Sentences with phrase «says special advisers»

Ms Fee says special advisers should be included with MSPs and ministers as individuals whose meetings should be included on the lobbying register..

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Morgan Stanley, Allen & Co, and LionTree were retained as advisers by the special committee of its board, Viacom said.

The senators said that despite the administration downplaying his role, Icahn has disclosed to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that he was a special adviser, meaning it is important to shareholders of the companies in which he holds stakes in.

«The American strike on Shayrat air base in Syria is an appropriate response to [Assad's] mass homicide,» said Fred Hof, the director of the Atlantic Council's Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East and former US special adviser on Syria.

But Fred Hof, the State Department's former special adviser for transition in Syria, said there was a difference between the warnings issued to Assad nearly five years apart by Obama and Trump.

Crimes verging on genocide were being committed against the Rohingya minority in Myanmar, and those crimes bore «the fingerprints of the Myanmar government and of the international community», the United Nations special adviser on the prevention of genocide said on Tuesday.

Mueller's office's move to dismiss last week's charges against Gates appear to be in step with the plea deal the former Trump adviser coordinated with the special counsel's office, said Jens David Ohlin, a vice dean at Cornell Law School and an expert on criminal law.

The banks may be more conservative until there's more long - term visibility of where the commodity prices go,» said David Otte, a special adviser to Spears and Associates, a Dallas - based consultancy.

Moon Chung In, the president's special adviser, said in a contributed article to U.S. magazine Foreign Affairs dated Monday, «What will happen to U.S. forces in South Korea if a peace treaty is signed?

Uber said Pishevar had an agreement in 2013 with former Chief Executive Officer Travis Kalanick to serve as a special adviser but that Pishevar hasn't had a role at the company for some time.

Deputy leader Tom Watson said: «Theresa May came in to Downing Street promising to put ordinary people first and as part of that promised to cap special adviser pay.

Twenty of the 48 names said to be on the list are serving or former special advisers, including an OBE for Thea Rogers, the former BBC producer turned chief of staff for George Osborne.

She said: «He's a great bloke and so on... but I don't believe someone who's been a special adviser and a pharmaceutical lobbyist is going to enthuse the base...

He says it is «categorically not the case» that a «back - channel» existed between his office and News Corp. «However,» Hunt continues, trying to be as calm as possible, the special adviser has resigned.

Andy Westwood, a former special adviser to Labour's John Denham said he believed the changes would likely clarify what was already «the norm» in departments.

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.

Former Tory special adviser Stephenson is said to be the driving force behind lobbying's most successful start - up for some years.

Brake said the bill was being amended to give future ministers the power to add special advisers to the list without the need for further legislation «if and when they are persuaded to do so».

Kaiman, who announced last Sunday he would leave his state posts as chairman of the Nassau Interim Finance Authority and special adviser to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on storm recovery to run for the congressional seat held by retiring Rep. Steve Israel (D - Huntington), said he was not familiar with the scope of Terry's financial problems.

She said that the special adviser had since commenced visits to the homes of those affected, including members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who were allegedly attacked, to give them support.

But following an intervention by Lady Finn, a Cabinet Office special adviser, and a meeting between Lamey and Johnson, Lamey was appointed, the report said.

Johnson said he values Bierwirth's opinion and would make an effort to work with other trustees «as a cohesive group» to carry out the special adviser's recommendations.

«I wish he'd told us about the pressure he was under and the barrage he was facing,» Mr Hunt said of his special adviser.

Lord Patten said the role of special adviser had become counterproductive as they no longer simply provided support to ministers and instead they «see it as their job to promote internecine warfare between departments on too many occasions.»

Watson said ordinary party members would also expect their frontbench to be freed from the «tyranny» of reading out prepared lines and to stop talking in «special adviser speak».

While McTernan was employed as a special adviser to the Secretary of State for Scotland he sent an email to the then Labour MSP Karen Gillon, who was about to make a trip to Sweden in which he said

Writer Kate Maltby, who accused Conservative MP Damian Green of sexual harassment, Labour party activist Ava Etemadzadeh, who accused Labour MP Kelvin Hopkins, and former special adviser to Nick Clegg Bridget Harris, who made allegations against Lib Dem peer Lord Rennard, said they had little faith their political parties would put their houses in order, and accused them of ignoring the issue for decades.

Bridget Harris, a former special adviser to Nick Clegg, says that Rennard repeatedly touched her legs in a hotel bar at a party conference in 2003 in Swansea.

Kaiman, 53, of Great Neck, said he will give up his $ 153,000 - a-year job as a special adviser to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo for Sandy storm relief, as well as his unpaid post as chairman of the Nassau Interim Finance Authority within the next week to 10 days.

Brian Conybeare, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's special adviser for the project, said the votes were 94 percent and above.

But commentators were not convinced with one journalist saying that Abbott had experienced a Natalie Bennett-esque «brainfade» and one former Labour special adviser suggesting that the shadow home secretary must be a Tory secret agent...

«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.

«We are part of an Anglo - Saxon heritage, and he feels that the special relationship is special,» a Romney adviser said before the candidate's trip to London.

Steve Bannon, an adviser to a top pro-Trump super PAC and ex-top White House aide, says the results of the Alabama special election are going to make Republicans and Trump supporters «start panicking.»

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 Welsh Government says it doesn't recognise the comments made by Steve Jones who was special adviser to the First Minister from 2009 to 2014.

«He was obsessed with News International, completely obsessed,» said Patrick Loughran, a former Downing Street aide who was special adviser to Lord Mandelson.

I don't believe that someone whose history is having been a special adviser and a pharmaceutical company lobbyist is going to enthuse the base,» she said.

Conybeare, whose last day as special adviser to the governor is Friday, said it was «time for me to focus on my future both professionally and personally» now that construction is reaching the halfway point.

The triumphant result is that the drinks colossus Diageo, as an example, could go on meeting junior ministers and special advisers to argue against, say, minimum pricing for alcohol, while Alcohol Concern (annual income, less than # 1m) would have to jump through a chilling series of hoops in order to take part in any kind of campaigning, with the risk of criminal charges if it were found in breach of a law that the Electoral Commission says is so opaque it can not confidently predict how it will police it.

More recently he was a special adviser to Nicky Morgan during her time as education secretary and is said to have been a Remain voter.

«One of the few special advisers who knows about communications is either on holiday or has left,» said the insider.

Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee Bernard Jenkin said the change had echoes of Tony Blair's decision to allow a small number of special advisers — including Alastair Campbell — to give instructions to officials.

Mr Hunt's special adviser, Adam Smith, already lost his job over the emails, but Mr Cameron said the culture secretary should have a chance to offer testimony to the Leveson inquiry before any other action is taken.

«We all know the special adviser had to go to protect the culture secretary and the culture secretary had to stay to protect the prime minister,» Mr Miliband said.

But the prime minister will say that Hill, who worked as a special adviser to the pro-European Ken Clarke in the 1980s, is a serious politician who has adopted a constructive approach to the EU during two decades of Tory battlles over Europe.

Barbara Bartoletti, a special policy adviser to the Moreland Commission, said Cuomo was likely relieved because Bharara «was a thorn in his side.»

John Hendrickson, a prominent racing figure who serves as a special adviser to the NYRA board, said he didn't see how Bonomo could remain «with this cloud over his head.»

Another alleged victim, Bridget Harris, a former special adviser to Mr Clegg, said Lord Rennard started touching her legs and knees at a conference in Swansea in 2003.

Dominic Cummings, who repeatedly clashed with Mr Clegg's team in his role as Mr Gove's special adviser, said that Mr Clegg is the «worst kind of modern MP» and «only cares about his image».