Sentences with phrase «government as a special adviser»

Ayesha Hazarika spent a decade at at the heart of government as a special adviser to Ed Miliband and Harriet Harman and is now a writer, comedian and political commentator.

Ayesha Hazarika spent a decade at at the heart of government as a special adviser to Ed Miliband and Harriet Harman.

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That period would prove important for another reason: the government posted Kuroda for a year as special adviser to the cabinet of Junichiro Koizumi, giving the civil servant sustained exposure to politicians at the highest levels.

When Trump announced in December that Icahn would be a special adviser, Trump made clear he would «not be serving as a federal employee or a Special Government Employee and will not have any specific duties.special adviser, Trump made clear he would «not be serving as a federal employee or a Special Government Employee and will not have any specific duties.Special Government Employee and will not have any specific duties.»

Your reviewer has known the author for twenty years as a Parliamentary colleague and observed his formidable reputation when both were special advisers in the Thatcher government.

Patrick has spent ten years as a special adviser in various roles at the heart of British government, including 10 Downing Street, the Cabinet Office, the Northern Ireland Office.

Former education secretary Lord Patten has claimed special advisers see it as their job to stir up trouble between government departments and called for a cull.

This has opened up a battle over who will get jobs as special advisers in a Cameron government.

The statements gave no reason for the sacking of the commissioners, special advisers as well as senior special assistants and the secretary to the state government.

The report also criticises both the informal «sofa» style of government pioneered by Tony Blair and Gordon Brown's reliance on special advisers, rather than impartial civil servants, during his time as chancellor.

According to the special adviser,» When I got the report that the students were rioting, although, the incident was regrettable, as you know government wouldnt send trucks to go and kill the students.

Even the government of the day can not involve the civil service formally in manifesto preparation for the next parliament, as I remember from my time as a special adviser prior to the 2010 general election.

In the past political parties would have retained some of their staff simply by transferring them from the party payroll to the government payroll and appointing them as special advisers.

The New York Post reported last week that Marinoni resigned from her $ 131,708 - a-year government position as a special adviser for community partnerships in New York City in advance of a potential Nixon campaign for governor.

So will other Liberal Democrat functionaries within the Government, such as special advisers.

As Ministerial special advisers, both men had front - row seats for the tragi - comedy that was the Major Government.

Before becoming an MP in 2001, he was a special adviser in the agriculture department when the Tories were in government and later served as political secretary to William Hague.

Under U.K. law, Hirst qualified for government subsidies to pay for services such as note takers, translators, and special equipment, but along with her disability adviser, she struggled to find someone who was up to the job.

There's the ongoing special - counsel investigation into whether the Trump campaign aided a Russian campaign to aid Trump's candidacy and defeat his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton; there's the associated inquiry into whether the president obstructed justice when he fired former FBI Director James Comey, whom he had asked not to investigate his former national - security adviser; there are the president's hush - money payments to women with whom he allegedly had extramarital affairs, made through his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, and facilitated by corporate cash paid to influence the White House; there is his ongoing effort to interfere with the Russia inquiry and politicize federal law enforcement; there are the foreign governments that seem to be utilizing the president's properties as vehicles for influencing administration policy; there's the emerging evidence that Trump campaign officials sought aid not only from Russia, but from other foreign countries, which may have affected Trump's foreign policy; there are the ongoing revelations of the president's Cabinet officials» misusing taxpayer funds; there is the accumulating evidence that administration decisions are made at the behest of private industry, in particular those in which Republican donors have significant interests.

He served as deputy director of Conservative Research from 2007 to 2010, when he became a special adviser to May upon her appointment at the Home Office following the formation of the coalition government.

Prior to his appointment, he had held various positions in the Department of Justice Canada, as well he was the director general of constitutional strategy and plans at the Privy Council Office; special adviser to the executive council of the Government of Quebec and counsel in the Quebec Ministry of Justice.