Sentences with phrase «social security secretary»

Labour has particularly subscribed to this view, with «Old Labour» historically regarding it as a central concern: there was outrage within elements of the party when the then Social Security Secretary Harriet Harman decided to send her son to a grammar school in Orpington in 1997.

Hitchin and Harpenden MP Peter Lilley, who served as social security secretary under John Major, said drugs had «disabled» his colleagues minds.

But two rows behind Callaghan, elegant as always, is the redoubtable Barbara Castle, champion of the new child benefit — it was then only payable to women, not men — and recently sacked as social security secretary by Sunny Jim, an old enemy from their battle over trade union reform.

The former Social Security Secretary, right - winger Peter Lilley, appeared on On The Record on the following Sunday to announce his decision to stand.

Addressing the meeting, social security secretary Harriet Harman faced overwhelming criticism and accusations of hypocrisy for implementing proposals she had personally attacked when they were suggested by the last Tory government in November 1996.

But Lilley is best known by many political observers for an unusual speech he gave to the Tory conference in 1992 when he was social security secretary.