Sentences with phrase «affairs spokesman»

But the home affairs spokesman is still relatively unknown to many members and could well lose an early contest to environment spokesman Chris Huhne, who made a name for himself by running against Sir Menzies last time round.

Modesty has characterised Lib Dem foreign affairs spokesman Sir Menzies Campbell's reaction to his hat trick of wins in this week's politics awards.

His comments come after Mr Clegg, the home affairs spokesman, last night told an Observer fringe event that he would stand for the leadership whenever Sir Menzies stepped down.

According to Tim Montgomerie on Conservative Home, the poll also shows that «24 % told GfK NOP that they would prefer Charles Kennedy to return as leader and slightly more (7 %) preferred LibDem Home Affairs spokesman Nick Clegg to the embattled Sir Menzies (6 %)», though I'm not sure what sort of question or structure this was in response to.

Chris Huhne, who ran him second in the last contest, and Nick Clegg, the Home Affairs spokesman, are assiduously working the constituencies.

Back to index Crispin Blunt: The Conservative home affairs spokesman was told to stop claiming the second home allowance on his London home because his children lived there.

The acting Liberal Democrat leader, Sir Menzies Campbell, today tried to calm the nerves of his party reeling from the shock resignation of home affairs spokesman, Mark Oaten, and the lowest opinion poll rating in five years.

But the trickiness of his task in leading a united party forward was exposed as foreign affairs spokesman Menzies Campbell, a strong supporter of the Lib - Lab project, called for an unprecedented extension of co-operation with Labour to new policy areas including health and education.

Mr McDonnell said the party's foreign affairs spokesman would still be free to express his personal views, but not if he wished to remain in the Shadow Cabinet.

The motion, tabled by the Scottish National party's foreign affairs spokesman, Alex Salmond, was backed by MPs from six other parties, and called for parliamentary committees to investigate and take appropriate action against the former prime minister.

Chris Huhne MP, LibDem Home affairs spokesman, has been charged with attacking the Shadow Chancellor:

Liberal Democrat Home Affairs Spokesman, Tom Brake MP, who sits on the House of Commons Home Affairs Select Committee, says: «Clearly people will be shocked to find out that # 8.5 has been spent by police forces around the country to obtain data they need from the mobile phone companies.

Claim: The paper says the party's home affairs spokesman claimed for a # 119 Corby trouser press, delivered to his London home despite his second home being in Hampshire.

The party's home affairs spokesman was elected to Parliament in 2005, at the age of 38, and is one of the two front - runners for the leadership.

The Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman, Chris Huhne, described the move as «the most worrying development for many years».

The party's Migration and Financial Affairs Spokesman, Steven Woolfe, hit out at «mass, unskilled, uncontrolled migration», which he said had depressed wages in the UK.

The Conservative Party has, of course, a new Home affairs spokesman, Dominic Grieve.

Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Lu Kang said Monday that Beijing's policy was «clear for all to see when it comes to promoting the denuclearization of the peninsula.»

Sir Menzies Campbell, the former Lib Dem leader and foreign affairs spokesman, said: «The SNP have done their sums on the back of an envelope.

Mr Salmond, the SNP's foreign affairs spokesman, said it was vital Britain did not act without a UN security council resolution over the air strikes.

However Mr Huhne, now the bookmakers second favourite for the post, said he had given Sir Menzies a «tacit» understanding of backing, that the foreign affairs spokesman had subsequently released him from.

Davey, who is the Lib Dem home affairs spokesman, said he did not want time with his young children to be consumed by the leadership.

Sir Menzies became party leader at the beginning of March, and despite years as the party's foreign affairs spokesman, has failed to land a punch on Mr Blair at prime minister's questions since then.

Prominent in the controversy has been Menzies Campbell, the elegant Edinburgh barrister MP, his party's foreign affairs spokesman and former Olympic sprinter.

The Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman, Ed Davey, has accused Theresa May of «bashing the police» as he sought to paint his party as the natural defenders of law and order.

In the early stages of the hacking story, there was only one frontbench politician from any party who was willing to attack the News of the World — the Lib Dem home affairs spokesman Chris Huhne.

At a Social Market Foundation fringe meeting on Tuesday, Tom Brake, the Lib Dem home affairs spokesman, suggested Downing Street had insisted on changing the name to the «legal aid, sentencing and punishment bill» in order to «give the right image to the Daily Mail and the Daily Express».

But Lady Williams also hints that - after nearly a decade as foreign affairs spokesman - Sir Menzies is still mastering the brief of domestic UK policy.

Menzies Campbell, the foreign affairs spokesman, made an uncompromising attack on complacency and hypocrisy in his party, urging it to stop «saying different things to different people» and to adopt a clear set of mainstream proposals.

Lib Dem home affairs spokesman Sir Ed Davey, whose wife was re-elected as a Kingston councillor, said it was a «great night» and a «sign of things to come».

The House of Commons» Speaker Michael Martin should resign from his post, the Liberal Democrat's Home Affairs spokesman Chris Huhne has told BBC 2's Newsnight.

The Liberal Democrats» home affairs spokesman, Chris Huhne, said he would write to the police today to ask them to investigate whether bribery offences had been committed.

Lady Hanham, Conservative home affairs spokesman, said the government had shown «a worrying tendency» to introduce anti-terrorist legislation which could then be applied «perhaps inappropriately and in far less justifiable circumstances».

She was formerly a Liberal Democratic Party Home Affairs spokesman, and has an ongoing personal and political conflict with Catherine Walker (above).

Keith Simpson, Shadow Foreign Affairs spokesman, on the troops surge: «We were sceptical about the proposal by President Bush of a surge.

Home affairs spokesman 2006 - 2007, lib dem shadow chief secretary to the Treasury since 2007.

Hours before he quit, Lib Dem peer Brian Paddick - who was Britain's most senior openly gay police officer in the Met Police - piled on pressure by resigning as home affairs spokesman over his «views».

Chris was our Home Affairs spokesman.

When talking to Chris Huhne about ID cards she said: «Look, Alan Johnson really needs to talk this through with whoever the Lib Dem Home Affairs spokesman is.»

The Conservatives supported the government move yesterday during an urgent question in the Commons, but Chris Huhne, home affairs spokesman for the Liberal Democrats, strongly condemned the sacking, which has already seen two further resignations from the ACMD.

In a comment piece featured on politics.co.uk today, Liberal Democrat foreign affairs spokesman Ed Davey, seemed to echo that position.

Home affairs spokesman Nick Clegg said the raft of criticisms levied at the scheme sees the government change its justification every month.

Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman Nick Clegg noted: «Re-offending is much lower for those under the most stringent levels of supervision.

«We are already the most watched society in the world and yet ministers want more snooping powers,» said Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman Chris Huhne of reports that development of an advanced monitoring system is already underway.

Liberal Democrat foreign affairs spokesman Michael Moore said the former home secretary's comments were a «devastating critique» of New Labour's attempt to change its policy from that of the Conservatives.

The party's home affairs spokesman Joanna Cherry told Sky's Murnaghan programme she was «already aware that a number of leading Tory backbenchers will be with us on that».

However, Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman Nick Clegg dismissed the plans as a «half - baked gimmick» that would do nothing to tackle organised crime.

«In a rare moment of self - awareness, Jacqui Smith has admitted that the government put spin over substance,» said home affairs spokesman Chris Huhne.

Foreign affairs spokesman Ed Davey had already been expelled from the chamber after branding the deputy speaker's decision «an outrage».

Liberal Democrat economic affairs spokesman Vince Cable claimed the interest rate cut would have little effect on the economy.