Sentences with phrase «affairs spokesman sir»

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.

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».

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Sir Menzies, the Lib Dem acting leader and foreign affairs spokesman, said he would have «no problem» with still being leader at the age of 72.

Sir Menzies, the Lib Dem acting leader and foreign affairs spokesman, will appear on The World at One on Thursday, followed by party president Mr Hughes on Friday.

Sir Menzies, the Lib Dem foreign affairs spokesman and acting leader, is writing to Mr Blair asking him to urge the US either to put the prisoners in Guantanamo Bay on trial or release them.

Ahead of the Manchester hustings, Sir Menzies, the party's acting leader and foreign affairs spokesman, said: «I want to win power, so that we can give power away.

Sir Menzies will today announce his new home and foreign affairs teams and is expected to confirm that Vincent Cable will remain as treasury spokesman.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.