Sentences with phrase «leading campaigner on»

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.

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.

Bill McKibben, founder of the international climate change group 350.org, is one of the world's leading campaigners on the climate change crisis.

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Lamar Smith (R. - Tx), who heads the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, has demanded that New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman turn over all communication since 2012 between his office and climate change campaigners whose research led to him opening his probe.

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.

It's been reported that he was arrested on his way home from the town of Caibarién, where he was leading meetings with human rights campaigners who were discussing responses to a series of religious violations affecting Apostolic Movement churches in central and eastern Cuba.

The minimum 50p per unit price, delayed for six years by a legal challenge led by the Scotch Whisky Association, has been welcomed by the medical professional and health campaigners as the biggest breakthrough in public health since the ban on smoking in public.

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Italian Senator and leading anti-mafia campaigner, Rosaria Capacchione, passes judgment on Mario Balotelli, after the Milan striker declined to be considered a symbol against organised crime.

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.

The tax campaigners worry that this confusion may lead parents to make the wrong financial decisions on which support scheme or combination of schemes to use.

The Britain Stronger In Europe campaign focused on the failure of leading leave campaigners to say whether the UK would remain a member of the single market outside the EU.

Climate change campaigners begged both Clegg and Labour leader Ed Miliband to make arrangements for the energy secretary to remain, because of the vital role he had been given by the Mexican hosts in leading discussions on the fate of the earlier Kyoto Protocol.

The Labour MP led the calls for Theresa May to take action on the Windrush crisis and has duly been named «Campaigner of the Week» by parliament's official magazine.

They need to show a range of support from across the political spectrum, how they intend to get their message across to voters and how they plan to engage with other campaigners on the lead side.

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.

Robin Webster, senior campaigner on energy and climate, said the 20 per cent target was «undoubtedly ambitious» but presented an opportunity for the UK energy industry to «take a lead in developing the renewable technologies that will be required all over the world in tackling climate change».

«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.»

It should have been obvious that the task for the Labour Party was to keep the media focus on the lies and false promises from the leading Brexit campaigners; and it should have been obvious that the task for the Labour Party was to exploit the division in the Conservative Party and the paralysis of the lame - duck Cameron administration.

The sit - in, led by veteran civil rights campaigner and Georgia congressman John Lewis, was staged to demand a vote on gun control measures, after a 15 - hour filibuster in the Senate on 16 June led to a floor vote on four measures, including one which aimed to prevent those on a terrorist no - fly list from purchasing firearms.

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The esteemed experts included: Lene Wendland, the advisor on business and human rights in the office of the United Nations» high commissioner for human rights; Pamela Gillies, president and vice chancellor of the Glasgow Caledonian University; Cherie Blair, a leading human rights lawyer and campaigner for gender equality; Phillipe Fornier, general secretary of the Swiss Better Gold Association and Nöella Coursaris, the founder and chief executive of Malaika, a foundation focused on educating and empowering girls in the Congo.

For the longest time there's been a presumption among environmental campaigners and some scientists that if the fog of misinformation and disinformation on climate could be cleared, if the science could be laid out better, if the link between present energy choices and future climate risks could be absorbed better by the public, people would jump aboard the decarbonization express, leading the world to a climate - safe future.

While campaigners have focused on stopping coal export projects in the Pacific Northwest targeting Chinese demand, there's a boom in American coal exports to Europe (hey, wasn't Europe a leading supporter of the Kyoto Protocol?).

There should be no campaigners or anyone else with a vested interest on the «lead author» team for any IPCC publication — ever.»

Four of the world's leading climate scientists, Dr. James Hansen, Dr. Tom Wigley, Dr. Ken Caldeira and Dr. Kerry Emanuel, will issue a stark challenge to world leaders and environmental campaigners attending the COP21 climate summit at a scheduled press conference in Paris on December 3.

An environmental documentary due to be broadcast on Channel 4 on Thursday evening has come under attack from a leading American environmentalist who was interviewed for the programme, as well as a coalition of anti-GM campaigners based in the developing world.

The story has been picked up by the Daily Mail today, with the headline «Leading climate change group used Greenpeace campaigner to write «impartial» report on renewable energy».

Another agricultural strategy — raising bioenergy crops and capturing the carbon dioxide from their combustion when they're burned — led to a dust - up between climate campaigners at the UN talks in Bonn last week because of disagreement over the likely impacts on farming and food prices.

Thanks to the efforts of grassroots campaigners like Yu, the human and environmental costs of a proposed mega-dam project on the Salween (Nu) river led Beijing to call off that project in 2004.

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.

Campaigners believe that the agreement to work on the matter could lead to a new international law prohibiting fully autonomous weapons.