Sentences with phrase «labour special advisers»

Labour special advisers came to be tainted by an image of impropriety, bullying, spin and cynicism: Charlie Whelan, Jo Moore, Damian McBride (the latter's background, ironically, was in the civil service, not the party).

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 the election, there will be plenty of unemployed Labour special advisers (and even ex-MPs) looking for jobs and revenge.

The 33 - year - old, a former Labour special adviser, last week kicked off his six - part television series Unspun on Dave with Labour grandee Alan Johnson his first guest.

The shows will be fronted by Labour special adviser - turned - comedian Matt Forde and each will be recorded on the day before transmission, to ensure maximum topicality.

A former Labour special adviser himself, Forde skillfully managed the New Labour banter by pushing the right buttons, chucking in the odd impression, gently mocking his interviewees and ensuring that it didn't get too serious too often.

But commentators were not convinced with one journalist saying that Abbott had experienced a Natalie Bennett-esque «brainfade» and one former Labour special adviser suggesting that the shadow home secretary must be a Tory secret agent...

But the most effusive praise came from former Labour special adviser Paul Richards, who declared: «I think Grayling's time at CCHQ will be seen as a golden age, free from gaffes or blunders.»

Mulcaire then hacked the voicemail of a Labour special adviser, Hannah Pawlby, attempting to prove a false allegation that she was having an affair with the next home secretary, Charles Clarke.

As one Labour special adviser pointed out to me yesterday: «Wouldn't it be ironic if the man tasked with winning the marginals becomes the reason they lose them...» Spot on.

Not exact matches

That last generation of working class Labour MPs — the people whose political career started as a shop steward rather than a special adviser — mostly left in 2010.

Labour is demanding an official investigation into allegations that Michael Gove's special advisers could have broken their code of conduct.

Business secretary Greg Clarke's former special adviser Meg Powell - Chandler will fight for Birmingham Northfield, where Labour has a majority of 2,509.

Andy Westwood, a former special adviser to Labour's John Denham said he believed the changes would likely clarify what was already «the norm» in departments.

Following that election, Simon Thomas was appointed a special adviser to the Plaid Cymru ministers in the Welsh Assembly Government coalition between his party and Labour.

There are nine former special advisers, two of whom used to work for Boris Johnson and only one of whom has a (New) Labour background.

Some, including Chris Boffey, a former news editor of the Observer and Sunday Telegraph and one - time special adviser to the Labour government, feel that this is an example of the decline in standards at the Telegraph.

A former Labour party head of briefings, O'Donovan was a special adviser in the New Labour years and is now seen as one of the key Blairite lobbyists in the private sector.

Richard Reeves, then director of Demos and now a special adviser to Clegg, argued in the Guardian that «social liberals should join Labour».

In one sense, Livermore was a surprising appointment: he had been a special adviser to Brown from 1997 to 2008, and was seen as closely associated with New Labour, from which Miliband had tried to distance himself.

«I laughed when I read the five policies Tom Clark, a former special adviser, imagined might be on Tony Blair's new Labour pledge card:

Mandelson is probably intensely relaxed about cutting democratic corners if it means more «New Labour» special advisers and the like on the green benches, but utterly opposed to the normal workings of Labour democracy if it means leftwing or trade union candidates being chosen.

While McTernan was employed as a special adviser to the Secretary of State for Scotland he sent an email to the then Labour MSP Karen Gillon, who was about to make a trip to Sweden in which he said

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.

«It is certainly our belief that Labour needs more trade unionists in Parliament, as opposed to seats being handed out on a grace - and - favour basis to Oxbridge - educated «special advisers», but we make no apology for that.»

A former Labour candidate and special adviser to several Cabinet ministers, I actually appeared head - to - head with him on Sky News yesterday lunchtime to discuss these very posters.

Or it could be because they are a former special adviser who was «parachuted into a safe Labour heartlands seat during a Blair era by - election».

After the Commons had become a little more composed, Hunt countered Harriet Harman's attacks, pointing out Labour had not felt it necessary to refer Gordon Brown to any independent advisers when his special advisors - Damian McBride, Charlie Whelan et al - had been found to have carried out vicious briefings against Ministers and Shadow Ministers.

With the help of two former special advisers to Labour ministers, Clare Montagu, who worked for Alan Johnson, and David Mills, who worked for Liam Byrne, we came up with the following.

Labour demanded the publication of all emails and text messages between Mr Hunt and his special adviser, Adam Smith, last night.

His letter to members adds: «It is certainly our belief that Labour needs more trade unionists in parliament, as opposed to seats being handed out on a grace - and - favour basis to Oxbridge - educated «special advisers», but we make no apology for that.

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.

Isn't the ultimate irony that this Party of political geeks, special advisers and Westminster Village bubblers - Ed Balls, the brothers Miliband, Andy Burnham, James Purnell, Liam Byrne, Yvette Cooper... all actually have the temerity to claim to be on the side of [Labour speak coming up here] «hard working families».

Michael Dugher, who has just been sacked as shadow culture secretary, is one of the many figures who got to the top of the Labour party after starting out as a Whitehall special adviser.

«It says something about the Labour gene pool that all the serious candidates for the leadership are white Oxbridge - educated men in their forties who were special advisers in 1997.

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.

Vince Cable was once a Labour Party activist and worked as a special adviser to John Smith when the Scot was Trade Secretary in the late Seventies.

He was a special adviser to Roy Jenkins at the Home Office in the 1970s, and moved with Jenkins from the Labour Party to found the SDP in 1981.

Labour Tomorrow received a # 10,000 loan from Benjamin Wegg - Prosser, the former special adviser who now runs a consultancy firm chaired by Peter Mandelson.

Against this terrific backdrop we should be ten points ahead of a Labour Party with zero economic credibility and a leader who was Gordon Brown's special adviser in the Treasury for more than a decade and a member of his catastrophic Government.

Labour MP John Mann said the report, coupled with Mr Cameron's decision to push through an extra pay - off to some special advisers as he left Downing Street, called into question the morality of the list.

Called to the Bar in 1972, he practised between 1972 and 1974 before becoming special adviser to Labour stalwart, Barbara Castle.