Sentences with phrase «spad in»

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.

My father was a SpAd in the Callaghan government and I served under both Blair and Brown.

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.

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

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.

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

Not exact matches

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.

Frederic Michel, James Murdoch's lobbying man in News International, and Adam Smith, Hunt's hapless special adviser (spad) Give evidence today.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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».

Off he strides in his squeaky boots to Casa Bucket, spads dressed up as the Merry Men following on behind.

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.

«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.

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.

Referring to SpAds as «creatures in the undergrowth» he warned that it was a «constitutional affront» the way some ordered the ministers who are supposed to be their bosses about and took on powers for themselves.

JH offered to meet up for drink in February 2011 and spad Sue Beeby warned JH against meeting up for a drink after AC resigned.

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).

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.

Andy Burnham, political researcher to SPAD then MP, never worked in the private sector or outside in any real context.

Mike depends who gets in in 2015, seats like Thurrock and stevenage, have been given to SPads, and reasearchers, I'm sure some taget seats like Norwich, are locals, but it all seems rather managed, and that excludes all women shortlists,

It wasn't until he had recruited more SPADs loyal to his policy rather than the system that he was able to get the department in shape - evidence, were any more needed, that the original restriction on special advisers was a big mistake.

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

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

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).

A well - placed government source once told me she's «kept on a tight leash» by spads, in case, as a forthright personality, she is too outspoken in the media...

He also noted that in 1995 Hague caused some concern, including questions in the House, regarding the appointment of an allegedly under qualified and openly gay SpAd when he was Welsh Secretary.

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.

The Korean Herald Reported reported that Samsung will release the sPad tablet in Korea in August.

The Korean Herald Reported today that Samsung will release the sPad tablet in Korea in August.

It is unknown at this time, whether or not the Galaxy Tab is the renamed sPad, but it would make sense, considering the sPad was also thought to be 7 inches, and Samsung does not have two 7 inch tablets in their pipeline.

Well, you can wipe that sPad title from your brain because we have now discovered that the 7 - inch Super AMOLED tablet device will, in fact, be called... Read more

You may remember we told you about Samsung's in development tablet, the sPad, a couple of weeks back.

Well, you can wipe that sPad title from your brain because we have now discovered that the 7 - inch Super AMOLED tablet device will, in fact, be called the Samsung Galaxy Tape.

He flew missions in a spad, drank champagne with Snoopy, his motto was Bite the Bosch and checked the driveway and weather every morning before take - off.

In the large sized Frimkess Chilean Landscape Pot (2015), we see a rich narrative involving banana tree and other tree type plantations, neighborhoods with small houses and tiled roofs, children riding their bicycles, a lake or a sea with a couple of traditional fishing boats, a SPAD biplane flying in the blue skIn the large sized Frimkess Chilean Landscape Pot (2015), we see a rich narrative involving banana tree and other tree type plantations, neighborhoods with small houses and tiled roofs, children riding their bicycles, a lake or a sea with a couple of traditional fishing boats, a SPAD biplane flying in the blue skin the blue sky.

I had represented the driver in the earlier Watford train crash, in which one passenger died, who passed a red signal, known in the industry as a SPAD — signal passed at danger.