Sentences with phrase «key aides»

«Every morning at nine, Mr Cameron meets key aides and shadow ministers including William Hague, Michael Gove and George Osborne.

And this April, most spectacularly, he forced the resignation of Damian McBride, one of Gordon Brown's key aides, after obtaining an email correspondence between McBride and the Labour blogger and activist Derek Draper proposing a campaign of unfounded personal smears against senior Conservatives.

Some MPs seem to be circulating rumours that Labour would put forward one of Mr Miliband's key aides to contest the seat, but we believe that this is without foundation.

Stephen Gilbert's other key aides, Stephen Phillips and Stephen Parkinson also deserve a free drink when you bump into them next.

Key aides steps down after facing fierce criticism for their role in an election that saw the Conservatives lose their majority.

Several people predicted that key aides in the governmental administration would, as in previous campaign years, take leave from the public payroll and join the campaign.

A Democratic official who has spoken to Al Franken and key aides says Franken will resign his Minnesota Senate seat tomorrow, the official tells MPR News.

Hevesi and key aides eventually pleaded guilty in the scandal.

Cuomo relayed his readiness for such a high - stakes confrontation in conversations with key aides and state lawmakers during the past two weeks as he outlined general plans to cut the state payroll and impose billions of dollars in reductions on school districts and the Medicaid program in the fiscal year beginning April 1.

ALBANY — A day after Gov. Paterson revoked hefty salary increases for several key aides, he has reneged on his pledge to take a voluntary pay cut.

In 2001, he was made its chair and was widely understood to be one of Blair's key aides, credited as the mastermind behind many of the government's flagship education policies.

After breakfast and a brisk horseback ride, he spends the morning receiving reports from five key aides assigned to look after his business interests, horses and Lyford Cay.

When Barack Obama first became President of the United States in 2009, two - thirds of his key aides were men, and they had a habit of ignoring or talking over the ideas of their female counterparts.

He had seen the papacy from the inside, as a key aide to Pius XII, and he had been the successful archbishop of a major Italian see: Milan.

On the night of Sept. 11, as the Obama administration scrambled to respond to the Benghazi terror attacks, then - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and a key aide effectively tried to cut the department's own counterterrorism bureau out of the chain of reporting and decision - making, according to a «whistle - blower» witness from that bureau who will soon testify to the charge before Congress

David Paterson's security chief to pressure a witness not to file an assault charge against a key aide; and a secret attempt to slip huge pay raises for police brass into the state's deficit - plagued budget.

Yet he failed to anticipate the level of opposition, whipped up by Thatcher and her key aide Norman Tebbit in the House of Lords.

A few years ago I had dinner at Boisdale with Nigel and his key aide Gawain Towler.

The probe began a year ago and appears to have honed in on Joseph Percoco, a former key aide and longtime family friend of the governor.

Spota, the longest serving district attorney in Suffolk history, and his key aide, McPartland, were charged in October with helping to cover up the 2012 beating of a man who had stolen a duffle bag from the SUV of a protégé of the district attorney's, former Suffolk police chief James Burke.

The announcement comes as the White House continues to face questions over the appointment of Rob Porter, a key aide who had been accused by two of his ex-wives of domestic violence.

Gavin is a local councillor and a key aide to Lord Ashcroft's target seats programme.

Ms. Gillibrand evinces an aw - shucks political persona, but she was born into a deeply political family, the daughter of a prominent Albany lobbyist and the granddaughter of Dorothea «Polly» Noonan, a key aide to the longtime Democratic kingmaker in town, Mayor Erastus Corning.

«This time Jeremy read the speech we wrote for him,» smiled a key aide to the leader after re-elected one improved hugely on last September's rambling victory address.

Not exact matches

Some of Thiel's own aides now have key government posts.

Also key was an «AIDE Memoire», issued by European Commission to MEPs before the vote, that failed to make the key point that the European Food Safety Authority (the body tasked with evaluating the claim) had seen no evidence of any benefit from adding the ingredient to follow - on formulas.

Howard Glaser, a former top Cuomo aide, received outside income to teach classes in a Columbia University program run by a professor with deep ties to key players in an ongoing federal corruption investigation.

After that, not a lot happened policy-wise for weeks as attention turned not to post-budget issues, but to the growing corruption scandal surrounding the governor's key upstate economic development program, the Buffalo Billion, which has focused on lobbyist Todd Howe and former Cuomo aide and confidant Joe Percoco.

Jean Lambert struck a sceptical note about a real lack of enthusiasm within the key European capityas to offer up more blood and treasure in the struggle against the Taliban - and suggested Obama's aides actually appreciated this.

He's hired key staff from President Barack Obama's administration, as well as new chief of staff Maria Comella, who has worked on Republican presidential campaigns and was a top aide for New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.

He or his top aides conferred with several Pataki v. Silver experts — including former Pataki chief counsel James McGuire and at least one other key player involved in the 2004 cases, multiple sources confirm.

The flu epidemic is hitting the corruption trial of Governor Cuomo's former top aide, Joe Percoco, with proceedings delayed for a day and a half because a key defense attorney has come down with the virus.

It was an email to Percoco about keeping Kelly, the energy guy, happy during a meeting with another key Cuomo aide.

A number of key members of Ed Miliband's team did that early in his leadership, including Lucy Powell, his first chief of staff, and Polly Billington, his senior communications aide.

State Senate GOP Majority Leader John Flanagan recently fired three aides as he looks to re-make his operation heading into a key election year in 2018.

Last week, with a key court deadline looming for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, Trump, exasperated, asked his aides for «a way out» of a dilemma he created by promising to roll back the program as a presidential candidate.

Schneiderman's opponent in the fall elections is one of those raising questions about whether the attorney general, who was key to the formation of the ethics commission, could have been more involved and done something to stop alleged interference in probes by Cuomo's aides.

Trump's relationship with Moscow has stalked the first year of his presidency, with key former aides under a US investigation for alleged collaboration with the Kremlin.

One of Tony Blair's key political aides, Ruth Turner, has been arrested by police investigating the cash - for - honours row.

Another argument for not killing the provision, put to me but a key Clegg aide, is that nobody in the real world cares.

The city's top cop insisted Sunday that he's still holding out hope of hiring more officers this year, even after his big blow - up with a key City Hall aide over...

A key witness took the stand Monday in the corruption trial against a former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

NEW YORK CITY — Lawyers for a former governor's aide and a Syracuse - area developer portrayed their clients today as nothing more than fools who were duped by key prosecution witness Todd «Ransom» Howe.

He points out that just a month ago, nine people — including a former top aide to Cuomo and the head of a key State University division — were charged with rigging over $ 750 million of state economic development contracts for personal gain.

In his understated way, aides and friends said, he has advanced gay causes by appointing gay men and lesbians to key positions and, as attorney general, cracking down on two companies accused of discriminating on the basis of sexuality.

The government's key witness in its bribery case against a former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo says he participated in bribery schemes with his longtime friend.

The memo was also sent to top de Blasio aides, the Senate Democratic Campaign Committee, representatives from key labor unions and consulting firms that were working on the State Senate races, many of whom are now the subject of an investigation by the Manhattan district attorney's office.

NEW YORK (AP)-- A lawyer attacked the credibility of a key government witness on Wednesday at the bribery trial of a former top aide to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo before the witness lashed back, calling it insulting to suggest he would lie to avoid prison.

The flu epidemic is hitting the corruption trial of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's former top aide, Joe Percoco, with proceedings delayed for a day and a half because a key defense attorney has come down with the virus.

The push and pull over the control of the economic development spending comes after the arrests last year of prominent upstate developers, former SUNY Polytechnic President Alain Kaloyeros and an ex-top aide and confidant to the governor, Joe Percoco, in a case stemming from kickbacks and bid rigging related to key economic development spending in New York.