Sentences with phrase «labour minister lord»

Alan Johnson has launched a staunch defence of former Labour minister Lord Sainsbury, who has been criticised for giving money to the Liberal Democrats as part of the EU referendum campaign.

It features 26 works chosen by seven «curators», among them the PM's wife Samantha Cameron, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, former Labour minister Lord Mandelson and the head of MI6 Sir John Sawers.

It was when he made the extraordinary claim that he knew nothing about three crucial reports that had been commissioned from international experts by Labour Minister Lord Darzi (and not the Chief Medical Officer, as Nicholson told the Committee) to celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the NHS.

Two other peers who were investigated by the Sunday Times — the former Labour ministers Lord Cunningham of Felling and Lord O'Neill of Clackmannan — were cleared of any breach of the Lords code of conduct.

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Ex-deputy prime minister Lord Prescott, Labour MP Chris Bryant, ex-Scotland Yard deputy assistant commissioner Brian Paddick and others brought forward the judicial review, which today concluded the failure to notify victims was unlawful.

[32] On 28 June 2007, after she became Deputy Leader of the Labour Party and Brown was appointed Prime Minister, Harman joined Brown's Cabinet as Leader of the House of Commons, Lord Privy Seal and Minister for Women and Equality, and was also given the title of Labour Party Chair.

Labour has accused Jeremy Hunt of trying to «evade parliament» after Lord Justice Leveson made clear he will not make a judgement on the minister's conduct in the BSkyB takeover bid.

Low - April 9th: Tactical votes - Lord Adonis, Labour's transport minister, stepped right into vulnerable Lib Dem territory, by calling for Lib Dem supporters to vote Labour where only they can take on the Conservatives.

Labour peer and arch-Remainer Lord Adonis accused the Prime Minister of stuffing the Lords with loyal peers in an attempt to ram through her Brexit agenda.

In the opposite direction, the current Lord Attlee, grandson of Labour prime minister Clement Attlee, is a Conservative.

Lord Levy, a close friend of Tony Blair (who was the Prime Minister's personal envoy to the Middle East, as well as tennis partner), had raised funds for Labour and was identified in the press as a key figure in arranging the loans and on 17 March 2006 it was announced that the Public Administration Select Committee of the House of Commons had invited him to give evidence on political financing.

Lord King of Bridgewater is a Conservative former defence secretary, crossbencher Lord Blair of Boughton is a former Metropolitan police commissioner, Lord West of Spithead is a former Labour security minister and Lib Dem Lord Carlile of Berriew is the former independent reviewer of terrorism legislation.

He says ministers in Cardiff should follow the recommendation of a report by former Labour cabinet minister Lord Adonis.

Labour peer Lord McConnell, a former Scottish first minister, said the party's problems were «much deeper than one individual and one affiliate».

The delegation included former Conservative International Development Minister, Sir Alan Duncan MP, former Conservative Secretary of State for Wales, Rt Hon David Jones MP, Labour MPs Sarah Champion and Paula Sherriff, Scottish National Party (SNP) MP John Nicolson and Liberal Democrat Peer, Lord Purvis of Tweed.

Gloria De Piero MP, Labour's shadow minister for women and equalities, responding to the lifting of Lord Rennard's suspension, said: «Nick Clegg has sent a clear message to women voters — he is more interested in trying to salvage the Lib Dems» fading election hopes than do the right thing by the women who made these serious complaints.

Labour leader Mr Corbyn, however, highlighted Lord Heseltine's warning that ministers should be bound by the Prime Minister's decision.

Speaking in the House of Lords during the second reading of the trade union bill on Monday, Labour's Lord Mendelsohn, who is a shadow business minister, said the proposed legislation was a «clear attempt to defenestrate the Labour party's finances», describing it as «extraordinarily partisan, vindictive and selective».

Lord Andrew Adonis, former SDP councillor, turned Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate, former speechwriter to Paddy Ashdown and latterly a New Labour Minister has told The Observer that he is right behind Ed Miliband's «party reform plans».

A number of other senior Labour figures also took up senior positions: the trade union leader Ernest Bevin, as Minister of Labour, directed Britain's wartime economy and allocation of manpower, the veteran Labour statesman Herbert Morrison became Home Secretary, Hugh Dalton was Minister of Economic Warfare and later President of the Board of Trade, while A. V. Alexander resumed the role he had held in the previous Labour Government as First Lord of the Admiralty.

Britain's partners in Europe, notably Germany, are increasingly losing interest in the government's «foot stamping demands» for a renegotiated relationship, according to former Labour cabinet minister Lord Mandelson.

The revelation that the deputy leader opposed both the prime minister and Lord Mandelson will add further fuel to the rumours that she has been positioning herself to challenge for the Labour leadership when Mr Brown steps down, despite fierce denials from Ms Harman at the weekend.

Lord Paul said Labour's loss was «very unfortunate» but should give the prime minister the message that his changes need to start taking effect.

Malcolm Wicks is taking over as science minister, with Ben Bradsure promoted to minister of state, Labour peer and former MEP Lord Truscott has become a parliamentary under secretary at the DTI, and Alistair Darling has taken over sole responsibility for energy policy.

Two 2014 Lord Ashcroft polls found Labour ahead of the Defence Minister in Broxtowe by 14 - points in May and nine - points clear in July.

What does the revelation that the late Labour minister and good guy Malcolm Wicks saved child benefit from a Labour government cut in 1976 have to do with the row over Lord Rennard's refusal to apologise to female Lib Dem activists whom he is alleged to have harassed?

Writing in the Guardian, Johnson said Lord Sainsbury, who is a former science minister, had provided money to Labour and the Lib Dems specifically to make the case ahead of the referendum in contributions that were «not a secret».

Lord Falconer, the former lord chancellor, also stepped up his attack on the prime minister, writing today's Times: «My view is that the painful step of changing our leader, a leader who has given his life to the Labour party and to public service, would be best for the party and the country.&raLord Falconer, the former lord chancellor, also stepped up his attack on the prime minister, writing today's Times: «My view is that the painful step of changing our leader, a leader who has given his life to the Labour party and to public service, would be best for the party and the country.&ralord chancellor, also stepped up his attack on the prime minister, writing today's Times: «My view is that the painful step of changing our leader, a leader who has given his life to the Labour party and to public service, would be best for the party and the country.»

Lord Prescott has criticised Tony Blair's intervention in the Labour leadership contest, telling the former prime minister to «calm down».

Tory Brexit Minister Steve Baker said: «If Labour want to be taken seriously as a party which respects the decision the people took in the referendum, they must remove Lord Hunt from their front bench.

Lord Malloch - Brown, a former diplomat and Labour Foreign Office minister under Gordon Brown, who is heavily involved in a new organisation, Best for Britain, which seeks to mobilise civil society against leaving the EU, argued that Labour risked missing its chance of power if it continued hedging its bets on Brexit.

In April 2016, Conservative MPs Kelly Tolhurst and William Wragg, Labour MP and Chair of the Britain - Palestine All Party Parliamentary Group Richard Burden and former Minister of State in the Department of Health and Crossbench Peer, Lord Warner visited the West Bank on a Caabu and Medical Aid for Palestinians delegation.

Her lead role on the health portfolio will be taken over by Lord Hunt, a former minister in several departments under the previous Labour government, now shadow deputy leader of the upper house and Labour's spokesman on Lords reform.

The cost of providing official cars for Labour ministers rose by nearly # 500,000 last year as the country suffered through recession, with Lord Mandelson's huge former Department for Business, Innovation and Skills incurring the biggest bill for ferrying ministers around.

«Mr Witherow, you appear to be a liar,» said Lord Prescott, the former Labour deputy prime minister.

Leave out the obligatory attacks on the Labour record, and the prime minister's policy blueprint for rebalancing the economy, announced today, is simply a continuation of the dark lord's new industry, new jobs agenda.

The shadow justice secretary, Lord Chancellor and minister for London admitted the Labour «did not build enough housing» while in power for 13 years.

Conservative minister Ken Clarke has joined forces with Liberal Democrat Danny Alexander and Labour's Lord Mandelson to warn that leaving the EU would be an «historical error».

Lord Jenkins, a former Lib Dem leader in the Lords, and before that leader of the SDP, and a Labour Cabinet minister, had a famous difficulty in not being able to pronounce the letter «R».

Lord Jones of Birmingham, better known as Digby Jones, who has also been head of the CBI, was asked if the party was business - friendly by Jo Coburn on the Daily Politics, before shadow industry minister Iain Wright responded for Labour.

Lord Prescott, former deputy prime minister, said he had to «hold his nose» to support Mr Livingstone in the past because he refused to support Labour policy

Following pressure from Cabinet ministers led by Alistair Darling and Lord Mandelson, Mr Brown also seems to have accepted that Labour would have to cut public spending from next year in order to meet its pledge to halve the deficit in four years.

Lord Adonis, the former Labour Cabinet minister who was brought in by Cameron last year to lead the National Infrastructure Commission, gave a scathing report on the Government's dithering.

Her fellow Tory MP Sir Patrick Cormack, the former Labour minister Parmjit Dhanda, the deputy speaker Michael Lord and the cabinet veteran Margaret Beckett also threw their hats into the ring this week.

Lord Prescott criticises comments by former Prime Minister Tony Blair, who suggested supporters of Labour leadership hopeful Jeremy Corbyn should «get a transplant».

The former Labour prime minister urged Lord Justice Leveson to «drain the poison from the culture» of the press.

Anyone who stands in his way, from the prime minister to the Labour leader Ed Miliband and grandees in his own party such as the former leader Lord Steel of Aikwood, can expect a withering rebuke from Clegg.

Leader of the House of Commons (and Lord Privy Seal); Minister for Women; and Labour Party Chairman: Harriet Harman

This morning the former Labour Cabinet Minister, Lord Hutton of Furness, has published the final report of his Independent Public Services Pension Commission - a task he was given by George Osborne at the time of the emergency Budget last year.