Sentences with phrase «former business secretary»

George Osborne was joined by the Lib Dem former business secretary Vince Cable and Labour's Ed Balls in a hangar at Stansted airport to argue that leaving the EU would be a «one - way ticket to a poorer Britain».
Former business secretary says he fears a price freeze would be a step in the wrong direction for Labour
Former business secretary Lord Mandelson said the government should not rule out temporary re-nationalisation of the plant, which would buy time to look for a new investor while restructuring its debt.
Liberal Democrat former business secretary Sir Vince Cable has said party leader Tim Farron didn't handle questions around gay rights and his Christian faith well during the election campaign.
Writing on the Lib Dem voice website, the 74 - year - old former business secretary insisted that the Lib Dems would benefit from his experience.
Lib Dem former business secretary Sir Vince Cable said: «We're in a relatively encouraging position, though there hasn't been a spectacular breakthrough.»
Liberal Democrat former business secretary Sir Vince Cable has said party leader Tim Farron didn't handle... More
In the Lords debate Lord Mandelson, the Labour former business secretary and former European commissioner, says services are not the same as goods.
Others - including former business secretary Vince Cable - suggested that Green was more like Robert Maxwell, famed for his fraudulent misappropriation of the Mirror Group pension fund and his mysterious death at sea in 1991.
Former business secretary also praises Ed Miliband, despite warning against him during leadership contest
As up to 9,000 jobs at the Tata plant in Port Talbot were being held in the balance, business minister Anna Soubry put the blame on former business secretary Vince Cable.
The clash between Labour's last prime minister and Mr Darling, who eventually held VAT at 17.5 % in his pre-election Budget, was revealed in former business secretary Peter Mandelson's memoirs, The Third Man.
Mr Corbyn is now expected to face a challenge to his leadership, with his deputy Tom Watson and former Business Secretary Angela Eagle in the running.
Turns out David Tennant «s stellar performance as downtrodden former Business Secretary Aiden Hoynes is matched only by his choice of political news; after receiving a public scolding for his attacks on the prime minister, Tennant can be seen here checking the damage to his reputation on our very own blog.
Former business secretary attacks proposed dialogue with EDL and «misplaced, romantic ideas about turning back the clock»
Former business secretary promises book on Blair - Brown relationship that will ruffle some feathers
Former business secretary criticises flagship policy and says Labour should adopt Lib Dem proposal for higher tax bands
Former business secretary claims price - freeze pledge could create impression that industrial policy is going backwards
Meanwhile, Sir Vince Cable, the Lib Dem former business secretary trying to recapture his old seat of Twickenham, moved to distance his party from Labour and position it as the anti-Brexit option.
Former business secretary Lord Mandelson believes Guardian journalist Seumas Milne is «completely unsuited» to the role
Lord Mandelson, the Labour former business secretary, launched a withering attack on Ed Miliband's leadership strategy on the Sunday after the general election.
And some familiar faces - including former Business Secretary Vince Cable and former employment minister Jo Swinson are set to return to parliament.
He shared a stage with the Liberal Democrat former business secretary and the ex-Shadow Chancellor to say 450 jobs and almost # 1billion in investment announced by Ryanair would be «at risk if we left the EU».
Former business secretary Sir Vince Cable has become the first contender to confirm a bid to replace Tim Farron as Liberal Democrat leader.
Vince Cable, the Lib Dem former business secretary, said May was against relaxing visa requirements for visiting Chinese businessmen when she was home secretary and had to be overruled by Osborne.
Four senior Liberal Democrat politicians defeated in the general election, including former business secretary Vince Cable, have turned down offers of a peerage from Nick Clegg in the dissolution honours list.
At the time, former business secretary and Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable warned «the exodus of firms would accelerate» under a deal of this kind.
The former business secretary might be a popular figure among the public — he is the first Strictly Come Dancing contestant to become a party leader — but not every activist is pleased by his sudden, uncontested resurrection.
But the former business secretary's stern stare doesn't seem to be working this time — it looks like he's achieving the opposite of a growth strategy.
And the former business secretary insists he is signing up to do whatever is needed of him.
Fuel was added to the fire by Sir Vince Cable, the former business secretary, who revealed over the weekend that Theresa May had a «general prejudice» against the Chinese which she raised in cabinet meetings, citing «national security concerns».
The former business secretary has announced he is standing to replace Tim Farron a few weeks after winning a seat back in Parliament.
Former Business Secretary Vince Cable has accused Anna Soubry of «pathetic buck - passing» after she said he was partly to blame for the state of the British steel industry.
Former Business Secretary Vince Cable has called for BP shareholders to take action following their 59.1 % vote against CEO Bob Dudley's pay.
Vince Cable, the former Business Secretary, tells me «BP's shareholders will now have to demand heads or face ridicule».
During his appearance before the Treasury select committee on 11 January, Bob Diamond, chief executive of Barclays, described by the former business secretary Lord Mandelson last year as «the unacceptable face of banking», was asked if the Prime Minister or the Chancellor had urged him to «show restraint» over his bonus (reported to be as much as # 8m this year).
The former business secretary has been a member of the Treasury select committee since 2011.
With just ten days to go of an increasingly bitter campaign the former business secretary has called on Labour supporters to «use their noddle» by hurting the Conservatives with a «yes» vote.
The former business secretary eats only 800 calories a day, chiefly in the form of green tea, granola and a starter for dinner.
Cable, a former business secretary, is now regarded as the frontrunner, after Jo Swinson also declined to stand, instead becoming the party's new deputy leader.
The former business secretary said the chancellor had been severely restricted by the downgrading of the growth figures and the unexpected rise in borrowing, which he estimated would cost every person # 700 per year compared to pre-election forecast.
The former business secretary wants to dis - incentivise the owning of second homes and talked of higher taxes for the wealthy.
He said the former business secretary had an «understanding of leadership responsibilities» and was a «genuinely heavy - hitter».
The former business secretary — and architect of New Labour — warned that the party risked a long period in opposition if it swung to the left and failed to recreate the wide - ranging coalition that took Tony Blair to power in 1997.
Mandelson reveals that Tony Blair, who was scrupulously loyal to Brown in public after his resignation as prime minister in June 2007, had severe doubts about his successor and at one point urged the former business secretary not to block a challenge.
In the latest instalment of his memoirs, the former business secretary says that three senior members of the cabinet joked last October that Labour should fight a campaign based on three Fs: Futile, Finished, and Fucked.
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.
Lord Mandelson, a former business secretary under Gordon Brown, praised Miliband for doing something strong by standing up to what seems like a popular position.
The new IPPR director, Nick Pearce, is a former head of the No 10 policy unit and was instrumental in asking Mandelson to take up the inquiry based on his knowledge of the former business secretary's thinking.
The loss of the former business secretary at the 2015 election was a major blow to the Lib Dems.
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