Sentences with phrase «says spads»

«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.

«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.

Not exact matches

He says it's the same day he received Hunt's spad's advise saying he's received strong advice not to meet.

It says there were huge risks to Michel to meet with Cable's spad, because they wants to say they were taking an independent view.

Here's what the spad, Adam Smith, has to say:

(Ideal preparation for being a SPAD, you might say.)

I wouldn't say ex-journalists always make the best spads.

Responding to Duncan Brack's article Being A Special Adviser Under The Coalition, Richard Darlington (himself a former SpAd in the Labour government) said: «I agree that good government requires more, not fewer SpAds.

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.

And Hazell said the change could give Spads «further encouragement to freelance» and convey instructions to officials that had not come directly from ministers.

A SpAd calls: «Do you want to know what I've got to say, or are you just going to make it up?»

There's a wise, old parliamentary staffer saying that goes: «I want to be a SpAd one day, and if killing Larry the cat gets me the role, then call me a cat killer!»

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.

The opportunity is there but the means by which the Lib Dems capitalise on that opportunity are far from clear — especially when an anecdote about a curious boy and a dead pig gets more coverage in a day than the Lib Dem conference does over a week (having said that, Lib Dem conference delegates did squeal with excitement when they read about it, including myself, when I sent some late night trolling texts to my former Tory SpAd colleagues).

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

«We just didn't grip Whitehall fast enough,» said one former SPAD.