Sentences with phrase «leading campaigner»

Wes Streeting wrote today: «She may be one of the country's leading campaigners for civil liberties, but we shouldn't pretend that everything about the timing and nature of this appointment doesn't stink.»

Only Gordon Brown can resolve Gurkha tensions between the Home Office and the Ministry of Defence (MoD), Labour's leading campaigner on the issue has said.

And it tore into John Mann, a Labour MP and leading campaigner against anti-Semitism, for «haranguing and insulting» Ken Livingstone, who was suspended from Labour after saying Adolf Hitler supported Zionism.

It is also financing the Liberian government's violation of the UN arms embargo, which the Liberian government has publicly admitted to (6),» says Alice Blondel, Global Witness Lead Campaigner.

However, a number of leading campaigners have indicated an intention to reduce regulation on business, citing employment legislation (and specifically the regulations governing Working Time) as an example of legislation that could be abolished.

The same is not true for oil, observes Merran Smith, a leading campaigner for the Great Bear Rainforest who now heads up Clean Energy Canada, an NGO focused on hastening the country's transition to renewable energy.

FI joins David Lammy MP to call for joint birth registration For Fathers» Day 2012, David Lammy MP and leading campaigners have joined forces to call on the government to stand up for mums, dads and whole families.

Those who do care will argue that it matters because under the referendum rules the Remain and Leave campaigns must have a designated «lead campaigner» which will then trouser up to # 7 million of taxpayers» money from the Electoral Commission to spend on leaflets posted to voters» homes.

Labour MP Chris Bryant - a leading campaigner in the phone - hacking scandal - told the BBC he thought the timing was «odd».

It doesn't have a view on whether a third «devo - max» option should be added, but does worry this could complicate matters when it comes to who is the lead campaigner for each option, and deciding on the phrasing of the question.

Ben Bradshaw, a cabinet minister in Gordon Brown's government, and a leading campaigner on transparency, accused the government of being «complicit in this cover - up».

«There is significant public interest in being satisfied that the facts are known about Vote Leave's spending on the campaign, particularly as it was a lead campaigner with a greater spending limit than any other campaigners on the leave side.»

In the Vote Leave submission to the Electoral Commission for designated status as the lead campaigner, they described Rotherham's job with them as «coordinating with specialist researchers working in parallel for allied think tanks and groups... and maintaining formal and informal outreach across the wider Eurosceptic movement.»

The commission is investigating whether Vote Leave, the lead campaigner to leave the European Union during the 2016 referendum, breached campaign finance rules.

David Lammy, Labour MP for Tottenham and a leading campaigner for action following Grenfell, said the PM has «seen sense».

Labour MP David Lammy, a leading campaigner for tough action after Grenfell, said the PM was right to add the extra panel members so that the inquiry has the confidence of the community

Bob Posner, the political finance director at the Electoral Commission, said: «There is significant public interest in being satisfied that the facts are known about Vote Leave's spending on the campaign, particularly as it was a lead campaigner with a greater spending limit than any other campaigners on the «leave» side.

Labour MP David Lammy, a leading campaigner on Windrush, tweeted: «Amber Rudd resigned because she didn't know what was going on in her own department and she had clearly lost the confidence of her own civil servants.

The ice on Kilimanjaro's summit has shrunk to just 15 per cent of its extent in 1912, leading campaigners to hold it up as a symbol of climate change.

Graham MacGregor of St George's Hospital in London, a leading campaigner against excessive salt, says epidemiological studies of communities with different salt intakes, and experimental changes in salt intake in people and animals, leave no doubt that salt causes health problems.

A leading campaigner for the expansion of selection during David Cameron's tenure as prime minister, Brady became a prominent cheerleader for Theresa May's plans to open the first new grammar schools in decades when they were announced last year.

But Mr Gove, a leading campaigner for Brexit, said migration had also created «pressure on services».

Bob and Roberta Smith RA — a tutor at the Cass and a leading campaigner to save it — agrees, cautioning, «we are really heading back now, not to the 1960s, but to the»30s, when art schools were only for the elite.»

For any questions, please contact Alice Blondel, Lead Campaigner - Liberia, at [phone].