Woodward: No Stormont suspension
BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Northern Ireland Secretary Shaun Woodward rules out suspending the assembly if political problems cannot be fixed by the New Year.
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Shaun Woodward 'confident' on Northern Ireland policing handover
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Shaun Woodward, the Northern Ireland Secretary, said he remained ''confident'' that a deal would be reached on the handover of policing and justice powers to the Stormont executive.
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Woodward confident of policing deal
Belfast Telegraph (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Northern Ireland Secretary Shaun Woodward said he remained "confident" that a deal would be reached on the handover of policing and justice powers to the Stormont executive.
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Sinn Fein voters 'want action' on policing
SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
BBC If the Sinn Fein deadline for the the devolution of policing is not met the party may not return to Stormont in the new year, a Sinn Fein MLA has said . Francie Brolly, who retires this week, said their voters wanted to see action. Last week Martin McGuinness said if Sinn Fein and the DUP did not resolve differences before Christmas, power-sharing could become unsustainable. On Tuesday, Shaun...
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NI Secretary rules out Stormont suspension
Politics.ie (Free subscription) | yesterday
Northern Ireland Secretary of State Shaun Woodward has ruled out suspending the NI Assembly if the current problems cannot be sorted out by the New...
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“ultimately this must be a matter for them”
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | yesterday
Northern Ireland Secretary of State, Shaun Woodward, MP, after meeting with Irish Foreign Minister Micheál Martin in Dublin, tries again to defuse the perplexing rhetoric around the issue of the devolution of policing and justice powers. From the BBC report Mr Woodward and Irish Foreign Minister Micheal Martin discussed the current hiatus in Stormont politics in Dublin....
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A dramatic end to Morgan's tenure
The Half-Blood Welshman (Free subscription) | yesterday
... are seldom popular. Look at Churchill (the most hated man in politics between 1904 and 1941) Shaun Woodward, Emily Davidson, and above all, in the assembly, Alun Davies - a treacherous, toadying man who will say anything and do anything to grab power and hold it (and believe me, I have met him and I am being generous). There are several implications. First off, with this loss, Plaid...
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Letters: It's toff at the top
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
... Under School), Ed Balls (Nottingham High school), Tessa Jowell (St Margaret's School for Girls), Shaun Woodward (Bristol Grammar), Jack Straw (Brentwood), and Douglas Alexander (United World College). A case of pots and kettles. Stephen Cullen Warwick • Your joint editorial (7 December) attributes "splitting the atom" to "conflict and competition". The atom...
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Privately Educated Labour Comrades
Old Holborn (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
... Wicks (Croydon North) # Michael Wills (Swindon North) # Rosie Winterton (Doncaster Central) # Shaun Woodward (St Helens South) Grammar School Educated Labour Comrades * Diane Abbott (Hackney North and Stoke Newington) * Nick Ainger (Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire) * Graham Allen (Nottingham North) * David Anderson (Blaydon) * Janet Anderson (Rossendale and Darwen) * Hilary...
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The Cabinet of the Few?
Dizzy Thinks (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
... attending Holland Park School, comprehensive school known as the "Socialist Eton". Shaun Woodward - Educated at private fee paying Brisitol Grammar School Peter Hain - Educated private fee paying Emanuel School, Battersea, London Does being lucky enough to go a private fee paying school really matter? And before anyone asks, I did go to Eton for three days along with 120...
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McGuinness warns of NI police crisis
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Ulster secretary Shaun Woodward says he remains confident a deal over justice powers can be reached The Northern Ireland secretary, Shaun Woodward, said today that he remained confident a deal would be reached on the handover of policing and justice powers to the Stormont executive. Martin McGuinness, the deputy first minister at Stormont, has warned that the province is...
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Minister 'confident' of policing deal
ireland.com (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Northern Ireland Secretary Shaun Woodward said today he remained “confident” that a deal would be reached on the handover of policing and justice powers to the Stormont executive.
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Class War Labour Vs Tories
Green Reading - Adrian Windisch (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
... Oxford; Ed Miliband: Corpus Christi, Oxford; Andrew Burnham: Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge; Shaun Woodward; Harvard; Tessa Jowell: Privately educated; Yvette Cooper: Balliol, Oxford; Peter Hain; Privately educated; Andrew Adonis; Keble, Oxford The exception is Alan Johnson, who had been the first former union leader in four decades to become a Cabinet minister when he was given the...
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Bercow: they wouldn't - would they?
Blaney's Blarney (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
... number of Tories who sympathize with UKIP's Euroscepticism and who loathe Bercow for his shift leftwards in the past decade, Farage stands a good chance of beating Bercow. Imagine the ignominy: Farage takes Buckingham and Bercow goes down as the shortest shortest-lived Speaker in recent history. The Tories then get to appoint a new Speaker who is less hostile to them, who understands Commons...
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Collapsing Stormont
BBC NEWS | The Devenport Diaries (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
... in the St Andrews Agreement Act 2006 to a period of just seven days. The ball then bounces into Shaun Woodward's court, because under the original 1998 Act he has the duty to "propose a date for the poll for the election of the next Assembly". But it's worth noting that nothing in the legislation specifies exactly when that date should be. It's not beyond anyone's imagination...