Sentences with phrase «as a special adviser in»

Patrick has spent ten years as a special adviser in various roles at the heart of British government, including 10 Downing Street, the Cabinet Office, the Northern Ireland Office.

This has opened up a battle over who will get jobs as special advisers in a Cameron government.

Not exact matches

The Bahamian - American physician and special adviser to the Carter Center is one of the key individuals responsible for the eradication of smallpox — a truly terrifying disease that in the 20th century alone killed as many as 300 million people.

Doug New is a partner at Fasken Martineau but earlier in his career served as a special adviser to the deputy commissioner of the Foreign Investment Review Agency.

When Trump announced in December that Icahn would be a special adviser, Trump made clear he would «not be serving as a federal employee or a Special Government Employee and will not have any specific duties.special adviser, Trump made clear he would «not be serving as a federal employee or a Special Government Employee and will not have any specific duties.Special Government Employee and will not have any specific duties.»

Former life: In 1974, Pate served as assistant secretary of commerce under President Ford, later becoming a special adviser.

Uber said Pishevar had an agreement in 2013 with former Chief Executive Officer Travis Kalanick to serve as a special adviser but that Pishevar hasn't had a role at the company for some time.

It is to this task that Sachs sets himself not only in this book but also in his work as a special adviser to Kofi Annan and as director of Columbia University's Earth Institute.

He is a tireless campaigner, a record - breaking fundraiser and an inspirational speaker, receiving recognition both in the UK (awarded an MBE in 2004) and internationally (appointed as a special adviser to the United Nations in 2008).

Your reviewer has known the author for twenty years as a Parliamentary colleague and observed his formidable reputation when both were special advisers in the Thatcher government.

Tabling oral and written questions has a similar effect, as pressure mounts on policy officials and special advisers in a department to find answers, and to consider why so many questions are being asked on a particular issue.

As I remember from my own time as a special adviser, this breathing space gives front - benchers the chance to catch up on new thinking and the issues which are likely to feature high on the agenda in the coming monthAs I remember from my own time as a special adviser, this breathing space gives front - benchers the chance to catch up on new thinking and the issues which are likely to feature high on the agenda in the coming monthas a special adviser, this breathing space gives front - benchers the chance to catch up on new thinking and the issues which are likely to feature high on the agenda in the coming months.

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.

Deputy leader Tom Watson said: «Theresa May came in to Downing Street promising to put ordinary people first and as part of that promised to cap special adviser pay.

Next door at Number 11, Osborne now has a whopping six special advisers working alongside him - two of whom are in the top pay bracket of # 95,000 - # 142,000 - as he eyes up the top job.

Roger J. Stone Jr., the self - described political dirty trickster who has served as an informal adviser to the president, sought today to portray his contact with a Trump campaign aide as minimal in response to a report that the special counsel is scrutinizing their ties.

In May 1997, Miliband joined the Treasury as special adviser to chancellor Gordon Brown.

Indeed some have only entered the industry in the last couple of years, usually after burnishing their credentials as a lobby journalist or a special adviser.

Gilbert, a former special adviser to Jo Johnson in the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, is known as a cool - headed Tory operator with a sharp business brain.

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.

Lidington's early employment included posts with BP and the Rio Tinto Group before being appointed in 1987 as special adviser to the then Home Secretary Douglas Hurd.

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.

He went on to be a special adviser to Douglas Hogg, the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, and worked at 10 Downing Street as well as for Prime Minister John Major's campaign team in the party's unsuccessful 1997 general election campaign, before becoming a speechwriter and political secretary to Major's successor as party leader, William Hague.

From 2001 - 2003, the Audit's then director, Stuart Weir, acted as special adviser to the Public Administration Select Committee during two inquiries which resulted in two significant reports on the «Quango state.

Cenedella, described by an adviser as a lifelong Republican who favors limits on legalized abortion, opposes gay marriage and backs the death penalty, is in ongoing talks about his candidacy with E. O'Brien Murray, a GOP consultant who managed Bob Turner's stunning victory in the special election for the Brooklyn / Queens congressional seat left vacant by Anthony Weiner's resignation in June.

Eight years later, she married Christine Marinoni, who worked for New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio as a special adviser for community partnerships in the city's education department.

In a dramatic and long - awaited appearance at the Leveson inquiry, Mr Hunt was forced to listen as several embarrassing messages between himself, his special adviser Adam Smith, James Murdoch and Fred Michel, News Corp lobbyist, were read out in the courIn a dramatic and long - awaited appearance at the Leveson inquiry, Mr Hunt was forced to listen as several embarrassing messages between himself, his special adviser Adam Smith, James Murdoch and Fred Michel, News Corp lobbyist, were read out in the courin the court.

For the first time there is clear evidence that the prime minister, as opposed to a junior cabinet minister or special adviser, directly manipulated the quasi-judicial process considering News Corporation's bid for BSkyB, in favour of the Murdochs.

And his predecessor pulled in a sizable paycheck as a special adviser.

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

Sources described the former Rockville Center Republican chairman as «very close» to Skelos (R - LI), who gave him a $ 140,000 - a-year «special adviser» job in 2011.

We are correctly quick to criticise the Milibands and Coopers, who move effortlessly from university to special adviser to safe seat to Cabinet without so much as a trip to Lidls in between... are we not in danger of creating a similar routeway?

In fact, I have some friends who were appointed as legislative aides or special advisers and were really determined to offer their services to the country.

«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.»

As a 25 - year - old special adviser, he stood near Norman Lamont in the Treasury Circle on a balmy September evening as the then chancellor announced that Britain was leaving the ERAs a 25 - year - old special adviser, he stood near Norman Lamont in the Treasury Circle on a balmy September evening as the then chancellor announced that Britain was leaving the ERas the then chancellor announced that Britain was leaving the ERM.

Theresa May survived for six years as Home Secretary in part because she had three very powerful special advisers who acted as her enforcers and her eyes and ears.

Ruwan Kodikara was a Lib Dem special adviser in Number 10 towards the end of Clegg's time as deputy prime minister.

And Brexit secretary David Davis brought in former Portland account executive Tim Smith as one of his special advisers.

The Tory grandee's latest remarks come a week after Lord Howard — who employed Cameron as a special adviser at the Home Office in the 1990s and also supported him in the 2005 Tory leadership contest — also urged voters to back Brexit.

Overclaimed expenses are bad enough, but throw in alleged flipping to minimise her tax bill, as well as a special adviser's apparent use of the culture secretary's role in press regulation to menace a journalist, and the scandal becomes utterly poisonous.

She also seemed to confirm a bid after her wife, Marinoni, resigned from her position as special adviser for community partnerships in the city's Department of Education (DOE).

The document was prepared by Hugh Ind, the director general of the Home Office's immigration enforcement agency, in June last year and copied to Rudd and Lewis, the then immigration minister, as well as several senior civil servants and special advisers.

The triumphant result is that the drinks colossus Diageo, as an example, could go on meeting junior ministers and special advisers to argue against, say, minimum pricing for alcohol, while Alcohol Concern (annual income, less than # 1m) would have to jump through a chilling series of hoops in order to take part in any kind of campaigning, with the risk of criminal charges if it were found in breach of a law that the Electoral Commission says is so opaque it can not confidently predict how it will police it.

Even the government of the day can not involve the civil service formally in manifesto preparation for the next parliament, as I remember from my time as a special adviser prior to the 2010 general election.

Dennys was previously a special adviser to Iain Duncan Smith, but is perhaps best known in the Westminster village as the person accused of blabbing about an impending reshuffle on the 16:43 from Chichester to London Victoria and sparking speculation that IDS was to make way for Esther McVey.

At the same time, POLITICO's Jack Blanchard reports that Bradley has brought in Romilly Dennys as a special adviser with a focus on policy.

Chapman left his role as Davis» chief of staff before the general election, having previously been George Osborne's top special adviser in the Treasury.

Or that they then went on to work as «special advisers», before being selected in equally safe seats.

And her wife, Christine Marinoni, just resigned from her position as special adviser for community partnerships in the city's Department of Education (DOE).

In 1997, Alexander, then a practising lawyer in Scotland, took leave of absence to share the Treasury office in which Miliband was working as a special adviser; in 1999 they were both responsible for the Scottish Parliament election campaign that overturned the Scottish National Party's poll leaIn 1997, Alexander, then a practising lawyer in Scotland, took leave of absence to share the Treasury office in which Miliband was working as a special adviser; in 1999 they were both responsible for the Scottish Parliament election campaign that overturned the Scottish National Party's poll leain Scotland, took leave of absence to share the Treasury office in which Miliband was working as a special adviser; in 1999 they were both responsible for the Scottish Parliament election campaign that overturned the Scottish National Party's poll leain which Miliband was working as a special adviser; in 1999 they were both responsible for the Scottish Parliament election campaign that overturned the Scottish National Party's poll leain 1999 they were both responsible for the Scottish Parliament election campaign that overturned the Scottish National Party's poll lead.