Sentences with phrase «year business secretary»

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 years of public sector involvement at every level of government, Secretary Mineta will focus on what works and what does not when industries engage on public policy, what business messaging lawmakers find persuasive, and how to make a compelling case to achieve favorable government outcomes.

Sharon Louden: I have done many things to support myself over the years: pizza - maker for Domino's, shoe shiner at an airport, bartender, office manager, registrar in Non-Degree Programs at SAIC, temp - secretary in offices in Manhattan, professional organizer for small businesses, teaching, and private consulting to other artists, to name just a few.

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