WELCOME TO POLITICS GUS; If So Many Scottish Labour MPs Are Fit for the Job How Come Only One Has Ever Run a Successful Business.Mohammed Sarwar?Gus MacDonald was British TV's first viewers' ombudsman, the on-screen champion of fairness and impartiality.Brown, Tom...
Labour have a commanding poll lead at the momentso it is viewed as a remote possibility that we will see a coalition government after the election. But if the unlikely did come to pass, theScottish National Party (SNP)and the Liberal Democrats would both likely be in a posi...
disciplinary procedures while Labour set up an independent inquiry. The same strand of scandal also spread to the Liberal Democrats and to the Scottish Parliament. Elsewhere in Parliament, a series of high-profile figures were accused of bullying, including the Speaker John Bercow and Labour MP ...
Scottish SecretaryConservative Kim Howells2008-2010Minister for Foreign Affairs* Higher Education Minister Transport MinisterLabour Margaret BeckettJan-Oct 2008Foreign Secretary* Environment Secretary Leader of the Commons President of the Board of TradeLabour ...
They have to stop this Lynn or the Scottish will think they can have both and the EU have already insisted on borders. These borders mean they can no longer have both. a-tracy January 1, 2021 By the way, are we all allowed to be Irish if the Southern Irish are all still British to...
Had the government got rid of Theresa May when we said it might have been different, but not now. Keeping her in office has angered so many people, and trying to stitch the country up by doing a deal with Labour has made it ten times worse. ...
Since the guest workers programme (Gastarbeiter programm), which was devised to supply the country’s much-needed labour force, Germany experienced many flows of immigrants and refugees and the political tensions emanating from immigration (Downs2011). From the beginning, the SPD was in a positio...
as Keir Starmer currently does. The NEC comprises elected representatives from the party’s various power bases (the leader, the deputy leader, the trade unions, the Parliamentary Labour party, the membership, local councillors, Welsh Labour and Scottish Labour), plus...
Michael Gove, a Scottish fresher in 1985, told Johnson’s biographer Andrew Gimson: “The first time I saw him was in the Union bar . . . He seemed like a kindly, Oxford character, but he was really there like a great basking shark waiting for freshers to swim towards him.”...
“Nobody in government knew anything about it until it was laid,” she told the Financial Times. Jenrick and his allies seized on the idea and immediately threw their weight behind it. Crucially, the opposition Labour party indicated this month it would also go along with it. “We don’t ...