Sentences with phrase «davey wreden»

The Liberal Democrat Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Davey had been the MP for Kingston and Surbiton since 1997.

There are 16 Lib Dem ministers in the Commons - Clegg, Cable, Huhne, Alexander, Moore, Harvey, Webb, Teather, Browne, Burstow, Heath, Lamb, Davey, Stunnell, Baker and Featherstone.

This post was previously held in the last parliament by Lib Dem Ed Davey.

• Ed Davey, the energy secretary, has given permission for the resumption of fracking.

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We've also just within the last few minutes had an announcement from Ed Davey, the energy secretary, about the resumption of fracking.

Ed Davey, the energy secretary, has announced that fracking will be able to resume in the UK, subject to controls «to mitigate the risks of seismic activity».

However, there is growing speculation the well - regarded LibDem business minister Ed Davey, who is close to Mr Clegg, would be parachuted into the Cabinet to replace the Energy Secretary.

Wray replaced the deselected City & Hunslet Councillor Patrick Davey as the third Labour candidate.

More surprisingly Vince Cable was defeated in Twickenham and Ed Davey beaten in Kingston.

For example, much of Ed Davey's chapter on localism sits very comfortably within the coalition's decentralising agenda, and government environment policy, like the Green Investment Bank, at least in part reflects Baroness Susan Kramer's essay on using the market to tackle climate change and pollution.

Davey, the former energy secretary, lost this South - west London seat by 2,834 votes after 18 years as MP.

Liberal Democrat energy secretary Ed Davey claimed «ignorant» climate change sceptic Conservatives are contributing to «extreme weather events» in a speech to the Institute for Public Policy Research earlier.

In a comment piece featured on politics.co.uk today, Liberal Democrat foreign affairs spokesman Ed Davey, seemed to echo that position.

Miliband may have in fact introduced a number of these but in Government they are very much seen as the domain of Ed Davey and the Lib Dems.

Mr Davey also wrote to Conservative leader David Cameron and party chairman Francis Maude calling for the Conservatives to take «swift and decisive disciplinary action».

Now, it has emerged that the governmental committee overseeing such appointments gave Davey the green light to take the job while also noting that «EDF Energy is a client of MHP».

Another lame attempt by Davey to stay in the news....

Meanwhile, it was Davey who oversaw talks with EDF over the terms of subsidies for a new nuclear plant at Hinkley Point back in 2012.

So Davey says he doesn't know «what they take seriously and what they don't.»

«The attorney general's continuing delay in a decision on a police investigation into Binyam Mohamed's allegations of torture is totally unacceptable,» added Mr Davey.

Davey, Davey, Davey - Please go away.

Regarding the job the other two did for Davey, you got to realize the difficulty of the task and given that, even you may have to give them props for their work.

Foreign affairs spokesman Ed Davey had already been expelled from the chamber after branding the deputy speaker's decision «an outrage».

The energy secretary appeared to criticise her predecessor Ed Davey as she dined with the parliamentary press gallery, five months after David Cameron put her in charge of the Department for Energy and Climate Change.

Rudd has been made energy and climate change secretary, replacing the now former Lib Dem MP Ed Davey.

In its letter to Davey approving his new job, the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments states:

«It is totally unacceptable for elected representatives to be distributing this kind of material,» said Liberal Democrat campaigns chairman Ed Davey.

If Davey wants to clear his conscience he did not have to call a special session.

The letter also says that Davey should not involve himself in «work related to Hinkley Point C or any commercial deal in which DECC is currently involved».

Just like all the other theatrics Davey and his crew have come up with during this budget mess, this exercise was totally not necessary.

Cable is among those seen as a possible rival to Farron for the party leadership, with Ed Davey, Norman Lamb and Jo Swinson also rumoured to be contenders.

No mention this time around for Vince Cable (though Clegg - baiter Lord Oakeshott, energy secretary Ed Davey and deputy leader Simon Hughes were mentioned by name) or of the word «sorry».

«We want five green laws for a green Britain,» an interview with Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Davey MP (Part Two)

After the embarrassing confusion both from former Europe spokesman Ed Davey and former EU minister Chris Bryant last night on Question Time on how much the sum came to, we can allow ourselves the luxury here of a little ball park latitude.

An awful lot of his party's old guard is also gone — people who would have possibly challenged him such as Ed Davey, Jo Swinson or Danny Alexander.

It is the Alamo of local elections, and Freeman is the Davey Crockett of our time.

«Many British businesses have woken up to Climate Change,» an interview with Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Davey MP (Part One)

The Durham Miners» Association secretary Davey Hopper said the 172 Labour MPs who voted no confidence in Mr Corbyn were trying to embarrass him.

International affairs Foreign affairs: Ed Davey Foreign affairs: Jo Swinson Defence: Nick Harvey Defence: Willie Rennie Defence: Bob Russell International Development: Michael Moore

The Liberal Democrats, led by outgoing Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, had their worst result since their formation in 1988, holding just eight out of their previous 57 seats with Cabinet ministers Vince Cable, Ed Davey and Danny Alexander losing their seats.

Shadow minister Jonathan Ashworth added: «David Cameron and Ed Davey are not just in the pockets of the energy companies they are now totally on board.

Strains of Journey's Don't Stop Believin» pumped through footage of Nick Clegg chummying up with young apprentices, ethnic minorities, Paralympians, Aung San Suu Kyi, and err, Ed Davey.

▶ Rudyard Kipling prize for ostentatious knowledge of pavement politics in the Hindu Kush Ed Davey MP for being able to name six Afghan warlords and how much it would cost to buy them all off («$ 30m a month — far less than the cost of fighting»).

Another returnee from the coalition years, Davey won back his former seat in Kingston and Surbiton.

The latest in a long list of «what's wrong with the Bercow's» is a Christmas card, originally a Sun cartoon by Andy Davey.

But both Nick Clegg, Edward Davey and Hague have demanded an inquiry so much in Opposition, they would look ridiculous if they rejected one today.

Scrunched into a parliamentary office that seems to be about the size of the foreign secretary's desk, Ed Davey, the Liberal Democrats» spokesman on foreign affairs, agrees with Miliband.

Over the following hours, Ed Davey, Simon Hughes, Vince Cable, Charles Kennedy and Danny Alexander lost their seats too

Nick Clegg's resignation followed a disastrous night at the polls for his party, which saw cabinet ministers Danny Alexander, Simon Hughes, Ed Davey and Lynne Featherstone lose their seats, along with former party leader Charles Kennedy.