Sentences with phrase «former international development secretary»

Responding to the report Former International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell MP, said: «There are many ways of fundamentally changing the world to address the hideous discrepancies of opportunity and circumstance which disfigure life across the planet.

Watch former international development secretary Clare Short give evidence to the Iraq inquiry live here.

The chief whip and former international development secretary apologised, met members of the Police Federation and avoided the Conservative party's autumn conference in Birmingham, but was finally forced to resign as public anger about his rant — and what it said about the ruling Conservatives — forced him to quit.

«Douglas Alexander [former international development secretary] compared the last one to three peaks on an ECG [electro - cardiogram] machine.

Speaking on the Sunday Politics show, Conservative former International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell said the claims about SCL were «absolutely appalling» and «run totally counter to the policy of the British government in promoting free and fair elections in the developing world».

Former international development secretary Andrew Mitchell has argued that creating the safe zones is the best way to stop the refugee crisis that is engulfing Syria's neighbours and beyond.

Former international development secretary Clare Short said Miliband had failed to find a convincing narrative.

«Forty countries are in it now, and ten more are queueing up to join», boasts Clare Short - Blair's former international development secretary, and now the Initiative's chair.

«These are human beings who are in desperate straits and desperate circumstances,» the former international development secretary told the Today programme.

She'd done her best not to sack Priti Patel but, even by her cabinet's newly lowered standards the former international development secretary's conduct had been spectacularly misjudged.

Andrew Mitchell's piece in today's Financial Times about Britain and the Europe will do nothing to quell rumours that David Cameron will appoint him as an EU Commissioner: I suspect that the former International Development Secretary wrote it with a twinkle in his eye.

The former international development secretary Andrew Mitchell was forced to apologise this morning following a clash with armed police officers in Downing Street that allegedly involved the use of some rather unseemly language.

But echoing earlier remarks by prime minister Gordon Brown the former international development secretary acknowledged that there were «lessons to be learned» for the government.

Now it has emerged Mitchell met with David Cameron in Downing Street earlier this week, suggesting that his former international development secretary could be returning to government soon.

The former international development secretary Andrew Mitchell was forced to apologise this...

Its chair, former international development secretary Clare Short, told the Ecologist last December that it was not yet clear whether it was making a difference, however.

Several speakers at the Liberal Democrat and Labour conferences took time out from their speeches to berate the former international development secretary over the last two weeks.

The former international development secretary Douglas Alexander, who deliberated over which Miliband to support, having formed a deep friendship with Ed as far back as 1990, emphasises to me that «David has good Labour values», and argues: «He can bring us together as a party and can lead us to victory at the next election.»

The former international development secretary spent thousands of pounds on air tickets during her abortive round trip to Nairobi

Former International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell has told the Commons there are six prominent failings that have resulted in the Syrian humanitarian crisis.

Former International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell has accused Russia of «behaving like a rogue elephant» in Syria's civil war.

Former International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell told an emergency debate into the mounting humanitarian crisis in Aleppo that Assad is «not going to be beaten militarily in my view.»

Former international development secretary Andrew Mitchell said he is «astonished» that media coverage of the missing Malaysia Airlines plane is more extensive than the fate of 276 teenage girls abducted in Nigeria.

Earlier, former International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell drew parallels between Russia's actions in Syria and that of the Nazis before World War Two.

Speaking on ITV's Peston on Sunday, the former international development secretary insisted that while Britain and the US should not necessary be shooting down Russian jets, the government needs to «take a stand».

The former international development secretary wrote that «her actions... fell below the standards of transparency and openness that I have promoted and advocated.»

The former international development secretary won't be getting a cabinet job back for Christmas, especially in the whips» office.

Greening, the former international development secretary, also spoke fondly of the teachers who helped shape her life.