Sentences with phrase «becoming special adviser»

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

My concern is that, with the president becoming a special adviser to the commission, it will be difficult for me to say what I think without first making sure that people around the commissioner or the Directorate - General for Research and Innovation won't object — especially if I disagree with the commission.

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

The person who runs the student union, then goes to a think tank, then becomes a special adviser, and then gets fast - tracked.

After graduating, Cameron joined the Conservative research department where he became special adviser to «Black Wednesday» chancellor Norman Lamont and later Michael Howard.

As the Tories secured an unexpected election win in 1992, Mr Cameron was rewarded with promotion to become special adviser to Norman Lamont — where he got his first taste of crashing out of Europe, on Black Wednesday.

«And what you're seeing is people that came up under a certain system where you did politics at uni, you became a special adviser, you became an MP, you became a minister who are rightfully upset because Jeremy's brought a whole lot of new energy and new people into politics.»

He served as deputy director of Conservative Research from 2007 to 2010, when he became a special adviser to May upon her appointment at the Home Office following the formation of the coalition government.

Not exact matches

Through the work of four playwrights, Matt Charman, Moira Buffini, Penelope Skinner and Jack Thorne, the play follows several intertwining stories: a couple in a therapy session discuss the impact that the strong environmental beliefs of one, and the indifference of the other, is having on their relationship, a young woman, against her parents» advice, drops out of university to become a climate change activist, two birdwatchers who, for 40 years, have noted the recession of the ice through tracking the numbers of guillemots, and Ed Miliband's special adviser (SpAd) in the lead up to the Copenhagen Climate Conference.

Cameron, too, had never held a Cabinet position before becoming Prime Minister, although he had been a special adviser to Norman Lamont while he had been Chancellor.

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.

Lord Patten said the role of special adviser had become counterproductive as they no longer simply provided support to ministers and instead they «see it as their job to promote internecine warfare between departments on too many occasions.»

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.

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.

I remember being at Warwick in 2008 where our National Policy Forum (local activists and trade union members) met with all the frontbenchers and special advisers to agree on the manifesto and it was clear that we had become timid, institutional and unambitious.

«We are becoming a nation run by characterless, visionless, passionless, rudderless, calculating former special advisers»

This became obvious owing to the announcement of the appointment and deployment of permanent secretaries by President Buhari's special adviser on media and publicity, Femi Adesina.

Before becoming an MP in 2001, he was a special adviser in the agriculture department when the Tories were in government and later served as political secretary to William Hague.

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.

According to his Ministry of Justice bio, before becoming an MP Lidington worked for BP and Rio Tinto — Zinc Corporation and spent three years as special adviser to Douglas Hurd.