Sentences with phrase «by spads»
A well - placed government source once told me she's «kept on a tight leash» by spads, in case, as a forthright personality, she is too outspoken in the media...
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Jay smiles and suggests that's by - the - by - what applied to the secretary of state applied to the spad.
Ministers are overturning a Lords amendment demanding that «spads» be covered by the rules governing the new register of third - party lobbyists being set up in the lobbying bill.
The opportunity is there but the means by which the Lib Dems capitalise on that opportunity are far from clear — especially when an anecdote about a curious boy and a dead pig gets more coverage in a day than the Lib Dem conference does over a week (having said that, Lib Dem conference delegates did squeal with excitement when they read about it, including myself, when I sent some late night trolling texts to my former Tory SpAd colleagues).
Sylvester names Tessa Jowell, Liam Byrne and Alan Milburn as having agreed to contribute, along with Spads - turned - MPs Liz Kendall and John Woodcock, to a book due to be published by Progress, with Lord Sainsbury's support, ahead of the party conference.
It's why I was really happy to see him take a SPAD job, confirmed that, behind the scenes, we were on the right track (he can persuade died in the wool Tories of a socialist position by using the language they like to hear, it's a vvery impressive trick).
«Legatum has risen from nowhere, taken over by Philippa Stroud the former SPAD for Iain Duncan Smith, director of his think tank the Centre for social Justice and Christian fundamentalist.