Sentences with phrase «successful chancellor»

In the space of three years he went from being lauded as the UK's most successful chancellor of the exchequer who had declared the «end of boom and bust» and «the beginning of a new Golden Age» to presiding over a country in a debilitating credit crunch amid Labour in - fighting, a breakdown in relations with many colleagues including his chancellor, and ultimately a failure to dissuade the electorate against the Tory / Lib Dem mantra that Labour allowed it all to go wrong.

Being able to navigate between the economics and the politics is the mark of a successful chancellor.

Not exact matches

Shadow secretary to the Treasury Philip Hammond said the chancellor had no room to manoeuvre, with the government unlikely to repeat its successful handling of the economy in the wake of the dot com crash.

Three from this genre provide good reading: Masters of Nothing: How The Crash Will Happen Again Unless We Understand Human Nature (Biteback, # 12.99) is a joint work by Matthew Hancock MP, former chief of staff and current close adviser to the chancellor, and Nadhim Zahawi MP, who has been a successful businessman and entrepreneur.

He said: «The sadness of George Osborne is that he is a formidably able man, he served with distinction as chancellor of the exchequer, and has decided since leaving Parliament to emulate a rather less successful Edward Heath.»

«A very deep breach opened up, and one that, let's hope, can be closed with the passage of time,» he said, adding the chancellor recognises «that actually Tony has done very well» and «been a successful Labour prime minister».

But when it comes to bums on seats round the cabinet table, the Lib Dems have been less successful: all the big jobs — chancellor, foreign secretary, home secretary and education secretary have gone to Conservatives.

The chancellor staved off demands to say the Conservatives might take Britain out of the EU and instead predicted the party would achieve a successful renegotiation of Britain's relationship.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies» Paul Johnson takes a ride to see what levers the chancellor can pull for a successful Budget.

We learn of a pleasant childhood in Toledo, Ohio, college days at Cornell, training with Teach For America, three grueling but successful years in a Baltimore elementary school, leadership of The New Teacher Project, and testimony at an arbitration hearing where the New York Department of Education squared off against Randi Weingarten and the United Federation of Teachers («She was dazzling,» former New York City schools chancellor Joel Klein tells Whitmire).

In 1990, John Major continued serving as chancellor while running to be Margaret Thatcher's successor; David Cameron served as shadow education secretary during his successful bid for the leadership.

From where Casey sits, the criticism of Brown and others about the unwillingness of the AFT to embrace any reform of the obsolete process for teacher dismissals — including the Big Apple affiliate's successful opposition to Bloomberg's effort this year to give the city's schools chancellor final say over dismissing those alleged and convicted of criminal misconduct (and those engaged in inappropriate behavior with students)-- amounts to» a vicious slander» geared to «chip away at public support for the due process rights» and to «distract» people from the city's failures to put more effort into firing such teachers.

A conversation with Dacia Toll, co-founder of Amistad Academy, about her successful charter school and Joel Klein, chancellor of the NYC Department of Education, about the changes Toll's success is bringing about in the NYC school system.

Previously, he was interim chancellor of the City University of New York, chairman of the Research Foundation of the City University of New York, and spent eight successful years as the president of the CUNY Graduate Center.