Sentences with phrase «conservative special advisers»

The deputy prime minister's opposition means that the draft legislation for the referendum will have to be drawn up by Conservative special advisers outside the formal government and parliamentary routes.

The new player making the most noise is Hanbury Strategy, set up last year by former Conservative special advisers Ameet Gill and Paul Stephenson.

Ten Conservative special advisers are being paid salaries of # 95,000 or more, after David Cameron and George Osborne both moved to bolster their entourages in recent months.

A 57 - year - old barrister and former Conservative special adviser, Lord Taylor is the second Tory peer to charged with fraud over his parliamentary expenses, after Lord Hanningfield was accused of false accounting in February.

Not exact matches

The banks may be more conservative until there's more long - term visibility of where the commodity prices go,» said David Otte, a special adviser to Spears and Associates, a Dallas - based consultancy.

For now, though, the embarrassment persists, so much so that one ministerial special adviser interviewed for this feature declined to be named on the basis that his geekiness would embarrass his senior Conservative employer.

A host of special advisers and lobbyists have been selected to fight key Conservative seats in the upcoming general election.

A host of special advisers and lobbyists have been selected to fight key Conservative seats in the...

[5] Prior to his selection as Conservative candidate for Hertsmere, he worked as a special adviser, and David Cameron's deputy chief of staff.

Chamberlain effectively had two special advisers, Sir Horace Wilson from the Treasury who cut out the Foreign Office, and the sinister Sir Joseph Ball, formerly of MI5, head of the Conservative Research Department, publisher of Truth, a newsletter dedicated to smearing political opponents, and Chamberlain's fixer - in - chief.

Former special adviser Jonathan Caine, Conservative treasurer Andrew Fraser and Charlotte Vere, the former director of the Conservative pro-EU campaign, will also join the Conservatives benches.

Writer Kate Maltby, who accused Conservative MP Damian Green of sexual harassment, Labour party activist Ava Etemadzadeh, who accused Labour MP Kelvin Hopkins, and former special adviser to Nick Clegg Bridget Harris, who made allegations against Lib Dem peer Lord Rennard, said they had little faith their political parties would put their houses in order, and accused them of ignoring the issue for decades.

Not only did it destroy Norman Lamont's Treasury career (although not that of his special adviser David Cameron) but it torpedoed the Conservatives» reputation for economic competence for well over a decade.

There are fresh reports that senior Conservative MPs are conspiring in the machinations against Dominic Cummings, the former special adviser to Michael Gove who heads up Vote Leave.

Remember, remember: while David Cameron and George Osborne have a top - down Tory background as former special advisers, the Communities Secretary has a bottom - up one as a former Young Conservatives» Chairman and local council leader.

Ms Dorries was one of a number of Conservative MPs named in emails from Gordon Brown's special adviser Damian McBride to other Labour activists about fictitious smear stories to be spread on the internet.

Labour pointed out that in the meantime the cost of special advisers for Conservative government ministers has gone up from # 5.9 m in 2009 to # 8.4 m last year.

Bryant said he would be more inclined to think favourably about the proposal if the Conservatives were reducing the cost of their own special advisers.

Speaking to the many former Labour special advisers who attended Conservative Conference this week and have now found their skills being heavily utilised by UK plc's brightest and best organisations, they all spoke to me about that wasted first Blair term.

After graduating, Cameron joined the Conservative research department where he became special adviser to «Black Wednesday» chancellor Norman Lamont and later Michael Howard.

Francis Maude has today revealed how special advisers to government ministers have been abusing their position by commissioning civil servants to produce work explicitly for the purpose of attacking the Conservative Party.

Cameron responded by pledging to «put a limit on the number of special advisers» in the Conservative manifesto, and briefing that this measure would entail a reduction.

He served as deputy director of Conservative Research from 2007 to 2010, when he became a special adviser to May upon her appointment at the Home Office following the formation of the coalition government.