Sentences with phrase «of spads»

VC said role of SpAds has evolved having been a former SpAd himself.

The number of SpAds has increased from 66 in the first of these lists, from June 2010, to 72 last July, to 79 now.

David Cameron should urgently reverse his decision on restricting the number of SpAds if his Ministers are to be masters of their departments.

«It is obviously disappointing that the Conservative party does not want to open up the work of spads to public scrutiny now, especially since many of them do a very useful job listening to outside groups and bringing their views to bear in government.

Bernard Jenkin, the Conservative chair of the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee (Pacac), told Civil Service World that he believed the change had echoes of Tony Blair's decision to allow a small number of Spads — including director of communications Alastair Campbell — to give instructions to officials.

Now, in his article, he describes the only alternative to Corbyn as a «coterie of SPADs, PR advisors and Oxford PPE graduates that got Labour into this mess».

As well as being one of the spads given an enhanced severance package, he saw his salary jump from less than # 58,200 in 2014 to # 72,000 in 2015 — an increase of at least 24 per cent.

And that is not how it appeared in the Left Futures reports of that SPAD - driven event.

Just like Liz Kendall and Yvette Cooper, after Oxbridge he proceeded swiftly to the life of a SpAd, in his case for Tessa Jowell, before being parachuted into a safe seat.

Not exact matches

Jay smiles and suggests that's by - the - by - what applied to the secretary of state applied to the spad.

«To me it is self - evident a spad represents the sec of state.

Through the work of four playwrights, Matt Charman, Moira Buffini, Penelope Skinner and Jack Thorne, the play follows several intertwining stories: a couple in a therapy session discuss the impact that the strong environmental beliefs of one, and the indifference of the other, is having on their relationship, a young woman, against her parents» advice, drops out of university to become a climate change activist, two birdwatchers who, for 40 years, have noted the recession of the ice through tracking the numbers of guillemots, and Ed Miliband's special adviser (SpAd) in the lead up to the Copenhagen Climate Conference.

Another spad whose pay was increased was Daniel Korski, who was deputy director of the No 10 policy unit.

Jay suggests it; s a spad speaking on behalf of the whole of the UK government.

«The people who tend to do well at Diplomacy are those who spend many hours talking at great length to put across their position and the tactical disadvantages and advantages of certain actions,» the SpAd explains.

Sugg, awarded a CBE last year for her service, was another spad to get an honour in the wake of Cameron's departure, being given a life peerage.

Lyndsey Marshal's portrayal of Ed Miliband's SpAd steals the show.

May has 32 special advisers in total, with six «super spads» in the top pay bracket of # 95,000 - # 142,000.

But will sacrificing a spad be enough to save the secretary of state himself?

Labour claims there were only six spads in the top pay bracket at the end of Brown's prime ministership.

Meanwhile, Osborne's director of communications James Chapman — who he pinched from the Daily Mail earlier this year — comes in as the fourth best - paid spad in all of government.

When Hayden Allan was sent from the Tory press office to be Liam Fox's spad at the Ministry of Defence in 2010 it was widely assumed he was going there to be Andy Coulson's nark, keeping an eye on Liam for No. 10.

He has already let it be known that George Osborne's hard hat and yellow jacket photo - ops (a creation of his ex-BBC spad Thea Rogers) have been ditched and that he will be a full - time Chancellor, unlike his predecessor, who was David Cameron's chief political strategist as well as trying to run the economy.

It's claimed that Fiona Hill and Nick Timothy, the other joint chief of staff, are vetting the spad appointments.

Jeremy Corbyn's The Thick Of It - style «Traingate» fiasco demonstrates just how he could do with some media savvy spads in his team right now.

Of course, after David Cameron's gongs for cronies resignation honours list, we now know that spads do end up in the House of LordOf course, after David Cameron's gongs for cronies resignation honours list, we now know that spads do end up in the House of Lordof Lords!

I am slightly surprised that in such a long article you didn't reflect on the case of Jeremy Hunt's SpAd, Adam Smith, though, who resigned just recently.

Now she's joint chief of staff to the Prime Minister - one of three ex-Sky people on Theresa May's ever - growing spad list - and I wish her well!

Mr Osborne and Mr Cameron were the rising stars of the Conservative SpAd classes ahead of the 1997 election when the Conservative campaign guide stated.

Professor Robert Hazell of the UCL Constitution Unit — which has published a series of training resources for special advisers — told CSW that «shrewd» Spads could already «convey instructions without directly appearing to do so».

«The fact the code now says Spads can instruct officials on matters of presentation feels like a step back towards the days of Alastair Campbell under Tony Blair, when the entire government communication service was placed under Campbell's control,» he said.

Unveiling the revised special advisers» code alongside a refreshed model contract for Spads, Cabinet Office minister Lord Bridges said the change «takes into account» the recommendations of Pacac.

Deputy leader of the House Tom Brake told MPs that special advisers, informally called «spads», who wield immense influence in Whitehall and Westminster, would not be covered because they are not «decision - makers».

Ministers are overturning a Lords amendment demanding that «spads» be covered by the rules governing the new register of third - party lobbyists being set up in the lobbying bill.

Since 2010, with a few exceptions, Secretaries of State have been allowed to have a SpAd, but other Ministers have not (in contrast to the Blair and Brown Governments).

Speaking in the House of Lords Lord Patten, who held a number of junior ministerial roles before joining John Major's cabinet as education secretary in 1992, claimed there was a role for «grown - up SpAds» but said there are too many and they often have too high opinion of themselves.

He points out the key relationship in ministers» offices is between private secretaries and the SpAds, who deal with party political issues, although these overlap with the purity of policy.

But much less attention has been given to the wave of Prime Ministerial advisers and Special Advisers (SpAds) deserting their posts.

Ministers need more SpAds to manage their angry bureaucrats: The errors of last week might have been incompetence but it is just possible that something worse might be the explanation.

After the last general election the party intrusted a whole host of negotiators many of them unelected spads to thrash out deals on behalf of the party behind closed doors with no mandate from the membership whatsoever.

And yet Rosa Prince documents how she had leadership ambitions and relied upon a very small group of supporters, including her Spads Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill who are ruthlessly proactively protective.

The payroll bill for spads in the final year of the last Labour government, in 2009/2010, was # 6.8 m.

She refers to those mainly Blairite politicos who were fast - tracked from being Spads into safe seats and then ministerial office as «Princes and Princesses» and names names of those whom she also regarded as disloyal such as James Purnell and Hazel Blears.

This news came as a surprise to many Lib Dems, both in government and out, not least because Carmichael was popular in his party as their whip, and, according to a former spad, was capable of a «good bollocking», Mike Moore (who he's replacing) is generally regarded to have done a good job in negotiations on the Scottish Independence referendum, and the 66 - year - old Don Foster not being the most obvious option for chief whip.

Like many of that generation of New Labour SpAds who glided into the Commons, the reality is that his primary value was as a backroom adviser.

Sylvester names Tessa Jowell, Liam Byrne and Alan Milburn as having agreed to contribute, along with Spads - turned - MPs Liz Kendall and John Woodcock, to a book due to be published by Progress, with Lord Sainsbury's support, ahead of the party conference.

It's why I was really happy to see him take a SPAD job, confirmed that, behind the scenes, we were on the right track (he can persuade died in the wool Tories of a socialist position by using the language they like to hear, it's a vvery impressive trick).

«The fact the code now says Spads can instruct officials on matters of presentation feels like a step back towards the days of Alastair Campbell under Tony Blair, when the entire government communication service was placed under Campbell's control.

«It alters the expectation of what Spads can demand of officials, setting up a new potential for conflict.»

«Legatum has risen from nowhere, taken over by Philippa Stroud the former SPAD for Iain Duncan Smith, director of his think tank the Centre for social Justice and Christian fundamentalist.