Sentences with phrase «special advisers in»

«It says something about the Labour gene pool that all the serious candidates for the leadership are white Oxbridge - educated men in their forties who were special advisers in 1997.

This has opened up a battle over who will get jobs as special advisers in a Cameron government.

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

Tabling oral and written questions has a similar effect, as pressure mounts on policy officials and special advisers in a department to find answers, and to consider why so many questions are being asked on a particular issue.

Your reviewer has known the author for twenty years as a Parliamentary colleague and observed his formidable reputation when both were special advisers in the Thatcher government.

Before that he was a special adviser in the Department for Transport and then in the Department for Health.

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.

Fourthly, Open Europe, under its new director Henry Newman, a special adviser in a number of departments in the last government, takes a forensic approach to the major challenges facing Britain during the Brexit negotiation process.

A former Labour party head of briefings, O'Donovan was a special adviser in the New Labour years and is now seen as one of the key Blairite lobbyists in the private sector.

Elia, in approving Bierwirth's recommendations and action plan, emphasized that district leaders and school board trustees must work with the special adviser in making changes.

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?

Ruwan Kodikara was a Lib Dem special adviser in Number 10 towards the end of Clegg's time as deputy prime minister.

Chapman left his role as Davis» chief of staff before the general election, having previously been George Osborne's top special adviser in the Treasury.

Helping him in his quest was Horner, who left NYPIRG to be a special adviser in the Attorney General's office.

Against this terrific backdrop we should be ten points ahead of a Labour Party with zero economic credibility and a leader who was Gordon Brown's special adviser in the Treasury for more than a decade and a member of his catastrophic Government.

Before becoming an MP in 2001, he was a special adviser in the agriculture department when the Tories were in government and later served as political secretary to William Hague.

Not exact matches

The Bahamian - American physician and special adviser to the Carter Center is one of the key individuals responsible for the eradication of smallpox — a truly terrifying disease that in the 20th century alone killed as many as 300 million people.

Former national security adviser Michael Flynn is reportedly concerned that his son, Michael Flynn Jr., could get wrapped up in special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation.

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.

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.

When Trump announced in December that Icahn would be a special adviser, Trump made clear he would «not be serving as a federal employee or a Special Government Employee and will not have any specific duties.special adviser, Trump made clear he would «not be serving as a federal employee or a Special Government Employee and will not have any specific duties.Special Government Employee and will not have any specific duties.»

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.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- Former national security adviser Michael Flynn pleaded guilty Friday to making false statements to the FBI, the first Trump White House official to make a guilty plea so far in a wide - ranging investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller.

Rick Gates, the former Trump campaign adviser, is expected to plead guilty on Friday in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian election meddling, according to a letter obtained by ABC News.

Legal experts told Business Insider that the plea deal struck by Michael Flynn, the former White House national security adviser, with the special counsel Robert Mueller was most likely evidence that Flynn has damaging information to offer prosecutors on other persons of interest in the Russia investigation.

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.

Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn pleaded guilty in December to lying to federal agents and is providing cooperation to Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election and whether the Trump campaign was involved.

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.

Former life: In 1974, Pate served as assistant secretary of commerce under President Ford, later becoming a special adviser.

The Office of the Special Counsel also revealed Monday that George Papadopoulos, formerly a foreign policy adviser to Trump's campaign, had pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI in a January 2017 interview about his contact with a Russian professor.

Carl Icahn, the billionaire investor and former unofficial «special adviser» to President Donald Trump, sold off nearly $ 31.3 million in steel - related stocks just days before Trump announced he would impose steep tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum.

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 signeIn, 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 signein 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 signein 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.

Former national security adviser Michael Flynn confirmed Friday that he is cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller, after pleading guilty to lying to the FBI about two conversations he had with the Russian ambassador in the weeks before President Trump took office.

The special counsel has asked about the role of the adviser, George Nader, in White House policymaking, indicating that he is examining Emirati influence on the Trump administration.

The special counsel has asked about the role of the adviser, George Nader, in a January 2017 meeting in the Seychelles involving a Russian investor and a Trump transition adviser.

It is to this task that Sachs sets himself not only in this book but also in his work as a special adviser to Kofi Annan and as director of Columbia University's Earth Institute.

He is a tireless campaigner, a record - breaking fundraiser and an inspirational speaker, receiving recognition both in the UK (awarded an MBE in 2004) and internationally (appointed as a special adviser to the United Nations in 2008).

North Carolina Tar Heels athletes were directed by their academic advisers into questionable classes in the school's African and Afro - American Studies department, according to a special subcommittee report.

The image — be it the revolutionary aerial daredevil artist; the articulate best friend of the press; the man in the mink coat and the Mercedes; the national chairman of the Hemophilia Foundation; the coach of the Special Olympics basketball program; the adviser to The March of Dimes; the spokesman for the Lupus Foundation, American Dental Association and Philadelphia Police Athletic League; the endorser of the American Red Cross, Population Institute, Pennsylvania Adult Education and dozens of other charities; the ubiquitous television pitchman (Hey, Dr. Chap - Stick!)

Graham Dale, special adviser to Stephen Timms - who is in charge of the Digital Britain brief - agrees that the «attractive dimension» to cloud computing is cost - cutting.

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.

In amongst all the sleaze is a drum - playing Prime Minister, a cunning and manipulative special adviser and an idealistic former teacher.

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

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.

That last generation of working class Labour MPs — the people whose political career started as a shop steward rather than a special adviser — mostly left in 2010.

He was special adviser on European Affairs to the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair (1997 — 2004) and chaired the Government's New Industry, New Jobs Advisory Panel in BIS (2009 - 2010).

A host of special advisers and lobbyists have been selected to fight key Conservative seats in the upcoming general election.