Sentences with phrase «hain did»

Peter Hain did his best to defend himself this week: he had believed in WMD and trusted the private briefings from Sir John Scarlett.

The Electoral Commission has begun its preliminary investigations into why Mr Hain did not declare any donations after May last year, with preliminary findings expected by the end of the week.

Hain did not disclose the amount of money it was paying for BluePrint.

Mr Hain does not back proportional representation but wants an Alternative Vote (AV) system, meaning MPs would need 50 % of the votes to get elected.

Not exact matches

Grabbed the Hain, and what do you know, no sinking in the middle of my lovely tea cakes.

I use Hain mayo made with safflower because I do not use soy products.

In a recent interview, Hain Celestial CEO Irwin Simon told Forbes that after reaching $ 20 million in revenues last year, he expects BluePrint to do $ 50 million in revenues by the end of 2013 and reach $ 100 million in 2014.

Peter Hain, who could do what he liked in his province while Northern Ireland secretary, was happy to please the prince.

You'd never have believed Hughes wanted anything to do with Labour after his confrontation on Newsnight with permatanned Labour smoothie Peter Hain on AV.

That is what Peter Hain said this morning: he said he supports reform, but he doesn't want a programme motion because he wants to damage our programme.

He explained: «If I was in the prime minister's shoes I would say to Peter Hain: «Look, you've got to get out there, you've got to explain yourself; you've got to answer all of the questions and if you can do that, then maybe your job is safe but if you can't you will have to go.»

Calling for a change of direction, Mr Hain said: «Were we to win a fourth term, which is going to be very tough, I do think there will have to be a rebalancing.

It seems all parties accept that there must be a change, since two different sets of constituencies don't make sense (as experience in Scotland has shown, says Peter Hain).

In its report, the committee said Mr Hain's responsibilities as a front - bencher did not excuse the mistakes.

If Mr Hain is found in breach of the rules governing party donations the electoral commission can do no more than chastise him, as it only has the power to fine political parties, not individuals.

«I am not surprised that Peter Hain is talking about London because he does not want to stand there and talk about the failures of Labour for the past four years,» Ms Williams added.

The shadow Welsh secretary, Peter Hain, tells me: «Ed Miliband is the only credible prime ministerial candidate who really gets it - that we didn't lose just because of Gordon.

Although prime minister Gordon Brown and environment secretary Hilary Benn had turned down donations from Ms Kidd, knowing they were coming from a third party, Ms Harman survived the scandal where Mr Hain failed to do so.

The secretaries of state for Wales and defence, Peter Hain and Bob Ainsworth, did not jostle for position.

Ben Brogan notes that Labour is doing its best to big up the Osborne donations story but there really is no comparison with Peter Hain's undeclared # 103,000.

Labour's Peter Hain told Good Morning Britain he did not think digging up the past would bring justice or closure to the victim's families.

On the political breakfast shows two of Ed's most loyal Parliamentary aides, Peter Hain and Sadiq Khan, did what loyal aides do best: they pulled the rug out from under their man.

Hain may be one to watch, but the key player here is, above all, David Miliband, who has dithered before, more than once, and may do so again.

I would mark Liam Byrne, Jim Murphy and Peter Hain down as potential rebels, though none of them has blotted their copybook with Brown recently, along with Lord Adonis and Baroness Royall, though peers don't really count except as camp followers in this exercise.

That did not reassure the MP for Neath, Peter Hain.

I'm sure the millionaires Ed Miliband, Harriet Harman, Ed Balls, Peter Hain, Liam Byrne, and the rest of the Labour front bench feel just the way you do and are even now repaying to the Treasury every penny they think they have gained by yesterday's Budget.

So the next best thing was to contact Tima Hain who runs all the ISC / ASC media over here, and does a fantastic job I have to say.