Sentences with phrase «former trade secretary»

Claim: The former Trade Secretary used the expenses system to claim more than # 125,000 for the London flat owned by his partner, it is claimed.

A veteran of the Thatcher era «cuts» (which, of course, were no such thing), the former trade secretary is installed in his own office inside No 10, where he appears to have more access to the prime minister than most of the cabinet.

Not exact matches

To believe that people like Schwarzman or Trump, or Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross (net worth US$ 2.5 billion) or Secretary of State Rex Tillerson (the former CEO of ExxonMobil whose net worth is a modest US$ 150 million), will leave Canada alone, that they will look for a better deal with everyone except their second - largest trading partner, is not just naïve — it's like jumping into a pool filled with great white sharks because you've convinced yourself they're vegetarians.

Larry Summers, the former Treasury secretary and key economic advisor to President Barack Obama, discusses President Trump's approach to the global economy and trade.

When he nominated Ross to be Commerce secretary, Trump put the former investor at the forefront of his ambitious, nationalist trade policy.

The hard - line contingent — led by the president's chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon, and the director of the National Trade Council, Peter Navarro — squared off against the more traditional group, which included two former Goldman Sachs executives, Gary D. Cohn, the director of the National Economic Council, and the Treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin.

-- Robert B. Zoellick, Former President of the World Bank Group, US Trade Representative, and Deputy Secretary of State

He portrayed himself as a champion of free trade and world order, speaking to a group that included Ban Ki - moon, the former secretary general of the United Nations, and Pascal Lamy, the former director general of the World Trade Organization, and his words helped move markets around the wtrade and world order, speaking to a group that included Ban Ki - moon, the former secretary general of the United Nations, and Pascal Lamy, the former director general of the World Trade Organization, and his words helped move markets around the wTrade Organization, and his words helped move markets around the world.

Froman, a former treasury department chief of staff, assistant to the president and deputy national security adviser for economic affairs for both Clinton and Obama, had served as trade secretary since June of 2013 and actively worked toward free trade agreements.

Bob Carr, Professor of International Relations at UTS, Director of the Australia - China Relations Institute Dennis Richardson, former Secretary of Foreign Affairs and Trade, former Director General of ASIO and former Ambassador to the US Andrew Shearer, Senior Adviser on Asia Pacific Security, Center for Strategic and International Studies, US Moderator: Lisa Murray, Returning China Correspondent, The Australian Financial Review

Former Work and Pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith has used the occasion to attack his government for «watering down» their agenda on issues from trade union reform to parliamentary sovereignty.

This week, former General Secretary of the CWU Alan Johnson has issued an unabashed attack on trade union influence within the Labour Party in an interview with Progress, part of an increasingly confrontational and destructive approach to dictating Labour Party policy from the Blairite wing.

«Former Home Secretary David Blunkett says he's «bewildered» by Nick Clegg's fascination with bringing in proportional representation which, he says, would result in the current horse - trading being repeated after every election.

He is a former flatmate of the Unite general secretary, Len McCluskey, and resigned as Labour's election coordinator over the Falkirk selection row involving the trade union.

Former defence secretary, Liam Fox, who also campaigned to leave the EU, was given the new job of international trade secretary and Boris Johnson, who was a leader of the official Leave campaign, is foreign secretary.

That the former general secretary of the Communication Workers» Union had the audacity to attack the trade union movement in the organ that they most despise, Progress, ensured that this former comrade had joined the dead roll - call of «Blairite zombies».

He represented Bernard Kerik, the former New York City police commissioner who was convicted on federal corruption charges; Jerome Valcke, the former FIFA secretary general who was fired over allegations of misconduct; and Michael Steinberg, a Wall Street hedge fund manager who appealed his 2013 conviction for insider trading and was vindicated when the charges were dropped in October 2015.

Meanwhile John Hutton, former DWP secretary, is equally sniffy about union involvement, pointing out that only a» tiny proportion of the population are in trade unions.»

Geoffrey Pattie, a former parliamentary under - secretary of state for defence procurement and director of Marconi Defence Systems, used to be on the board, and Lord Marland, David Cameron's pro-Brexit former trade envoy, a shareholder.

Mr Blair may have realised that, denied the cover provided by his former Trade and Industry secretary, relations with the Lib Dems would have to cool off.

The Labour party will be led down a blind alley if trade unions succeed in banning Progress, a pressure group associated with Tony Blair, the former business secretary Lord Mandelson warned on Sunday.

Teachers have not forgotten the claim by the former Secretary of State for Education, Michael Gove, that a key aim of the College would be to usurp the role of teacher trade unions, a claim that has not been repudiated by his successor.

Meanwhile, David Rothkopf, US foreign policy expert and former deputy under - secretary for international trade under Bill Clinton, described attitudes in starker terms.

Former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who was removed from his post by the Trump administration last week, was overseeing an investigation into stock trades made by the president's health secretary, Tom Price.

The U.S. Senate confirmed Steven Mnuchin, a former Goldman Sachs banker and Hollywood film financier, to be Treasury secretary, putting in place a key lieutenant to the president who will help drive the administration's plans to overhaul the tax code, renegotiate trade deals around the world and remake financial regulations.

Herbert, the former minister for policing and criminal justice, said the government needed to be careful not to be swayed by the most hardline Brexiters and warned that the jury is still out on the performance of Johnson, the foreign secretary, Fox, the trade secretary, and Davis, the Brexit secretary.

Another IRG Ltd is a UK company which trades as Odgers Berndston, an executive recruitment agency and it counts former Conservative health secretary, Virginia Bottomley, as a director.

In the first years of the twenty - first century, the paper has carried contributions from Uri Avnery, John Pilger, Green activist Derek Wall, ex-Mayor of London Ken Livingstone, Labour MPs Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell, Green MP Caroline Lucas, former MP George Galloway (Respect), the cartoonist Martin Rowson, and many trade union general secretaries.

Lord Mandelson is the former Labour MP for Hartlepool, who served as the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and Secretary of State for Trade and Industry under Tony Blair.

Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue (left), a two - term governor of Georgia who is a veterinarian by trade and ran a host of agriculture - related businesses, got the endorsement of former Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, the only Trump Cabinet official to be backed by his predecessor.

Former NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson were among those on the White House guest list for a discussion with the president as he continues to push for approval of the Trans - Pacific Partnership tradeFormer NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson were among those on the White House guest list for a discussion with the president as he continues to push for approval of the Trans - Pacific Partnership tradeformer Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson were among those on the White House guest list for a discussion with the president as he continues to push for approval of the Trans - Pacific Partnership trade deal.

Addressing union delegates on the final day of their conference in Bridlington Ronnie Draper — General Secretary of the Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union, urged the trade union movement to launch a robust campaign equivalent to the anti-poll tax demonstrations in the early nineties which helped force former Tory Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher from power.

Chuka Umunna, the former shadow business secretary, told ITV's Good Morning Britain: «Essentially, those who want us to leave can't answer the question: «Will we be able to have all the benefits that we have in the EU, being part of that big, free trade, single market trading zone if we come out, can you guarantee that?»

In the case of this former business secretary and EU trade commissioner, his title has a whiff of the hereditary principle: between 1956 and 1965, its holder was his grandfather, the esteemed former Labour high - up Herbert Morrison.

International Trade Secretary Liam Fox reacts to criticism from his former top civil servant that the UK will need a «fairy godmother» to get the kind of Brexit deal it wants.

According to the federal criminal complaint unveiled Sept. 22 by U.S. Attorney for the Southern District Preet Bharara, «Herb» was the nickname traded by Howe and Joseph Percoco, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's former executive deputy secretary.

Present at the rally were the NPP vice presidential candidate, Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia; former Trade Minister, Alan Kyeremanteng; aide to Nana Akufo - Addo, Mustapha Hamid; the National Organiser and acting General Secretary, John Boadu; and the National Women Organiser, Afisa Otiko Djaba.

Despite his vocal support for the union during an unprecedented speech at its annual conference in March, the Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn did not visit teachers on picket lines today, and Angela Rayner, the new shadow education secretary and a former trade union official, stopped short of backing the strike.

The documents show meetings between Shell, BP and the former Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), Vince Cable, acting as a Contact Minister for oil and gas companies under the UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) Strategic Relations Team.

While the event will have no shortage of high level speakers — the opening keynote address will be given by Mosebenzi Zwane, the minister of mineral resources of South Africa, while Kenya's former trade minister Mukhisa Kituyi, the current secretary general of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, will also pretrade minister Mukhisa Kituyi, the current secretary general of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, will also preTrade and Development, will also present.

In October 2014, the Government of Ontario appointed Tony Dean (former Secretary of Cabinet and head of the Ontario Public Service) to review a number of issues related to the regulation of the skilled trades in Ontario.

Former U.S. Trade Secretary, Larry Summers, predicts Trump's policies would cause a recession with global implications in less than 18 months.