Sentences with phrase «how special advisers»

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.

The «without his boss» knowledge» bit seems unlikely to anyone with even a passing knowledge of how the special adviser system works but there you are, it's not for me to decide, it's for Leveson.

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Total Campaigns, beginning on p46, includes judgements on how the party election campaigns went, and also some very good advice for special advisers.

How much did he know about the behaviour of his special adviser, Adam Smith, whose actions he condemned so uncompromisingly in the Commons last Wednesday?

«To ask the Prime Minister how many expert advisers, excluding special advisers, have been commissioned by his Office since June 2007; and on which topics they have advised.

The Prime Minister has called for there to be training for ministers and special advisers on how to handle quasi-judicial functions.

The way political journalists operate - how much they are actually fed by ministers in private chats, and by their special advisers, lies at the heart of the relationship between politicians and the press.

The triumphant result is that the drinks colossus Diageo, as an example, could go on meeting junior ministers and special advisers to argue against, say, minimum pricing for alcohol, while Alcohol Concern (annual income, less than # 1m) would have to jump through a chilling series of hoops in order to take part in any kind of campaigning, with the risk of criminal charges if it were found in breach of a law that the Electoral Commission says is so opaque it can not confidently predict how it will police it.

John Hendrickson, a prominent racing figure who serves as a special adviser to the NYRA board, said he didn't see how Bonomo could remain «with this cloud over his head.»