Sentences with phrase «[former international development secretary»

UK's International Development Secretary has announced on Sunday that the government will give Dominica # 5 million in aid.

His comments come after Rory Stewart, the International Development Secretary, has said British people who convert to IS should be killed in Syria.

Douglas Alexander, International Development Secretary, says he is looking forward to this competition motivating a new generation of journalists that want to write about some of the most important global issues facing the developing world today.

The UK will stop referring to the «war on terror», amid concerns it is empowering and unifying terrorists, the international development secretary Hilary Benn said today.

International development secretary Mr Mitchell said Afghanistan was an unusual case where the «moral commitment» to develop the country and safeguard Britain's national interest were «enmeshed».

11:56 - Allison McGovern, shadow international development secretary, looks out of her depth, I'm afraid, although she is somewhat saved by comparison with Lynne Feathstrone, answering her questions for the government.

Labour website LabourList said its readers ranked Ms Cooper as the most popular of Mr Miliband's team, with shadow chancellor Ed Balls, shadow education secretary Andy Burnham, shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander and shadow international development secretary Harriet Harman all well - liked.

After the 2010 general election she became shadow international development secretary.

International development secretary Andrew Mitchell said that reducing aid targets could «cost lives» and defended the proposed increased as part of the British government's commitment to helping the very poor.

I had foolishly assumed that whether I liked them or not, people in government were there because they knew how to do their job but the last 12 months alone have included the decision to hold a snap election that then lost them more seats than a bad IKEA intern, Brexit talks that have mimicked that track Paula Abdul did with a cartoon cat, an offensive defence secretary, an international development secretary who had to resign in order to spend less time on holiday, Boris Johnson sadly continuing to be Boris Johnson and all of that and more culminating in an assurance that everything is fine because now our passports will be blue to match the depression everyone will have in 2018.

The appointment of Patel as international development secretary has raised eyebrows after it emerged today that she recently proposed scrapping the department that was created in 1997 by Tony Blair.

For example, international development secretary Priti Patel was a press officer for the Referendum Party at the 1997 election — created in response to the Tory Government's signing of the Maastricht Treaty.

But during a grilling by MPs today the new international development secretary insisted she no longer held the highly controversial view.

In the September Cabinet reshuffle, Transport Secretary Justine Greening, known to be strongly opposed to a third runway, was moved to become International Development Secretary and Transport minister Theresa Villiers, who also did not support a third runway, was promoted to Northern Ireland Secretary.

Kate Osamor, the shadow international development secretary, said: «The Tories have been cutting the aid budget by stealth for years, and they are now arguing over whether to go even further by abandoning the international definition of aid.

«Forty countries are in it now, and ten more are queueing up to join», boasts Clare Short - Blair's former international development secretary, and now the Initiative's chair.

Fast forward a few days until last Friday, when the BBC's excellent diplomatic correspondent, James Landale, revealed International Development Secretary Priti Patel had held secret meetings with senior Israeli politicians during a family holiday.

Sadiq Khan, who managed Miliband's successful leadership campaign, was appointed Shadow Justice Secretary and Shadow Lord Chancellor, and continuing Deputy Leader Harriet Harman continued to shadow Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, as well as being made Shadow International Development Secretary.

International development secretary Douglas Alexander has expressed his frustration after Israel refused to allow a 48 - hour ceasefire against Gaza.

The international development secretary Hilary Benn has expressed relief at Paul Wolfowitz's decision to quit as president of the World Bank.

The announcement came as McLoughlin attempted to lay the blame for the Department for Transport's (DfT) fiasco at the door of civil servants - and not his predecessor in the job Justine Greening, now the international development secretary.

«We have transformed the way the department manages its finances, so spending is attached to tangible results on the ground, which are rigorously scrutinised by the new independent aid watchdog,» international development secretary Andrew Mitchell said.

Returning from a trip to meet the rebel Transitional National Council with international development secretary Andrew Mitchell, William Hague said he had encouraged rebels to have a «detailed plan» for a power transfer in the event of a military victory.

The international development secretary has warned of a «race against time» to deliver aid to countries devastated by the Asian tsunami.

Advocates of increased aid spending - including Andrew Mitchell, when he was International Development Secretary - appear to have fallen victim to a fallacy.

We have run a strong campaign from the off and with the Prime Minister, the International Development Secretary and the Immigration Minister in the constituency today, as well as dozens of MPs, councillors and activists, today has been a high visibility day.

The International Development Secretary laid out plans for «legally enforceable sanctions» as part of a wider review, which details a shake - up of the «crony» market in which Britain's aid provision operates.

«These are human beings who are in desperate straits and desperate circumstances,» the former international development secretary told the Today programme.

With a new International Development Secretary, Rt Hon Penny Mordaunt MP, and an updating of Government plans, WaterAid have launched their brand...

Justine Greening, the international development secretary, told Sky News» Murnaghan programme freedom of movement was never «supposed to be a totally unqualified principle irrespective of how it works on the ground».

Unlike Mary Creagh, demoted to Murphy's old job of international development secretary, he is not one of the Balls crowd and we can therefore hope he'll stand up more robustly to Balls on the public ownership of rail.

Diane Abbott is also promoted to become shadow health secretary, with her old job of international development secretary going to Corbyn's close ally Kate Osamor.

However, international development secretary Hilary Benn insisted: «The government has set a clear timetable to meet the 0.7 per cent ODA / GNI target by 2013 and is fully on track with its plans to achieve this.»

The chief whip and former international development secretary apologised, met members of the Police Federation and avoided the Conservative party's autumn conference in Birmingham, but was finally forced to resign as public anger about his rant — and what it said about the ruling Conservatives — forced him to quit.

However, in an interview with The Guardian on the weekend, the international development secretary Douglas Alexander said progress on the goals was «significantly off track».

On September 4th, during his last day as international development secretary, Andrew Mitchell did something disgraceful.

«Welcome trial traffic filtering scheme for cleaner greener Hackney,» announced Ms Abbott, Labour's shadow international development secretary and MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington, on Twitter.

Andrew Mitchell, the international development secretary, reportedly made the intervention after he was asked for help by Anthony Ward, whose firm, Armajaro Holdings, had been banned from trading following allegations that a contractor was involved in smuggling cocoa out of Ghana.

She'd done her best not to sack Priti Patel but, even by her cabinet's newly lowered standards the former international development secretary's conduct had been spectacularly misjudged.

«Andrew Mitchell, the Conservative International Development Secretary, is believed to have called on his party to do everything possible to help the Liberal Democrats beat Labour in the 13 January contest.

The shadow international development secretary announced her intention to join the race for the Labour leadership, via an article in the Daily Mail.

International Development Secretary Penny Mordaunt said there was «absolutely no question» of the Windrush generation's right to remain.

After a fortnight spent trying to help Rwandan teachers speak English with a group of enthusiastic Conservative volunteers, Andrew Mitchell, the then shadow international development secretary, was on the phone.

Sections of Shadow International Development Secretary Kate Osamor's address are identical to the speech the former president gave when he was first elected in 2008.

He was the third minister to be forced from office following resignations by the defence secretary, Sir Michael Fallon, and the international development secretary, Priti Patel.

Mr Mitchell was not the most obvious candidate to become Shadow International Development Secretary in 2005.

In February 2017, SNP MPs Tommy Sheppard and Margaret Ferrier and Liberal Democrat Shadow International Development Secretary, Baroness Sheehan were part of a Caabu and Medical Aid for Palestinians delegation to the West Bank.

Andrew Mitchell's piece in today's Financial Times about Britain and the Europe will do nothing to quell rumours that David Cameron will appoint him as an EU Commissioner: I suspect that the former International Development Secretary wrote it with a twinkle in his eye.

Ms Osamor, whose daughter Kate is Shadow International Development Secretary, was today appointed as a peer by Mr Corbyn.

It also claims that Cameron once tried to restrain his policy guru Steve Hilton when he looked as if was about to punch the then international development secretary Andrew Mitchell.