Sentences with phrase «friend the home secretary»
My Rt Hon Friend the Home Secretary will be taking forward a debate in Government time.
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Anyone who could be shadow home secretary one day, and Shami Chakrabarti's best friend the next, is nothing if not open - minded.
Friends also rallied to her defence, with the digital minister, Margot James, saying she «must remain home secretary».
Theresa May, six per cent for her, and no friend of Mr Osborne for digging those famous heels in, was also upgraded to the «best Home Secretary in a generation» after much encouragement from the Labour benches.
Meanwhile, concern about the impact a Brown premiership could have on Labour has prompted John Reid to urge environment secretary David Miliband to challenge the chancellor for the leadership of the party once Mr Blair stands down, the Sunday Telegraph reports, citing friends of the home secretary.
11.15 am: David Davis has just done half an hour with Five Live, he described 42 days as «frankly evil» and also said that his good friend Dominic Grieve would be a better Home Secretary than him anyway.
[106] Hoon said that this was just a joke between friends but others, such as Conservative leader David Cameron and Shadow Home Secretary David Davis viewed this letter as proof that deals were indeed done behind the scenes and that Brown lied on the record when he said there had been none.
In a sign that he has tightened his control over the party, Abbott, a friend of Corbyn whose constituency neighbours his own, was promoted from being shadow health secretary to shadow home secretary.
Although Theresa May quietly got on with the job of being a steely home secretary, it was George Osborne who dominated Cameron's government, the obvious heir apparent to his friend and ally, David Cameron, with Boris Johnson offering a credible alternative choice.
The 700 - strong guest list for the Conservative Friends of Israel (CFI) lunch at the Park Plaza Hotel in the shadow of the Houses of Parliament includes Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and Home Secretary Amber Rudd.