Sentences with phrase «political secretary»

«Really sad to hear the amazing Emilie Oldknow is leaving,» tweeted Ed Miliband's former political secretary Anna Yearley.

Prior to his election worked as a special advisor to Douglas Hogg and then as Political Secretary to William Hague.

Current political secretary Katy Clark is standing aside to fully focus on a review of party democracy.

Stephen Parkinson is Theresa May's current political secretary and former Vote Leave figurehead, who hit headlines for outing Sanni as gay in a Downing Street statement.

Current MP: Jonathan Ashworth (Labour) Formerly head of party relations for Ed Miliband, formerly Deputy Political Secretary to Gordon Brown.

But the search for a new political secretary suggests that the Labour leader believes it deserves her full attention.

Katy Clark - former left - wing MP for North Ayrshire and Arran, hired as Corbyn's political secretary after losing out in the SNP landslide

[4] Her friendship with Tony Blair's political secretary Anji Hunter provided a back channel between the warring factions during Blair's premiership.

, appeared to be using his parliamentary expenses to employ a local Labour councillor as his «Constituency Political Secretary».

Katy Clark (yet to be selected) A favourite of the Labour leadership, the former MP is now political secretary to Jeremy Corbyn and considered to be on the left of the party.

David Gold A former political secretary to William Hague and candidate for Brighton Pavilion in 2001, David was selected in July 2006 for Eltham in south east London.

Hill, 53, who first made his name as political secretary to John Major in Downing Street in the 1990s, is a calm and thoughful politician who attempted to explain the former prime minister's thinking in a book, Too Close to Call, in 1995.

The author — still unconfirmed but reported to be Corbyn's political secretary Katy Clark — really shouldn't have bothered.

«At a gathering of Tory Cabinet Ministers on Monday, the Prime Minister's political secretary Stephen Gilbert presented polling evidence to them which showed that when asked what the Coalition was doing, the public thought only of the cuts.»

The appointment of Whittingdale, who served as Margaret Thatcher's political secretary in her final years in No 10, and of Patel suggests that Cameron is keen to bind the Thatcherite right into his EU referendum plan.

Newcomers who make up the core team are Giles Kenningham, Wilson's deputy, Adam Atashzai who is Mr Oliver's deputy political secretary.

The Labour leader is on the hunt for a new political secretary to replace Katy Clark, the former MP who has been in the job for around two years.

Clark served two terms as MP for North Ayrshire and Arran before losing her seat and becoming the leader's political secretary.

The prime minister's political secretary, Stephen Parkinson, is in the running for Saffron Walden, which has a Tory majority of 25,000 votes.

Snowball is a former Liberal Democrat communications director and political secretary to Nick Clegg.

The author was Heath's political secretary and effectively wrote his autobiography.

«It wasn't good enough for the leader to say one thing to me, only for his political secretary to phone a day later and say: «He may have said that, but I know what he really thinks».

He went on to be a special adviser to Douglas Hogg, the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, and worked at 10 Downing Street as well as for Prime Minister John Major's campaign team in the party's unsuccessful 1997 general election campaign, before becoming a speechwriter and political secretary to Major's successor as party leader, William Hague.

Between 1997 and 2001 he worked for William Hague, Major's successor as Conservative Party leader, as a speechwriter and political secretary.

Thatcher I was Margaret Thatcher's political secretary, so my whole political formative years were working with her, so I'm a very strong Thatcherite, I'm a Eurosceptic, I'm a small - state tax - cutter.

Katy Clark, Mr Corbyn's political secretary, made the claim in a conversation with Chief Whip Rosie Winterton's office.

Also on Friday, the first phase of the party's democracy review, chaired by former MP Katy Clark, now Corbyn's political secretary, will conclude.

The former Labour MP Katy Clark, an ally of Corbyn who is now the Labour leader's political secretary, will lead a «party democracy review» to make the case for major changes to how the party elects leaders, selects MPs and forms policy.

Lady Sally Morgan, Tony Blair's former political secretary, also weighed in, claiming it's both «arrogant and plain wrong» for there to be only two candidates in the frame.

The former Labour MP Katy Clark, an ally of Jeremy Corbyn who is now the Labour leader's political secretary, will lead a «party democracy review» to make the case for major changes to how the party elects leaders, selects MPs and forms policy, according to a document seen by the Guardian.

Corbyn's political secretary, Katy Clark, is carrying out a wide - ranging review of party democracy aimed at getting Labour's much - expanded membership more involved, and could recommend making it easy to reselect candidates.

Theresa May's chief of staff Nick Timothy and her political secretary Stephen Parkinson were both part of the team dispatched to South Thanet by CCHQ; both took rooms in the Royal Harbour hotel.

Lunching in PCH: BSE's @wdjstraw and the PM's close co nfidant and former political secretary, Stephen Gilbert

Labour MPs said that the list had been drawn up in January by the leader's political secretary Katy Clark.

Hill, a former political secretary to prime minister John Major, was said to have tried to resign as a junior education minister in last September's reshuffle but when Cameron apparently failed to notice Hill wanted to leave his post.

Lord Hill, the leader of the Lords and political secretary to John Major when Major was prime minister, has been nominated as Britain's next European commissioner.

He subsequently worked in lobbying and PR for Lowe Bell Communications, then returned to politics in the No 10 policy unit, followed by a stint as the political secretary to Major.

But a review of the rulebook by Katy Clark, Corbyn's political secretary, is underway.

Stephen Gilbert, the man Lord Ashcroft picked for his target seats strategy and now the Prime Minister's Political Secretary, is another of the heroes of this campaign.

The Prime Minister's political secretary, government relations director and two policy advisers all want to become MPs next month.

Rumours are that Katy Clark, Corbyn's political secretary is being lined up for Leigh, despite recent incumbent Andy Burnham having written an open letter opposing the imposition of a non-local candidate and backing his constituency secretary, Joanne Platt.

McTernan was Political Secretary / Director of Political Operations at 10 Downing Street for Tony Blair [1] from 2005 to 2007, where he provided political management and support for the development of the government's political strategy.

His successor, Lord Hill of Oareford, is a cerebral former political secretary to Sir John Major.

A spokesman for Corbyn categorically denied a claim by the Times, which was leaked the list, that it was drawn up by Katy Clark, Corbyn's political secretary.