Sentences with phrase «minister for police reform»

Nick is Shadow Minister for Police Reform.

Claim: The shadow minister for police reform «flipped» his second home from London to his constituency before claiming back thousands for furniture and fittings, including a sofa costing # 1,674, the Daily Telegraph said.

David Ruffley, previously a Shadow Minister for Police Reform, said Assistant Commissioner John Yates was «not competent» in his role over phone hacking allegations.

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Police reform proposals reflect a bad habit of the coalition: why are ministers constantly making trouble for themselves?

But ministers are set to press ahead later today as the police reform and social responsibility bill arrives in the Commons for its report statge.

The former MP and aide to Gordon Brown when he was prime minister, Baroness Smith of Basildon, will become deputy chief whip with Lord Tunnicliffe, and join Lord Rosser at the Home Office brief — promising her a role in the likely furore over Lords reform and the promised communications bill with its measures to increase private phone and internet data kept for police and security services.

Having impressed David Cameron with his work on police reform he now has responsibility for one of the biggest briefs in the shadow cabinet and is opposing Jack Straw, arguably Gordon Brown's most able Cabinet Minister.

He will also be remembered for introducing the Human Rights Act, setting up the Macpherson inquiry into police racism, and being one of the many cabinet ministers who tried and failed to reform the Lords.