Sentences with phrase «parliament over the affair»

Meanwhile, Labour MP Tom Watson demanded that Mr Cameron make a statement to parliament over the affair.

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At last, Britain's Parliament passed the Canada Act in 1982 which gave your country full control over it's affairs.

Parliament is back and Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce is feeling the heat over allegations stemming from his affair with a staffer.

He strategically stayed off the position of a Minister of Parliamentary Affairs to enable him have an undivided focus on Parliament without looking over his shoulder to see whether the Executive whip is flopping behind him.

As the firm's northern Europe boss Matt Brittin stood accused of misleading parliament over the firm's tax affairs, Hodge told him: «You are a company that says you «do no evil».

Although Scotland and England have been in a union for over 300 years, they have never merged completely: there have always been separate Scottish institutions, a different national church, a different legal system, different administration of government and now a Scottish Parliament dealing with the majority of domestic Scottish affairs.

Foreign Affairs Minister and Member of Parliament for the Awutu Senya West Constituency, Hanna Tetteh, is livid over what she calls unsubstantiated allegations and sometimes «vicious personal attacks», targeted at the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Charlotte Osei.

Iain Duncan Smith has offered tentative support for a proposal to end the right of MPs to regulate their own affairs, warning that the continuing focus on expenses because of the row over Maria Miller's housing claims is «eating away at the credibility of parliament».

While on recess, the joint committees on Communication and Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs have been working on the over decade old bill which has been moving in and out of parliament over the years.

These claims were denied by another former Minister, Baroness Amos, who is shortly to take over as Under Secretary General of Humanitarian Affairs at the United Nations, but were finally admitted to be true by Miliband to Parliament in 2008.

Having taken over from John Denham MP as chair of the Home Affairs Committee in July 2007, Keith Vaz MP escapes the term limit on committee chairs (the two previous parliaments or eight years whichever is the greater period) so looks likely to stand again for Home Affairs.

When the time came, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Shirley Ayorkor Botchway, indicated in Parliament that the Akufo - Addo administration had not altered the formal agreement between Ghana and the United States over the two, thus keeping them in Ghana till the January 6, 2018, expiry date.

Joint jurisdiction over defence and foreign affairs could be decided by ministers from both parliaments or representative Scottish MSPs coming to Westminster only when key defence or foreign affairs votes need to take place.

The push comes as Buckingham palace has also been drawn into the affair over his use of a logo similar to parliament's famous portcullis emblem..

The reports, which are tabled in federal Parliament, analyse the major changes and challenges in Indigenous affairs over the past year.