Sentences with phrase «special advisers from»

«A little over three years [after the Putney dinner] our relationship had soured to the point that he banned Lib Dem special advisers from physically entering the Department for Education, hid on one occasion in the toilet to avoid speaking to David Laws, and let loose his somewhat unhinged advisers to brief against me, and even against Miriam, in the press,» Clegg writes.

Brake and Tyler made clear the Tories were to blame for the omission of special advisers from future regulation.

He writes: «Our relationship had soured to the point that he banned Lib Dem special advisers from physically entering the Department for Education, hid on one occasion in the toilet to avoid speaking to David Laws, and let loose his somewhat unhinged advisers to brief against me, and even against Miriam, in the press.

But that could all be about to change as two of the most highly - rated special advisers from the Cameron years are striking out.

Not exact matches

As I remember from my own time as a special adviser, this breathing space gives front - benchers the chance to catch up on new thinking and the issues which are likely to feature high on the agenda in the coming months.

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.

The prime minister has cut the total number of special advisers across Whitehall from 95 to 83 and the pay bill has also fallen by # 500,000 from # 8.4 million to # 7.9 million a year, according to the government figures.

It was rather more a «disappointed» word passed on from the Cabinet Secretary via my Permanent Secretary to me and my special advisers.

In one sense, Livermore was a surprising appointment: he had been a special adviser to Brown from 1997 to 2008, and was seen as closely associated with New Labour, from which Miliband had tried to distance himself.

Then there are the serious looking ones in dull suits and ties striding from hotel to hotel talking into their mobiles — lobbyists or «special advisers».

From 2001 - 2003, the Audit's then director, Stuart Weir, acted as special adviser to the Public Administration Select Committee during two inquiries which resulted in two significant reports on the «Quango state.

If you get rid of purdah, it means ministers would be able to use their private offices, their special advisers and media advisers, and the machinery of government to issue press releases and effectively campaign from their ministerial offices.

Chamberlain effectively had two special advisers, Sir Horace Wilson from the Treasury who cut out the Foreign Office, and the sinister Sir Joseph Ball, formerly of MI5, head of the Conservative Research Department, publisher of Truth, a newsletter dedicated to smearing political opponents, and Chamberlain's fixer - in - chief.

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».

Former Trump campaign adviser Rick Gates pleaded guilty Friday to two criminal charges stemming from the special counsel's probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 US election, and agreed to...

Under pay restrictions ordered by the prime minister, no new government special adviser will be paid more than # 72,000 a year without an explicit exemption from Downing Street.

We are correctly quick to criticise the Milibands and Coopers, who move effortlessly from university to special adviser to safe seat to Cabinet without so much as a trip to Lidls in between... are we not in danger of creating a similar routeway?

The Speaker, while reading the list, did not distinguish those whose names were sent to the House for confirmation as commissioners from those nominated for appointment as special advisers.

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 reaction in Westminster has been far from mixed, with Tory MPs, special advisers and lobby journalists generally agreeing that Williamson must be on — somewhat clumsy - manoeuvres.

The environment secretary has just appointed a new special adviser, James Starkie, from the successful PR and lobbying firm Portland.

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.

Cuomo named John Hendrickson, who has been a Senate appointee to the NYRA board from Saratoga Springs, as a special adviser.

The home secretary's special adviser is not taking calls — even from Home Office staff, I understand.

She also seemed to confirm a bid after her wife, Marinoni, resigned from her position as special adviser for community partnerships in the city's Department of Education (DOE).

Even the government of the day can not involve the civil service formally in manifesto preparation for the next parliament, as I remember from my time as a special adviser prior to the 2010 general election.

[2] He was special adviser to Jim Murphy MP, the Secretary of State for Scotland from 2008 until 2010.

The Cabinet Office's prescription for reform is a smaller and better fast - stream; more private sector experience; rotation on the basis of policy delivery, not career development; more expert special advisers (in short, kitchen Cabinets), and Permanent Secretaries chosen by Secretaries of State from a shortlist drawn up independently.

Special advisers are being lured away from their cabinet ministers and back into CCHQ as Crosby builds his machine.

Dennys was previously a special adviser to Iain Duncan Smith, but is perhaps best known in the Westminster village as the person accused of blabbing about an impending reshuffle on the 16:43 from Chichester to London Victoria and sparking speculation that IDS was to make way for Esther McVey.

Her sharp eye and cautious nature — alongside loyal and ferocious support from the special advisers who have subsequently followed her to Downing Street — have been cited as key reasons why her six years as home secretary were untainted by scandal or widespread failure.

Parliamentarians consider it highly unlikely that Mr Smith could operate autonomously from his minster, given that the relationship between secretaries of state and their special adviser is usually extremely close.

And her wife, Christine Marinoni, just resigned from her position as special adviser for community partnerships in the city's Department of Education (DOE).

The winner of the 36th Senate District primary in the overwhelmingly Democratic district will likely fill the seat left vacant by former Sen. Ruth Hassell - Thompson, who in July resigned from her post to work for Gov. Andrew Cuomo as a special adviser for policy and community affairs of state Homes and Community Renewal.

In the past political parties would have retained some of their staff simply by transferring them from the party payroll to the government payroll and appointing them as special advisers.

Ms Dorries was one of a number of Conservative MPs named in emails from Gordon Brown's special adviser Damian McBride to other Labour activists about fictitious smear stories to be spread on the internet.

The New York Post reported last week that Marinoni resigned from her $ 131,708 - a-year government position as a special adviser for community partnerships in New York City in advance of a potential Nixon campaign for governor.

UPDATE: The governor's press office emailed the following statement from Jeremy Creelan, special counsel to the governor and senior adviser on ethics:

Having worked as a special adviser for everyone from Stephen Byers to Geoff Hoon to Gordon Brown, he's used to having various labels attached to him, though the new one is «Milibandite».

The journey from the wilderness may take a generation — and won't happen at all if the party can't agree a destination, says former special adviser Julian Astle

In his report, James Hamilton says he took evidence from Leighton Andrews, the former cabinet minister who made allegations that some ministers were undermined by a Welsh Government special adviser.

Labour pointed out that in the meantime the cost of special advisers for Conservative government ministers has gone up from # 5.9 m in 2009 to # 8.4 m last year.

The former special adviser to Mr Clegg told The Observer that the party's peers had cheered when they were told Lord Rennard could come back in from the cold after disciplinary proceedings against him were dropped.

He was a special adviser to Roy Jenkins at the Home Office in the 1970s, and moved with Jenkins from the Labour Party to found the SDP in 1981.

Although authors include notable retread Stephen Twigg plus newbies like Rachel Reeves, Tristram Hunt and Jenny Chapman, many of the authors are from outside Parliament, such as former special adviser Paul Richards, the eminence grise of the Blairite Continuation Tendency.

Labour Tomorrow received a # 10,000 loan from Benjamin Wegg - Prosser, the former special adviser who now runs a consultancy firm chaired by Peter Mandelson.

The Tories are demanding an apology from Gordon Brown over his special adviser Damian McBride's smear attempt.

Q: You are the first ERC president to work from ERC's Executive Agency in Brussels; your job will include the responsibilities of ERC's secretary - general, Donald Dingwell, who's stepping down; you will also be a special adviser to the European Commission.

There's the ongoing special - counsel investigation into whether the Trump campaign aided a Russian campaign to aid Trump's candidacy and defeat his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton; there's the associated inquiry into whether the president obstructed justice when he fired former FBI Director James Comey, whom he had asked not to investigate his former national - security adviser; there are the president's hush - money payments to women with whom he allegedly had extramarital affairs, made through his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, and facilitated by corporate cash paid to influence the White House; there is his ongoing effort to interfere with the Russia inquiry and politicize federal law enforcement; there are the foreign governments that seem to be utilizing the president's properties as vehicles for influencing administration policy; there's the emerging evidence that Trump campaign officials sought aid not only from Russia, but from other foreign countries, which may have affected Trump's foreign policy; there are the ongoing revelations of the president's Cabinet officials» misusing taxpayer funds; there is the accumulating evidence that administration decisions are made at the behest of private industry, in particular those in which Republican donors have significant interests.

Sean Worth from the think - tank Policy Exchange, who was formerly a special adviser to David Cameron, has told BBC News: «The evidence shows that grammar schools do work, but they under - represent the poorest children.»