Sentences with phrase «ex-bbc spad»

Jay smiles and suggests that's by - the - by - what applied to the secretary of state applied to the spad.

«To me it is self - evident a spad represents the sec of state.

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.

He says it's the same day he received Hunt's spad's advise saying he's received strong advice not to meet.

If the spad expresses the view the UK government supported it, «it's a fairly obvious deduction Hunt supported it, which contradicts what you told me earlier».

Michel explains what a spad is, which irritates Leveson.

Frederic Michel, James Murdoch's lobbying man in News International, and Adam Smith, Hunt's hapless special adviser (spad) Give evidence today.

After the election he became his spad.

It says there were huge risks to Michel to meet with Cable's spad, because they wants to say they were taking an independent view.

Michel advocacy with spads is not clandestine - it's advocacy.

12:29 - We're on a meeting with George Osborne's spad.

As well as being one of the spads given an enhanced severance package, he saw his salary jump from less than # 58,200 in 2014 to # 72,000 in 2015 — an increase of at least 24 per cent.

Another spad whose pay was increased was Daniel Korski, who was deputy director of the No 10 policy unit.

Jay suggests it; s a spad speaking on behalf of the whole of the UK government.

Next a Michel message refers to a private call with Cable's spad.

«The people who tend to do well at Diplomacy are those who spend many hours talking at great length to put across their position and the tactical disadvantages and advantages of certain actions,» the SpAd explains.

Sugg, awarded a CBE last year for her service, was another spad to get an honour in the wake of Cameron's departure, being given a life peerage.

Jay: «But it's advocacy that Cable's spad was specifically ruling out.

Lyndsey Marshal's portrayal of Ed Miliband's SpAd steals the show.

Here's what the spad, Adam Smith, has to say:

May has 32 special advisers in total, with six «super spads» in the top pay bracket of # 95,000 - # 142,000.

But will sacrificing a spad be enough to save the secretary of state himself?

(Ideal preparation for being a SPAD, you might say.)

Labour claims there were only six spads in the top pay bracket at the end of Brown's prime ministership.

Meanwhile, Osborne's director of communications James Chapman — who he pinched from the Daily Mail earlier this year — comes in as the fourth best - paid spad in all of government.

When Hayden Allan was sent from the Tory press office to be Liam Fox's spad at the Ministry of Defence in 2010 it was widely assumed he was going there to be Andy Coulson's nark, keeping an eye on Liam for No. 10.

He has already let it be known that George Osborne's hard hat and yellow jacket photo - ops (a creation of his ex-BBC spad Thea Rogers) have been ditched and that he will be a full - time Chancellor, unlike his predecessor, who was David Cameron's chief political strategist as well as trying to run the economy.

My father was a SpAd in the Callaghan government and I served under both Blair and Brown.

I've always thought the title misleading — assuming that officials are «normal» and SpAds are «special».

It's claimed that Fiona Hill and Nick Timothy, the other joint chief of staff, are vetting the spad appointments.

Jeremy Corbyn's The Thick Of It - style «Traingate» fiasco demonstrates just how he could do with some media savvy spads in his team right now.

Of course, after David Cameron's gongs for cronies resignation honours list, we now know that spads do end up in the House of Lords!

And the new PM's spad appointments reveal that she chooses people she trusts and whose loyalty she can rely on.

I am slightly surprised that in such a long article you didn't reflect on the case of Jeremy Hunt's SpAd, Adam Smith, though, who resigned just recently.

I wouldn't say ex-journalists always make the best spads.

Which brings me to another Sky News colleague, Poppy Trowbridge, who is to be Philip Hammond's other spad.

Responding to Duncan Brack's article Being A Special Adviser Under The Coalition, Richard Darlington (himself a former SpAd in the Labour government) said: «I agree that good government requires more, not fewer SpAds.

Now, in his article, he describes the only alternative to Corbyn as a «coterie of SPADs, PR advisors and Oxford PPE graduates that got Labour into this mess».

Now she's joint chief of staff to the Prime Minister - one of three ex-Sky people on Theresa May's ever - growing spad list - and I wish her well!

Mr Osborne and Mr Cameron were the rising stars of the Conservative SpAd classes ahead of the 1997 election when the Conservative campaign guide stated.

Professor Robert Hazell of the UCL Constitution Unit — which has published a series of training resources for special advisers — told CSW that «shrewd» Spads could already «convey instructions without directly appearing to do so».

«The fact the code now says Spads can instruct officials on matters of presentation feels like a step back towards the days of Alastair Campbell under Tony Blair, when the entire government communication service was placed under Campbell's control,» he said.

Bernard Jenkin, the Conservative chair of the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee (Pacac), told Civil Service World that he believed the change had echoes of Tony Blair's decision to allow a small number of Spads — including director of communications Alastair Campbell — to give instructions to officials.

Unveiling the revised special advisers» code alongside a refreshed model contract for Spads, Cabinet Office minister Lord Bridges said the change «takes into account» the recommendations of Pacac.

And Hazell said the change could give Spads «further encouragement to freelance» and convey instructions to officials that had not come directly from ministers.

Deputy leader of the House Tom Brake told MPs that special advisers, informally called «spads», who wield immense influence in Whitehall and Westminster, would not be covered because they are not «decision - makers».

A SpAd calls: «Do you want to know what I've got to say, or are you just going to make it up?»

There's a wise, old parliamentary staffer saying that goes: «I want to be a SpAd one day, and if killing Larry the cat gets me the role, then call me a cat killer!»

Off he strides in his squeaky boots to Casa Bucket, spads dressed up as the Merry Men following on behind.

Another SpAd calls: «Shippers, are you Rachel's source?»