Sentences with phrase «special advisers see»

Former education secretary Lord Patten has claimed special advisers see it as their job to stir up trouble between government departments and called for a cull.

Former education secretary Lord Patten has claimed special advisers see it as their job to stir up...

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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.

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.

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.

Lord Patten said the role of special adviser had become counterproductive as they no longer simply provided support to ministers and instead they «see it as their job to promote internecine warfare between departments on too many occasions.»

Clegg and the rest of the coalition's junior party were still under - resourced in government, so the end of 2011 saw the appointment of more special advisers for Lib Dem ministers and a drastically reinforced office for Clegg himself.

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.»

Governor David Paterson is sad to see Joe Bruno go — so sad, in fact, that he offered to give the former State Senate majority leader a highly paid «special adviser» post in his government.

John Hendrickson, a prominent racing figure who serves as a special adviser to the NYRA board, said he didn't see how Bonomo could remain «with this cloud over his head.»

The conspiratorially - minded might see Ed Miliband's decision to issue his own statement of support through one of his special advisers rather than directly to camera as proof that perhaps he was nowadays a little less committed to Brown's leadership than in the past.

«And what you're seeing is people that came up under a certain system where you did politics at uni, you became a special adviser, you became an MP, you became a minister who are rightfully upset because Jeremy's brought a whole lot of new energy and new people into politics.»

«We have seen that H3N2 viruses have been in fairly broad circulation in some of the countries there,» Keiji Fukuda, special adviser on pandemic to the director - general of the World Health Organization, said at a press conference today.

There are, however, exceptions to this imperative, for example, special advisers (see below).

Although using an intermediary defies the ethos of a blockchain (where the main goal is to keep things decentralized and user identities under wraps), the project saw no alternative, according to OmiseGo special adviser Thomas Greco.