Sentences with phrase «conservative home affairs»

Back to index Crispin Blunt: The Conservative home affairs spokesman was told to stop claiming the second home allowance on his London home because his children lived there.

Lady Hanham, Conservative home affairs spokesman, said the government had shown «a worrying tendency» to introduce anti-terrorist legislation which could then be applied «perhaps inappropriately and in far less justifiable circumstances».

Conservative home affairs spokesman Edward Garnier called for proper leadership on the issue and condemned the government for pushing the problems of the prison system from «minister to minister to minister».

Not exact matches

Back to the federal Conservative leadership, Fildebrandt has endorsed leadership candidate Maxime Bernier, the Quebec MP known for his libertarian views briefly served as Minister of Foreign Affairs before resigning in 2008 after he acknowledged leaving sensitive government documents out in the open, apparently at his former girlfriend's home.

As well as being a member of the home affairs select committee, Burrowes is chairman of the Conservative Christian Fellowship.

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The Lib Dem home affairs spokesman questioned the Conservatives» commitment to progressive values and civil liberties, in a wide ranging speech designed to convince voters «the Tories don't have to win».

Keith Vaz, the former chair of the home affairs select committee, has been appointed to the justice committee despite a rare parliamentary manoeuvre to stop him by a Conservative MP.

«The Conservatives» dalliance with liberalism is as dead as a dodo,» responded Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman Chris Huhne.

Liberal Democrat foreign affairs spokesman Michael Moore said the former home secretary's comments were a «devastating critique» of New Labour's attempt to change its policy from that of the Conservatives.

The Conservatives supported the government move yesterday during an urgent question in the Commons, but Chris Huhne, home affairs spokesman for the Liberal Democrats, strongly condemned the sacking, which has already seen two further resignations from the ACMD.

A group backed by the communities secretary, Eric Pickles, is to urge the Conservative party next week to support a six - point pledge card that will include promises to raise the minimum wage, cut fuel duty, build new homes and appoint a consumer affairs secretary at cabinet level.

Whilst he only says to the paper that he would stand in a seat «in the Suffolk area», I am reliably informed that he specifically has his sights on the Bury St Edmunds constituency where he lives, which is currently represented by Conservative MP and shadow home affairs minister, David Ruffley.

The Conservative Party has, of course, a new Home affairs spokesman, Dominic Grieve.

The DG affair tells the Conservative party one thing: It is OK for a future Conservative Home Secretary to order the investigation of the entire Cabinet at the time of the decision to got to war with Iraq and Campbell, confiscation all their papers, and potential arrest and detention under anti-terrorsit powers for up to 28 days on a potential charge of conspiracy to kill unspecified Iraqis.

According to Tim Montgomerie on Conservative Home, the poll also shows that «24 % told GfK NOP that they would prefer Charles Kennedy to return as leader and slightly more (7 %) preferred LibDem Home Affairs spokesman Nick Clegg to the embattled Sir Menzies (6 %)», though I'm not sure what sort of question or structure this was in response to.