Sentences with phrase «by the home secretary of»

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However, May's sincerity was questioned by Labour's Lisa Nandy, who reminded her of three previous occasions when, as Home Secretary, she had been failed to act on information suggesting that incriminating evidence against individual MPs was routinely used by whips to enforce party discipline.

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin's bank dramatically ramped up its foreclosures of homes owned by senior citizens in the months before he joined President Donald Trump's administration, according to government

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin's bank dramatically ramped up its foreclosures of homes owned by senior citizens in the months before he joined President Donald Trump's administration, according to government data newly released under the Freedom of Information Act.

One of the problems with Bitcoin is the extent to which it is just a gigantic Ponzi scheme,» the Shadow Home Secretary continued her explanation of the risks posed by Bitcoin.

This deep sense of natural justice afforded by the state for the home is echoed by Pope Benedict's analysis of John of Salisbury (c1120 — 1180), an English author, educationalist, diplomat and secretary to St Thomas Becket, the martyred Archbishop of Canterbury.

Despite a massively negative consultation on the subject last autumn, and the contrary assurances to parliament by the Education Secretary, Ed Balls, local authorities are to be given a duty to monitor the education of all home - schooled children.

The inquiry was confirmed by Home Secretary Theresa May who told MP's: «Our priority must be the prosecution of the people behind these disgusting crimes.

A person is led away after a number of drugs raids in a housing estate in south London ahead of the launch of a new drug strategy by Home Secretary Amber Rudd.

When I saw who had written that, my hopes for an intelligent, or at least receptive, government response to the campaign against gay «marriage» then getting under way died within me: those words were written by Theresa May, the Home Secretary, and they appeared on the very morning she launched a «consultation» on the government's proposals to enforce a change in the legal definition of this ancient institution.

Before lunch delegates loyally applauded shadow home secretary Alan Johnson saying: «You do not demonstrate your commitment to civil liberties by failing to protect the most important civil liberty of all; the right to be safe on our streets.»

«My chief officer colleagues and I have been invited by the home secretary Jacqui Smith to undertake some urgent work building on recent successes to identify what additional progress we can make to work more effectively across all government agencies and with both statutory and non-statutory organisations, around tackling gang related gun crime and the supply of guns.»

As the home secretary said, the idea of the water cannon undermined the idea of policing by consent.

Mr Brake is among those Lib Dems who fear home secretary Theresa May, confronted by the security implications of abandoning the initiative, will abandon her party's pre-election emphasis on civil liberties.

«This seems an astonishing decision by the Home Office and I urge the home secretary to re-consider it in the name of both justice and mercy.&raHome Office and I urge the home secretary to re-consider it in the name of both justice and mercy.&rahome secretary to re-consider it in the name of both justice and mercy.»

MPs are «appalled» by some of Gordon Brown's speeches but are too loyal to criticise the prime minister, a former home secretary has claimed.

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 hershome 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 hersHome Secretary by Nick Clegg's chairmanship of the powerful Cabinet sub-committee on home affairs in coalition, she's now chairing it hershome affairs in coalition, she's now chairing it herself.

The report appears to raise concerns about the «Lille loophole» — a way of avoiding UK Border Agency (UKBA) checks by travelling to Britain from Brussels via Lille — but this section is among those redacted by the home secretary.

Meanwhile Grayling was denied the job of home secretary by Cameron in 2010 after saying that people who ran B&B s in their homes should have the right to turn away gay couples.

The home secretary will kick off the new counter-extremism drive by launching an independent review of how Sharia courts are operating in Britain.

After Nick Clegg said «in words of one syllable» that the Human Rights Act «is here to stay», home secretary Theresa May responded this week by saying she'd like to see the New Labour legislation scrapped.

Even Labour, the party with the least understanding of the appropriate limits to state power, is run by a leader who made a special pledge to civil liberties campaigners - even if his shadow home secretary is clearly an unreconstructed authoritarian.

She also accused the home secretary of breaking the ministerial code by publicly attacking her colleague in the Department for Education.

The recent unhappy arrest of a Conservative shadow minister, the searching of his parliamentary office by anti-terrorist police and the seizure of his IT equipment and files, compounds a number of recent episodes of unhappiness about collusion between the police and the Home Secretary, and about the role of the Speaker and the Serjeant at Arms.

In 1992, Labour published its Right to Information Bill: shadow home secretary Roy Hattersley promised that it would be the first piece of legislation introduced by a new Labour government.

It was there in the build - up to Iraq, or when then - home secretary Alan Johnson sacked the chair of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, or when George Osborne pursued a deficit reduction strategy identical to the one he'd branded dangerous when it was proposed by Alistair Darling.

Take another ETS case, R (on the application of Ashfaq Ali) v Secretary of State for the Home Department, where the tribunal found that the student accused of fraud by the Home Office was not entitled to an in - country right of appeal.

The new home secretary's suggestion that UK businesses could be forced to publish the numbers of international staff they employ, has been derided by many as economically illiterate, divisive, authoritarian, and xenophobic.

She seems obsessed by the deportation of Abu Qatada, which she facilitated, after a long series of court cases, as home secretary.

In a bid to head off a rebellion, Tory whips pushed backbenchers to back compromise amendments tabled by Stephen Phillips, which would force the home secretary to assess whether EU immigration is excessive and the likely effects of new countries joining the EU.

This is an official Home Office report, signed off by home secretary Theresa May, putting the lie to 40 years of government polHome Office report, signed off by home secretary Theresa May, putting the lie to 40 years of government polhome secretary Theresa May, putting the lie to 40 years of government policy.

That was the unhelpful but not unreasonable question posed by former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith the other day as she likened Tian Tian's lengthy but unproductive pregnancy to the Labour leader's failure to produce a single policy of note despite a three year gestation.

The scandal has provided a window into the murky depths of British immigration policy and, in particular, a set of policy decisions made in 2012 by the then Home Secretary Theresa May to ensure a «Hostile Environment» aimed at supporting a drive to reduce net migration figures.

Charles Clarke - Labour Another former home secretary lost his seat of Norwich South to the Liberal Democrats by a slim majority.

David Davis would still be the shadow home secretary had he not indulged in the futile exercise of the by - election, a non-event.

The English Democrats fielded a candidate, Joanne Robinson, in the by - election caused by the resignation of former shadow home secretary David Davis from the House of Commons.

Letters from the home secretary to the prime minister have made clear her opposition to Hunt's bid to triple the number of Chinese tourists visiting Britain by 2015.

Local MP John McDonnell has scheduled an early day motion expressing concern at the protests and urging the home secretary to «commission an independent review of the grievances raised by the detainees with the aim of resolving this dispute».

2016's Shaw Review of detention conditions, commissioned by Theresa May when she was home secretary and to which we submitted detailed evidence, echoed many of our concerns and called for a dramatic reduction in the use of detention.

The problem is that Home Secretary Theresa May describes the crime as «human beings used as commodities for the personal gain of others» (Hansard, 8 July 2014 col. 166), provoking the question of how this form of exploitation differs from other «everyday» exploitation faced by many (if not most) workers.

But a spokesman for Jeremy Corbyn said: «It appears the Prime Minister, by asking the new Home Secretary to conduct an inquiry separately without any of the clear processes and powers that we are talking about, is trying to avoid accountability and clarity about this decision.

The Blair team's focus shifts to how to handle an interview in the London Evening Standard given by Charles Clarke, the former home secretary, which accuses Brown of behaving stupidly and failing to bring the coup under control.

Theresa May's time as home secretary was marked by the further marginalisation of immigrants in this society.

Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg praised the identification of IP address users as «sensible» but said that the home secretary «wants to go a lot further» by reviving what he called the «disproportionate» measures of «the snoopers» charter».

As the Home Secretary will be giving a full statement to the House on Wednesday on the outcome of that review, it would be wrong of me to pre-empt her statement by giving details of the review today.

That this House notes that the report of the inquiry conducted by Chief Constable Ian Johnston of the British Transport Police, and which was commissioned by the Metropolitan Police in December to review the arrest and investigation of the hon. Member for Ashford, has been withheld from public scrutiny and from Parliament despite the fact that parts of the report were released by the Metropolitan Police on 16 December 2008 and used in comments by Assistant Police Commissioner Bob Quick; and therefore calls on the Home Secretary to take appropriate measures to ensure that a copy of the report be placed in the Library without further delay.»

Home Secretary Theresa May chaired a meeting of the Cabinet Office Briefing Room committee (COBRA)[77] attended by Defence Secretary Philip Hammond, the Mayor of London Boris Johnson, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan - Howe, the Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Cressida Dick and other unnamed members of the intelligence agencies.

However, shadow home secretary Andy Burnham angered many of his colleagues by insisting he would not be part of the walkout.

Allegations of complicity by British security forces in the torture of Mr Mohamed came to light yesterday when they were presented to MPs by former shadow home secretary David Davis.

Of those, 22 were excluded by then Home Secretary Jacqui Smith between 28 October 2008 and 31 March 2009.

«Thousands of 1199SEIU members live and work in the Finger Lakes region, providing care and support in hospitals and nursing homes throughout the area,» the letter, signed by Secretary Treasurer Maria Castanda, states.