Sentences with phrase «years as business secretary»

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.

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.

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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.

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.

Vince Cable spent five years in government as Business Secretary tells me he had few problems with the unions between 2010 - 2015.

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)».

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.

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 forAs 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 foras Secretary of Labour Euro - Safeguards Campaign since 1975 — my views have evolved as the European Union has radically changed foras the European Union has radically changed form.

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».

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.

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.

A parade of 54 witnesses, including EPA head Lisa Jackson, Energy Secretary Steven Chu, trout fishermen, Catholic priests, green business leaders, and yes, Al Gore, will testify on global warming while Congress deliberates on the massive new climate bill that could launch a carbon cap and trade system as soon as next year.

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