Sentences with phrase «special adviser at»

«When Mr Cameron was working as a special adviser at the Home Office he had concerns about Michael Howard's crackdown on raves - not least because his then girlfriend was attending them.

Behind him lies the zealous, over-confident Dominic Cummings, his special adviser at education — forced out — humiliated at the Treasury select committee when his version of reality collided with its clever Tory chairman, Andrew Tyrie.

She was Iain Duncan Smith's special adviser at the DWP for three years until May 2015.

The Tory grandee's latest remarks come a week after Lord Howard — who employed Cameron as a special adviser at the Home Office in the 1990s and also supported him in the 2005 Tory leadership contest — also urged voters to back Brexit.

Coincidentally, Portland has also employed Gove's former special adviser at the Department for Education, Henry De Zoete.

Lord Caine, a special adviser at the NIO, has been a key behind the scenes figure during many talks processes.

Not exact matches

Doug New is a partner at Fasken Martineau but earlier in his career served as a special adviser to the deputy commissioner of the Foreign Investment Review Agency.

That period would prove important for another reason: the government posted Kuroda for a year as special adviser to the cabinet of Junichiro Koizumi, giving the civil servant sustained exposure to politicians at the highest levels.

Trump is set to meet Ezekiel Emanuel, a health policy special adviser under Obama who helped shape the Affordable Care Acton, at the White House on Monday, along with Ryan and Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price.

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.

Isabel Spearman is a brand and image consultant who previously worked as special adviser to Samantha Cameron at Downing Street.

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.

Luckily, they're also looking at a few external candidates, as well: former D - Backs scouting director and current Brewers scouting director Ray Montgomery, MLB executive Kim Ng, and former Dodgers GM (and current special adviser) Ned Colletti.

Other recent entrants to the public affairs industry include former Tory special advisers Lizzie Loudon at Hanbury Strategy, Kate Shouesmith at Weber Shandwick and Meg Chandler Powell at Burson Marsteller.

Special adviser Kate Marley went from being on Pay Band 1 in 2014 — capped at # 54,121 — to earning # 65,000 in 2015, an increase of at least 20 per cent.

Patrick has spent ten years as a special adviser in various roles at the heart of British government, including 10 Downing Street, the Cabinet Office, the Northern Ireland Office.

In the book's epilogue Salmond notes that his special advisers and private office team «did not always see the sunniest side of my nature», although at other points he positively relishes his ability to put powerful individuals in their place.

Next door at Number 11, Osborne now has a whopping six special advisers working alongside him - two of whom are in the top pay bracket of # 95,000 - # 142,000 - as he eyes up the top job.

Now the number of «super special advisers» stands at 10.

Ex-journalists may not always make the best special advisers, but they are definitely at an advantage.

A former director of communications at Policy Exchange, he set up WPI Strategy with ex-Tory special adviser Sean Worth in.

In her most recent special adviser posting, Porter worked for Liz Truss at the Ministry of Justice before heading off on maternity leave.

Some, including Chris Boffey, a former news editor of the Observer and Sunday Telegraph and one - time special adviser to the Labour government, feel that this is an example of the decline in standards at the Telegraph.

Akeredolu stated this at the swearing - in ceremony of new commissioners and special advisers held at the International Event Centre in Akure, Ondo State.

He went on to be a special adviser to Douglas Hogg, the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, and worked at 10 Downing Street as well as for Prime Minister John Major's campaign team in the party's unsuccessful 1997 general election campaign, before becoming a speechwriter and political secretary to Major's successor as party leader, William Hague.

He was previously external affairs director at the British Banking Association and before that he spent two years as a Tory special adviser.

I hope that the officials and special advisers to Lord Mandelson who may be reading blogs and briefing him might remember that the music industry have got past form at trying to pretend that technological advance isn't happening.

Wild is a former public affairs manager at T - Mobile and account director at Hanover Communications, who went on to be a special adviser to defence secretary Michael Fallon.

The minister's political future is likely to come down to the nature of email communications between himself and his special adviser, Adam Smith, whose «inappropriate behaviour» was condemned by Mr Hunt at the despatch box in parliament last week.

In a dramatic and long - awaited appearance at the Leveson inquiry, Mr Hunt was forced to listen as several embarrassing messages between himself, his special adviser Adam Smith, James Murdoch and Fred Michel, News Corp lobbyist, were read out in the court.

According to a statement by Femi Adesina, his Special adviser on Media and Publicity, President Buhari will join other world leaders at the welcoming reception to be hosted by the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, and also hold a bilateral meeting with the UN scribe.

A special adviser told me during the last parliament: «You have no idea what a galvanising effect just the thought that a select committee might be looking at a particular area of a department has on the officials concerned.»

The special adviser in question later tweeted: «The NOTW [News of the World] paid # 20k for a photo of me at, er, my mate's birthday party?

At least two people approached about taking up a special adviser role pulled out...

But, one of the special advisers to the Governor and House of Representatives aspirant for Ibadan North East / Ibadan South East, Hon. Deji Aboderin, while addressing journalists at the venue of the camp loyal to the state governor in Mapo, declared that he was not aware of any parallel congress in the local government.

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.

Woodhouse enters the public affairs world after four years at The Sun and eight months as special adviser to culture secretary Karen Bradley.

In the new post, he will team up with Gove's current special adviser Henry Cook, who was also previously an associate director at Portland.

The way political journalists operate - how much they are actually fed by ministers in private chats, and by their special advisers, lies at the heart of the relationship between politicians and the press.

But the most effusive praise came from former Labour special adviser Paul Richards, who declared: «I think Grayling's time at CCHQ will be seen as a golden age, free from gaffes or blunders.»

The home secretary has even been touted as a potential leader of the Out campaign, after her special adviser Stephen Parkinson joined Vote Leave at the end of last year.

Ministers, special advisers, officials and even Whitehall mandarins at the very top have been left in no doubt.

Trump is being urged by some advisers to save at least one dance, as he celebrates his inauguration, for a very special Republican lady — Caitlyn Jenner.

Ayesha Hazarika spent a decade at at the heart of government as a special adviser to Ed Miliband and Harriet Harman and is now a writer, comedian and political commentator.

The reason Leveson has been raised at all in the context of Miller's departure is entirely due to her own special adviser, Jo Hindley, having foolishly attempted to deter the Daily Telegraph investigation into the minister's expenses by mentioning it during a phone call with the paper's reporter.

Shiyanbola further implored Governor Abiola Ajimobi to appoint «a special adviser on Surveying and Mapping who would oversee the implementation of laws on Surveying and Physical Planning at the rural and urban levels.

Prior to the interment of the former special adviser on sports to Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode, a funeral service was held at the City of David, Redeemed Christian Church of God, Victoria Island.

Ayesha Hazarika spent a decade at at the heart of government as a special adviser to Ed Miliband and Harriet Harman.

The lack of women among special advisers should embarrass Theresa May, writes Anne McElvoy, senior editor at the Economist

I remember being at Warwick in 2008 where our National Policy Forum (local activists and trade union members) met with all the frontbenchers and special advisers to agree on the manifesto and it was clear that we had become timid, institutional and unambitious.