Sentences with phrase «government left office»

When Balls» Labour Government left office in 2010 with Britain's economy on the rocks, Labour Treasury Minister Liam Byrne famously left a note for his successors stating: «There's no money left.»

It adds that the proportion of apprenticeship starts made by 16 - to -24-year-olds has fallen significantly, from 82.3 % when the last Labour government left office to 63.2 % last year.

I became an MP less than a year after the Labour government left office.

Take capital investment, which was due to fall as the last Labour government left office.

Not exact matches

Shortly before leaving office, George Osborne abandoned the government's target of running a budget surplus by 2020, blaming the uncertainty surrounding Britain's shock decision to leave the European Union.

Zuckerberg carefully negotiated a clause that would allow him to take a leave from Facebook to serve in public office or government, so presumably he has some sort of political beliefs — if not outright political ambition — as well as some core ideas about what's good for society and what's not.

Unlike previous BRAC rounds, though, the amendment proposed in the Senate would leave the decision of selecting the actual bases to the Government Accountability Office.

Government officials are orchestrating a reversal of fortune for workers as they target low - level employees of major financial institutions, leaving the big fish in their corner offices.

Lynch leaves office following a nearly two - year tenure marked by massacres carried out by violent extremists, including the shootings at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida; persistent hacking from overseas, including Russian government efforts to meddle in the U.S. presidential election; and an election - season investigation into Hillary Clinton's email server that entangled the Justice Department in presidential politics and led to criticism for her ill - timed meeting on an airport tarmac with former President Bill Clinton.

A number of top government officials have joined Goldman after leaving office.

TOKYO (MNI)- The Japanese government left its overall economic assessment unchanged in April, saying for the fourth straight month that the Japanese economy is recovering at a «moderate pace,» the Cabinet Office said Monday.

The previous Liberal government having increased spending 47 per cent in its last six years in office; the Conservatives having increased spending another 19 per cent in its first three years («good times»), and a further 20 per cent over the next two («bad times»); after doubling spending, in short, in the space of a decade, the government's notion of restraint is more or less to leave it there.

Last Thursday, the Office of Financial Research (OFR), part of the Federal boondoggle created under the Dodd - Frank financial reform legislation in 2010 to foster the illusion that the government was reining in risk on Wall Street, released a new study showing almost unfathomable levels of systemic and interconnected risk among the too - big - to - fail banks that cratered the U.S. financial system in 2008 and has left our economy still struggling to right itself.

By Janet Keeping, leader of the Green Party of cialis 5 mg daily how long before it works Alberta The recent controversy over whether the amount of severance paid an Alberta government advisor should be made public tells us a lot more than how much money Steven Carter received when he left the premier's office.

Second row standing from left to right: F. Robert Salerno, President & CEO, Cendant Car Rental Group; Richard Wistrand, Senior Vice President & Chief Fossil Officer, TXU; David Rader, Senior Vice President Finance and CFO, Frito - Lay Division, PepsiCo, Inc.; Mirian Graddick - Weir, Executive Vice President, Human Resources, AT&T; Lisa Martin, Vice President, Global Sourcing, Pfizer, Inc.; Theo Fletcher, Vice President, Supply Chain Compliance, Security & Diversity, IBM Corporation; A. Shuanise Washington, Vice President Government Affairs Policy and Outreach, Altria Group, Inc.; Bruce Perkins, Vice President, Manager, Supplier Diversity and Business Development Group, Merrill Lynch; Joyce M. Wichie, Director, Supplier Diversity, Worldwide Purchasing, Eastman Kodak Company; Dick Anderson, Vice Chairman, Planning & Administration, BellSouth Corporation; John D. Hofmeister, President and Country Chair, Shell Oil Company; Robert McCormes - Ballou, Director, Vendor Diversity, Office Depot; and Michael L. Eskew, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, UPS.

The UK should therefore follow the example of other parliamentary democracies and affirm the first principle of all caretaker conventions: a caretaker government can not resign until an alternative government has taken office because the country can not be left without a functioning executive.

In less than five months in office this government has decided to be a government for the few, leaving the majority to live in fear and panic.

«So today if Bomti does any legitimate business with the Akufo - Addo government, is this how he will be treated when Akufo - Addo leaves office?

If it is a crime to speak up for and defend President Jonathan and key members of his government after he has left office they should just say so.

In his first big test, the Government Chief Whip, who keeps a tarantula in his office, ran a brilliantly efficient operation, leaving nothing to chance.

When May left the Home Office and moved into No. 10 she spoke about justice and fairness being at the core of her government.

«A Labour government will call in the National Audit Office to urgently review Universal Credit to see what can be salvaged from the shambles which David Cameron and Iain Duncan Smith have left.»

Current Chief Justice, Georgina Theodora Wood is leaving office in June after 10 years» service as the head of the third arm of government — the Judiciary.

Dr. Apaak had claimed that the current government agreed with the then out - going Mahama government to buy the 43 new vehicles a few days before leaving office.

A former Presidential staffer in the John Mahama administration, Dr. Clement Apaak, has disclosed that his government ordered some 43 new vehicles few days before leaving office upon the request of the incoming Akufo - Addo government.

The Mahama government has been accused of procuring 43 new vehicles for the presidency four days before leaving office at a cost of over nine million dollars.

Pickings should be richer for a modern, centre - left party facing a government split on Europe and already faltering in office.

Your challenge — in the few weeks left before you assume office — is to talk to as many successful, veteran government executives as possible.

Under Whitehall rules, he was barred from lobbying ministers and officials in the British government for two years after he left office.

«When he left state government he would come back into the office to handle transition matter,» Cuomo said.

The government's new Immigration Bill is about two things: making it easier for the Home Office to forcibly remove and deport people, and creating a «really hostile environment» in the belief that people will leave the UK if their existence here is made impossible.

«He can now wear his NPP jersey now that he is leaving office,» he told Rev. Martey who has been vocal against certain policies of the government.

-- Invited the first openly gay couple to stay overnight in the White House — Encouraged her husband to fight the AIDS epidemic to the tune of $ 5.727 billion that was spent by the federal government by the time President Reagan left office — Sent a special message in support of Log Cabin Republicans that was read at our 2013 Spirit of Lincoln Dinner.

Trial showed Joe Percoco was a routine presence at the Governor's office after leaving state government.

Lacewell was asked by a prosecutor if she ever saw Percoco in Cuomo's government suite of offices in midtown Manhattan after he left the state's payroll that April.

* Someone high up in the administration let Percoco keep his government - issued security swipe card to gain access to his former state office in Manhattan — adjacent to Cuomo's own government office — for eight months in 2014 after he left the state payroll.

According to the testimony, when Mr. Percoco left government service to run Governor Cuomo's 2014 re-election campaign, he used his old government office to do so, which is illegal.

A former Presidential staffer in the Mahama administration, Dr. Clement Apaak, had claimed that his government ordered the vehicles a few days before leaving office, upon the request of the incoming Akufo - Addo administration.

Before leaving the United Nations Office, President Buhari undertook the symbolic planting of a tree, a tradition reserved for all visiting Heads of State and Government.

Meanwhile, the former Presidential staffer, Dr. Clement Apaak has failed to prove his claims that the John Mahama government ordered the new vehicles for the presidency few weeks before leaving office, on the behest of the current government.

For example, an absolute threshold in the number of votes (e.g. requiring a certain proportion of the whole population or of registered voters to be elected rather than a plurality of the vote) can seem intuitively appealing but has never, to my knowledge, been implemented for a national election, precisely because leaving an important office unfilled is a problem (unless, of course, you subscribe to radical small - government ideas, in which case the question seems moot and you might just as well do away with elections or democracy itself).

Taking the title of VP, head of global comms and policy, she will advise the firm on how to lobby the government, although Rogers is banned from becoming personally involved in lobbying the UK government on behalf of Deliveroo for two years after leaving office.

Former appointees in the Mahama government have accused the current New Patriotic Party (NPP) government of withholding ten percent of their salary arrears even though they have already left office.

In 2009, when the NPP had left office, Woyome went to court and claimed that his contract had illegally been terminated and demanded a judgement debt from government.

The government gets the credit and Labour, even three years after leaving office, continues to get all the blame.

1.1 million businesses were created under the Labour Government and, on leaving office, the World Bank ranked the UK fourth in the world, ahead of the US and first amongst European countries, for «ease of doing business».

Over the last five elections, C1 / C2 voters have elected both Labour and Tory Governments but they have been deserting Labour in droves since Tony Blair left office.

«Because of their vulnerable situation in the UK, where they left and where they might go back to, the government has a responsibility to ensure their safety... with this programme, the Home Office is going completely against the Convention on the Rights of the Child.»

This year — which follows a two - decade stretch that has seen dozens of elected officials leave office due to ethical or legal scandal — there appears to be a marked shift and legislative leaders are finding themselves at odds with government reform organizations who view the convention more favorably, even those who sat out the vote in 1997.

Herbert, the MP for Arundel and former Home Office minister under Theresa May, is now involved in the Open Britain campaign group holding the government to account on leaving the EU.