Sentences with phrase «home affairs»

The culture and home affairs select committees between them took more than eight hours of evidence about the phone - hacking scandal.

Today's result, however, failed to return a strong mandate for the former home affairs spokesman.

Each member of the panel opened with a statement on their party's policy on home affairs, before they faced questions from the presenters.

After the 1997 election, he became a whip and subsequently served as a spokesman for home affairs and then health before joining the shadow cabinet as work and pensions spokesman.

As a former home affairs spokesman, the domestic themes of the first debate suited him.

On home affairs, legal aid cuts will continue to bite and the police face further cuts.

The shadow minister for home affairs has promised that a Conservative government would preserve the right for people to legitimately possess firearms while cracking down on illegal gun culture.

Manhunt was erroneously implicated in a 2004 murder case by the tabloids, with MP and chair of home affairs committee Keith Vaz telling the House of Commons: «The parents of the victim believe that the perpetrator of this savage attack was influenced by the videogame Manhunt.»

Three of the Labour party's leading moderates are in the running to replace Keith Vaz as chair of home affairs select committee.

Julian Huppert, a Liberal Democrat home affairs committee member, said the vans had demonised people who were in the country legitimately.

In a letter to the House of Commons Home Affairs Select Committee, Lord Judge said such cases would be tried by a judge selected, on a case - by - case basis, by the resident judge and approved by a presiding judge.

«Rarely has so much effort been made to collect so much intrusive and irrelevant data,» said Lib Dem home affairs spokesman Chris Huhne.

11:00 - former head of the UK Border Force Bodie Clark and UK Border Agency chief executive Rob Whiteman, before home affairs committee, on: Border checks during Summer 2011

Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesperson Nick Clegg said: «First Lord West flip - flops over 28 days, then he brags about Britain's preparedness.

And shadow home affairs minister Chris Bryant's attempt over the summer to position Labour backfired drastically.

House votes to appoint former Labour minister who stood down from home affairs select committee over sex scandal

Mr Huhne acted as home affairs spokesman when the Lib Dems were in opposition, but was given the energy and climate change brief after playing a prominent role in the coalition negotiations.

Balls is wasted at Home affairs (and his line on immigration could be a problem).

Shadow home affairs minister James Brokenshire warned ABCs are «no panacea» to anti-social behaviour, especially as two - thirds of those signed by under - 18s are broken.

«It is vitally important that ministers come to the House to answer questions on this lop - sided treaty they have tried to brush under the carpet,» said home affairs spokesman Nick Clegg.

Here's Laura's Kuenssberg's take on the headaches for the PM, and a look at Mr Javid's in - tray by BBC home affairs correspondent Dominic Casciani.

It comes as the government looks at ways to reduce the prison population, and shadow home affairs minister Edward Garnier warned that this drive must not lead to more lenient sentences.

Another strong contender for the coveted lobby job is the Mail's respected home affairs editor James Slack.

And none of it - from terrorism through to the Windrush crisis - is easy to fix, writes BBC home affairs correspondent Dominic Casciani.

There was a brief moment of humour when home affairs chairman Keith Vaz assured the House he had «no plan to marry a royal heir», to which Tory Mp Nicholas Soames shouted: «He would if he could.»

In July 2005, then party leader Charles Kennedy appointed Horwood to the Shadow Home Affairs team, before he was promoted by Menzies Campbell to be Shadow Environment Minister, under Chris Huhne, whom Horwood had backed in the party's leadership election.

Conservative home affairs spokesman Edward Garnier called for proper leadership on the issue and condemned the government for pushing the problems of the prison system from «minister to minister to minister».

The publication report from the all - party home affairs committee, which has been brought forward in time for Cameron's statement today, has found that News International «deliberately» tried to block a Scotland Yard criminal investigation into phone hacking at the News of the World.

Earlier this week Mr Cameron announced a sweeping policy review covering all aspects of home affairs policy, as he made fixing Britain's «broken society» his «priority».

Labour home affairs spokeswoman, Diana Johnson, said that the ruling confirmed that because of «the home secretary's shambolic handling of the Abu Qatada case, he may be out on our streets within weeks».

At Westminster, Lidington previously participated in the Education Select Committee and Conservative Backbench Home Affairs Committee.

It strikes me, particularly in stressing the legal compliance issue, to be rather clearer than the recent Home Affairs Select Committee report, which seems to me to fudge the important issues, particularly around the law, and to take a rather mealy - mouthed «it would be nice if police and protestors tried to talk more» approach, which seriously misses some central points you and others have made.

A Bill to establish an Australian Home Affairs portfolio was introduced into the Australian Parliament on 7 December 2017, which is likely to lead to centralisation of federal agencies working more collaboratively to investigate sophisticated white collar crimes, including those with an international dimension.

Before the dissolution, Tim was also a member of the influential Home Affairs Select Committee.

The Prison Service and Probation Service are to be merged with the National Offender Management Service (Noms) in the latest home affairs governance restructure.

That's because Compassion has worked every angle to try to stay open in India since last February, when India's Ministry of Home Affairs put it on a list of organizations needing prior approval before transferring funds into the country.

Tory MP Richard Ottaway and prominent Labour MP Tom Watson were among those calling on Cameron to invite Mitchell back into the government, while home affairs select committee chair Keith Vaz said the plea appeared to be a complete vindication of the former cabinet minister's reputation.

When you've just put Boris Johnson, a man who has made a career out of offending other nations and races, in charge of international diplomacy, it's probably wise to bite your tongue about Diane Abbott being made Labour's new home affairs spokesperson.

«We have always warned that the privatisation of Surrey and West Midlands police forces was a dangerous experiment which is wasting taxpayers money and now we have damming advice from the respected Home Affairs committee backing up our claims.

Sixteen Lib Dem MPs, including home affairs committee member Julian Huppert, signed a letter holding their party leadership to its civil liberty principles.

Tom Brake MP, the co-chair of the Lib Dem home affairs parliamentary party committee, and author of the party's letter to Cameron, said there was no evidence to suggest that control orders were effective in preventing terrorism.

He revealed his dislike for Steve Webb, his Environment spokesman, and decided to demote Chris Huhne, his former leadership rival and currently Home Affairs spokesman, before adding he wasn't «emotionally intelligent» enough for the environment job.

These included freeing the 99 % of British firms who do not deal with Europe from the burden of EU regulations, opting out of all 135 of the EU's justice and home affairs measures, and having «a general emergency pull - out where we can say no — a permanent constitutional opt out.»

According to Tim Montgomerie on Conservative Home, the poll also shows that «24 % told GfK NOP that they would prefer Charles Kennedy to return as leader and slightly more (7 %) preferred LibDem Home Affairs spokesman Nick Clegg to the embattled Sir Menzies (6 %)», though I'm not sure what sort of question or structure this was in response to.

The dramatic move comes after a House of Lords EU sub-committee on home affairs became the fifth committee of parliament to recommend the move, amid heightened anxiety about its effect on the UK economy.

Allies of the first secretary of state have expressed concern about the comments made by Quick and Lewis regarding an investigation into government leaks when Green was an opposition home affairs spokesman.

Brian Paddick, who was UK's most senior gay police officer, quits home affairs role citing concerns highlighted during election