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| | Shadow Cabinet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | A Labour Prime Minister is obliged to appoint members of the Shadow Cabinet to the first Cabinet formed by him after a General Election. | | | Members of a shadow cabinet are often but not always appointed to a Cabinet post if and when their party gets into government. | | | A Conservative Leader of the Opposition in contrast has complete freedom of appointment both to the Shadow Cabinet and any Cabinet formed in power. |
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| | BBC News UK POLITICS Tory admission sparks dope debate |
| | Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy calls for the decriminalisation of cannabis after seven senior Tories admit having smoked the drug. | | | Shadow foreign secretary Francis Maude and Lords leader Lord Strathclyde were also among those who have admitted using the illegal drug. | | | The other frontbenchers who admitted trying cannabis were shadow transport minister Bernard Jenkin, shadow social security secretary David Willetts, shadow environment secretary Archie Norman and shadow chief secretary to the treasury Oliver Letwin. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk_politics/newsid_961000/961807.stm
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| | BIGpedia - Charles Kennedy - Encyclopedia and Dictionary Online |
| | The Right Honourable Charles Peter Kennedy (born November 25, 1959) is a British politician and Member of Parliament, who has been leader of the Liberal Democrats (the third largest political party in the United Kingdom) since 1999. | | | On August 9, 1999 he was elected leader of the Liberal Democrats after the retirement of Paddy Ashdown. | | | While at university he was elected president of Glasgow University Union and won the British Observer Mace university debating award. |
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http://www.bigpedia.com/encyclopedia/Charles_Kennedy
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| | From The Guardian Monday May 27th |
| | The Liberal Democrats are confident they will unseat a string of senior Conservatives, including shadow cabinet ministers and the party's chief executive, in next month's election as they seek to replace the Tories as the only effective opposition to Labour. | | | Mr Heathcoat-Amory, defending a 528 majority in Wells, and the shadow leader of the house, Angela Browning, who held Tiverton and Honiton in 1997 by 1,653 votes, are also likely to fall, Liberal Democrat strategists forecast. | | | But they believe they can unseat shadow Mr Letwin, whose "disappearance" early in the campaign amid a tax row, coupled with the singer Billy Bragg's encouragement of tactical voting, could help overturn his 1,840 majority in Dorset West. |
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http://www.perkins24.fsnet.co.uk/libweb/targets.htm
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| | Liberal Democrat Shadow Ministers |
| | The leader of each departmental team is a member of the Liberal Democrat Shadow Cabinet. | | | Shadow Leader of the House – Paul Tyler MP* | | | Click here for biographies and contact details for Liberal Democrat Peers |
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| | Shadow Cabinet |
| | The Shadow Cabinet (also called the Opposition Front Bench) is a senior group of opposition in the Westminster System of government who together under the of the Leader of the Opposition (or the leader of other smaller parties) form an alternative cabinet to the whose members shadow or mark each individual member of government. | | | Members of a shadow cabinet are but not always appointed to a Cabinet if and when their party gets into | | | The Shadow Cabinet in British politics, (Library of political studies) |
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http://www.freeglossary.com/Shadow_Cabinet
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| | TAPPED: February 2003 Archives |
| | Angry that they had been barred from the corridors of power by the Democrats for 20 years, Republicans used everything they could to discredit the Roosevelt and Truman administrations, trampling civil liberties along the way. | | | But Tapped would point out that it is also unprecedented for a president to nominate a man who has zero experience as a judge to the second-highest court in the land, and even more unprecedented for a nominee so untested to refuse to answer almost any questions about his views on the law. | | | Via Nathan Newman we learn that would-be (i.e., long-shot) lefty presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich has abandoned his long-time opposition to abortion rights -- the price of running in the Democratic primaries. |
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http://www.prospect.org/weblog/archives/2003/02/index.html
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| | Telegraph News Kennedy predicts election wipeout for shadow cabinet at polls |
| | As the Liberal Democrats modernised, it became ever more likely that they could blow a hole in the shadow cabinet at the next election, throwing out not only Mr Howard from his Folkestone and Hythe seat but also several of his chief lieutenants. | | | Mr Kennedy suggests the Liberal Democrats have at last shed their image as a party of sandal wearers and beards, having taken control of more local councils where practical decisions have to be taken daily. | | | Michael Howard and several members of his shadow cabinet are in danger of losing their seats at the next general election because the Lib-Dems are now the real Opposition on issues such as identity cards, Charles Kennedy claims today. |
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http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/12/28/nlibdem28.xml
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| | A Concise Encyclopedia of the European Union --B-- |
| | Brandt had established his liberal credentials under Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, criticising the ' Hallstein doctrine' of refusing diplomatic relations to states that recognised East Germany. | | | In 1986 Leon Brittan resigned from Margaret Thatcher 's cabinet when a row about the rescue of the helicopter manufacturer Westland blew up into a political storm of which he became the victim. | | | Although Chancellor Kohl 's dominating presence was soon gone and a weak Commission was forced to resign en bloc for maladministration, Blair 's expectations of exercising significant influence in Europe were thwarted by events. |
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http://www.euro-know.org/dictionary/b.html
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| | Liberal Democrat Shadow Cabinet |
| | The Liberal Democrats are the third-largest political party in the United Kingdom, and they have an unofficial team of ministers that acts as a shadow cabinet. | | | Shadow Leader of the House of Commons - Paul Tyler | | | The Liberal Democrat Shadow Cabinet consists of the following: |
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http://www.mcfly.org/wik/Liberal_Democrat_Shadow_Cabinet
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| | Liberal Democrats (UK) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The British first past the post electoral system does not reward parties whose vote is evenly divided across the nation with many seats in Parliament, and the Liberal Democrats and their forerunners have suffered in particular. | | | Paul Tyler, MP, Shadow Leader of the House | | | However, unlike the Conservatives, the Lib Dems have chosen not to contest elections in the province. |
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http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Liberal_Democrats
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| | Matthew Yglesias: Shadow Cabinet |
| | If cabinet positions are decided after elections, they will be chosen on the basis of merit. | | | If cabinet positions are decided before the election, they will be chosen for political advantage. | | | We know the incumbant's cabinet and they are free to campaign on his behalf without restriction. |
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http://yglesias.typepad.com/matthew/2004/07/shadow_cabinet.html
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| | Ludlow Constituency Liberal Democrats :: Working for you all year round |
| | The Liberal Democrats have long argued that dealing outside schools should lead to longer sentences and we welcome this move. | | | It`s not the liberal reforms of the 1960s but the legacy of Thatcher`s 1980s that Blair should be worried about. | | | The decision followed an impassioned debate in the Shadow Cabinet yesterday, which set Michael Howard against David Davis, his Shadow Home Secretary. |
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| | List of Recent News Stories (Tunbridge Wells Liberal Democrats) |
| | Liberal Democrat PPC Laura Murphy met with Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust chiefs recently at the Kent and Sussex Hospital. | | | Laura Murphy, the Liberal Democrat PPC for Tunbridge Wells tried again this week to find a lifeline for the post office in the Morrisons store in Tunbridge Wells. | | | Laura Murphy, Liberal Democrat PPC for Tunbridge Wells met volunteers and workers at a recent Charity Bazaar in St Dunstans hall, Southborough. |
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http://www.tw-libdems.org.uk/recentnews.php
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| | Oxford West and Abingdon Liberal Democrats MP |
| | He acted as an advisor to the Liberal Democrats Health spokesman, Simon Hughes MP during the 1992-1997 Parliament, and when first elected spoke in Simon's health team. | | | Dr Evan Harris has a reputation as a strong campaigner for Oxford West and Abingdon, as part of the strong Liberal Democrat Team of Parish, Town, District and County Councillors | | | This compounded the 18 years of Conservative power during which time pensions fell as the earnings link was done away with. |
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http://www.oxwablibdems.org/evanharris.htm
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| | Cox & Forkum: January 2004 Archives |
| | Former Vice President Hubert Humphrey in 1968 and Carter in 1980 were able to win one Southern state apiece, though in the end they lost to Republicans nationwide. | | | Whether or not Democrats should cede the South for the November 2004 election and focus resources elsewhere has been fiercely debated privately in many Democratic circles. | | | He said he had had "senior members" of his staff who were minorities, but Sharpton cut him off and said he was asking about his Cabinet, which has fewer members. |
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http://www.coxandforkum.com/archives/2004_01.html
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| | Plymouth City Council - Decision Making |
| | Shadow Cabinet Member for Planning Policy and Regeneration | | | Shadow Cabinet Member for Social Services and Health | | | Deputy Leader; Cabinet Member for Social Services and Health |
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| | MLD - Lembit pik MP |
| | Lembit was elected to the Liberal Democrats Federal Executive Committee in 1991, and to Newcastle City Council in 1992. | | | Since August 2000 Lembit pik has promoted the cause of Robert Owen, who was born in 1771 in Newtown and died in 1858 in the town of his birth. | | | He stood in Newcastle Central in the 1992 General Election and in the largely rural seat of Northumbria in the 1994 European Elections. |
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http://www.montgomery.libdems.org/Lembit.htm
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| | Tonge Stands Down From Shadow Cabinet (Richmond Borough Liberal Democrats) |
| | Charles Kennedy, Leader of the Liberal Democrats, paid tribute to Dr Tonge's service as he announced his cabinet re-shuffle: "Jenny has been a fantastic Liberal Democrat Shadow International Development Secretary and a very important member of the Shadow Cabinet. | | | Tonge Stands Down From Shadow Cabinet (Richmond Borough Liberal Democrats) | | | Her decision to stand down from her post reflects the fact that she will be retiring from the Commons at the next General Election." |
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http://www.richmond.libdems.org.uk/news/511.html
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| | Introductions |
| | So justice in the struggle to secure liberty and equality is at the heart of our philosophy. | | | Robert Maclennan, Liberal Democrat Shadow Cabinet Spokesperson on Constitutional Affairs. | | | This is why we advocate not only more police officers but specifically more police officers from black and Asian communities. |
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http://www.ethnic-minority.libdems.org/introductions/introductions.htm
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| | PJ Online News: Additional brief for sole pharmacist MP |
| | Additional brief for sole pharmacist MP Sandra Gidley, the pharmacist Liberal Democrat MP for Romsey, Hampshire, has been given additional responsibilities in a reshuffle of the party's shadow cabinet. | | | Mr Burstow, MP for Sutton and Cheam, has taken on the health brief because Dr Evan Harris (Oxford West and Abingdon) has left the shadow cabinet after his partner was recently found to have cancer. | | | Mrs Gidley has been given the older people’s brief because the previous spokesman, Paul Burstow, has been made Liberal Democrat shadow secretary of state for health. |
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http://www.pharmj.com/Editorial/20031018/news/pharmacistmp.html
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| | Contact Details (Liberal Democrats in Business) |
| | Before his election, Nick was a senior policy adviser in the cabinet of European Commission Vice President Leon Brittan. | | | Nick Clegg was elected as Liberal Democrat MEP for the East Midlands in June 1999. | | | Liberal Democrat Shadow Treasury Minister and Member of the Treasury Select Committee. |
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http://www.libdemsinbusiness.org.uk/contact.php
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| | John Thurso - Member of Parliament for Caithness, Sutherland & Easter Ross |
| | In October 2001 he was appointed to the Liberal Democrat Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland, and in October 2003 he took on the additional role of Shadow Secretary of State for Transport. | | | Following his fathers death in 1995 he took his seat in the House of Lords where he was spokesman on Tourism and later Food. | | | Coming from an old Liberal family (his grandfather was party leader 1935-1945), John has always had a keen interest in politics. |
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| | Guardian Unlimited Politics Special Reports The shadow cabinet |
| | Shadow secretary of state for home, constitutional and legal affairs and shadow home secretary: David Davis MP Shadow attorney general: Dominic Grieve MP | | | Shadow secretary of state for health: Andrew Lansley MP | | | Shadow secretary of state for the family: Theresa May MP |
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http://politics.guardian.co.uk/conservatives/page/0,9067,635175,00.html
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| | Liberal Democrat Watch |
| | The Guardian reports on the Liberal Democrats today appointing a new head of communications. | | | A blast from the past perhaps, but it's worth remembering the 1992 Liberal Democrat manifesto. | | | This year's winner has to be the Edinburgh Liberal Democrats. |
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| | Oxford West and Abingdon Liberal Democrats Info |
| | The Liberal Democrats are also represented by 9 Parish Councillors in Kidlington and 18 Town Councillors in Abingdon. | | | Dr Evan Harris MP has stepped down from the Liberal Democrat Front Benches as Health Spokesman in the recent | | | The Liberal Democrats have 21 County Councillors in total on |
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http://www.oxwablibdems.org/aboutus.htm
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| | Westminster Forum Events |
| | David Arculus Chairman, Better Regulation Task Force, Cabinet Office | | | Sir Richard Wilson KCB, Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Home Civil Service | | | Lord MacDonald of Tradestone, Minister of State at the Cabinet Office |
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| | www.asinah.net Start |
| | The federal and state government is dominated by two political parties, the Republicans and the Democrats. | | | Today she reflects the beauty and grace of a land mixed with an Aboriginal heritage. |
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| | Shadow Cabinet |
| | Knowsley MBCs Liberal Democrat opposition group has appointed a six-strong Shadow Cabinet that reflects its local election manifesto pledge to reduce the level of bureaucracy in the Borough. | | | he size of the Cabinet would represent an immediate saving of almost 50,000 to the Council, while streamlining what the Lib Dems believe to be an organisation top heavy with chiefs. | | | The size of the Shadow Cabinet also reflects our concerns that as an organisation Knowlsey MBC is top heavy with too many Chiefs and not enough Indians. |
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http://www.knowsleylibdems.co.uk/Shadow%20Cabinet.htm
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| | Guardian Unlimited Politics Special Reports Row over Lib Dem reshuffle as Hughes is sidelined |
| | The moves are "disastrous" for the party as it seeks to attract disillusioned Labour voters - they will expose divisions in the run-up to the general election; and constitute a break with 100 years of the Liberals standing for social liberalism as opposed to free marketeering, he said. | | | The Liberal Democrats have been hijacked by a group of media-savvy rightwingers who wield disproportionate influence over Charles Kennedy, one of the party's most senior figures warned yesterday. | | | He will also be in charge of preparing the election manifesto - a responsibility that will reassure those on the left concerned the party will veer to the right under the influence of a mildly Eurosceptic, free marketeering Treasury team. |
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http://politics.guardian.co.uk/libdems/story/0,9061,1062450,00.html
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| | Lib Dem "Big Guns" To Visit Northavon |
| | Three senior Liberal Democrat MPs all members of the partys Shadow Cabinet are to visit Northavon to participate in a variety of events during the Autumn. | | | The first visitor will be Lembit Opik, MP for Montgomeryshire and leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats. | | | Later in the Autumn on Saturday 11th October, Northavon Liberal Democrats will hold their selection meeting to confirm their candidate for Northavon for the next General Election. |
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http://www.stevewebb.org.uk/news2003/news231.html
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| | Sandra Gidley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | She is a Liberal Democrat MP and was elected to her seat in a by-election on | | | She was re-elected in the 2001 general election and is the Liberal Democrats' Shadow Minister for Women and Spokesperson for Older People. | | | Prior to her election she had been a Borough Councillor between 1995 and 2003, and in 1997 became the youngest ever female Mayor of Romsey. |
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| | Ananova - Kennedy gives new MPs frontbench roles |
| | Mr Kennedy said: "After the successful reshuffle of the Liberal Democrat Shadow Cabinet, I am delighted to announce new shadow ministerial responsibilities which give our party enormous strength in depth. | | | Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy has appointed his two newest MPs to frontbench positions in a reshuffle of junior ministerial jobs. | | | Also appointed to a new job was former international development spokeswoman Jenny Tonge, who joins the frontbench education team and Teignbridge MP Richard Younger-Ross, who will speak for the party on the work of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. |
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| | Sheffield Liberal Democrats |
| | Sheffield Council Cabinet has approved funding to establish Groundwork Sheffield, an environmental trust for the Sheffield area. | | | Liberal Democrats - at work in the community all year long | | | "The Liberal Democrats are this City's environmental party. |
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| | Edward Davey MP - November Diary |
| | Addressing Association of Liberal Democrat Councillors Conference, Birmingham | | | Meeting London Liberal Democrat MPs and GLA Members, County Hall, London | | | Meeting with SWT, Chief Executive, Andrew Haines, in Portcullis House, Westminster |
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| | Scottish Liberal Democrats: Press Releases - June 2001 |
| | The Rt Hon Charles Kennedy MP, Leader of the Liberal Democrats, has today confirmed the details of his new Liberal Democrat Shadow Cabinet for Westminster. | | | Andrew Stunnell MP Archy Kirkwood MP continues as a member of the Liberal Democrat Shadow Cabinet in his own capacity; in the last parliament he was Chairman of the House of Commons Select Committee on Social Security. | | | Scottish Liberal Democrats: Press Releases - June 2001 |
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| | Seamus Lyte Management Ltd - Television Agent - Lembit Öpik MP |
| | In 2001 he became the Leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats and a member of the Liberal Democrat Shadow Cabinet. | | | He is the Liberal Democrat Spokesperson for Northern Ireland, Wales (and was the party's Spokesperson for Young People from 1997 - 2002). | | | In May 1997, he was elected as MP for Montgomeryshire and was re-elected in June 2001. |
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http://www.seamuslyte.com/index.cfm?person=lembit_opik
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| | Jane Carr |
| | Jane Carr, Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Spokesperson for Milton Keynes met with Sir Menzies Campbell following his appearance on Question Time. | | | Liberal Democrats get the thumbs up from Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace according to a new website set up to scrutinise MEP’s voting. | | | Jane Carr, Liberal Democrat Prospective Candidate for North East Milton Keynes has challenged Labour MP Brian White to support the campaign for "Free Travel for the Elderly" by asking a question in The House of Commons. |
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http://www.rock-design.demon.co.uk/
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| | Colin Breed |
| | In October 1999, Charles Kennedy appointed Colin to the Liberal Democrat Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Minister for Agriculture and Rural Affairs Minister. | | | In 2002 Colin Breed was appointed junior Liberal Democrat Spokesperson on Defence which forms part of the Liberal Democrat Foreign Affairs and Defence team headed up by the Rt. | | | Colins first parliamentary job was as the Partys spokesman on Competition and Consumer Affairs and his report "Checking out the Supermarkets" instigated the Office for Fair Trading report and the Competition Commission investigation into supermarket profitability. |
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http://www.colinbreed.org.uk/biography/Colin.phtml
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| | Local MP Gets Senior Shadow Cabinet Role |
| | Northavon MP Steve Webb been given a senior role in the new Liberal Democrat Shadow Cabinet by party leader Charles Kennedy. | | | The MP, who saw his majority in Northavon increase more than fourfold at last week’s General Election, will shadow the newly created “Department of Work and Pensions” which builds on the existing Department of Social Security and takes on additional responsibility for employment and disability issues. | | | Steve Webb, who is widely respected for his knowledge of social security issues will shadow the newly enlarged Department and will again be doing battle with Alistair Darling on the Government side. |
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http://www.stevewebb.org.uk/news2001/news52.html
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| | BBC NEWS Politics Kennedy shuffles his top team |
| | Romsey MP Sandra Gidley has been made spokesperson for women in a move Mr Kennedy said would help put more concentration on women's issues. | | | Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy has brought in three new faces to the party's top team in his own reshuffle. | | | Mr Laws, who used the party's policy director, moves from being a junior defence spokesman to shadowing the chief secretary to the Treasury. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/2358199.stm
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| | Edward Davey MP - Diary February 2004 |
| | Edward to attending Liberal Democrat Peers' meeting, Houses of Parliament, Westminster. | | | Meeting with Liberal Democrat Councillors, The Guildhall, Kingston. | | | Shadow Office of the Deputy Prime Minister Team Meeting, Portcullis House, Westminster. |
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http://www.eddavey.org.uk/diary28.htm
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| | Peterborough Liberal Democrats - |
| | (10/01/05) Liberal Democrat Councillor Nick Sandford has asked the City Council to consider running an evening circular Service for Fengate and the Cinema: | | | (07/01/05) Responding to the Conservatives launch of the introduction to their general election manifesto, Simon Hughes MP, Liberal Democrat Party President, said: | | | CONSERVATIVE MANIFESTO LAUNCH CANT HIDE LIB DEM ADVANCES |
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http://www.peterboroughlibdems.org.uk/index.php
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| | Edward Davey MP - Diary May 2004 |
| | Liberal Democrat Shadow Cabinet Meeting, House of Commons, Westminster | | | Liberal Democrat Opposition Day Debate, (Edward Speaking) House of Commons, Westminster | | | Edward attending a Liberal Democrat fundraising event hosted by Charles Kennedy, The Strand, London |
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| | A Short History of the Liberal Party 1900-2001: IɚXBookWeb |
| | Appendices: major holders of party office, 1900-2001; the liberal vote, 1918-2001; liberal by-election victories since 1945; liberal democratic seats (After June 2001); the liberal shadow cabinet (After June 2001); the continuing liberal party. | | | A Short History of the Liberal Party 1900-2001: IɚXBookWeb | | | A Short History of the Liberal Party 1900-2001 |
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