Sentences with phrase «on home affairs»

Each member of the panel opened with a statement on their party's policy on home affairs, before they faced questions from the presenters.

Civil rights veteran Jesse Jackson spent the afternoon rejecting the views of MPs on the home affairs committee as he gave evidence on violent knife and gun crime.

The archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, told MPs on the home affairs select committee this month that he utterly condemned Farage's comment that sexual assaults by migrants were the «nuclear bomb» of the EU referendum.

Home Secretary Theresa May and G4S boss Nick Buckles are both due to appear before MPs on the Home Affairs Select Committee in September.

The new PM is not leaving responsibility for home affairs to the new team: so often frustrated as Home Secretary by Nick Clegg's chairmanship of the powerful Cabinet sub-committee on home affairs in coalition, she's now chairing it herself.

Child benefit should be withheld from those who are not resident in the UK and there should be changes to tax credits for immigrants said Mark Reckless, who sits on the Home Affairs Select committee.

Questions about the leader's judgement aside, the new line - up - including Ed Balls as the new shadow chancellor and his wife, Yvette Cooper, taking on the home affairs portfolio - is now settling into its first day in the job.

«In many ways, [the government] could use our co-operation on home affairs as an asset, and say: «We know you didn't vote to make us less safe, we don't want to lower our guard, so this is going to take a while,»» Clegg said.

David Burrowes, the Conservative MP for Enfield Southgate (below), was speaking as he and other colleagues on the Home Affairs Select Committee released an interim report arguing that soliciting by sex workers should be decriminalised in order to better protect them and make it easier for them to leave the industry.

By late afternoon she had resigned from her role as aide to the Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell and was facing calls to step down from her position on the Home Affairs Select Committee inquiry into - of all things - antisemitism.

Downing Street sources say she speaks well in the Commons and has impressed on the home affairs select committee.

In a Daily Politics Election debate on home affairs, Ms May said: «We've accepted that we have failed to meet that particular target» and the party now has a «credible plan».

Immigration minister Damian Green commented on the home affairs select committee report on student visas:

Paul Flyn (Lab, Father Christmas) says Cameron's career peaked when he was a backbencher on the home affairs committee.

The dramatic move comes after a House of Lords EU sub-committee on home affairs became the fifth committee of parliament to recommend the move, amid heightened anxiety about its effect on the UK economy.

In British politics, the Shadow Home Secretary is the person within the shadow cabinet who «shadows» the Home Secretary; this effectively means scrutinising government policy on home affairs including policing, national security, immigration, the criminal justice system, the prison service, and matters of citizenship.

On entering Parliament in 2001, Mr Cameron rose rapidly through the ranks, serving first on the Home Affairs Select Committee, which recommended the liberalisation of drug laws.

Watson said he learnt much about select committees when he first entered parliament and served under the chairmanship of Chris Mullin on the home affairs committee.

And she remains on the Home Affairs Select Committee, which is carrying out an inquiry into the rise of anti-Semitism in the UK.

Previously, she was director of education funding at the Department for Education, overseeing the reform of the capital programme, and she has also worked on home affairs and justice policy at No 10 and in the Home Office.

Sitting on the home affairs select committee would probably get a low score on the Brand - o - meter, but it is far and away the most interesting and satisfying thing I have done in my first year as an MP.

«If the home secretary decided that appointing me would lead to the production of a meek and complacent regulator then she's going to be disappointed,» he told MPs on the home affairs committee today.

A year after the byelection she became an MEP for south east England and a month later was promoted to the front bench, taking on the home affairs and justice brief.

The letter to the prime minister was signed by Adrian Bailey, chairman of the business committee, Margaret Hodge, chairman of the public accounts committee, Keith Vaz, chairman of the home affairs committee, Lord Hannay of Chiswick, chairman of the Lords EU sub-committee on home affairs and Lord Krebs, chairman of the Lords committee on science and technology.

In a Daily Politics election debate, Andrew Neil and the BBC's Home Editor Mark Easton were joined by leading politicians to discuss election policies on home affairs.

Shares in Amber Rudd took a plunge on Wednesday after she faced the wrath of MPs on the home affairs select committee.

«On the issue of anonymity, I sat on the Home Affairs Committee that examined this issue; it was of course a Committee in a previous Parliament, dominated by Labour Members, and very ably chaired by Chris Mullin.

MPs debate elections for police and crime commissioners, and Russell Brand gives evidence to the committee on Home Affairs.

Special mention has to be given to the Met's own «dodgy geezer», John Yates, whose utter inability to realise he was dropping himself in it provided a jaw - dropping three hours for incredulous MPs on the home affairs committee.

On home affairs, legal aid cuts will continue to bite and the police face further cuts.

Alcohol promotions should be banned to help overrun police deal with alcohol linked crimes, MPs on the home affairs committee have said.

On home affairs, she laments the sacking of Ken Clarke and Dominic Grieve, the two most moderate senior members of the government who were cut off so more die - hard right - wingers could be brought into government.

Tom Brake, co-chair of the Liberal Democrat parliamentary committee on home affairs and justice, comments on the government's review of counter-terrorism laws:

In Parliament and on the Home Affairs Committee I have stood up for the police on many occasions especially when they are criticised for their use of force in trying to protect life and property in dangerous situations and I will continue to do so.

Speaking to MPs on the home affairs committee, Theresa May offered perhaps the most robust response to the allegations.

Acting deputy Met commissioner John Yates admitted to MPs on the home affairs committee that research had been conducted into the claims, which originally emerged during an evidence session given by Rebekah Brooks, chief executive of News International.

In April this year, Rebekah Brooks was asked by the chairman of the select committee on Home Affairs to clarify exactly what she had meant.

The change was acknowledge in a letter submitted to MPs on the Home Affairs Select Committee who are today investigating the meeting and the case for misconduct.

Susan Kramer will step up to the trade and industry portfolio from international development, which she will hand over to Lynne Featherstone, previously number two on home affairs.