Sentences with phrase «foreign affairs select»

He stood down from the front bench in 1987 and thereafter served on the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, devoting himself to European Union questions.

Ian Marsh has hailed Select Committees as a «newly emboldened» and «empowered system», BBC Parliamentary correspondent Mark d'Arcy described the post-Wright SC system as «more powerful and independent - minded than ever before», and Sir Richard Ottaway, former Chair of Foreign Affairs Select Committee, said that the 2010 — 2015 Parliament would be remembered as «the Parliament of the Select Committee».

The Foreign Affairs Select Committee has decided by a majority vote that they do not support the Prime Minister on proposed airstrikes against the so - called Islamic State in Syria, ITV News understands.

On Syria, Mr Corbyn's long - held opposition to air strikes has now been endorsed by the Foreign Affairs Select Committee.

The letter follows the call by the chairman of the Foreign Affairs select committee this morning for the US to release any information relating to the alleged toture of former the Guantanamo Bay detainee.

John Baron is the Conservative MP for Basildon & Billericay and a member of the foreign affairs select committee.

Last week the Prime Minister focused his case for bombing in Syria on the critical tests set by the respected cross-party Foreign Affairs select committee.

In 2004 the Foreign Affairs Select Committee called for the ISC to become a full Parliamentary committee, something backed by former Director of Public Prosecutions Lord MacDonald and many more.

Last week the Foreign Affairs Select Committee published a report on the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Other appointments: Sir Menzies Campbell will join the Foreign Affairs Select Committee and conduct a full review of Britain's future military capability.

[17] She went on to serve on the Foreign Affairs Select Committee.

[3] He served as a member of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee from July 2015 - May 2017, although failed to secure re-election to the Committee in the following Parliament.

UKIP Leader Nigel Farage and Richard Ottaway, Conservative chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, discuss Ireland's problem and the wider financial and political implications for Britain.

Chairman of the Commons foreign affairs select committee, Labour's Mike Gapes, welcomed Mr Hain's comments and said there was a feeling among MPs that a «more forceful statement» should be made about the camp.

Appearing before the House of Commons foreign affairs select committee, Johnson took the opportunity to hit back at the chairman for subtly slamming his modus operandi.

«It is really, really hard to do cross-cultural humour,» advised Tugendhat, who is chair of the foreign affairs select committee, in a not - so - coded attack on Boris Johnson.

Speaking exclusively to TP, Foreign Affairs Select Committee chair Sir Crispin Blunt suggested the door to another referendum had not been slammed shut just yet.

Tugendhat is a former senior Army officer who entered the Commons in 2015 and recently became chairman of the foreign affairs select committee.

Many opposition MPs, such as Labour's Mike Gapes, a former chairman of the Commons foreign affairs select committee, tried to «talk it out» by giving long and irrelevant speeches in a bid to make it run out of parliamentary time, but it eventually passed without a vote.

Ex-leader Sir Menzies Campbell is to join the all - party Commons foreign affairs select committee.

(ii) FOREIGN AFFAIRS SELECT COMMITTEE — ONE VACANCY (all Labour MPs may vote in this contest) CANDIDATES: Bob Ainsworth, Jeremy Corbyn, Fabian Hamilton, Mark Hendrick, Yasmin Qureshi

It does not meet the seven tests set by the Foreign Affairs Select Committee.

[58] His predecessors were also given roles: Campbell joined the all - party Commons foreign affairs select committee, and Kennedy campaigned nationwide on European issues, as president of the European Movement UK.

The Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, Richard Ottoway, opened a very interesting debate about the future of the BBC World Service yesterday.

In its 2013 report on US - UK relations, the House of Commons foreign affairs select committee concluded that «there is little historical evidence that taking a different stance to the US, or declining to comply with US preferences on specific issues, damages the UK government's relationship with Washington in any long - term way».

In a memorandum sent this month to the foreign affairs select committee, before the allegations of poisoning in Salisbury emerged, the Foreign Office said Russia was increasingly defining itself in opposition to the west.

The idea was first suggested earlier this year by Crispin Blunt, the then chairman of the UK foreign affairs select committee, but has subsequently won the support of the former foreign secretary, William Hague, the former Nato secretary general Lord Robertson and this week the former Spanish foreign affairs secretary, Ann Palacio.

Members of the foreign affairs select committee visited the high - security prison in Cuba last September, the first members of a foreign parliament to do so.

The foreign affairs select committee says there is no «material difference» on foreign policy in the two documents.

Not exact matches

Good that you are not selecting me for my (non-existent) foreign affairs expertise.

At a brief ceremony to mark the signing of the initiative, Foreign Affairs Minister, Hanna Tetteh, said the initiative will help Ghana and the other selected African countries build stronger institutions to counter emerging and existing security threats on the continent.

Not only that, but he ignores the analysis of the legality of bombing made by the Commons Select Committee on Foreign Affairs only a few days before the Commons debate.

Step forward, then, Peter Bone - standing for the Chairmanship of the Health Select Committee - John Baron, contesting Foreign Affairs (Baron pursued Ministers energetically about Iraq during the last Parliament) and, in the Defence Select Committee poll, no fewer than three of the candidates: Julian Lewis, Patrick Mercer and, above all, Douglas Carswell (one half of the Carswell - Hannan «Cannon» dynamic duo).

Andrew Tyrie took the Treasury Select Committee; Richard Ottaway, Foreign Affairs (a big, big consolation prize, after his defeat in the 1922 Committee Chairmanship election); James Arbuthnot, Defence; Stephen Dorrell, Health; Tim Yeo, Climate Change.

Government has been tasked to ensure visa applicants in Ghana are treated fairly by various embassies both inside and outside the country, Minority spokesperson on Parliamentary Select Committee on Foreign Affairs, Hon. Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has stated.

Mr Reid was giving evidence to the home affairs select committee just two weeks after taking over from Charles Clarke, who was sacked following the revelation that more than 1,000 foreign prisoners were released without being considered for deportation.

The Senate equally directed its committee on foreign affairs which would interrogate the SGF and the minister to ensure they provide the criteria used in selecting the nominees.

«Richard Harrington, Mark Spencer and David Morris are the first of the 2010 Conservative intake to make their maiden speeches Main Tories will chair Treasury, Foreign Affairs and ten other select committees»

Also on the team is Deputy Minister of Communications and MP for Awutu Senya East, Hon George Nenyi Andah; Hon Mohammad Tijanni Habibu, deputy Foreign Minister; Hon. Alex Tetteh Djornobuah, MP for Sefwi Akontonbra and member of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Education; and Hon Halidu Ali Maiga, Member of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Food, Agriculture and Cocoa Affairs Committee.

The Vice President was accompanied by Hon Mohammad Tijanni Habibu, deputy Foreign Minister; Deputy Minister for Communications Hon George Nenyi Andah; Hon. Alex Tetteh Djornobuah, MP for Sefwi Akontonbra and member of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Education; and Hon Halidu Ali Maiga, Member of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Food, Agriculture and Cocoa Affairs.

First elected to Congress in 2016, Rep. Adriano Espaillat is serving his first term in Congress where he serves as a member of the influential U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee, the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, and the House Select Committee on Small Business.

She served on the Advisory Committee for Term Members of the Council on Foreign Relationsand was recently selected to the Educational Affairs Committee of the Board of Trustees of The Rockefeller University.

In 2000, however, the House of Commons Select Committee on Foreign Affairs found that the war was illegal, though it offered by way of mitigation the conclusion that: «NATO's military action, if of dubious legality in the current state of international law, was justified on moral grounds.»