Sentences with phrase «former cabinet office»

Responding to openDemocracy's revelations, former cabinet office minister Liam Byrne said that the «extraordinary emails lay bare a secret kitchen cabinet charting the course for a hard Brexit, off the books, behind closed doors.»

In a sign of the seismic shifts in Labour thinking, Tom Watson, the former Cabinet Office minister and one of Brown's closest allies, writing in the Guardian today, calls for a move towards an alternative vote system to «help rebuild the trust and authority given to our elected representatives».

ITV News asked former Cabinet Office chief economist Jonathan Portes whether or not the UK was headed for a recession.

Cameron has made another announcement - Francis Maude, the former cabinet office minister, will become Trade Minister.

Nick Clegg, the former deputy prime minister, wrote to Clark, his former cabinet office colleague, warning that a series of deals for different industry sectors could cost the taxpayer «colossal amounts of money» in subsidies.

Fourteen years ago, former Cabinet Office social enterprise ambassador Claudine Reid MBE had a sense that she and her husband Peter should invest in a disused warehouse in Croydon, Surrey.

Not exact matches

The government has built four trade and investment offices throughout China, has doubled their staff, and set up former cabinet minister Ben Stewart as a new, permanent special representative who is based in Beijing.

Add to these bureaucratic inefficiencies the curious case of Judy Sgro, the former immigration minister who resigned from cabinet in January following a pair of scandals involving the alleged preferential treatment of immigrants who were associated with her campaign office.

Jesse Madison, the new chief of the Chicago Park District, gave the press a tour of former Supt. Edmund Kelly «s suite of offices Wednesday and a look at the controversial file cabinets which Kelly had reportedly emptied during his struggle to retain control over the vast park system.

Andrew Greenway is a former deputy director of data analysis and horizon scanning at the Government Office for Science and has also been a programme manager working on digital projects for the Cabinet Office.

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.

You can read it in its entirety here, but suffice to say it is critical of the former Speaker, Michael Martin, the police, the Home Office and the Cabinet Office, among others.

It's a familiar theme of former cabinet ministers who were less keen when in office.

Liz Truss, Justine Greening and Priti Patel are among the ministers to receive promotions today, while Damian Green and James Brokenshire — both former Home Office colleagues of Ms May — join the Cabinet for the first time.

Delegates included Cabinet ministers such as Jack Straw, Andy Burnham, Liam Byrne, Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, and Dame Tessa Jowell; a former Home Office minister, Nick Herbert, and Labour's Shadow Business Secretary, Chuka Umunna.

Former Foreign Office minister and ex-Shadow Culture Secretary Chris Bryant has called for the Cabinet Secretary Jeremy Heywood to investigate.

Sir Richard Clive Mottram, GCB (born 23 April 1946) is a former British civil servant, who retired in 2007 from his most recent senior post as Permanent Secretary, Intelligence, Security and Resilience in the Cabinet Office.

«The social and cultural impact is not being teased out,» said Tom Watson, former parliamentary secretary at the Cabinet Office.

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) released figures showing the former justice secretary succeeded in arresting the rise in prison numbers, despite his demotion in the recent Cabinet reshuffle.

Nonetheless, like former education secretary Justine Greening, and Cabinet Office minister Damian Green before her, she joins the growing ranks of senior Tory backbenchers with only thinly - disguised misgivings about the direction of official Brexit policy.

Ed Balls is confirmed as Shadow Chancellor; his wife Yvette Cooper takes his job as shadow home secretary; Douglas Alexander takes her former portfolio of shadow foreign secretary; Lima Byrne becomes shadow work and pensions secretary; Tessa Jowell to take on responsibilities shadowing the Cabinet Office, formerly held by Byrne.

Oliver Dowden A former adviser to David Cameron — he has a CBE thanks to Cameron's infamous 2015 dissolution honours — the MP for Hertsmere since 2015 has a junior role at the Cabinet Office.

In other changes, another former NEC chair and former general secretary of the Fabian Society, Baroness Hayter, joins the Cabinet Office team and, with Lord Tunnicliffe, the team covering business, innovation and skills, where Labour said it would focus work on its concerns about jobs and growth in the economy.

The intervention is the first major statement from the former shadow home secretary, who was being tipped for the Home Office role during the early stages of last week, when Cabinet position were gradually being filled by the new coalition.

Labour's shadow cabinet office minister has written to the country's top civil servant asking «a number of important questions» over the arrest of the Prime Minister's former deputy policy adviser over allegations linked to child abuse images.

Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood has written to the shadow Cabinet Office minister to say «there has been no contact from officials» with former No 10 policy adviser Patrick Rock since his arrest over allegations linked to child abuse images.

Members of the leader's office have already been quietly texting former shadow cabinet members to see if they are prepared to come back if Mr Corbyn wins the leadership contest.

«I have never made any secret of the fact that I want to see David Laws back in government,» Clegg said of the former chief secretary to the Treasury, who is expected to join the Cabinet Office with a particular focus on early intervention and the economy.

As is normal in the case of memoirs of former cabinet ministers, we submitted the manuscript of the book to the Cabinet Office and the Northern Ireland Office for their comments in advance of publicabinet ministers, we submitted the manuscript of the book to the Cabinet Office and the Northern Ireland Office for their comments in advance of publiCabinet Office and the Northern Ireland Office for their comments in advance of publication.

The former international development secretary won't be getting a cabinet job back for Christmas, especially in the whips» office.

According to The Times, the Cabinet Office has raised ethical concerns about some of the names put forward by the former prime minister, while the Appointments Commission must also approve any places in the House of Lords.

GEORGE Osborne has had to suffer the ridicule of moving into his former leadership rival Boris Johnson's old shabby office after being sacked from Cabinet.

«Since my new office was a former classroom, I now have a large space with closets, cabinets, a sink, and other nice features.

Former Conservative cabinet minister Lawrence Cannon will be joining Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP's Ottawa office as a strategic adviser and chairman of its government affairs group.

The Cabinet Office revealed this week that the government may act to implement the ruling, Hirst v UK (No. 2)(App no 74025 / 01), which was made in a case brought by former prisoner John Hirst.

Keynote speakers will include former Liberal cabinet minister Martin Cauchon, now with Heenan Blaikie LLP, as well as Patricia Kosseim, general counsel of the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.

The former Labour Foreign Office Minister and Cabinet minister Lord Hain has tabled a written question in the House of Lords on Monday for urgent clarification on the matter of Embassy endorsement.