Sentences with phrase «dem former business secretary»

At the time, former business secretary and Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable warned «the exodus of firms would accelerate» under a deal of this kind.

Liberal Democrat former business secretary Sir Vince Cable has said party leader Tim Farron didn't handle questions around gay rights and his Christian faith well during the election campaign.

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The former business secretary might be a popular figure among the public — he is the first Strictly Come Dancing contestant to become a party leader — but not every activist is pleased by his sudden, uncontested resurrection.

And the former business secretary insists he is signing up to do whatever is needed of him.

Fuel was added to the fire by Sir Vince Cable, the former business secretary, who revealed over the weekend that Theresa May had a «general prejudice» against the Chinese which she raised in cabinet meetings, citing «national security concerns».

The clash between Labour's last prime minister and Mr Darling, who eventually held VAT at 17.5 % in his pre-election Budget, was revealed in former business secretary Peter Mandelson's memoirs, The Third Man.

Former Business Secretary Vince Cable has accused Anna Soubry of «pathetic buck - passing» after she said he was partly to blame for the state of the British steel industry.

Former business secretary Sir Vince Cable has become the first contender to confirm a bid to replace Tim Farron as Liberal Democrat leader.

Former Business Secretary Vince Cable has called for BP shareholders to take action following their 59.1 % vote against CEO Bob Dudley's pay.

In the Lords debate Lord Mandelson, the Labour former business secretary and former European commissioner, says services are not the same as goods.

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

The former business secretary has been a member of the Treasury select committee since 2011.

Others - including former business secretary Vince Cable - suggested that Green was more like Robert Maxwell, famed for his fraudulent misappropriation of the Mirror Group pension fund and his mysterious death at sea in 1991.

The former business secretary eats only 800 calories a day, chiefly in the form of green tea, granola and a starter for dinner.

And some familiar faces - including former Business Secretary Vince Cable and former employment minister Jo Swinson are set to return to parliament.

The former business secretary said the chancellor had been severely restricted by the downgrading of the growth figures and the unexpected rise in borrowing, which he estimated would cost every person # 700 per year compared to pre-election forecast.

The former business secretary wants to dis - incentivise the owning of second homes and talked of higher taxes for the wealthy.

He said the former business secretary had an «understanding of leadership responsibilities» and was a «genuinely heavy - hitter».

Mandelson reveals that Tony Blair, who was scrupulously loyal to Brown in public after his resignation as prime minister in June 2007, had severe doubts about his successor and at one point urged the former business secretary not to block a challenge.

In the latest instalment of his memoirs, the former business secretary says that three senior members of the cabinet joked last October that Labour should fight a campaign based on three Fs: Futile, Finished, and Fucked.

The former business secretary — and architect of New Labour — warned that the party risked a long period in opposition if it swung to the left and failed to recreate the wide - ranging coalition that took Tony Blair to power in 1997.

The Labour party will be led down a blind alley if trade unions succeed in banning Progress, a pressure group associated with Tony Blair, the former business secretary Lord Mandelson warned on Sunday.

The new IPPR director, Nick Pearce, is a former head of the No 10 policy unit and was instrumental in asking Mandelson to take up the inquiry based on his knowledge of the former business secretary's thinking.

The loss of the former business secretary at the 2015 election was a major blow to the Lib Dems.

Mr Corbyn is now expected to face a challenge to his leadership, with his deputy Tom Watson and former Business Secretary Angela Eagle in the running.

Turns out David Tennant «s stellar performance as downtrodden former Business Secretary Aiden Hoynes is matched only by his choice of political news; after receiving a public scolding for his attacks on the prime minister, Tennant can be seen here checking the damage to his reputation on our very own blog.

Former Business Secretary Vince Cable is entering Britain's National Dance Championships, the Sun has revealed.

According to the publishers, the new text by the former business secretary provides «a previously unreported inside view of the coalition, and offers a carefully considered perspective on how the British economy should be managed over the next decade and beyond».

He shared a stage with the Liberal Democrat former business secretary and the ex-Shadow Chancellor to say 450 jobs and almost # 1billion in investment announced by Ryanair would be «at risk if we left the EU».

Mandelson, the former business secretary and chief architect of New Labour, describes how he and other No 10 aides drew up plans — codenamed Operation Teddy Bear — to split the Treasury into two in an attempt to weaken Brown's challenge to Blair in 2003 when the prime minister agreed not to fight the following general election, only to renege on his promise.

Former business secretary Sir Vince Cable said the new PM had clashed with Cabinet colleagues before over the # 18 billion project.

The former business secretary might not have any pig - bothering allegations to worry about, but he did cross Michael Ashcroft

The former business secretary, who lost his seat in the 2015 general election, has said he will stand against current Twickenham MP Tania Mathias in June.

The former business secretary's account of New Labour's time in power were seized upon at prime minister's questions in the Commons yesterday by David Cameron, who mocked Labour for its «shambolic» time in government.

The plan in outline has the support of Lord Mandelson, the former business secretary, who sees the bulk of the policy similar to the industrial activism he championed in the last years of the Brown government.

Former business secretary also praises Ed Miliband, despite warning against him during leadership contest

Former business secretary attacks proposed dialogue with EDL and «misplaced, romantic ideas about turning back the clock»

The former business secretary will have felt quietly vindicated when George Osborne announced a deferred rise in the rate of VAT from next January.

Former business secretary says he fears a price freeze would be a step in the wrong direction for Labour

On Monday, Mandelson, a former business secretary and party adviser, said he preferred the Liberal Democrats» proposal to extend the council tax system, saying that would be better than «just sort of clobbering people with a rather sort of crude short - term mansion tax».

The former business secretary, who has formed something of a political partnership with Ed Balls in the last few years, calls on Labour to revive the success of the Bill Clinton and Tony Blair years.

In the case of this former business secretary and EU trade commissioner, his title has a whiff of the hereditary principle: between 1956 and 1965, its holder was his grandfather, the esteemed former Labour high - up Herbert Morrison.

Former business secretary promises book on Blair - Brown relationship that will ruffle some feathers

Lord Mandelson, the former business secretary and champion of New Labour's pro-marketism, is the latest person to intervene.

Former business secretary, claimed government had misled parliament over # 80m loan to engineering firm

Lord Mandelson, the former business secretary and European commissioner, shares some of Kerr's concerns.

The former business secretary said: «My party is in exactly the right position, representing a very, very large swathe of public opinion that is becoming very alarmed at the way in which this hard Brexit option is being pursued, not just by the Conservatives but by Jeremy Corbyn's Labour party.

George Osborne was joined by the Lib Dem former business secretary Vince Cable and Labour's Ed Balls in a hangar at Stansted airport to argue that leaving the EU would be a «one - way ticket to a poorer Britain».

In the first indication of a backlash against the former business secretary over his forthcoming memoirs, Charlie Whelan said Lord Mandelson had run the worst election campaign «in Labour's history».