But in the same
year Business Secretary Vince Cable had said the party would consider scrapping the 50p rate if there was a «good alternative», such as a «tax on very high - value property».
Earlier
this year business secretary Peter Mandelson abandoned plans to part - privatise the Royal Mail, and Ralfe says the pension problem is yet to be answered.
Earlier
this year the business secretary Sajid Javid, launched an investigation into the abuse of tipping.
Not exact matches
UCIW
secretary Gordon Thompson told WA
Business News in March this
year he was taking a wait - and - see approach to the merger plan, with the composition of the merged company's board one of his main considerations.
Looking back on her early days in the real - estate
business, Shark Tank star Barbara Corcoran recalls the moment when her boyfriend and
business partner Ramon Simone told her — after seven
years together — that he was going to marry the company's
secretary.
Josh got a new phone last
year and a new number which he attempted to text me but when he entered my number he inverted two digits which for someone in his
business is pretty ironic since he gets all over his
secretaries about proofreading his stuff before it becomes the law.
Here's shadow
business secretary, the dashing Chuka Umunna: «Labour has led calls for a British Investment Bank since last
year.
Take international trade
secretary Liam Fox and the controversial EU - Canada
business deal CETA: after five
years of secret negotiations on CETA, Fox signed the UK up to the deal by intentionally side - stepping parliamentary scrutiny.
Keen to move on from the «glory
years» of the Blair - Brown era, the Shadow
Business Secretary is one of his party's own star strikers as it embarks on the final run - in towards May.
The
business secretary claimed that, for 10
years, Ashcroft had «dodged» the conditions imposed upon him, and alleged that the Conservative deputy chairman was only planning to become a full UK taxpayer if the Tories won the general election.
Shadow
business secretary Ken Clarke tells Channel 4 News any Tory - Lib Dem deal should last up to three
years.
He did that for a
year before moving to
business secretary for a
year and then moving on to be communities and local government
secretary.
Tories drop immediate cuts, offer Cable Cabinet Treasury position, suggest three -
year programme The shadow
business secretary, Ken Clarke, today dropped clear hints as to the shape of a Conservative - Liberal Democrat deal to lead the government.
The former
business secretary said the chancellor had been severely restricted by the downgrading of the growth figures and the unexpected rise in borrowing, which he estimated would cost every person # 700 per
year compared to pre-election forecast.
Vince Cable spent five
years in government as
Business Secretary tells me he had few problems with the unions between 2010 - 2015.
Former shadow
business secretary Chuka Umunna said: «After eight
years of Tory misrule, most people thoroughly tired of austerity, a disastrous Brexit negotiation, the Windrush outrage and four cabinet resignations in six months, we should be well ahead and we are not.
The
Business Secretary also claims that David Cameron will seek to scrap or reduce the winter fuel allowance paid to pensioners from next
year.
«Watering down people's rights at work by doubling the service requirement to claim for unfair dismissal from one to two
years is not a substitute for a credible plan for growth,» shadow
business secretary Chuka Umunna said.
The deputy prime minister and
business secretary Vince Cable are thought to be concerned that the government is not taking a sharp enough stick to the banks, and fear another round of lavish bonuses at the start of next
year.
Shifting the balance of internal power is hardly novel, though, as a 2011 Institute for Government report notes: «during the 13 Labour
years in office, there were six defence
secretaries, eight trade and industry
secretaries, eight
business secretaries, and six home
secretaries (including three in four
years)».
Business secretary Vince Cable said he and chancellor George Osborne had come to a «common view» over the need for reform after a
year of intensive lobbying against the changes by the City.
Business secretary Vince Cable makes unguarded comments to Daily Telegraph journalists about the BSkyB takeover last
year:
Of course, the shadow
business secretary in recent
years has been Chuka Umunna...
He got his first cabinet job in just his fourth
year in parliament when he was appointed culture
secretary in 2014, and was appointed
business secretary after the 2015 election.
However, Liberal Democrat
business secretary Vince Cable told Channel 4 News: «A
year ago the reform pamphlet warned of a budget that was very similar to what we had today.
Later on Mr Cable returns to the subject of «fair taxes», when asked what he would consider a success after five
years as
Business Secretary.
The CEO of the Redcar steelworks had sent some extremely disobliging letters about him to the then prime minister, and Vince Cable had been far too hopeless as
business secretary during the early
years of the coalition, but these were crosses he had learned to bear.
The plan in outline has the support of Lord Mandelson, the former
business secretary, who sees the bulk of the policy similar to the industrial activism he championed in the last
years of the Brown government.
On the same day that the Shadow Education
Secretary will say that he wants to move away from «the narrow, «exam factory» vision of recent
years a unique alliance of teachers, students, parents, local government representatives, governors, international experts and
businesses has come together to produce a vision of what is being called Big Education.
Shadow
Business Secretary Chuka Umunna has told ITV's The Agenda that he thinks next
year's General Election is going to be «very, very close».
By coincidence, the ultra-smooth Shadow
Business Secretary and his Constituency Labour Party have received a whopping # 47,000 from various unions over the last 5
years.
International trade
secretary Liam Fox also sparked fury last
year by suggesting
businesses were «too lazy and too fat», with many bosses choosing to spend time on the golf course rather than at work.
Commerce
Secretary Wilbur Ross failed to disclose
business connections to Russian President Vladimir Putin's family and inner circle on a required personal financial - disclosure form earlier this
year, according to documents released over the weekend.
Mandelson fears his own carefully crafted legacy of «industrial activism» built up during his two
years as
business secretary is under threat, and that Miliband's party conference speech in which he made the energy price pledge was driven by politics as much as economics.
Business Secretary Vince Cable is announcing plans to force companies to have binding votes on executive pay every three
years.
The former
business secretary, who has formed something of a political partnership with Ed Balls in the last few
years, calls on Labour to revive the success of the Bill Clinton and Tony Blair
years.
[6] Clarke, who declined Cameron's offer of the Leadership of the House of Commons, [7] explained that when Cameron asked him to become Shadow
Business Secretary in 2009, the men agreed that he would serve in the cabinet for two
years, and that «At my age, it is time for me to step back from the slog of running a large department, but I am delighted to have been given a more advisory political role».
Lord Mandelson, the
business secretary, indicated today that the government would not set out new public spending plans before the next general election, arguing it was currently impossible to forecast the economy two
years ahead.
When the Royal Mail floated last
year,
Business Secretary Vince Cable said he was looking for long - term stability from «the right kind of investor community».
The former
Business Secretary is one of the party's best known faces, having served in Cabinet for five
years during the coalition government.
In a kind of passage that George Osborne has never quite managed to deliver the
Business Secretary levelled with his party and voters about the hard
years ahead:
As a committed Labour supporter who has been immersed in the political and economic arguments over Britain's place in the European integration project for some forty
years — from my role in overseeing JML expand its
business beyond Britain to acting as
Secretary of Labour Euro - Safeguards Campaign since 1975 — my views have evolved as the European Union has radically changed form.
At a 1996 education summit of governors and
business leaders, Republican Paul O'Neill, then CEO of Alcoa and later treasury
secretary under President George W. Bush, said, «Why on earth can't we insist on universal standards at least for nine -
year - olds?
The Liberal Democrat
Business Secretary, Vince Cable, has criticised Conservative plans to protect education spending for five - to 16 -
year - olds.
The 800 Chicago Teachers Union delegates representing rank - and - file membership opted last
year not to endorse President Obama's re-election since he and his education
secretary, former Chicago schools chief Arne Duncan, are seen as promoting the
business reform agenda.
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With over 30
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Secretary Mineta will focus on what works and what does not when industries engage on public policy, what
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Sharon Louden: I have done many things to support myself over the
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Patricia Espinosa, who last
year took the helm as executive
secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), was in the UK this week to speak with
businesses, NGOs and Nick Hurd, the UK climate change minister, on how to sustain and increase momentum on climate action.
Shadow
Business Secretary Rebecca Long - Bailey outlines fresh policy to save households # 1bn a
year on energy bills