Sentences with phrase «at foreign office»

He worked for a year at the Foreign Office, adores reggae and the Caribbean, and his first book, Twirlymen: the Unlikely History of Cricket's Greatest Spin Bowlers, was published in 2011.

SPIN doctor has always been a big fan of amusingly off - message Pontypridd MP Kim Howells, and was sad to see him lose his job at the Foreign Office in Gordon Brown's reshuffle.

Those assurances proved to be wrong: in February 2008, amid mounting evidence that rendition aircraft had landed on the atoll, David Miliband, one of Straw's successors at the Foreign Office, told the Commons that he was «very sorry indeed» to report that two rendition flights had refuelled there in 2002.

David Miliband may be regarded by Hillary Clinton, US secretary of state, as «vibrant» and authoritative, but Mr Hague is far less smitten with the man who preceded him at the Foreign Office.

As the negotiations were taking place, Gordon Brown returned to Downing Street and held a meeting with Nick Clegg at the Foreign Office for talks.

On my first day at the Foreign Office I also went to see the Permanent Under - Secretary, the most senior civil servant.

During his tenure at The Foreign Office, Britain was busy shedding Empire and he was very involved in the new constitutions of colonies becoming independent, including Fiji.

A spokesman at the Foreign Office told inthenews.co.uk it was doing «everything we can» to secure the release of the hostages and remained in «close contact» with their families while negotiations with kidnappers continued.

We might have had a changed ministers at the Foreign Office this year, but I can see no evidence of any change in EU integrationist policy.»

Kevin Brennan at business Ivan Lewis at Foreign Office Glenys Kinnock at Foreign Office (from European parliament) Maria Eagle at justice Jim Fitzpatrick at environment Gareth Thomas at international development Joan Ruddock at energy Gillian Merron at health Angela E Smith at the Cabinet Office (from being Brown's PPS) Sadiq Khan at transport Angela Eagle at work and pensions

Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond is greeted by @SimonFraserFCO on his arrival at the Foreign Office this afternoon pic.twitter.com / XXDnodYvQK

Bower is leaving to become communications director at the Foreign Office - and two other senior communications operatives at Number 10 are also preparing to make an exit.

«There's more to life than drinks parties at the Foreign Office and having Nick Robinson's number on your f *** ing BlackBerry.»

He worked at the Foreign Office between 2000 and 2005 and was special advisor to Robin Cook and Jack Straw before returning to the UN in 2006.

Both sides of the Brexit debate have been scrambling to decode remarks made by Prince William during a speech to British diplomats at the foreign office in London.

William Hague has slashed eight per cent from his spending at the Foreign Office, and that was despite being named by the Chancellor as the «best foreign secretary in a generation.»

During a joint press conference at the Foreign Office, Mr Brown said: «Premier Wen has overseen improve in social and economic rights in China.

Seems odd that young Christopher Myers (25) should go from driving William Hague (49) around his constituency during elections, where according to the Mirror, «although he never worked at Tory HQ in London... they became close during campaigns», to become his third Special Adviser at the Foreign Office.

One is that William Hague, now writing books in his Welsh hideaway, may regret stepping down from the Commons and the job he loved at the Foreign Office.

But David Miliband, who was working at the Foreign Office today, was the last cabinet heavyweight to make public comments and appeared to be the most unresounding.

She was subsequently moved to the post of Minister of State at the Foreign Office and Minister for Faith and Communities in Mr Cameron's 2012 re-shuffle in a move widely regarded as a demotion.

Changes in his circle - and at the Foreign Office.

Walden was Johnson's director of communications at City Hall and he ran the former London mayor's transition team at the Foreign Office.

Miliband is well liked by his staff at the Foreign Office.

And it was still there when I went to his news conference with the Saudi Arabian foreign minister at the Foreign Office on Wednesday evening.

Palmerston started work as chief mouser at the Foreign Office last month, having arrived from Battersea Dogs and Cats Home.

So I think the criticism aimed at the Foreign Office and William Hague over the infamous botched attempt to establish contact with the rebels, was at least partly unfair.

Maybe David Davis at the Brexit Department or Boris Johnson at the Foreign Office.

When I was at the Foreign Office you were expressly not allowed to take a visit which ended up with a holiday when a member of the family was there.

Under Gordon Brown he rose to a ministerial position at the Foreign Office, but back in Opposition he fell well short of the votes required amongst his colleagues to make the shadow cabinet.

He told MPs at Foreign Office questions the Government would continue to work at the United Nations «in order to ensure that the international convention on chemical weapons once again becomes properly effective».

Not exact matches

Trump is scheduled to embark upon his first foreign trip since taking office as Saudi Arabia welcomes the visiting U.S. president at a regional summit.

Galbraith at Thalmic Labs says if the process is too onerous, some companies may opt to hire a foreign worker but keep that person overseas and establish an office abroad.

In June the Canadian government implemented a package of immigration reforms, known as the Global Skills Strategy, aimed at fast - tracking visas for skilled foreign workers — some can get processed in as little as two weeks — and providing a concierge service that will walk companies through the process of opening an office on Canadian soil.

Relations between the U.S. and its closest ally have been repeatedly strained since Trump took office a year ago and U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May became the first foreign leader to meet him at the White House.

It's a huge advantage in that when Custom House closed down, it had 350 people at its head office and probably 1,000 more who had worked there over the years, all trained in foreign exchange.

The UK firms Reuters identified were either UK - registered companies or Limited Liability Partnerships (LLPs) whose directors were foreign - based individuals representing many companies or whose members were companies registered at legal offices in low tax jurisdictions such as Vanuatu or the Seychelles.

In 2009 it won a lucrative contract to protect employees of the U.K.'s Foreign and Commonwealth Office at its embassy in Baghdad and offices in Basra and Erbil.

Though Trump announced at his January 11 press conference that he would not pursue additional foreign deals while in office and that he would move his assets into a trust controlled by his children, income from the Panama project will continue to roll in.

JPMorgan's involvement in the rigging of foreign currency has now been looked at by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the U.S. Justice Department, the Federal Reserve, and the U.K.'s Financial Conduct Authority.

Wolf authored the 1998 bill that established the State Department's international religious freedom office, created an ambassador - at - large for the issue and founded a bipartisan commission to monitor foreign...

He held three ministerial offices, at the Environment, International Development and finally the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Regardless, the journalists attending a Foreign Office press conference with William Hague and John Kerry will have been surprised to have been present at the moment a possible way out of the Syrian chemical weapons impasse arrived out of the blue.

James Harding's Alpha Dogs: How Spin Became a Global Business (Atlantic Books, # 22.00) is about the highly successful Sawyer Miller Group of spin doctors who worked for politicians and corporate leaders, and included at one time Mark Malloch Brown, now a foreign office minister.

He told the programme: «I got a telephone call at nine o'clock on Thursday night and I called the Foreign Office immediately and the response unit, actually, they advised me not to go.»

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.

One of the things that is evident in all of this (from the careful statements being made) is that the US State Dept and UK Foreign Office lawyers have been hard at work advising their respective bosses on this question.

Arthur Snell served in the Foreign Office from 1998 - 2014 after studying history at Oxford.

«He may recall that the chancellor's cat Freya had access to the Foreign Office, Number 10 Downing Street and it was thought that she might have been got at by a foreignForeign Office, Number 10 Downing Street and it was thought that she might have been got at by a foreignforeign power.

When he arrived in the street at 6.30 pm, the plucky Pole surprised everyone, including Mr Cameron, by arriving at the Horseguards Parade end of Downing Street and emerging on foot from the iron gates by the Foreign Office, instead of being driven in a limo from the Whitehall end, which most official visitors are.