Sentences with phrase «conservative shadow justice»

Human rights under attack Nick Herbert, conservative shadow justice secretary to Jack Straw, has been putting himself about on civil liberties and human rights.

Commenting on the figures, Dominic Grieve, the Conservative shadow justice secretary, said: «The surge in female violence - fuelled by binge - drinking - is a damning indictment of this government's track record in addressing both crime and social breakdown.»

Not exact matches

«I suspect that the Conservative party are putting to the foremost of their considerations that these proposals might be to their own political advantage,» shadow justice minister Wayne David told politics.co.uk.

Mr Herbert, previously the shadow secretary for justice, fills the void left by Mr Ainsworth's departure with expectation on him to start debate and put forward the Conservative plans.

It was presumably why two Conservative party leaders, William Hague and David Cameron, selected me to be shadow attorney general and why Cameron also appointed me as shadow home and then shadow justice minister, and why he, as prime minister, asked me to be solicitor general.

The Conservative shadow minister of justice made it clear that getting any more money out of the Treasury at the current time was a «fantasy».

Nick Herbert, the Conservative shadow secretary of state for justice, questioned how accountability would be preserved in the event of the removal of the requirement of the consent of the attorney general in respect of a wide range of prosecutions.