Sentences with phrase «using special advisers»

The advantage typically cited in favour of using special advisers is that they enhance the independence of the senior civil servants by making a clear demarcation between the two types of advisers.

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There are nine former special advisers, two of whom used to work for Boris Johnson and only one of whom has a (New) Labour background.

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.

Overclaimed expenses are bad enough, but throw in alleged flipping to minimise her tax bill, as well as a special adviser's apparent use of the culture secretary's role in press regulation to menace a journalist, and the scandal becomes utterly poisonous.

It's now the career route of choice: they can use that platform to attack this Government and make their name, lining up alongside former special advisers, MPs and councillors to argue for more spending, or to spread scare stories that are often exaggerated or wholly untrue.

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».

Spitzer later used a perch at Constantine's successful anti-trust litigation firm to run for governor, and brought Constantine into his administration as a senior adviser with a special responsibility for a cherished project, higher education.

The major message I took from the book is that despite all the supposed complexity of the financial markets and all those advisers using the «special» language which simply makes them appear smart without actually being so, investing is simple.

The U.K. - based data consulting firm, with funding from Republican donor Robert Mercer and whose former vice president was former White House special adviser Steve Bannon, was used by President Donald Trump's campaign and others.

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.