Sentences with phrase «became trade secretary»

Prominent Brexiteers Liam Fox and David Davis became Trade Secretary and Brexit Secretary respectively, while Amber Rudd took over at the Home Office.

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U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry on Wednesday said his country's relationship with Canada and Mexico could become «uncomfortable» during negotiations over their free trade agreement.

As U.S. Trade Representative Robert E. Lighthizer, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and other officials head to Beijing this week for high - stakes trade talks with Chinese counterparts, they seek to correct an economic relationship with China that has become increasingly unbalanced — and, over the long term, dangerous — for the United States and other natTrade Representative Robert E. Lighthizer, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and other officials head to Beijing this week for high - stakes trade talks with Chinese counterparts, they seek to correct an economic relationship with China that has become increasingly unbalanced — and, over the long term, dangerous — for the United States and other nattrade talks with Chinese counterparts, they seek to correct an economic relationship with China that has become increasingly unbalanced — and, over the long term, dangerous — for the United States and other nations.

Unite general secretary Len McCluskey said November 30th 2011 would become known as the day when the trade union movement re-established itself as a major force fighting to protect economic and social advances since the Second World War.

Became a shadow spokesman on Trade and Industry in 1985, shadow chief secretary in 1987, shadow secretary of state for trade and industry in 1989 and shadow chancellor in Trade and Industry in 1985, shadow chief secretary in 1987, shadow secretary of state for trade and industry in 1989 and shadow chancellor in trade and industry in 1989 and shadow chancellor in 1992.

The Governor, who was represented by the Secretary to the State Government, Mr Tunji Bello, said the leaders of markets in the State had been warned and counseled several times on the need to rein in on their market men and women to desist from disturbing others through their trading activities on the roads, but some had become adamant.

The Fabian Sidney Webb, who had, along with Henderson, been instrumental in conceiving Labour's 1918 programme «Labour and the New Social Order» which had committed the party to nationalisation (Clause IV), was appointed President of the Board of Trade; another Fabian, Lord Olivier, became Secretary of State for India.

The change follows a decision by Home Secretary Theresa May to ban the drug, which has already been outlawed in other European countries, to avoid Britain becoming a hub for trading in a substance that was illegal elsewhere.

A number of other senior Labour figures also took up senior positions: the trade union leader Ernest Bevin, as Minister of Labour, directed Britain's wartime economy and allocation of manpower, the veteran Labour statesman Herbert Morrison became Home Secretary, Hugh Dalton was Minister of Economic Warfare and later President of the Board of Trade, while A. V. Alexander resumed the role he had held in the previous Labour Government as First Lord of the Admirtrade union leader Ernest Bevin, as Minister of Labour, directed Britain's wartime economy and allocation of manpower, the veteran Labour statesman Herbert Morrison became Home Secretary, Hugh Dalton was Minister of Economic Warfare and later President of the Board of Trade, while A. V. Alexander resumed the role he had held in the previous Labour Government as First Lord of the AdmirTrade, while A. V. Alexander resumed the role he had held in the previous Labour Government as First Lord of the Admiralty.

He stood down as an MP in 2004 to become EU Trade Commissioner, before returning to the government under Gordon Brown as Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, First Secretary of State, and Lord President of the Council.

The Governor, who was represented by the Secretary to the State Government, Mr Tunji Bello, said the leaders of markets in the State have been warned and counseled severally on the need to rein in on their market men and women to desist from disturbing others through their trading activities on the roads, but some have become adamant.

Frank Hodges (30 April 1887 — 3 June 1947) was an English trade union leader, who became General Secretary of the Miners» Federation of Great Britain.

Alan Duncan, shadow Trade Secretary The Politics Show, BBC, 2 July 2006 Background The West Lothian Question was first posed by Tam Dalyell, then MP for Linlithgow, in the 1970s, but it became a live issue when the Scottish Parliament was established in 1999.

«The abhorrent ivory trade should become a thing of the past,» Britain's environment secretary said Tuesday.

Governor Alexander, who would go on to become secretary of education under President George H. W. Bush and is now a U.S. senator, was more colloquial in his description, calling the program «an old - fashioned horse trade with teachers.