Sentences with phrase «made shadow home secretary»

Not exact matches

With Jeremy Corbyn and shadow home secretary Diane Abbott implacably opposed to any restrictions on immigration, it has been left to some of Cooper's party colleagues — most notably Andy Burnham and Hilary Benn — to make the Labour case for controls.

Even Labour, the party with the least understanding of the appropriate limits to state power, is run by a leader who made a special pledge to civil liberties campaigners - even if his shadow home secretary is clearly an unreconstructed authoritarian.

Hague agreed to make a statement to MPs after the former shadow home secretary David Davis and the Labour chairman of the Commons home affairs select committee, Keith Vaz, raised serious concerns about the GCHQ disclosures.

Mr Cameron opted to keep leadership rival David Davis in his current post as shadow home secretary, with another former candidate, Liam Fox, moved to defence, and Mr Hague made shadow foreign secretary.

Labour's shadow home secretary Diane Abbott will ask the Home Office to make a statement on the government's handling of the Windrush scandal this afternoon in the House of Commhome secretary Diane Abbott will ask the Home Office to make a statement on the government's handling of the Windrush scandal this afternoon in the House of CommHome Office to make a statement on the government's handling of the Windrush scandal this afternoon in the House of Commons.

Yvette Cooper is the only Labour figure who has made it into the coverage today in her capacity as shadow work and pensions secretary, which incidentally can't be doing her profile as a potential shadow chancellor any home.

«I'm not going to make the normal political speech either as shadow home secretary or as Labour leadership candidate - attacking the Government and setting out an alternative Labour response.

Responding to Ms May's statement in the Commons, shadow home secretary Alanb Johnson reminded Lib Dem MPs of John Stuart Mill's maxim: «All that makes existence valuable to everyone depends on the enforcement of restrictions upon the actions of other people.»

The new powers will be accompanied by additional advice to ensure schools stay within the law, and shadow home secretary David Davis urged the government to make sure this guidance was available soon to ensure schools knew where their responsibilities lie.

He was ordered to stop speaking by deputy speaker Sylvia Heal while making comments about a statement made by Commons speaker Michael Martin concerning e-mails sent between Mr Green and former shadow home secretary David Davis.

In a sign the Conservative party may be moving away from the civil liberties ideals of former shadow home secretary David Davis, the Tories have announced a push to make it easier for police to launch surveillance operations against non-terrorists.

With rumours mounting Mr Brown will move away from a national ID card scheme - increasingly criticised for its cost and implications for civil liberties - the shadow home secretary David Davis has called on the soon - to - be prime minister to make his position clear.

The first big dividing lines of the Labour leadership contest opened up on Thursday when Yvette Cooper, the shadow home secretary, refused to accept that Labour had spent too much prior to the 2007 banking crisis, making the economy more vulnerable when the crash came.

This was echoed by the former shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper, who emphasised on Friday that immigration is «not what this campaign is about — Brexit will not make a difference».

But when presenter Piers Morgan pressed her for more detail, the shadow home secretary said only that she was working on a policy which would make the handling of migration «fairer and more efficient».

The Labour leader (right today) kept his seat when Mr Javid made his challenge but shadow home secretary Diane Abbott (centre) intervened to insist Labour opposed the abuse

The Labour leader kept his seat when Mr Javid made his challenge but shadow home secretary Diane Abbott intervened to insist Labour opposed the abuse.

Chris Grayling, the new shadow home secretary, has made manly noises about wanting «fewer rights, more wrongs».

A Labour government will make it a criminal offence to use low - skilled European workers to undercut local workers and businesses, and change the rules so that more foreign national criminals are considered for deportation, the shadow home secretary, Yvette Cooper, has said.

It comes at the end of a week where the recently appointed shadow home secretary, Chris Grayling, made his first speech in that role.

... The pledge to help forces increase the diversity of their officers will be made by the shadow Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, in a speech tomorrow.»

The shadow home secretary's proposal is a populist perennial, but one that never quite blooms, as it makes no sense.

Dominic Grieve, the Conservative shadow home secretary highlights one popular criticism: «The Act has attracted a huge amount of public hostility and helped to create a rights culture which has been seen by many people as forcing the state to make concessions to the undeserving... public bodies routinely hide behind the Act to hide their own incompetence.»

Andy Burnham, shadow home secretary, is urging cross-party support for amendments to the Policing and Crime Bill to make misconduct in public office a criminal offence.