Ex-Labour minister takes up oil company role
source: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3cd20b36-682a-11df-a52f-00144feab49a.html
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There's always a heated debate over the private sector jobs ministers take after leaving politics. Since the Dispatches report which investigated, "How senior politicians are seeking to trade on their Westminster connections to earn money from lucrative positions in the private sector."[Channel 4] there's been an increase in criticism.
Yesterday a number of papers reported on jobs some former Labour ministers are moving into after the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments approval.
Patricia Hewitt is chairing BT's renumeration commmittee and its pension policy review group (though it's said BT staff are about to ballot for a strike)
Lord Malloch-Brown (Minister of State for Africa, Asia and the United Nations, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General) now advising a Southwest Energy an an Ethiopian oil company. FT lists more examples in the article.
"Ruth Kelly, former education secretary, was last week appointed as senior strategic manager for the global businesses of HSBC, the bank. John Hutton, former defence secretary, has become an adviser to Eversheds, the law firm."-FT
Yesterday a number of papers reported on jobs some former Labour ministers are moving into after the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments approval.
Patricia Hewitt is chairing BT's renumeration commmittee and its pension policy review group (though it's said BT staff are about to ballot for a strike)
Lord Malloch-Brown (Minister of State for Africa, Asia and the United Nations, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General) now advising a Southwest Energy an an Ethiopian oil company. FT lists more examples in the article.
"Ruth Kelly, former education secretary, was last week appointed as senior strategic manager for the global businesses of HSBC, the bank. John Hutton, former defence secretary, has become an adviser to Eversheds, the law firm."-FT
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