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Wolverhampton Liberal Democrats (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Recently at Prime Minister's Question Time Liberal Democrat Leader Nick Clegg challenged Gordon Brown over Labour's record on the environment.
Isle of Wight - WightBlog.co.uk (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Andrew Turner, the Island’s MP, has raised the cost of guarding prisoners whilst they receive healthcare outside the prison at Prime Minister’s Question time this week. Responsibility and the budget for paying for escorts (for out-patient prisoners) and bed-watchers (for in-patient prisoners) transferred to the NHS from the prison service last April. Figures from the [...]...
Flying Aqua Badger (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
12:01 - More fallen in Afghanistan. This time to a police turncoat, undermining the strategy in the war. Good on the Speaker; Stopping Gordon Brown from going off topic on the NHS trying to refer to an comment from the shadow health secretary. 12:06 - Very subdued opening brace of questions from the leader of the opposition, David Cameron. Playing into the Prime Minister's hands...
mutations of mortality (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
Never complain; never explain; never apologise. The words are variously attributed to Neville Chamberlain, John Wayne and Benjamin Disraeli. But someone who should perhaps have taken them to heart is our esteemed Prime Minister, Gordon Brown. We have learnt that Gordon Brown takes it on himself to hand-write a personal letter to the relatives bereaved by a soldier's death in Afghanistan. One...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Six places to be reserved for serving members of the armed forces during prime minister's questions or any other parliamentary debate Serving members of the armed forces will be given priority when the Commons allocates places in the public gallery for prime minister's questions, John Bercow said today. The Speaker told MPs that up to six places in the public gallery would...
Panarmenian (Free subscription) | yesterday
... and crimes against humanity in the western region of Darfur.Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish prime minister, questioned the charges against al-Bashir and said that "no Muslim could perpetrate a genocide", according to Turkey's Anatolia news agency. "If there was such a thing [genocide], we could talk about it face to face with President Bashir."
Examiner (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Prime Minister Gordon Brown warned Afghanistan's government on Friday to take action against corruption, saying he would not risk more British lives there unless it reforms.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Prime Minister Mr Mizengo Pinda has told the opposition Civic United Front (CUF) to go to court if the party sincerely believes that the decision by the National Electoral Commission (NEC) to destroy obsolete voter registration cards was against the law.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
... was sacked, Gordon Brown is the latest member of government to try to explain the inexplicable. In prime minister's questions yesterday he said: "The issue was not the ability of the committee to give advice or the expertise of the members. The issue is that once ministers have had to decide a position … it does not make sense to send out mixed messages to the whole of...
Boulton (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
I know very little about Sir Ian Kennedy. But I can confirm that he is to chair the new Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority. That's the body that in future will police MPs' expenses, replacing the discredited Commons Fees Office. And I predict we're going to hear a lot about IPSA and Sir Ian. His appointment will, I'm told, either be announced by Gordon Brown at Prime Minister's Questions...
Paul Flynn - Read My Day (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
In was act of great generosity the Speaker who called me again today at Prime Minister's Questions. That's twice in a fortnight when twice a year is a good average. The reason was today's murder of five brave British soldiers...
trading as wdr (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
These are tense times in most media organisations. The very act of summoning staff to a short-notice briefing raises anxiety about redundancies, pay cuts, strategic-shifts-of-direction-that-may leave-you-behind-etc. So there was a mixture of relief and mild irritation when Sky News hacks were pulled together this week (in the lull of Prime Minister's Question Time) to find the focus of...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
... and mentoring programme is "essential" – a word he used more than once during prime minister's question time and one echoed by the defence secretary, Bob Ainsworth. It was "essential", Brown added, so that British and other foreign troops were not seen as an "occupying army", and that "one day [Afghan forces] can take responsibility for the...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
... them for burial in holes in the ground or under the ocean. Bright and breezy in his first prime minister's question time of the new term, Brown last month sounded tough on coal. Katy Clark, MP for North Ayrshire - where there are plans for a new coal power station at Hunterston - asked him whether the government would insist on the plant capturing its carbon emissions. He replied:...
Talk about Newsnight (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
"Cast-iron guarantee" was the phrase of the day at Prime Minister's Questions today as Gordon Brown and Labour MPs taunted the Tories on their pledge to hold a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty. The trouble is that Brown calls it "iron cast" and pronounces "iron" in a rather strange way, with two syllables rather than one. Still, we can expect Labour researchers...
