Sentences with phrase «ministerial special adviser»

For now, though, the embarrassment persists, so much so that one ministerial special adviser interviewed for this feature declined to be named on the basis that his geekiness would embarrass his senior Conservative employer.

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12:46 - Harman cites paragraph 33 of the ministerial code which states that the minister himself is responsible for the conduct of the special adviser... that's a very, very good point.

The workings of ministerial departments, including responsibilities, parliamentary private secretaries, special advisers, Commons whips, Lords spokespeople and whips and the Opposition

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.

Its motion called for Mr Hunt to face investigation over whether he breached the ministerial code on giving accurate and truthful information to parliament and responsibility for his special adviser.

The Culture Secretary may have thrown his aide to the wall, but the ministerial code is crystal clear: the Secretary of State is responsible for the conduct of his special advisers.

The ministerial code also makes ministers accountable to their special advisers, meaning anything laid at the door of Mr Smith directly reflects on Mr Hunt.

There is more than enough evidence to warrant an investigation into a possible breach of the ministerial code or a potential misleading of Parliament and, if it was enough to refer Warsi for investigation on the mere whisper of a scandal, then after the wave of texts, emails, phonecalls and the resignation of a special adviser whose conduct he was responsible for, surely Hunt, too, should have been referred?