Sentences with phrase «former energy secretary»

Vince Cable is on the verge of becoming leader of the Liberal Democrats after former energy secretary Ed Davey ruled himself out of the running.

Johnson is spending the day helping Tory candidate Maria Hutchings on the campaign trail in Eastleigh, where she is hoping to oust the Lib Dems after the resignation of former energy secretary Chris Huhne.

Nobel laureate and former Energy Secretary Steven Chu has been chosen as president - elect of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

«Special share» in the proposed nuclear power station would have protected national security, says former energy secretary Ed Davey

Vicky Pryce, the estranged wife of former energy secretary Chris Huhne, has denied perverting the course of justice by taking a speeding penalty for her former husband.

After all it was the organisation which substantially funded the disastrous Yes to AV campaign and whose campaign director is the one - time PR girl for disgraced former energy secretary Chris Huhne.

Shortly afterwards former energy secretary Ed Miliband announced his intention to stand in the leadership race and under Labour's electoral college voting system was narrowly elected over his brother David in the fourth and final round of voting.

PR and lobbying firm MHP Communications announced this week that it had appointed former energy secretary Ed Davey to act as a senior adviser.

Other MPs who may yet throw their hat in the ring include former Energy Secretary Ed Davey and Norman Lamb, the ex-Health minister who unsuccessfully challenged Mr Farron for the leadership in 2015.

Former energy secretary Mr Davey was defeated by another Conservative MP, James Berry, in Kingston and Surbiton in 2015.

Former Energy Secretary Moniz, Guru of Kemper «Clean Coal» Debacle, Joins Board of Spendthrift, Climate - Denying Southern Company He Oversaw

- former Energy Secretary James Schlesinger responding the American addiction to fossil fuels and our inability to be energy independent

NUCLEAR: Nuclear energy and natural gas must be part of the mix if the country wants to move toward a low - carbon economy, said former Energy Secretary Ernest J. Moniz at a Utah energy summit.

Former Energy Secretary Steven Chu during a keynote address at an American Bar Association forum in California last week cast nuclear power as critical to curbing greenhouse gas emissions despite challenges surrounding spent fuel.

Former Energy Secretary Chris Huhne is to resign as MP for Eastleigh after pleading guilty to perverting the course of justice.

In 2016, MHP signed up former energy secretary Ed Davey as a senior adviser in a bid to strengthen its energy credentials ahead of the pitch process.But Davey returned to the Commons this summer after winning back his seat of Kingston and Surbiton in the 2017 general election.

Former Energy secretary and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, whose mother was from Mexico, said the lack of appointments by Trump is telling.

The admission comes a decade after the former energy secretary allegedly passed speeding points on to his wife.

The former energy secretary has already pleaded guilty to the charge of perverting the course of justice.

The former energy secretary is facing jail after he pleaded guilty to perverting the court of justice.

The former energy secretary is accused of swapping his points for a driving reprimand onto his wife's licence.

Together with the expected sentencing of the party's former energy secretary Chris Huhne later, the Rennard scandal has seen the Lib Dems forced to accept their exceptionalist status has proved unjustified.

Former energy secretary Ed Davey, who lost his parliamentary seat as part of the Liberal Democrat collapse in May's election, has also been knighted.

So has the former energy secretary, got qualities to inspire and communicate that his brother lacks?

The judge in Chris Huhne's trial has hinted the former energy secretary would be going to jail, said the legal journalist and commentator Joshua Rozenberg.

Most important, the former energy secretary has recognised that most of the votes Labour lost were working class — and of the middle - class defectors, the majority went to the Liberal Democrats.

Conservative MP Alun Cairns said it would be an «extremely interesting» by - election with a battle between the two coalition parties for the Eastleigh seat in Hampshire after the former energy secretary announced his resignation.

The former energy secretary, who denied his guilt for two years, failed in attempts to get his case dismissed, only pleading guilty on the first day of trial while economist Pryce, 60, was convicted after a retrial.

Davey, the former energy secretary, lost this South - west London seat by 2,834 votes after 18 years as MP.

Miliband, a former energy secretary, added: «A fairer market for consumers must be matched by a better deal for investors.

Former energy secretary Huhne pleaded guilty last month to perverting the course of justice by passing his points to Pryce in 2003, ending his political career.

The sum is three times the # 25,000 that the former energy secretary argued was a reasonable figure.

Ed Davey, the former energy secretary, said the proposed sell - off was a «completely ridiculous policy» and compared it to the Zimbabwe president's fast - track reform, which led to predominantly white farmers being forced off their land, often violently and without compensation.

The former energy secretary, who said he was tempted to go for the role after frontrunner Jo Swinson decided not to stand, said it was a difficult decision that was based on the desire to spend more time with his young family.

Former energy secretary says he wants to spend more time with his family, appearing to leave way clear for Vince Cable

Former Energy Secretary and Liberal Democrat prospective parliamentary candidate for Kingston and Surbiton Ed Davey said: «Tidal Lagoons are vital for creating Britain's low carbon future and will provide extremely reliable and consistent energy for at least 120 years.

In 2012, he began a relationship with the economist Vicky Pryce, who had been married to the former Energy Secretary Chris Huhne.

The deal to provide a new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point would have cost even more if George Osborne had had his way, the former energy secretary Ed Davey has said.

Speaking to reporters in Bournemouth, the former energy secretary, who won his south London seat of Kingston and Surbiton back in June, said he attempted to force through the policy in coalition but had been blocked by former prime minister David Cameron.

Yesterday Miliband's younger brother, Ed, the former energy secretary, launched his bid to lead Labour, telling the Fabian Society that the party had become «ideologically beached».

The former Energy Secretary quit as an MP after pleading guilty to the charge, after trying to cover up the fact that he had swapped speeding points with his ex-wife, Vicky Pryce.

Other signatories to the letter include the former Treasury secretary David Laws, the former energy secretary Ed Davey and Lady Williams, the former Labour cabinet minster and now a Liberal Democrat stalwart in the Lords.

The former energy secretary is due to give a keynote speech to the Next Left Fabian conference tomorrow.

Those for the proposition are two Nobel laureates in physics, the former energy secretary Steven Chu, now a Stanford professor, and Burton Richter, emeritus director of the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and author of a book on energy that I covered here quite awhile ago.

Those speaking for the proposition were two Nobel laureates in physics, the former energy secretary Steven Chu, now a Stanford professor, and Burton Richter, emeritus director of the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and author of a book on energy that I covered here quite awhile ago.

Not to be outdone, Obama's former Energy Secretary Steven Chu has also declared that «this is something you can do in a safe way.»

Listen: Certainly no one should expect such a massive transition to be easy or cheap, but to downplay it from the start (the way Bodman did) represents nothing more than a defeatist attitude, likely based on the former Energy Secretary's lack of desire to effectively begin the process of transitioning our energy infrastructure to one that is cleaner and more sustainable.

Former Governor of New Mexico, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and former Energy Secretary, United States