ConservativeHome's ToryDiary (Free subscription) | yesterday
Tonight's panel: Health Secretary Alan Johnson, Alan Duncan, Plaid Cymru's spokesperson for health and social services in the Welsh Assembly Helen Mary Jones, broadcaster and journalist Lauren Booth and businessman Simon Woodroffe.
Guerrilla Welsh-Fare (Free subscription) | yesterday
... guise of Plaid's Helen Mary Jones AM. She will be joined by Laura Booth (Cherie Blair’s sister), Alan Johnson MP, Alan Duncan MP and Yo Sushi! Founder Simon Woodroffe. I am sure there will be the token Welsh question but with Laura Booth on the panel and Cherie’s book attacking Brown it will no doubt make for interesting viewing.
BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Other shadow cabinet members whose offices received money were: shadow chancellor George Osborne; shadow foreign secretary William Hague; shadow schools secretary Michael Gove; shadow business secretary Alan Duncan; shadow culture secretary Jeremy Hunt; shadow transport secretary Theresa Villiers; and shadow cabinet office minister Francis Maude.
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | yesterday
... but called for more random police stops to increase the fear of getting caught. Superintendent Alan Duncan, of Lothian and Borders Police's road policing unit, said: "The statistics show a downward trend and that is to be welcomed. We would hope the majority of people are heeding the message when it comes to drink-driving."Some of our big successes have been during our festive roadside...
Sify (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
... Johnson described Ranger, who has also been an adviser to Tory trade and industry spokesperson Alan Duncan, as a man who "has a reputation as a terrific motivator and a leader with ceaseless energy". Ranger, who has been a political commentator on British television, says: "I'm Sikh, I wear a turban and it could be to my disadvantage or advantage. Being an Asian and breaking barriers...
Quaequam Blog! (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
... quashed by the scientific evidence. 20 week fever appears to have gripped the Conservative Party. Alan Duncan was raving about it on Any Questions despite seeming unclear about what the current limit actually is (which rather suggests he hasn't done the slightest bit of research into the subject). It has been dressed up as the safe, reasonable, responsible thing for right-minded Conservatives...
Benedict Brogan's political blog (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
More briefing from the great Pickles , who turned up outside Tory HQ sporting what looked to be a panama short of a white slaver's outfit, all cream safari cotton and a glint of danger in the eye. He had 25 Tory MPs to deploy around the seat. The entire Shadow Cabinet has been up, more than once. I saw Alan Duncan there, and Stephen O'Brien, another by-election victor, joined the walkabout....
Greater London Authority news (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
... Link. Kulveer has been an advisor to Shadow Secretary of State for the Dept of Trade & Industry, Alan Duncan MP, and is currently Vice-Chairman of the Conservative Party.MEDIA ENQUIRIESCall Matt Brown at the Mayor’s Press Office on 020 7983 4716 or email (details not for publication).GENERAL PUBLIC/NON-MEDIA ENQUIRIES: Call the Public Liaison Unit at the Greater London Authority on...
The Twydall Tory (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
Cllr Rehman Chishti, Alan Duncan MP and Alan Collins at the Gillingham and Rainham Conservatives’ dinner Alan Duncan MP, the Conservative Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, was the guest speaker at a Gillingham Conservatives Association dinner last Thursday, May 8. Mr Duncan, who appeared on Have I Got News For You last...
Iain Dale's Diary (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Each month Julian Nicholson and I compile a list of the best media performers in the Shadow Cabinet using mentions on Lexis Nexis as the index. April 1 - David Cameron 1542 2 1 George Osborne 371 3 2 David Davis 208 4 - William Hague 157 5 -3 Owen Paterson 101 6 - Alan Duncan 95 7 8 Peter Ainsworth 87 8 - Michael Gove 77 9 3 Liam Fox 71 10 - Nick Herbert 68 11 2 Eric Pickles 63 12 2 Theresa...
Crewe blog (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Otherwise engaged with the Lib Dems over at the station end of town, I couldn't get over to see Edward Timpson's ( Conservative ) visit to Coppenhall this morning. He and Alan Duncan ( shadow business secretary ) were over at the North Street Post Office ( near the Cross Keys roundabout ) highlighting the need to retain these local outlets. It's a valid cause that many feel passionate...
Financial Time (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
John Hutton, business secretary, has rejected calls to set out his policy on the sale by emphasising that British Energy is a publicly listed company. Alan Duncan, the shadow business secretary, on Wednesday lambasted this “dismissive [and] rather cavalier” explanation for refusing to comment on a sale of crucial importance to the energy sector, where the government exercised an effective...
The Twydall Tory (Free subscription) | 05/05/2008
The Conservative Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, Alan Duncan MP, appeared on Have I Got News For You on Friday night. Mr Duncan, who will be the guest speaker at a Gillingham and Rainham Conservatives dinner this Thursday, made his third appearance on the hit topical quiz show, alongside guest host [...]
Daily Star (Free subscription) | 05/05/2008
... in the best of times but what happens when things are difficult.”But shadow business secretary Alan Duncan said Mr Brown was a “spent force”.And Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman Chris Huhne said Labour was “in turmoil”.
The Filter^ (Free subscription) | 05/04/2008
I know it's easy for a non-partisan pundit to point score, but now that we've got television again I watched a couple of interviews with Gordon Brown this morning (firstly with Andrew Marr, then with Adam Boulton). I also saw interviews with Alan Duncan and Chris Hughn. What i'd really like is to meet someone who (a) isn't a libertarian; and (b) intelligent enough to realise that Labour,...
