Sentences with phrase «as business secretary»

The former investment banker has also served as business secretary.

He was writing the book as business secretary, but it is now likely to be a much a more frank account of where he believes government economic policy succeeded or failed.

The Liberal Democrats have lost all but one of their seats in London, including those of high - profile members of the party such as Business Secretary Vince Cable.

Cable was similarly troubled by the Lib Dems» refusal to challenge the Tories» economic narrative; he seriously considered resigning from his post as business secretary in 2012 in protest against Cameron and Osborne's spending cuts.

When Mandelson lost his post as business secretary after the 2010 general election, he set up the «strategic advice consultancy» with financial backing from WPP, the marketing services group headed by Sir Martin Sorrell.

«Peter Mandelson is doing a very good job as business secretary as I think everybody knows,» is the answer.

In his cabinet roles so far he has, as BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg put it, avoided major calamity, although he faced questions as business secretary over Tata steel, and as communities secretary over the response to the Grenfell disaster.

Vince Cable spent five years in government as Business Secretary tells me he had few problems with the unions between 2010 - 2015.

However it also comes as business secretary Vince Cable questions whether the economy is yet «out of the tunnel.»

Later on Mr Cable returns to the subject of «fair taxes», when asked what he would consider a success after five years as Business Secretary.

An earlier plan to sell was scrapped in 2014 by Vince Cable, in his role as business secretary in the coalition government, after he said the move would not achieve its stated aim of reducing government debt.

The Liberal Democrats, including high - profile members of the party such as Business Secretary Vince Cable, lose all but one of their seats in the capital.

Peter Mandelson — who incidentally made McBride's removal from Brown's operation a condition of his return as Business Secretary last autumn — characteristically differs from the centre left on how to proceed.

As well as the business secretary's Cabinet colleagues, Labour leader Ed Miliband has also repeated the mantra of supporting the treaty without seemingly feeling a need to explain how it address concerns about the UK's own arms sales.

Cable and May repeatedly clashed over the issue of immigration when in government, particularly with regard to universities which came under Cable's remit as business secretary.

Vince Cable also performed for the Strictly judges during his stint as business secretary — but only on a Christmas special.

Then, in an astounding coup, and in the week after the end of the conference, the über - Blairite Peter Mandelson returned to cabinet as Business Secretary.

Greg Clark is liked by Downing Street but has not always impressed as business secretary and could also be in line for a move to another department.

Sajid Javid has been appointed as Business Secretary, replacing the Liberal Democrat's Vince Cable who lost his seat.

Hence Tory HQ's desire to highlight the appointment as business secretary, Sajid Javid, whose father was a bus driver and a new party vice chairman, Robert Halfon, who's argued for what he calls blue collar conservatism.

The CEO of the Redcar steelworks had sent some extremely disobliging letters about him to the then prime minister, and Vince Cable had been far too hopeless as business secretary during the early years of the coalition, but these were crosses he had learned to bear.

He later returned to government as Business Secretary under Gordon Brown.

There is a bundle of MPs in the Conservative Party who are highly critical of Vince Cable's approach as business secretary.

But frustration at the role of the City manifested itself at fringe events today as business secretary Pat McFadden attacked bankers in his keynote speech to the conference floor.

As well as the question I mentioned yesterday about whether people preferred Mandelson or Clarke as business secretary, the poll also included head - to - heads between Darling & Osborne, Miliband & Hague and Smith & Grayling.

He had a perspective «which I will bring to India as the Business Secretary,» he said, «and president of the Board of Trade, wanting to encourage trade and inward investment.»

Mandelson, the former spin doctor who returned to domestic politics in 2008 to serve as business secretary for the last 18 months of Gordon Brown's Labour government, is to chair Global Counsel LLP, which will be run by Wegg - Prosser, his longstanding political ally, and will advise multinational companies, according to Sky News.

Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns restated the UK government's view on its potential cost: «As the business secretary said last week, the Swansea proposal is more than twice as expensive as Hinkley nuclear power station, so we will continue discussions with the Welsh Government to look at the affordability of the case and do everything possible to make it a reality.

Most intriguingly, Jeremy Hunt also remained in place as health secretary and Greg Clarke kept his job as business secretary - despite plans to shift both men.

However, he did face calls to stand down as business secretary over his response to the steel crisis in 2015 which saw Tata Steel cut thousands of jobs.

The news comes as Business Secretary Vince Cable prepares to deliver a speech on higher education today.

Sajid Javid will take up a new role as business secretary.

Universities had been expecting the cap to rise to # 7,000, as business secretary Vince Cable had initially suggested following the publication of Lord Browne's review on the issue.

He said Theresa May and David Cameron, under whom he served as business secretary, had been consistently weak in clamping down on the overseas territories.

As business secretary in the Coalition, Cable used to spark news stories which ran for days by standing up on stage and raising the deficiencies of capitalism.

As business secretary, Cable looked for a way out; Danny Alexander, who had taken over from Laws as chief secretary to the Treasury, insisted the party should go along with the rise in tuition fees.

Clark said no decisions had been made on whether the UK would remain inside the EU customs union, but the tone suggests that, as business secretary and a past advocate of remain, he believes the UK should do so.

Ideally it would be as Business Secretary but where could you put Vince Cable?

But of the changes, the most notable are Michael Gove as justice secretary (as previously announced), Sajid Javid — who many have billed to be Cameron's successor - as business secretary, John Whittingdale as culture secretary, Tina Stowell as leader of the House of Lords, Anna Soubry as minister for small business, Amber Rudd as energy secretary, and Priti Patel as minister for employment.

As Business Secretary, he has a crucial role in overseeing our recovery from the sharpest recession in living memory.

• What a pity that Peter Mandelson can't use his analytical abilities to help Labour craft a more responsible form of capitalism in the way that Lord Sainsbury has attempted, rather than simply seeking to defend his own «legacy» as business secretary.

As Business Secretary Vince Cable suggests student fees could be replaced by a new «graduate tax», Channel 4 News's Political Editor Gary Gibbon says there are many politicians from all sides who will back the change.

As business secretary, Javid was criticised for lacking an industrial policy and his slowfooted response to the Tata steel crisis.