Sentences with phrase «shadow home secretary»

A former home secretary and a former shadow home secretary try to block plans to give prisoners the vote.

Allegations of complicity by British security forces in the torture of Mr Mohamed came to light yesterday when they were presented to MPs by former shadow home secretary David Davis.

The workplace, where you go to work, learn, live, and occasionally love, was in the spotlight this morning at LGBT charity Stonewall's annual Workplace Conference, as shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper gave a frank speech about the overwhelming need for «celebration of diversity» in the workplace.

Mr Corbyn said Mrs May was warned in 2014 about the impact of new immigration rules by shadow home secretary Diane Abbott and former communities secretary Eric Pickles.

The former shadow home secretary said it was «likely» Speaker John Bercow would allow such a motion to be voted on by MPs before the summer recess.

Mr Brown praised the public's response to the terror threats, which had previously been described as heroic by shadow home secretary David Davis.

We also united in supporting the right of gay couples to stay in B&B s, against Tory shadow home secretary Chris Grayling's attack on equality legislation.

The Conservative party under Mr Cameron's stewardship has faced criticism for a lack of genuine policies, and the appointment of shadow home secretary David Davis to lead a new social mobility taskforce will initially do little to change this perception.

The former shadow home secretary told BBC1's Question Time programme he was unhappy with the European court of human rights» (EHR) ruling earlier this week that prisoners should not be disenfranchised.

Nick Brown, Sarah Champion, Jo Stevens, Dawn Butler, Keir Starmer and Jonathan Reynolds are all impressive performers, while the new shadow home secretary Diane Abbott clearly shares Corbyn's liberal (and fundamentally correct) stance on immigration.

David Davis, the former shadow home secretary who quit the Tory frontbench to fight campaigns on civil liberties issues, welcomed news of the review.

«I will remain as shadow home secretary for the time being,» said Burnham.

The British government now has more information on its citizens than the Stasi, former conservative shadow home secretary David Davis said last night.

The latest opinion poll blow for Labour comes after shadow home secretary Diane Abbott predicted yesterday that her party would catch up with the Tories in 2017.

This became apparent under Tony Blair, who had only a spell as shadow home secretary on his CV when he became Labour leader in 1994.

Labour shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has accused Theresa May of breaking the ministerial code, and called on her to explain her conduct.

In a perfect moment of parliamentary scheduling, May's response to an urgent question from shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper came immediately before Michael Gove's statement on Ofsted's report into extremism in schools.

Before lunch delegates loyally applauded shadow home secretary Alan Johnson saying: «You do not demonstrate your commitment to civil liberties by failing to protect the most important civil liberty of all; the right to be safe on our streets.»

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.»

Its proponents, who included shadow home secretary David Davis, said it would have restored the balance between the criminal and the victim, but the government maintained property owners already had sufficient rights.

«The government are kidding themselves if they think ID Cards for foreign nationals will protect against illegal immigration or terrorism - since they don't apply to those coming here for less than three months,» said shadow home secretary Dominic Grieve.

An effective and convincing Commons performer, she excelled in the Foreign Office brief and was rewarded with the more prominent job of shadow home secretary following the reshuffle.

Liberal Democrat shadow home secretary Chris Huhne told Channel 4 News: «I suspect that the document shown to Lord Thomson at that fateful meeting in Cyprus was the document that was signed, the solemn and binding undertaking where he said very clearly that «I will be permanently resident in the UK.»

Mrs May told the House Ms Cooper had called for «much stronger action from government to bring illegal immigration down» while serving as shadow home secretary in 2013.

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

• Supporters of Liz Kendall tried to arrange for her and then shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper to stand aside to give shadow health secretary Andy Burnham a clear run when it became apparent support for Corbyn was surging

However, the speech came just hours after shadow home secretary Andrew Lansley told The Times that a Conservative government would only guarantee «small increases» to the NHS budget in comparison to Labour.

The Tory shadow home secretary, Chris Grayling, went on the Today programme this morning to deny that the Conservatives have been using misleading statistics on violent crime.

Every other shadow cabinet post remains the same, with Diane Abbott expected to return as shadow home secretary when she recovers from illness.

Yesterday shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper told the Labour party conference in Manchester: «Once again it's one rule for the Cabinet, another for the plebs.

I called TB [Tony Blair, then shadow home secretary] who was up in Aberdeen, and said the speculation is going to start straight away.

Shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan, whose criticism of Labour ministers» overenthusiasm for custodial sentences led to a clash with shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper, is among those facing the axe, the Sun newspaper reported.

One source close to Rees claims that apart from Tony Blair, Jack Straw, Peter Mandelson and Alastair Campbell, he also targeted Gaynor Regan, who became the second wife of the foreign secretary Robin Cook; the former shadow home secretary Gerald Kaufman; and the former Tory minister David Mellor.

It wouldn't matter if Grayling wasn't shadow home secretary, which is a job for grown - ups, a brief to be handled carefully by any politician who expects to hold the real job one day.

He had been made shadow home secretary by Edward Heath after the election defeat, but chose to speak largely on economic issues.

LONDON — On April 7, British shadow home secretary Diane Abbott posted a link to a newspaper story on Twitter about increased police stop - and - search activity in the UK.

As well as being a constituency MP, she is also currently shadow home secretary.

And this week, the former shadow home secretary burnished her credentials as the next Labour leader by landing another direct hit on May at Prime Minister's Questions.

Read shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper's speech to the 2011 Labour party conference in Liverpool here.

In 1992, Labour published its Right to Information Bill: shadow home secretary Roy Hattersley promised that it would be the first piece of legislation introduced by a new Labour government.

However, last night shadow home secretary David Davis said that if reports that others knew about the problem were true, «the position of two ministers would be untenable».

«Whilst shadow home secretary, I was the only person in the shadow cabinet - bar one - who opposed them.

One source close to Rees claims that apart from Tony Blair, Jack Straw, Peter Mandelson and Alastair Campbell, he also targeted Gaynor Regan, who became the second wife of the former foreign secretary Robin Cook; the former shadow home secretary Sir Gerald Kaufman; and the former Tory cabinet minister David Mellor.

Grayling campaigned before the 2010 election as shadow home secretary promising to tear up the European Convention on Human Rights and replace it with a British Bill of Rights — a move strongly opposed by the Liberal Democrats.

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 move was recommended by the security and intelligence committee two months ago, and today shadow home secretary David Davis said it was an «eminently sensible idea that will increase public confidence and public vigilance».

Conservative Chris Grayling, who was shadow home secretary until the general election, will serve under Iain Duncan Smith at Work and Pensions.