manager of the province's Hospital Employees Union told The Tyee.

Business secretary Vince Cable told the Financial Times the chancellor should borrow more to fund increased capital spending.

Cable told BBC Breakfast that Macron had been his opposite number across the Channel when he had been business secretary in the coalition government and that the pair had a «very similar approach».

And he goes on to suggest he told the Business Secretary Vince Cable about the damaging polls he commissioned and leaked to the Guardian.

Business Secretary Greg Clarke and Chris Grayling were also told they would remain in their posts.

Vince Cable, the former Business Secretary, tells me «BP's shareholders will now have to demand heads or face ridicule».

The justice secretary's father, Ernest Gove, told the newspaper he had sold his fishing business — which Michael Gove had previously claimed went to the wall because of the EU's common fisheries policy — due to a range of different factors.

Labour MPs from west London told the Guardian that a new strategy will target cabinet ministers individually, the most «significant» of whom would be the business secretary, Peter Mandelson.

The business secretary Vince Cable recently told a seminar that «the public sector balance sheet has to be used to leverage in private capital, particularly in housing.»

General Secretary of the Federation of Labour, Abraham Koomson told TV3 Business they will go ahead to picket if nothing happens indicating that government must deal decisively with the cheap importation menace.

Shadow business secretary Ken Clarke tells Channel 4 News any Tory - Lib Dem deal should last up to three years.

Vince Cable, who was business secretary in the coalition, and regained his Twickenham seat at last week's general election, has told friends he was considering whether to run for the leadership.

The business secretary will tell the Liberal Democrat conference this will help many small and medium - sized companies who have struggled for credit since the financial crisis.»

Shadow Business Secretary Chuka Umunna told Good Morning Britain Labour had won «over 25 % of the vote», a growth of 9 % on the last round of European elections.

Shadow Business Secretary, Chuka Umunna has told the BBC that zero hours contracts are «abuse» ahead of a Labour summit on the issue.

The business department's permanent secretary Martin Donnelly tells Suzannah Brecknell how his department is working to bring businesses and government together, creating strategies designed to kick start Britain's economic growth

Mr Hunt was given responsibility over the deal after two reporters secretly recorded business secretary Vince Cable telling them the coalition was «at war» with Mr Murdoch.

Corbyn has reportedly told local members he will back plans to develop nuclear energy plants, and shadow business secretary Clive Lewis recently spoke out in support of the workers at Sellafield.

As if to prove the point, business secretary Vince Cable told the newspaper his place in the coalition would not stop him taking tough action against the banks.

Business Secretary Vince Cable has told a fringe meeting in Liverpool that an advance release of his speech to the Lib Dem Conference on Wednesday has been «interpreted as an outburst of Marxism» and that he has «had to go round explaining that that's not what I meant».

The Business Secretary said he sometimes had to tell Mr Brown to stop deliberating over an issue.

Lamb reportedly told the business secretary, Vince Cable, that someone linked to News Corporation made «veiled threats» that his party would be «done over» if it did not back Rupert Murdoch's bid for BSkyB.

Ursula Brennan, permanent secretary at the Ministry of Defence, told Fox to stop Werritty handing out business cards embossed with parliament's portcullis logo that describe him as an «adviser to the Rt Hon Dr Fox MP».

However, Liberal Democrat business secretary Vince Cable told Channel 4 News: «A year ago the reform pamphlet warned of a budget that was very similar to what we had today.

«Vince Cable, the Business Secretary, described a government campaign telling illegal immigrants to «go home or face arrest» as «stupid and offensive».

Business Secretary Vince Cable told ITV News the Low Pay Commission must set the minimum wage and «politicians of all parties have got to respect that» after Chancellor George Osborne backed an increase.

Business Secretary Vince Cable welcomed the news and told ITV News there are still not enough women in politics.

Business Secretary Vince Cable told ITV News the Bank of England's decision to stop the Funding for Lending scheme for households was «good and timely».

Shadow Business Secretary Chuka Umunna has told ITV's The Agenda that he thinks next year's General Election is going to be «very, very close».

Business secretary Peter Mandelson told the Today programme that the public sector reforms were an exercise in «reprioritising expenditure» between departments.

The shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna has told ITV's The Agenda programme that politicians should follow Nelson Mandela's example «and try and do politics differently in this country.»

Shadow culture secretary Jeremy Hunt told Sky News yesterday that accusations levelled at the party by business secretary Peter Mandelson were «absolute nonsense».

Chuka Umunna, the former shadow business secretary, told ITV's Good Morning Britain: «Essentially, those who want us to leave can't answer the question: «Will we be able to have all the benefits that we have in the EU, being part of that big, free trade, single market trading zone if we come out, can you guarantee that?»

Cable statement The Business Secretary, Vince Cable, told the Commons that the government backed the broad thrust of the report but was still open to comments on the issue.

Despite pre-election pledges not to put up VAT, the Chancellor George Osborne is accused of hitting the poorest hardest with a VAT rise, but Business secretary Vince Cable tells Channel 4 News that the worst - off have been safeguarded.

2.59 pm: Vince Cable, the business secretary, told a fringe meeting at the conference that factories should open their doors to schoolchildren so that they can find out what manufacturing is really like.

His comments came after shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna told the Independent on Sunday that a «virus of racism» runs through UKIP.

Greg Clark, business secretary, told parliament in March that he did not «want to close the door» on the project yet.

Shadow Business Secretary Chuka Umunna has told ITV News it is «extraordinary» that the Government is making things «easier» for businesses to dismiss staff.

Nick Clegg repeatedly told Gordon Brown he would have to step aside as prime minister as the price of a Lib - Lab deal in secret talks after May's hung general election, according to the former business secretary, Lord Mandelson.

Shadow Business Secretary Chuka Umunna told the BBC: «What we heard at the hearing today reinforces the grave concerns we have about this deal and confirms many of the worst fears of people in the business and science community inBusiness Secretary Chuka Umunna told the BBC: «What we heard at the hearing today reinforces the grave concerns we have about this deal and confirms many of the worst fears of people in the business and science community inbusiness and science community in the UK.