Sentences with phrase «foreign office advisers»

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To help ease the appearance of conflicts of interest, the company said it would not enter into any new international deals, promised to hire a compliance officer and ethics adviser to vet domestic deals, donate foreign profit from its hotels and refrain from doing anything that could be perceived as exploiting the office of the presidency.

As Director General for Defence and Intelligence in the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, he was the lead adviser on counter-proliferation and other defence policy and intelligence areas.

The Office of the Special Counsel also revealed Monday that George Papadopoulos, formerly a foreign policy adviser to Trump's campaign, had pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI in a January 2017 interview about his contact with a Russian professor.

The meeting, Papadopoulos wrote, would be «for August or September in the UK (London) with me and my national chairman, and maybe one other foreign policy adviser and you, members of president putin's office and the mfa to hold a day of consultations and to meet one another.»

Mueller's office has obtained a wealth of subpoenaed documents about the president's conduct and has taken secret testimony from cooperating witnesses — Michael Flynn, former foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos and former campaign aide Rick Gates — any one of whom would be in a position to contradict Trump and expose him to perjury charges.

Sir Peter Ricketts, the national security adviser and Foreign Office grandee, has remarked privately to the PM that he has never experienced so many international threats and geopolitical changes at one time.

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.

Key Boris Johnson adviser «forced out» of Foreign Office in bitter power struggle with Theresa May's team

While some departments have handed Lib Dem junior ministers a dedicated assistant private secretary, the IfG argues special advisers are needed, especially in departments where the secretary of state is a Tory - health, education, justice, defence, work and pensions and the Foreign Office.

Former defence secretary Liam Fox has turned down an opportunity to return to the government as a Foreign Office minister, more than two years after he resigned over a controversy about his unofficial adviser and friend Adam Werritty.

Oliver's practice focuses on private clients and their advisers (banks, family offices, foreign advisers) in all aspects of domestic and international wealth planning.

Both the Foreign Office legal adviser at the time, Sir Michael Wood, and his deputy, Elizabeth Wilmshurst, gave evidence to Chilcot that they had advised that an invasion would be illegal without a further resolution of the Security Council.