Sentences with phrase «closest special advisers»
Some of David Cameron's closest special advisers were rewarded with bumper pay rises just months before the former prime minister granted them severance packages over and above what they were contractually entitled to, Civil Service World can reveal.
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In the summer of 2000 I was commissioned by Harper's Bazaar magazine to write about the young gilded special advisers who were working for Tony Blair and Gordon Brown or orbiting around them, or who were close to Peter Mandelson.
Sources described the former Rockville Center Republican chairman as «very close» to Skelos (R - LI), who gave him a $ 140,000 - a-year «special adviser» job in 2011.
Dame Tessa insisted that while she was «sure» Mr Miliband, who was a close ally of Mr Brown, was aware of the activities of the then - prime minister's special adviser, it would not damage his position now.
But perhaps the most significant players on Team May are Stephen Parkinson, formerly of the Vote Leave campaign, and Fiona Hill, the home secretary's formidable former special adviser and close confidante who recently joined lobbying firm Lexington Communications.
Parliamentarians consider it highly unlikely that Mr Smith could operate autonomously from his minster, given that the relationship between secretaries of state and their special adviser is usually extremely close.
WASHINGTON — President Trump's advisers have concluded that a wide - ranging corruption investigation into his personal lawyer poses a greater and more imminent threat to the president than even the special counsel's investigation, according to several people close to Mr. Trump.
A close friend of Michael Gove, he had worked as his special adviser when Gove was minister of education, alongside another senior Vote Leave director, its head of digital, Henry de Zoete.