Sentences with phrase «spin doctor in»

After graduating, he went to work «for the other side» as a City spin doctor in financial public relations, while dabbling in stand - up comedy in his spare time to «relieve the tedium».

Is there a spin doctor in the house?

Jane Bodine (Sandra Bullock munching endlessly on potato chips and delighting with physical comedy), the spin doctor in David Gordon Green's Our Brand Is Crisis, is something of a spiritual descendant of Flick in that she too possesses a massive ego and the desire to win by any means necessary.

Whelan, Gordon Brown's spin doctor in the 1990s and part of the media campaign behind Labour's 1997 victory, said union power had undoubtedly swung the vote for the younger Miliband brother.

Gordon Brown's spin doctor in the 1990s, Whelan became political director of Unite in 2007, charged with steering the union through the election.

«He can have a tendency to overthink things and take too much advice,» says the former Labour spin doctor in his latest attempt to help his party.

11:49 - George Eustice, the Tory MP who used to be Cameron's spin doctor in chief, bugs the now very long - winded Ian Davidson for being part of the «better late than never» group of Labour MPs who belatedly opposed New Labour's plans to join the euro (Labour Against The Euro, you see).

[163] In 1996, he warned of the growing influence of spin doctors in the party, and called for Blair to sack Alastair Campbell after a High Court judge criticised him in a libel trial.

Played with square - jawed bonhomie by Aaron Eckhart (In the Company of Men), Naylor periodically gets together for drinks with spin doctors in the liquor industry (Maria Bello) and the gun industry (David Koechner).

In 2009, when Australian Prime Minster, Kevin Rudd, was heading off to the Copenhagen Climate Conference with 120 public servants, minders and spin doctors in tow, I asked what they would be doing.

Not exact matches

Backed by Star Trek actor Sir Patrick Stewart and former Labour spin - doctor Alastair Campbell, the group said it is also planning marches in Europe, to political party conferences and organising for stalls to be set up in busy town centres.

Former footballer Stan Collymore and political spin doctor Alistair Campbell have expressed disgust at supermarket giant Asda advertising a fancy dress outfit featuring someone covered in blood and brandishing a machete as a «mental patient fancy dress costume».

After all, we live in a society of spin doctors and slanted bias where a taking person at their word is not failsafe, where even longstanding institutions lose our trust as we uncover their darker activities.

He doesn't weight in because he is not a spin doctor.

The formulas are by now well known: In an age of sound bites and spin doctors, we are unable to make real choices between policy alternatives.

The only winning team in the city is Chelsea, so I don't even think the biggest of spin doctors could find the up - side.

Some methods of spinning babies could help a baby in this position move, but success depends on how much fluid there is, how tight, loose, or twisted mom's abdominal muscles are, and your doctor's willingness to wait for baby to move himself.

He said following the embarrassing display by the president on Tuesday spin doctors of the government had been quick to seek refuge in the yet to be presented budget statement.

Spin doctors of the government have been quick to seek refuge in the yet to be presented budget statement.

Brangelina in the cabinet, Derren Brown as spin doctor and Sarah Palin as first ladyWhat campaign...

The report from Clifford Chance revealed that Tory spin doctor Lynton Crosby had sent Shapps an email in August 2014 about Clarkes use of a job title.

The worst line in the speech may have come when May reached for one of the worst clichés in the spin doctor's book.

Mr Cameron's critics in the media have long dismissed the Prime Minister as a spin doctor and a salesman.

But he is now suffering from his reliance on an aide who was not only guilty of bringing spin - doctoring to a new low, but who has also proved incompetent in communicating policy issues.

It was because there were few of them that the role of the modern spin doctor developed in the first place.

Politicians, political parties, spin doctors, pundits and commentators are all using Twitter, in particular.

Now though, we live in the digital era and have to moved to a time of broad (and growing) inputs — in short, information can not be managed in the same way by spin doctors when publishing is so easy.

Labour spin doctors have been telling journalists that Miliband is committed to allowing it to happen; he just wants to ensure it gets properly debated in the Commons.

This refers to a supposed dictum from the legendary former spin doctor about how long a story must remain in the headlines before its victim is finished.

The findings, published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B journal, appear to vindicate the instinct of spin doctors that having a lower voice will help attract support - even if the candidate is female.

If Simon can get in with the right DC people, if his entourage of one (Chris Addison) can sleep with the right intern (Anna Chlumsky), and if they can both stop the prime minister's chief spin - doctor Malcolm Tucker (Peter Capaldi) rigging the vote at the UN, they can halt the war.

Although McBride is a contemporary political spinner and extreme example, as Andrew Blick and George Jones showed in At Power's Elbow, as aides to the prime minister, from Robert Walpole to David Cameron, the spin doctors» profession is probably the second oldest in history.

Meanwhile, spin - doctors and political manipulators, in their different shades, have joined the debate, mostly on cyberspace.

The following year, he was caught up in a row about smears when emails from McBride to another Labour spin doctor, Derek Draper, proposed regurgitating rumours about senior Tories» private lives.

That's unlikely to persuade the anti-Brown camp as it seeks to convince hesitating MPs that, despite the departure in April of the former spin doctor McBride over emails proposing the smearing of senior Tory figures and their wives, Brown's hardball brand of politics endures.

A former spin doctor for Gordon Brown has revealed how he routinely tried to destroy the reputation of Mr Brown's enemies by planting stories about them in newspapers.

The Downing Street spin doctor handed in his notice because he could not shrug off allegations that he knew about phone hacking when he was Editor of the News of the World.

The Prime Minister's former spin doctor also accused the pair of top aides of «damaging» aggression and arrogance in an article describing her painful» ten months working at Downing Street.

In the words, allegedly, of his own spin doctor, Lynton Crosby, Cameron remained, in his forties, what he appears to have been at 18: a «posh tosser»In the words, allegedly, of his own spin doctor, Lynton Crosby, Cameron remained, in his forties, what he appears to have been at 18: a «posh tosser»in his forties, what he appears to have been at 18: a «posh tosser».

«Ed Miliband sent potentially damaging emails to a party official plotting to smear opponents, Gordon Brown's former spin doctor claims in an explosive new book.

Like the prime minister's spin doctor, who is in the habit of hiring thugs to beat people up, secretly quite fancies a ladyboy he once saw in a Bangkok nightclub and while he was a local journalist once nearly had sex with an auctioneer who subsequently became famous on a Bargain Hunt - style TV programme.

Tony Blair's former spin doctor Alastair Campbell wasted no time in attacking Britain's «putrid» press at the Leveson inquiry.

«In fairness to the present prime minister one has to accept that she has been dealt a rotten hand because this matter, the decision to cover it up, if there was such a decision, as appears to be the case, was taken in the dying days of the Cameron administration when spin doctors were the rule in Number 10 Downing Street,» Lewis told BBC Radio 4's Today programmIn fairness to the present prime minister one has to accept that she has been dealt a rotten hand because this matter, the decision to cover it up, if there was such a decision, as appears to be the case, was taken in the dying days of the Cameron administration when spin doctors were the rule in Number 10 Downing Street,» Lewis told BBC Radio 4's Today programmin the dying days of the Cameron administration when spin doctors were the rule in Number 10 Downing Street,» Lewis told BBC Radio 4's Today programmin Number 10 Downing Street,» Lewis told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

Towler is known in SW1 as a resilient and good - humoured spin doctor who once hauled a candidate off the beach in Margate.

The Labour spin doctor, who used to write for the Times, was conspicuous in his absence in the press gallery.

Peep Show star Robert Webb has quit the Labour party saying his heart is «not in it» and he feels «sick» at the thought of supporting Jeremy Corbyn's top spin doctor.

«A very senior former Cameron spin doctor has rung up my office in a state of great anger, saying they never knew anything about it,» said Lewis.

Also featuring in the tongue - in - cheek roll call of winners are Tessa Jowell, Cherie Blair and Ed Miliband's former spin doctor Bob Roberts, who now oversees communications for the City of London Corporation.

Senior Conservatives and Lib Dems have joined forces with former Labour spin doctor Alastair Campbell to push for an increase in mental health spending.

Last month I suggested that had former No 10 spin doctors been in place today, they would have instructed their people to work on a slick PR campaign to manage the current crisis that engulfs politics, and particularly the crisis the Labour Party is facing.