The Independent (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
John Sentamu, the Archbishop of York, says that your handling of immigration has been immature and unmerciful. How do you feel about being criticised by such a respected moral leader?
Vino's Political Blog (Free subscription) | 11/28/2008
Shiraz Socialist has an article up on Phil Woolas . He has made some remarkably anti-immigrant points and seems to fail to understand the need for an immigration appeals process to ensure that people get a fair hearing and that official errors can be corrected.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 11/28/2008
Phil Woolas rejects criticism from the Archbishop of York about recent comments on immigration and asylum.
Coventry Green Voice (Free subscription) | 11/28/2008
John Sentamu, the Archbishop of York , talking about Phil Woolas and his remarks on immigration: "For any honourable member to suggest that someone who has made out reasonable grounds, and has succeeded in their appeal under the due process of law 'has no right to be in this country' is a worrying development ... May I be forgiven for suggesting that the honourable member in question...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 11/27/2008
The Archbishop of York criticises "unmerciful" immigration policies and outspoken minister Phil Woolas.
Shiraz Socialist (Free subscription) | 11/27/2008
... sent to die of scurvy in Arctic lumber camps: this is called elimination of unreliable elements . Phil Woolas is the kind of politician who is routinely described as ‘brave’ and ‘outspoken’. But as Orwell might point out, these words have different meanings in the language of the political class than they do in general usage. For example, ‘outspoken’ in political language means ‘Someone...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
The Archbishop of York is to launch a blistering attack on Britain's beleaguered immigration minister accusing him of making dangerous and inaccurate claims.
Christian Today (Free subscription) | 11/29/2008
The GeneralSecretary of the Council of Zimbabwean Christian Leaders in the UK has accused the British government of irresponsible denial and said Minister Phil Woolas is devoid of empathy
Benedict Brogan's political blog (Free subscription) | 11/28/2008
I hope Gordon Brown heard Phil Woolas on Today digging a deep hole for Labour and the Government. He kept repeating that the "charge" was "conspiracy bla bla" until Ed Stourton gently pointed out that Damian Green has not in...
rhetorically speaking.. (Free subscription) | 11/28/2008
There's something odd about this morning's Today programme interview between John Humphries and Phil Woolas, about the arrest of shadow Home Office minister Damian Green. Woolas repeatedly returns to the phrasing of the charges - "suspicion of conspiracy to commit misconduct in a public office" and "aiding and abetting, counselling or procuring misconduct in a public office." He...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 11/28/2008
The Archbishop of York Dr John Sentamu has branded immigration minister Phil Woolas "unmerciful" and accused him of seeking popularity over comments he made condemning immigration lawyers.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/29/2008
Bottled water. We all hate it now, don't we? Few products can rival its spectacular fall from grace. Government ministers rail against it ("morally unacceptable" in the pleasingly direct words of the environment minister, Phil Woolas) and shoppers no longer think it is fashionable.
Not a sheep (Free subscription) | 11/28/2008
Phil Woolas was on the Today programme defending the Labour government line that the government were not aware that Damian Green had been arrested. I am sorry but I do not believe it, I cannot see the Metropolitan police arresting an opposition minister on a charge resulting from an investigation launched on the instructions of the government without giving some feedback to the Home Office...
mutantBlog (Free subscription) | 11/27/2008
In his recent tirade against asylum-seekers and their advocates Phil Woolas was keen to point out that the primary purpose of the government’s immigration policy was to “reassure the public that the government is in control of immigration”. As I pointed out at the time this would indicate to me that its priorities are rather [...]
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | yesterday
... "rivers of blood" - not with a straight face, anyway. His opposite number in the Government, Phil Woolas, is much scarier. The arrest has turned Mr Green into the Andrew Sachs of politics, with Sir Paul Stephenson, the acting Commissioner of the Met, and Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, as the Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross of the saga. The public don't like radio presenters who...
