Sentences with phrase «against culture secretary»

Yesterday the Stuckists, whose co-founder Charles Thomson is standing against Culture Secretary Chris Smith in Islington, opened five exhibitions all called Vote Stuckist across London, to vie with the Turner announcement, which they described as «a national joke».

The prime minister referenced both press regulation and equal marriage in his reply to Miller's letter, which Miller's parliamentary aide Mary Macleod had claimed were behind the press» «witch - hunt» against the culture secretary.

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Culture secretary Maria Miller made clear that a «quadruple lock» had been incorporated within the Bill to protect all religious institutions from having to conduct marriages against their beliefs.

The House of Lords last night voted against the government order on casinos, leaving culture secretary Tessa Jowell struggling to claim plans are «very much alive».

Tom Watson, the shadow culture secretary and deputy Labour leader, has put out a statement following the vote against a Leveson two inquiry accusing the government a «shameless capitulation to press barons».

Culture secretary Andy Burnham, skills secretary John Denham, Welsh secretary Paul Murphy and chief whip Geoff Hoon have also campaigned against closures in their own constituencies.

With the Prime Minister attempting to draw a line under the affair and preserve one of the few female members of his Cabinet, some 78 % of voters taking part in the poll said that Mrs Miller should be sacked as Culture Secretary, against just 10 % who said she should stay.

Margaret Beckett, former Labour foreign secretary, campaigned against AV with culture secretary Jeremy Hunt:

But culture secretary Maria Miller has hinted the Parliament Act could be used against the Lords if it attempts to resist the coalition's gay marriage drive.

Former culture secretary Ben Bradshaw said he would go against a three - line whip on a bill for the first time in nearly 20 years as an MP.

Michael Dugher, the shadow culture secretary, who is also vulnerable, went on the offensive yesterday, warning that Mr Corbyn would be left with a «politburo of seven» if he moved against his senior critics.

In October 2010, he and a hundred other artists signed an open letter to the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Jeremy Hunt, protesting against cutbacks in the arts.

In May 2001 Tamanui, Stein, Grubb and Kouvelis were represented with 24 international groups in the London show Vote Stuckist, so named because Thomson was standing as a candidate in the United Kingdom general election, 2001, as a Stuckist candidate against the then - Culture Secretary, Chris Smith.

The statue was unveiled by the then - Culture Secretary, Chris Smith, against whom Thomson was standing in the United Kingdom general election, 2001 as a Stuckist candidate.

In 2001, Stuckist Co-founder, Charles Thomson stood as a Stuckist candidate for the 2001 British General Election, on an anti-Britart ticket, in the constituency of Islington South and Finsbury, against Chris Smith, the Culture Secretary.