"Relevance," says a long-time aide.
The excellent Gabby Bertin, a long-time aide to Cameron, remains his political spokeswoman.
"He always knows where the back door is," said Robert Ratliffe, a long-time aide.
"She did not make the decision to say yes easily," a long-time aide recalled.
Mr. Tyler, a former long-time aide to Mr. Gingrich who helped set up the super PAC supporting him, disagreed.
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Three sources at the convention also told the Guardian that they saw Philip Griffin, a long-time aide to Manafort in Kiev, working with the foreign dignitaries programme.
But Powell's long-time aide and former chief of staff at the state department, Lawrence Wilkerson, helped lay the groundwork for Powell to eventually break with Bush.
With six weeks to go one of Better Together's press team asked Catherine MacLeod, Darling's long-time aide, for a mobile number for BBC Scotland's political editor.
In one widely derided effort, George Bush in 2005 dispatched long-time aide Karen Hughes to Muslim countries in an effort to boost America's rapidly declining image.
