Sentences with phrase «opposition spokesman»

Parliamentary under sec of state at Department for Education and Employment 1995 - 97, then opposition spokesman on trade and industry, foreign affairs and home affairs

Norman Fowler has played a central role in Conservative politics for the best part of four decades; as a highly successful Cabinet Minister, as Party Chairman, as Opposition Spokesman, and now as an active member of the House of Lords.

The call by Senator Scullion, Opposition spokesman for Indigenous Affairs, for an across - the - board audit of Indigenous spending by all commonwealth government departments ignores the Report's explicit statement that it does not provide any breakdown by individual departments and that only 45 per cent of the estimate can be sheeted home to the Commonwealth.

He's matured into an effective front bench politician since his first leadership challenge, and has proved one of our best opposition spokesman, having regularly landed blows on the government concerning his portfolio.

During a busy time in that position he served on the Finance Act (No. 2) 2005 and as the main Opposition spokesman on the Floor of the House and in committee on the Registration of Financial Services (Land Transactions) Bill 2005 and National Insurance Contributions Bill 2005.

He had previously been an official Opposition spokesman on Constitutional Affairs, Scotland and Wales from 1998, and was promoted to Shadow Financial Secretary to the Treasury in 1999.

Although best known as a backbencher, Mitchell is a former opposition spokesman on trade and industry and opposition whip.

Green is an MP and opposition spokesman and so this does and will raise issues about Parliament and the political process given the nature and subject of the particular investigation (which is not of course to say that MPs should not be legitimately subject to the law).

Does anyone have a list of the occasions when Gordon Brown relied on leaked documents when he was an opposition spokesman?

Jacob Rees - Mogg, MP for North East Somerset, told the Sun: «I'm deeply concerned that as far as I can tell the reason for his resignation is some questionable behaviour by retired policemen based on a deeply questionable search of his office when he was an opposition spokesman in 2008.»

He accused an Opposition spokesman of scaremongering when in fact he was doing his job: holding the Government to account.

Most accounts say Thatcher's experience as a junior Pensions minister and Education Secretary was negligible and affected very little - as PM, she preferred to refer to her time spent as an Opposition spokesman than to her time in government.

While it may not cover this incident (leaking to an opposition spokesman does not qualify for immunity, though employing illegal immigrants is a breach of the law)-- it reflects an honourable tradition of making public embarrassing information that has been covered up.

He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: «None of this in any way put national intelligence, national security, or international relations at risk - yet we end up with a situation that is in some way reminiscent of Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe, with an opposition spokesman being arrested for nine hours.

Michael Gove, when he was opposition spokesman...

The debate on «the case for civil legal aid» has been instituted by Lord Beecham who is the opposition spokesman in the House of Lords for Communities and Local Government (and Health).

Irvin Pelletier, Member of the Legislative Assembly for Rimouski, and opposition spokesman on income and financial matters, stated (translated from French):