Sentences with phrase «government special advisers»

Under pay restrictions ordered by the prime minister, no new government special adviser will be paid more than # 72,000 a year without an explicit exemption from Downing Street.

In his report, James Hamilton says he took evidence from Leighton Andrews, the former cabinet minister who made allegations that some ministers were undermined by a Welsh Government special adviser.

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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.»

Crimes verging on genocide were being committed against the Rohingya minority in Myanmar, and those crimes bore «the fingerprints of the Myanmar government and of the international community», the United Nations special adviser on the prevention of genocide said on Tuesday.

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.

He was special adviser on European Affairs to the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair (1997 — 2004) and chaired the Government's New Industry, New Jobs Advisory Panel in BIS (2009 - 2010).

The prime minister has cut the total number of special advisers across Whitehall from 95 to 83 and the pay bill has also fallen by # 500,000 from # 8.4 million to # 7.9 million a year, according to the government figures.

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.

Fourthly, Open Europe, under its new director Henry Newman, a special adviser in a number of departments in the last government, takes a forensic approach to the major challenges facing Britain during the Brexit negotiation process.

Following that election, Simon Thomas was appointed a special adviser to the Plaid Cymru ministers in the Welsh Assembly Government coalition between his party and Labour.

Some, including Chris Boffey, a former news editor of the Observer and Sunday Telegraph and one - time special adviser to the Labour government, feel that this is an example of the decline in standards at the Telegraph.

But he has earned Cameron's gratitude by taking a hefty pay cut to enter No 10 on a special adviser's salary of # 140,000 a year, having helped with the negotiations that created the Coalition Government.

O'Brien worked on ministers» special advisers, exploiting an awareness that Osborne had power to give or withhold government jobs.

Within eight minutes of publication he was badgering his government sources - mostly special advisers.

If you get rid of purdah, it means ministers would be able to use their private offices, their special advisers and media advisers, and the machinery of government to issue press releases and effectively campaign from their ministerial offices.

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.

But, one of the special advisers to the Governor and House of Representatives aspirant for Ibadan North East / Ibadan South East, Hon. Deji Aboderin, while addressing journalists at the venue of the camp loyal to the state governor in Mapo, declared that he was not aware of any parallel congress in the local government.

The Donaldson brothers and DUP MPs Ian Paisley Junior and Emma Little Pengelly, who was a special adviser to the DUP's then - first minister Peter Robinson, set up another company to give peace - building advice to overseas governments and organisations.

Clegg and the rest of the coalition's junior party were still under - resourced in government, so the end of 2011 saw the appointment of more special advisers for Lib Dem ministers and a drastically reinforced office for Clegg himself.

Cameron was a special adviser to Lord Lamont during his time in the Treasury, including on Black Wednesday in 1992 when the Tory government had to take the pound out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism.

Vote Leave points to a broader swathe of parliamentary support and is being run by Matthew Elliott, who masterminded the No to AV campaign, and Dominic Cummings, an abrasive former special adviser to Michael Gove who left government after falling foul of Nick Clegg.

The Welsh Government says it doesn't recognise the comments made by Steve Jones who was special adviser to the First Minister from 2009 to 2014.

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.

Former Cabinet minister Tessa Jowell, who served in Government under both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, told BBC News that while she was «sure» Ed Miliband was aware of the activities of the then - prime minister's special adviser, it would not damage his position now.

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.

It's now the career route of choice: they can use that platform to attack this Government and make their name, lining up alongside former special advisers, MPs and councillors to argue for more spending, or to spread scare stories that are often exaggerated or wholly untrue.

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.

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

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.

The special counsel, Robert Mueller, announced charges against three advisers to President Trump's campaign and laid out the most explicit evidence to date that his campaign was eager to coordinate with the Russian government to damage his rival, Hillary Clinton.

Governor David Paterson is sad to see Joe Bruno go — so sad, in fact, that he offered to give the former State Senate majority leader a highly paid «special adviser» post in his government.

Downing Street will issue separate figures showing the number and cost of special advisers serving the current government.

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.

The Bernie Ecclestone affair had just crashed over the government and this particular special adviser had been convinced that it would lead to the premature resignation of Blair.

Labour pointed out that in the meantime the cost of special advisers for Conservative government ministers has gone up from # 5.9 m in 2009 to # 8.4 m last year.

Francis Maude has today revealed how special advisers to government ministers have been abusing their position by commissioning civil servants to produce work explicitly for the purpose of attacking the Conservative Party.

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.

Against this terrific backdrop we should be ten points ahead of a Labour Party with zero economic credibility and a leader who was Gordon Brown's special adviser in the Treasury for more than a decade and a member of his catastrophic Government.

The deputy prime minister's opposition means that the draft legislation for the referendum will have to be drawn up by Conservative special advisers outside the formal government and parliamentary routes.

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.

On 10 March the government announced that Khan was being made special science and technology adviser to the chief executive, General Pervez Musharraf.

A government adviser has to maintain a special degree of caution.

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.