Sentences with phrase «new special adviser»

Meanwhile Johnson's new special adviser Lee Cain is described as a key intermediary, having previously worked for Gove and as head of broadcast on the Vote Leave campaign.

He also said that Thornberry's new special adviser, the notorious spin doctor Damian McBride, would be «brutal» and that this was a good thing.

The environment secretary has just appointed a new special adviser, James Starkie, from the successful PR and lobbying firm Portland.

Not exact matches

Doug New is a partner at Fasken Martineau but earlier in his career served as a special adviser to the deputy commissioner of the Foreign Investment Review Agency.

Hysteria and panic ensues as the new candidate is primed for BBC Fenland by the party leadership team — Cooper's long - suffering special adviser Claudia (Jessica Regan) being told to «shut up» and «go over there and be a camera.»

As I remember from my own time as a special adviser, this breathing space gives front - benchers the chance to catch up on new thinking and the issues which are likely to feature high on the agenda in the coming months.

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).

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.

A former Labour special adviser himself, Forde skillfully managed the New Labour banter by pushing the right buttons, chucking in the odd impression, gently mocking his interviewees and ensuring that it didn't get too serious too often.

Michael Caputo, a Western New York political adviser and former aide to Trump's presidential campaign, reportedly has been contacted by the FBI regarding the special counsel's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

There are nine former special advisers, two of whom used to work for Boris Johnson and only one of whom has a (New) Labour background.

A former Labour party head of briefings, O'Donovan was a special adviser in the New Labour years and is now seen as one of the key Blairite lobbyists in the private sector.

Michael Caputo, a Western New York political adviser and former aide to Donald Trump's presidential campaign, has been contacted by the FBI regarding the special counsel's investigation into Russian interference in the election, according to sources.

New changes to the code of conduct for special advisers could be a «step back towards the days of Alastair Campbell», committee chair Bernard Jenkin has warned.

The new arm is being headed up agency chief executive Oliver Foster and partner Liam Parker, a former special adviser to Boris Johnson who joined the firm last year.

Washington (CNN)- President Barack Obama plans to name Elizabeth Warren as a special adviser to help set up a new consumer protection agency created under the Wall Street reform bill, according to sources who spoke on condition of not being identified by name.

In one sense, Livermore was a surprising appointment: he had been a special adviser to Brown from 1997 to 2008, and was seen as closely associated with New Labour, from which Miliband had tried to distance himself.

Akeredolu stated this at the swearing - in ceremony of new commissioners and special advisers held at the International Event Centre in Akure, Ondo State.

It emerged earlier this year that Gill was linking up with another former Tory special adviser, Paul Stephenson, to set up his new shop, Hanbury Strategy.

The new player making the most noise is Hanbury Strategy, set up last year by former Conservative special advisers Ameet Gill and Paul Stephenson.

«I laughed when I read the five policies Tom Clark, a former special adviser, imagined might be on Tony Blair's new Labour pledge card:

Eight years later, she married Christine Marinoni, who worked for New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio as a special adviser for community partnerships in the city's education department.

Mandelson is probably intensely relaxed about cutting democratic corners if it means more «New Labour» special advisers and the like on the green benches, but utterly opposed to the normal workings of Labour democracy if it means leftwing or trade union candidates being chosen.

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 the new post, he will team up with Gove's current special adviser Henry Cook, who was also previously an associate director at Portland.

«When the Sunday Times falsely accused Michael Foot of being a Soviet «agent of influence» he sued, won, and bought a new kitchen,» said Paul Richards, who served as a special adviser to Hazel Blears and Patricia Hewitt.

Green — possibly aided by his special adviser, the former Sun PR man and leader writer Dylan Sharpe - suggested he was unimpressed with his former colleague's approach to the new job and proposed a radical new strapline for his newspaper:

The president's advisers are urging him to hire an outside lawyer as the investigation moves to a new, more fraught phase with a special counsel.

Schriro has been commissioner of the New York City Department of Correction since September of 2009, and previously served as a special adviser to former U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on immigration and customs enforcement.

I wait to hear Gove face questions on the hefty # 500,000 dollop of public money he just ladled on to the plate of the New Schools Network, a six - person thinktank run by one former special adviser to Gove and «helped out» by another.

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.

Having worked as a special adviser for everyone from Stephen Byers to Geoff Hoon to Gordon Brown, he's used to having various labels attached to him, though the new one is «Milibandite».

Barbara Bartoletti, legislative director for the League of Women Voters of New York State, who was a special adviser to the anti-corruption Moreland Commission, told the New York Times she hopes Silver's arrest will change Albany for good.

«And what you're seeing is people that came up under a certain system where you did politics at uni, you became a special adviser, you became an MP, you became a minister who are rightfully upset because Jeremy's brought a whole lot of new energy and new people into politics.»

Cameron is a former special adviser to Norman Lamont who was succeeded as chancellor by the man picked by the PM as new Justice Secretary, Ken Clarke.

«The thing that bothered me the most is we were created with all this fanfare and the governor was going to clean up Albany,» said Barbara Bartoletti, legislative director for the League of Women Voters of New York State and a special adviser to the commission.

(The initiative extends beyond museums; the Metropolitan Museum's outgoing director, Philippe de Montebello, is already a special adviser to New York University Abu Dhabi.)

New York - based art dealer Rachel Kaminsky Fine Art LLC acted as a special adviser to the National Gallery in its search for a pre-eminent American painting for its collection.

Additionally, Zhang Xuhao, the founder of Ele.me, will serve as chairman of the startup and as a special adviser to Alibaba's CEO on New Retail strategy.