Sentences with phrase «privy counsellors»

Privy counsellors are bound by oath to keep matters relating to meetings of the body secret and can therefore have confidential documents shared with them on «privy council terms».

Downing Street has also announced that four peers - Lord Henley, Lord Brabazon of Tara, Earl Howe and Lord Williams of Elvel - have been made privy counsellors.

The inquiry, which will be conducted by privy counsellors at the Queen Elizabeth II conference centre in central London, will hear evidence from ministers, military officers and officials.

The committee of privy counsellors will be led by Sir John Chilcot, a former permanent secretary at the Northern Ireland Office.

Privy counsellors are expected to kneel on a footstool and kiss the Queen's hand during a ceremony.

Osborne was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer on 11 May 2010, and was sworn in as a Privy Counsellor the following day.

He was appointed to the Lords in 1990, made Labour leader there two years later, became a privy counsellor in 1993 and joined the Blair government as leader of the Lords and lord privy seal in 1997.

«Looking for a job,» says Jenny Willott, a former assistant whip and privy counsellor.

He was appointed a privy counsellor in 1993.

Separately, Corbyn said that he had not yet made up his mind whether he would kneel in front of the Queen when he takes part in the ceremony that will make him a privy counsellor.

In September 2012, he was appointed to his first ministerial position as deputy leader of the House of Commons, having been appointed a privy counsellor in June 2011.

In separate parliamentary questions, Watson is also pressing the prime minister to be clear whether Osborne will have access to privy council papers, attend full privy council meetings and receive sensitive information on privy counsellor terms while he is editor of the newspaper.

Labour leader says he is making up his mind over what to do at privy counsellor ceremony as party conference approaches

For a work by an anonymous «follower», The Crucifixion has an unusually distinguished provenance, said Sotheby's, having been presented by Maximilian Emanuel, the elector of Bavaria (1662 - 1726), to Count Johann Franz Ignaz von Seyboltsdorff (1673 - 1711), chamberlain and privy counsellor to the elector, in whose family it then remained for several generations.