The Party Blog (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
Full coverage of UK Politics With the hiring of Derek "Deggsy" Draper as an unpaid consultant, is Labour's new general secretary, Ray Collins, quietly trying to reform the group which propelled New Labour to power back in 1997? Draper, a loquacious Manc who went on to become a psychotherapist, was at the...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
"We are committed to running a successful football club and have already commenced a schedule of improvements to maintain the ground to a high standard," said director Ray Collins in a statement.
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
... time with the DVD set. Headlined by an all-star cast that includes Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Ray Collins, Dennis Weaver, Akim Tamiroff and Welles along with memorable appearances by Mercedes McCambridge, Zsa Zza Gabor, and Marlene Dietrich, "Touch of Evil" is the dark cinematic portrait of an intricate criminal plot that combines in lurid and fascinating detail, a kidnapping, betrayal,...
Daily Express (Free subscription) | 08/03/2008
... to his leadership before the annual party conference in Manchester. Labour’s new general secretary Ray Collins has been contacted by several Labour MPs asking about the process for nominating a new leader. An obscure rule-book clause allows for one fifth of the parliamentary Labour Party to spark a leadership challenge.It states: “Where there is no vacancy, nominations shall be sought each...
Peter Kenyon (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
One simple device open to Gordon Brown to spike the plotters' guns would be to ask the new General Secretary Ray Collins to circulate nomination papers to Labour Party CLPs and affiliated unions and socialist societies ahead of Conference 2008 in accordance with Party Rules. This would i) re-assert Brown's moral compass ii) draw a line under central command and control introduced by the Blairites...
Labourhome (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
One simple (and dare I say elegant, democratic) device open to Gordon Brown to silence the plotters would be to ask the new General Secretary Ray Collins to circulate nomination papers for Leader/Deputy to Labour Party CLPs and affiliated unions and socialist societies ahead of Conference 2008 in accordance with Party Rules. This would i) re-assert Brown's moral compass ii) draw a line under...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
... chairmen wanted any action to be taken against Lady Vadera they should make a formal complaint to Ray Collins the newly appointed General Secretary to the Labour Party. Labour Party sources conceded that Miss Harman had been approached about the conduct of Lady Vadera. A spokesman said that the formal complaints process had not yet been invoked. "No formal complaint has been received by...
David Llewellyn (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Full coverage of UK Politics The news this week that Labour's new general secretary, Ray Collins, is taking on Derek Draper as a part-time adviser came as something of a surprise. Revealing in a New Statesman article in 2004 that he was setting up a psychotherapy practice, Draper - who had been embroiled in the 1998 "Cash for Access" affair - wrote: "If I make a success of it and build a stable...
Not a sheep (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
I see in The Guardian that "Derek Draper, the former New Labour lobbyist who became a psychotherapist, is to be the first appointment by Labour's general secretary, Ray Collins, to help revive the party's fortunes. Draper, whose psychotherapy website describes him as "experienced at treating emotional and psychological issues including: self-esteem, personal development, depression, anxiety,...
Peter Kenyon (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
... of the Labour Party, I want to see a copy too - now. All that the new General Secretary-designate Ray Collins has to do before he goes on...
