Sentences with phrase «shadow home secretary david»

Former shadow Home Secretary David Davis has given an interview to tomorrow's New Statesman in which he reveals how desperately David Cameron tried to stop him from resigning his seat (and frontbench post) to fight that by - election in Haltemprice and Howden earlier in the summer.

Former shadow home secretary David Davis was Kirsty Young's castaway on Desert Island Discs on Radio 4 this morning.

He worked with future shadow home secretary David Davis on the team briefing John Major for Prime Minister's Questions, and also hooked up with George Osborne, who would go on to be his chancellor and closest political ally.

The Conservatives voted against the bill after shadow home secretary David Davis criticised it as a step towards more centralised government control.

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.

However, former shadow home secretary David Davis recently criticised the abolition of grammar schools for creating a «dominance» of public school boys in top jobs which had «handicapped the intellectual capacity of the country».

«When the government describes someone as being under close supervision the public has a right to believe that its safety will be protected - this is clearly not true,» said shadow home secretary David Davis.

«That's the sort of thing we would see in Tripoli, not London,» former shadow home secretary David Davis complained.

However, shadow home secretary David Davis said the figures raised questions about the government's assessment of offenders for release in the first place, arguing they showed a «serious failure» by ministers to protect the public.

The proposal has also attracted sharp criticism from the Tory libertarian right, with the former shadow home secretary David Davis calling it an «unnecessary extension of the ability of the state to snoop on ordinary people».

But shadow home secretary David Davis - who has led Conservative calls for a separate national security minister - has expressed doubts about the proposed split, warning that a break - up of the department could lead to «a whole new set of problems».

«This is a shocking revelation given Tony Blair's insistence that this group should be proscribed and after illegal immigrant workers were discovered working in the Home Office,» said shadow home secretary David Davis.

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».

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.

However, shadow home secretary David Davis said his attitude to the rise in robbery and violent crime showed a «staggering complacency towards public safety».

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.

But shadow home secretary David Davis said today: «Far from fixing the problems that stop the Home Office protecting the public, under John Reid's regime they are only discovered by accident.»

Freed inmates from three hospitals in Berkshire, Nottinghamshire and Merseyside are at the centre of the controversy, which has led to further criticism from shadow home secretary David Davis, who described the matter as one of «serious risk to the public».

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.

But shadow home secretary David Davis warned that the revelation - which comes six years after the problem was first raised with the DWP - showed a «massive administration failure».

Tory deputy chairman Bernard Jenkin, shadow home secretary David Davis and Theresa Villiers, the shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, are all members of the group.

The shadow education secretary took 134,446 of the nearly 190,000 ballots cast, with his rival, shadow home secretary David Davis, winning just 64,398 votes.

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.

In response to the reports regarding the attendants» background, shadow home secretary David Davis wrote to home secretary Jacqui Smith earlier this month.

The document is published by the No Turning Back group, whose members include 50 Tory MPs, including shadow home secretary David Davis and shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, Theresa Villiers.

Following Mr Blair's dismissal, the shadow home secretary David Davis has asked the cabinet secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell to launch a formal inquiry.

His comments provoked outrage from the Conservatives, and shadow home secretary David Davis said it looked like «deliberate negligence on the part of the Home Office».

«The figures in this report contrast sharply with what the government claim and betray a chronic deficit of information on immigration,» said shadow home secretary David Davis.

Commenting earlier on the plans, shadow home secretary David Davies said: «This sounds like a break through.

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

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 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.

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».

The English Democrats fielded a candidate, Joanne Robinson, in the by - election caused by the resignation of former shadow home secretary David Davis from the House of Commons.

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.

The serial rebel said he would support former shadow home secretary David Davis» resignation in protest at the government's planned 42 - day detention for terrorism suspects.

Ms Chakrabarti was joined outside parliament by shadow home secretary David Davies and Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman Chris Huhne.

Commenting on the chief constable's claims, shadow home secretary David Davis accused the government of failing «to get a grip» on gun crime.

Not exact matches

David Davis would still be the shadow home secretary had he not indulged in the futile exercise of the by - election, a non-event.

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.

«If David Cameron is really serious about protecting our children he should stop blocking compulsory sex and relationship education in our schools which could teach all our children zero tolerance of violence in relationships and greater resilience against online abuse,» shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said.

The shadow home secretary told reporters ahead of the last of 11 hustings between him and rival David Cameron: «Don't write me off yet.»

* David Davis, the former shadow home secretary, spent more than # 10,000 of taxpayers» money on home renovations and furnishings, including a new # 5,700 portico at his home in Yorkshire.

David Davis is MP for Haltemprice and Howden and a former shadow home secretary.

Galley had been introduced to Green by his then boss, the shadow home secretary, David Davis, whom he had approached saying he was a committed Conservative and was willing to leak material.

While familiar faces, such as Farage, David Davis, the former shadow home secretary, and George Galloway, the Respect party MP, have taken the limelight at GO rallies, Banks has been doing the heavy lifting back at his Bristol offices.

David Davis, the former shadow home secretary and Grassroots Out spokesman, said the French claims were «more like bluster than a real threat».

David Davis, the shadow home secretary, later said he had contacted the prime minister in December last year regarding the alleged bugging, though he did not name the MP involved.

«David Davis [the former shadow Home Secretary] would be absolutely the right man at this time as shadow Chancellor.

Some in the party - especially members of the David Davis and Dominic Grieve fan clubs - have privately expressed concerns about whether the recently - appointed shadow home secretary, Chris Grayling, shares his predecessors» commitment to civil liberties.