Sentences with phrase «conservative shadow home secretary»

Dominic Grieve, the Conservative shadow home secretary highlights one popular criticism: «The Act has attracted a huge amount of public hostility and helped to create a rights culture which has been seen by many people as forcing the state to make concessions to the undeserving... public bodies routinely hide behind the Act to hide their own incompetence.»

Not exact matches

However, the speech came just hours after shadow home secretary Andrew Lansley told The Times that a Conservative government would only guarantee «small increases» to the NHS budget in comparison to Labour.

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.

The Conservative party under Mr Cameron's stewardship has faced criticism for a lack of genuine policies, and the appointment of shadow home secretary David Davis to lead a new social mobility taskforce will initially do little to change this perception.

The Tory shadow home secretary, Chris Grayling, went on the Today programme this morning to deny that the Conservatives have been using misleading statistics on violent crime.

Outbursts by prominent Tories — for instance, by his shadow home secretary, Chris Grayling — have fuelled scepticism that the Conservative party is anything like as modernised as the leader protests.

Galley had been introduced to Green by his then boss, the shadow home secretary, David Davis, whom he had approached saying he was a committed Conservative and was willing to leak material.

The panel comprised Conservative and current Home Secretary, Theresa May, Labour's shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper, Lib Dem Norman Baker, UKIP's Steven Woolfe, and Simon Thomas from Plaid CyHome Secretary, Theresa May, Labour's shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper, Lib Dem Norman Baker, UKIP's Steven Woolfe, and Simon Thomas from PlaSecretary, Theresa May, Labour's shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper, Lib Dem Norman Baker, UKIP's Steven Woolfe, and Simon Thomas from Plaid Cyhome secretary Yvette Cooper, Lib Dem Norman Baker, UKIP's Steven Woolfe, and Simon Thomas from Plasecretary Yvette Cooper, Lib Dem Norman Baker, UKIP's Steven Woolfe, and Simon Thomas from Plaid Cymru.

The architect of the Conservative strategy on crime is the shadow home secretary Chris Grayling, so I asked him about the use of comparative data.

Following revelations on my blog last week, shadow home secretary Chris Grayling has defended the Conservative Party's use of figures suggesting «significant» rises in violent crime - even though the official source statistics warn they should not be used in that way.

His comments provoked outrage from the Conservatives, and shadow home secretary David Davis said it looked like «deliberate negligence on the part of the Home Office&raqhome secretary David Davis said it looked like «deliberate negligence on the part of the Home Office&raqHome Office».

The Conservatives also pounced on the shadow home secretary's Tuesday morning interview round, calling it Abbott's «morning of chaos» in an email sent to lobby journalists.

«Last May Conservatives called for the minimum age for foreign spouses to be raised to 21,» said Dominic Grieve, the shadow home secretary.

In a sign the Conservative party may be moving away from the civil liberties ideals of former shadow home secretary David Davis, the Tories have announced a push to make it easier for police to launch surveillance operations against non-terrorists.

But shadow home secretary David Davis - who has led Conservative calls for a separate national security minister - has expressed doubts about the proposed split, warning that a break - up of the department could lead to «a whole new set of problems».

The Conservatives voted against the bill after shadow home secretary David Davis criticised it as a step towards more centralised government control.

And today, through an article in the FT, the former shadow home secretary addresses the question of where the Government - and therefore a future Conservative government - could find savings.

The shadow home secretary, Andy Burnham, called on Conservatives to vote with Labour on the motion, which asked the government to «commit today that EU nationals currently living in the UK shall have the right to remain».

In her conference speech, the shadow home secretary confirmed that Labour would drop the Conservatives» failed net migration target and would abolish elected police and crime commissioners.

The 700 - strong guest list for the Conservative Friends of Israel (CFI) lunch at the Park Plaza Hotel in the shadow of the Houses of Parliament includes Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and Home Secretary Amber Rudd.

Patrick Hennessey, the newspaper's political editor, has blogged this: «The true depth of the anger felt by senior Tories at the decision by David Davis to resign his parliamentary seat and fight a by - election is revealed publicly for the first time in The Sunday Telegraph tomorrow when a leading Conservative breaks cover and directly criticises the former shadow home secretary.»