Sentences with phrase «as both justice secretary»

David Gauke started his new role as justice secretary this week, making him the 6th to take up the position in the last 8 years.

Since he took over as Justice Secretary, Chris Grayling has been pushing ahead more productively with cuts to legal aid, reform of the courts system and a new, more accountable prison regime.

Meanwhile, Liz Truss was effectively demoted to Chief Secretary to the Treasury «attending Cabinet» from her previous role as Justice Secretary.

There may never be a more appropriate epitaph for Chris Grayling's time as justice secretary than that offered when he addressed the Joint Committee on Human Rights last year.

His return to cabinet as justice secretary and lord chancellor is a reward for his continued loyalty to Cameron.

On the Tory side, Lib Dems are disappointed and worried about the replacement of honorary member Ken Clarke with Chris Grayling as Justice Secretary.

It would give left wingers a heart attack, but what if he could replace Gove as justice secretary?

The release of the pamphlet comes as justice secretary Chris Grayling endured a birthday to forget, as he is hit by multiple public demonstrations.

The Today programme has already reported that Ken Clarke, who was evens to leave the government yesterday, has indeed lost his job as justice secretary.

The Financial Times's Sebastian Payne declared that Grayling's time as Tory chairman had had been «better than his period as justice secretary».

Or as the justice secretary put it: «Are they able to put personal considerations aside to do what's right?»

Cameron had preferred that he take over from Ken Clarke as justice secretary, but IDS - suspicious of Treasury hostility towards his welfare reforms - made clear that he would rather not budge anywhere, thank you very much.

«Chris Grayling was just so truly awful [as justice secretary] that of course it is better to have Gove than Grayling, but if what Gove does is emollient words with no change in the funding policies, then maybe it was better to see the beast as it was truly was than nice phrases and words wrapping it all up.»

Since Ken Clarke was unceremoniously dumped as justice secretary, the Lib Dems have not had a voice in the Ministry of Justice.

It can be no coincidence that the House of Lords constitutional affairs committee is now scrutinising the wisdom of one person serving as both justice secretary and lord chancellor.

As the justice secretary he has been at loggerheads with May throughout the year, which may have explained why he got so carried away in lashing out at a Cabinet colleague - someone supposedly on his side.

But of the changes, the most notable are Michael Gove as justice secretary (as previously announced), Sajid Javid — who many have billed to be Cameron's successor - as business secretary, John Whittingdale as culture secretary, Tina Stowell as leader of the House of Lords, Anna Soubry as minister for small business, Amber Rudd as energy secretary, and Priti Patel as minister for employment.

When Grayling replaced Ken Clarke as Justice Secretary, it signalled a hardening of the Tory position on a host of issues, most notably the European Convention on Human Rights and the European Court of Human Rights.

The 2012 government reshuffle was said to be a «rise of the right» moment but has made little discernible effect on the overall direction of the government, aside from possibly the work done by Chris Grayling as justice secretary and Owen Paterson as environment secretary.

6 am: Nick Robinson on the Today programme confirmed that Ken Clarke will leave his post as Justice Secretary, but will stay in government.

As justice secretary, he saw unwelcome headlines over issues including legal aid cuts that sparked an unprecedented walkout by barristers and solicitors, mandatory court charges and an attempt to ban books being sent to prisoners, most of which were later reversed.

He also put in a strong plea for Kenneth Clarke to remain as justice secretary by praising his «earthy common sense» and his approach to criminal justice and civil liberties.

He has named Michael Gove as justice secretary, succeeding Chris Grayling who becomes leader of the House of Commons.

Meanwhile, Morgan's predecessor Michael Gove has been appointed as Justice Secretary, with a brief to oversee planned changes to the Human Rights Act.

Will Gove remain as Justice Secretary, especially if Teresa May becomes PM.

It remains to be seen whether he will understand the difference between his government role as Justice Secretary and his constitutional role as Lord Chancellor.

The general election: after the unexpected result of the general election, there's a new team at the Ministry of Justice, with David Lidington replacing Liz Truss as Justice Secretary and Lord Chancellor, and Dominic Raab taking on the role of Minister for the Courts and Legal Aid vacated by Oliver Heald.

Former justice minister, Lord Faulks, has resigned after voicing concerns about the appointment of another non-lawyer as Justice Secretary.

Not exact matches

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer, during his daily press briefing, said the Department of Justice will be the lead on what Spicer referred to as «greater enforcement» of federal law concerning adult - use marijuana.

Sean Spicer, the former Trump White House press secretary, said in March, just after Flynn registered as a foreign agent with the Justice Department, that Trump had not been aware that Flynn had been paid to lobby for Turkish interests in the months before the US election.

In Colbert has already welcomed tech titans such as Apple (AAPL) CEO Tim Cook, Tesla Motors (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk, and Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, as well as United Nations Secretary - General Ban Ki - moon and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.

In July 2016, during the presidential campaign, when Comey publicly announced that Hillary Clinton should not be prosecuted for her email peccadilloes — but strongly criticized her behavior in setting up a private email server while in her role as US secretary of state — Trump did not complain that Department of Justice (DOJ) norms were being violated.

Comey recommended no criminal charges to the Justice Department in the Clinton email probe, instead reprimanding the former secretary of state as «extremely careless.»

Because no legal action can be taken against him in France, French Nazi hunters have come to the U.S. to get our Justice Department to punish Bettencourt by prohibiting him from entering the country, much as was done with Kurt Waldheim, erstwhile UN General Secretary and President of Austria.

Home secretary John Reid welcomed the judgment as a vindication of his position, but Amnesty International condemned it as an «affront to justice».

The prime minister is lending his support to the reforming justice secretary Michael Gove and, as when he made previous speeches supporting justice secretaries Ken Clarke and Chris Grayling, his focus is on reoffending.

It all began with the Justice Secretary, Michael Gove, who pointed to Albania's relations with the EU as an example of the possible agreement that the UK might have in the event of leaving the EU.

Shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan complimented Lansley's «poker face» as the leader of the House argued the reforms were for the good of voters.

Labour MP Toby Perkins later told the justice secretary he would raise the issue as a point of order if he did not correct the record.

Mention can be made of the Speaker of the 5th Parliament Joyce Adeline Bamford - Addo, Chief Justice Georgina Wood, Electoral Commissioner Mrs Charlotte Osei, former CEO of the Ghana chamber of Mines Joyce Rosalind Aryee, and other women ministers such as Hon. Hannah Tetteh, Gloria Akuffo and others, also high commissioners and ambassadors including ambassador Mrs Mercy Yvonne Debrah - Karikari (now a cabinet secretary) amongst other great women.

A statement issued by the Judicial Secretary, Justice Alex B. Poku - Acheampong said the move is in furtherance of «the recent groundswell of public revulsion and media and civil society advocacy against the menace of illegal mining, commonly referred to as «galamsey».

The new justice secretary Chris Grayling, a favourite of the Tory right - wing who has made history as the first non-lawyer to be appointed in the position, today took a bruising in the Commons from Labour MPs.

@ 51 The Guido post complaining about Sadiq Khan's appointment as Shadow Justice Secretary has nothing about his alleged extremist views that Guido thought should rule him out of consideration for the FCO.

Yet shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan pointed out that there is a «black hole» in the department, and that today's National Audit Office report revealed there was a # 130m loss of savings, since the Tory - led government took over 28 months ago, as a result of sentencing reforms not going ahead.

Sadiq Khan, who managed Miliband's successful leadership campaign, was appointed Shadow Justice Secretary and Shadow Lord Chancellor, and continuing Deputy Leader Harriet Harman continued to shadow Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, as well as being made Shadow International Development Secretary.

Writing in the New Statesman, Labour Shadow Justice Secretary Sadiq Khan brazenly declares that the Liberal Democrat's record in Government has left Labour as the party of civil liberties.

Members of the Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign told a news conference «we regard the gloves as off» in response to Home Secretary Amber Rudd's decision not to look further into violent clashes between miners and police in 1984.

David Lidington will take over from Ms Truss as the new Justice Secretary, and was also made Lord Chancellor.

The justice secretary may not have as much time as he believes, however.

Meanwhile communities secretary Eric Pickles, energy secretary Ed Davey and justice secretary Chris Grayling are all being identified as cooperating ministers who have agreed average cuts of around ten per cent.