Sentences with phrase «spads do»
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!
https://www.totalpolitics.com/ Not exact matches
«The people who tend to do well at Diplomacy are those who spend many hours talking at great length to put across their position and the tactical disadvantages and advantages of certain actions,» the SpAd explains.
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.
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.
Professor Robert Hazell of the UCL Constitution Unit — which has published a series of training resources for special advisers — told CSW that «shrewd» Spads could already «convey instructions without directly appearing to do so».
A SpAd calls: «Do you want to know what I've got to say, or are you just going to make it up?»
«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.
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.
«We just didn't grip Whitehall fast enough,» said one former SPAD.
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.