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Martin slates 'tit-for-tat' complaints about MPs' expenses
Glasgow :: United Kingdom | 2 days ago
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Commons Speaker Michael Martin spoke for the first time last night about the expenses row that cost him his job...The peer, who was forced out of office by MPs over his handling of the expenses scandal, was speaking during a Lords debate on a new code...
Tags: Michael Martin (philosopher), United Kingdom, Glasgow, Parliament of the United Kingdom, Michael Martin Baron Martin of Springburn, United Kingdom Parliamentary expenses scandal, Glasgow North East, Heather Brooke, John Bercow, Freedom of information legislation, Political scandals in the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the United Kingdom, Speaker of the British House of Commons, Glasgow North East by-election, House of Lords
Sacks makes 1st House of Lords speech
London :: United Kingdom | 4 days ago
Credibility In his maiden speech in the House of Lords on Thursday, Britain's Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks paid homage to Britain and said it was a sense of indebtedness to the country that drives Jews to make the vast contribution they make to society. "It took...
Tags: Muslim Council of Britain, House of Lords, chief rabbi, United Kingdom, London, Daud Abdullah, Jonathan Sacks, Judaism, Religion Belief
Lord Mandelson in conflict of interest row over oligarch
Moscow :: Russia | 4 days ago
Credibility Lord Mandelson was under pressure yesterday when it emerged that his close friendship with one of Russia's richest men – the oligarch Oleg Deripaska – has prompted accusations of a conflict of interest. The row centred on calls for a fresh investigation...
Tags: Russia, Moscow, Alisher Usmanov, Life peers, Peter Mandelson, Business Finance, Douglas Hurd, United Company RUSAL, Altimo, Mikhail Fridman, Nathaniel Philip Rothschild, House of Lords, Alexander Lebedev, Lebedev, Oleg Deripaska, European Commissioner for Trade, Political scandals in the United Kingdom, Alfa Group
Preneet Kaur conferred 'Sikh of the year' 2009 award
London :: United Kingdom | 6 days ago
Credibility Lord Sheikh told Kaur, "You are a worthy recipient of this award for your outstanding contribution to Punjab." Accepting the award, Kaur said though she had the good fortune of receiving several honorary degrees and awards in the past, "there can be nothing...
Tags: Preneet Kaur, Describing India, House of Lords, NRI, United Kingdom, London, Kaur, Singh, Sikh, Sikhism, Ranjit Singh, Sikh names
Pay rise for peers – no receipts required
London :: United Kingdom | 6 days ago
Credibility Peers are in line to receive a pay rise in return for accepting a series of reforms to their discredited expenses system. Members of the House of Lords will be paid £200 for every day they attend the chamber, up from the current £161.50, under changes...
Tags: House of Lords, pay rise, United Kingdom, London, MSPs' Salaries Expenses and Allowances, Parliament of the United Kingdom, Peerage, Money, Politics, Labor, British society, Per diem, Allowance, Political scandals in the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the United Kingdom, Welfare, Member of Parliament
Sugar promises to be 'blunt' as he makes Lords debut
Bangkok :: Thailand | 7 days ago
Credibility Recently ennobled by Gordon Brown and installed as an "enterprise tsar", he said he was "passionate" about helping small companies and entrepreneurs. But the peer, famed for his direct comments on BBC One's The Apprentice, said he would not "always be...
Tags: Thailand, Bangkok, Alan Sugar, House of Lords, The Apprentice, Life peers, Peter Mandelson, The Apprentice UK, Enterprise Champion, Political scandals in the United Kingdom, Entertainment Culture
Scottish notes would have been worthless if bank had collapsed
Oldham :: United Kingdom | 8 days ago
Credibility A little-known banking regulation rubber-stamped by the House of Lords has finally given Scottish notes the same legal protection as English money...Royal Bank of Scotland came close to collapse during last year's banking crisis, raising the prospect...
Tags: scottish note, scottish banknotes, House of Lords, Royal Bank of Scotland, United Kingdom, Oldham, Lloyds Banking Group, Clydesdale Bank, Politics, Bank, Royal Bank of Scotland Group, Bank of Scotland, Bank of England, Banknotes of the pound sterling, HBOS
Police pass files on MPs and peers to the CPS
Maidstone :: United Kingdom | 9 days ago
Credibility The prospect of politicians being prosecuted over the scandal of Parliamentary expenses moved a significant step closer yesterday when police files on four MPs and peers were passed to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS). Keir Starmer, the Director of...
Tags: Metropolitan Police Service, CPS, Scotland Yard, consider charges, United Kingdom, Maidstone, Pola Uddin Baroness Uddin, Cash for Honours, House of Commons of the United Kingdom, Jim Devine, David Chaytor, Politics, Political scandals in the United Kingdom, Parliament of the United Kingdom, Fraud, United Kingdom Parliamentary expenses scandal, Crown Prosecution Service, Director of Public Prosecutions, Freedom of information legislation, Law Crime, Prosecutor, Criminal law, Prosecution, Keir Starmer, House of Lords
Belgian beats Blair to EU presidency
Brussels :: Belgium | 13 days ago
Credibility Gordon Brown was instead awarded a consolation prize of a British politician winning a key foreign affairs role instead...Observers pointed out that the post of high representative will have potentially more real powers than the EU presidency, as Baroness...
Tags: europe, baroness ashton of upholland, New EU, allnews, Herman Van Rompuy, prime minister, European Union, Catherine Ashton, Mr Van Rompuy, Baroness Ashton, Belgium, Brussels, Catherine Ashton Baroness Ashton of Upholland, David Miliband, Angela Merkel, Van Rompuy I Government, Belgian government formation, Politics, Labour Party, Gordon Brown, Tony Blair, Bruce Grocott Baron Grocott, Underline, Turkey, Egemen Baￄﾟￄﾱￅﾟ, Bageis, Peter Mandelson, European Council, Treaty of Lisbon, Fredrik Reinfeldt, House of Lords, Ashton-under-Lyne
How Ashcroft became the banker to paradise
London :: United Kingdom | 14 days ago
Credibility But the Conservative Party deputy chairman was named in evidence by Mr Misick to a judge investigating the governance of the islands. He said the Lord Ashcroft's bank loaned $5 million to the former Prime Minister...Many people would be hard-pressed to...
Tags: Lord Ashcroft, Caicos Islands, lords ashcroft, Turks, United Kingdom, London, Michael Ashcroft Baron Ashcroft, Michael Misick, House of Lords, Outline of the Turks and Caicos Islands, Chief Ministers of the Turks and Caicos Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands, Premiers of the Turks and Caicos Islands, Politics, Belize Bank, Providenciales, LisaRaye McCoy-Misick
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