Sentences with phrase «election by home secretary»

In the event the implementation of the Boundary Review was postponed for partisan reasons until after the next General Election by Home Secretary James Callaghan (on the pretext of waiting until after the Redcliffe - Maud Report on local government reorganisation).

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David Davis would still be the shadow home secretary had he not indulged in the futile exercise of the by - election, a non-event.

The English Democrats fielded a candidate, Joanne Robinson, in the by - election caused by the resignation of former shadow home secretary David Davis from the House of Commons.

«Former Home Secretary David Blunkett says he's «bewildered» by Nick Clegg's fascination with bringing in proportional representation which, he says, would result in the current horse - trading being repeated after every election.

Grayling campaigned before the 2010 election as shadow home secretary promising to tear up the European Convention on Human Rights and replace it with a British Bill of Rights — a move strongly opposed by the Liberal Democrats.

Davis, who quit as shadow home secretary to run a by - election on civil liberties, accused May of trying to «assault the reputation of those who disagree» with her.

That rebellion was launched on Sky News at the unlikely hour of 3 am on Friday — election night — and the flag of opposition was unfurled by the unlikely figure of the former home secretary David Blunkett, normally a loyalist.

His misuse of official crime figures, first exposed by the BBC's home affairs editor, Mark Easton, has been seized on by the Home Secretary Alan Johnson as a major gaffe that can be used against every Tory candidate at the forthcoming electhome affairs editor, Mark Easton, has been seized on by the Home Secretary Alan Johnson as a major gaffe that can be used against every Tory candidate at the forthcoming electHome Secretary Alan Johnson as a major gaffe that can be used against every Tory candidate at the forthcoming election.

Following a series of poor interviews in the run - up to the 2017 election, Abbott was temporarily replaced as Shadow Home Secretary by Lyn Brown.

Mr Clarke was sacked as home secretary in May and replaced by John Reid following Labour's disastrous showing in the local elections.

The shadow home secretary's comments suggest that allies of Corbyn are fearing a renewed effort by Labour rebels to challenge him for the leadership if the party loses seats in local elections.

Tory MPs who have been to the seat - and many have - return with stories of a divided Conservative Association - unhappy at the estimated # 200,000 cost of the by - election campaign and disappointed that their MP is no longer set to be Home Secretary.

I love this man, I hope he gets re-appointed as Shadow Home Secretary when he wins his by - election as he is head and shoulders above anyone else on this.

Indeed, there were suggestions that he would soon be joined by Jacqui Smith, should the former home secretary decline to stand at the next election following the admission that an old biscuit tin under the stairs at her sister's house was not in fact her primary home.

The party said in a statement issued by its Publicity Secretary, Abayomi Adesanya, on Friday in Akure that Olaposi was shot dead on his way home after attending a meeting of the party in preparation for the governorship election.

The overall increase of 58,000 in the net migration figure will come as a blow to Prime Minister David Cameron and Home Secretary Theresa May's aim of cutting it to the «tens of thousands» by the time of the next election in May 2015.

The Lib Dem president, Tim Farron, accused the home secretary of insulting the electorate by acting as if the Conservatives had won an overall majority at the last election in her high - handed treatment of Baker.

He told the Commons he had tried to hold a judicial inquiry into phone hacking shortly before the general election last year but was opposed by Cabinet Secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell, the Home Office and the police.

[10] Following the result (in which the national turnout was a mere 15.1 %, even lower than the Society's prediction), the Society branded the Government's approach to elections as a «comedy of errors», views that were reiterated by Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper.

«The Conservative Shadow Home Secretary, David Davis, has resigned as an MP in order to fight a by - election in his constituency on the issue of 42 days.

Former shadow Home Secretary David Davis has given an interview to tomorrow's New Statesman in which he reveals how desperately David Cameron tried to stop him from resigning his seat (and frontbench post) to fight that by - election in Haltemprice and Howden earlier in the summer.

Patrick Hennessey, the newspaper's political editor, has blogged this: «The true depth of the anger felt by senior Tories at the decision by David Davis to resign his parliamentary seat and fight a by - election is revealed publicly for the first time in The Sunday Telegraph tomorrow when a leading Conservative breaks cover and directly criticises the former shadow home secretary.»