Sentences with phrase «conservative business minister»

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In Calgary, former Conservative minister of industry James Moore joins Dentons Canada LLP as a senior business advisor

Government action to influence the price of goods might strike Canadians as out of place in the Conservative playbook but Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Tories are acutely concerned about dispelling the notion they're the party of «big business» as they target middle - class voters.

Instead, a coalition of politically conservative business leaders forged ties with likeminded ministers, evangelists, and politicians to fight against New Deal liberalism, Communism, and immorality.

Critics have accused the Tories of selling access to May and other ministers, but a Conservative spokesman said: «This is an important opportunity to engage directly with businesses and to highlight how, as part of our plan to create an economy that works for everyone, we will continue to back business and enterprise.»

Theresa May's strong response (remember Theresa May being strong was a thing six months ago) to the First Minister's demand fuelled the Tory revival north of the border that saw the Conservatives scoop 13 seats including those of SNP Westminster leader Angus Robertson and his predecessor Alex Salmond, or as Ruth Davidson dubbed those two results: «Business and pleasure».

I mean his personal popularity across the UK plummeted to it's lowest level ever in the autumn but, and this may come as a genuine shock to some, he is a Conservative prime minister at the end of the day, and more than this, he is a Conservative prime minister addressing Scottish people, 83 % of whom voted against him at the General Election and many of whom are still a bit miffed about that whole poll tax business.

Ed Davey, under - secretary at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, has been made energy secretary in a mini-reshuffle which did not involve any Conservative ministers.

The Conservative Party co-chairman Baroness Warsi has written to the Prime Minister explaining why her business relationship with Abid Hussain, a community activist who helped organise her official trip to Pakistan, was not declared.

The Conservative Party co-chairman Baroness Warsi today defended an official ministerial trip to Pakistan she made with business partner Abid Hussain, but apologised to the Prime Minister for any «embarrassment to the Government» it may have caused.

The Prime Minister said he was «very happy» with the Conservative Party chairman's explanation after it emerged she took relative and business partner Abid Hussain on an official trip to Pakistan.

Nick Bourne (right), who leads the Conservatives in the Assembly, received a rather tepid response from First Minister Rhodri Morgan about business:

And after his recent disparaging remarks about small businessmen, the newly - ennobled entrepreneur was the subject of no fewer than four questions from Conservative MPs when ministers from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills came to the Despatch Box yesterday.

Labour's Jack Straw, who served as both home secretary and justice secretary and attempted his own reforms of the Lords when in government, urged the prime minister to consider calling a pre-legislative referendum to avoid a «trainwreck» to Commons business in light of the fact that the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats were «divided on this issue».

«Robert Halfon MP: Conservatives should believe in good business, not big business - as the oil market shows Main John Baron MP: Why is the Prime Minister taking so long to answer our European referendum letter?»

Or consider the criticism that BBC people are all in the grip of some public sector groupthink: how does that square with the fact that a Conservative Prime Minister, a Tory Chancellor, a proudly pro-enterprise Business Secretary and a London mayor who is a cheerleader for the City all recruited their spokesman from the serried ranks of pinkoes at the BBC.

Despite backing May for Conservative leadership Anna Soubrey was sacked as Business Minister

Although I had difficult exchanges with the home secretary Theresa May and prime minister over immigration controls on non-EU students and skilled workers, almost all Conservative colleagues and ministers agreed, at least privately, that their policies were seriously damaging to business, universities and the wider national economic interest.

Mr Blackford said «we know that before the EU referendum the DUP received # 425,000 from the Conservative - run Constitutional Research Council (CRC)... we know some of the money was given to Aggregate IQ a reported franchise of Cambridge Analytica... the shady business of data mining and undermining electoral law goes right to the heart of the prime minister's party».

A British exit from the European Union is the greatest threat facing the country's economy in the next decade, Ed Balls will say as he attacks Conservative ministers for creating uncertainty for the country's businesses.

The socially conservative Democrat and ordained minister argued that Mayor Bill de Blasio's proposal to rip out Times Square's pedestrian plazas to tamp down on the titillating business of body - painted half - naked women charging tourists for photos would only cause them to migrate.

Also at first minister's questions, Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies said Labour had failed to nurture the private sector, pointing to a declining rate of business start ups.

In Calgary, former Conservative minister of industry James Moore joins Dentons Canada LLP as a senior business advisor

Mr Blackford said «we know that before the EU referendum the DUP received # 425,000 from the Conservative - run Constitutional Research Council (CRC)... we know some of the money was given to Aggregate IQ a reported franchise of Cambridge Analytica... the shady business of data mining and undermining electoral law goes right to the heart of the prime minister's party».

Keynote speakers included John Tory, leader of the Progressive Conservative Party in Ontario and the Harinder Takhar, Minister of Small Business and Consumer Services.