Sentences with phrase «former cabinet office minister»

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».

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 abuseminister 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 abuseMinister'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.

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.

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.

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.

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 endoMinister 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 endominister Lord Hain has tabled a written question in the House of Lords on Monday for urgent clarification on the matter of Embassy endorsement.