ConservativeHome's ToryDiary (Free subscription) | 27/06/2008
Michael Portillo has said that Party Chairman Caroline Spelman should quit. The former Defence Secretary made his intervention after it was revealed that Mrs Spelman's former secretary, Sally Hammond, revealed that she was "shocked" at how much Tina Haynes, the...
nigel hastilow (Free subscription) | 09/06/2008
A very curious statement from Conservative leader David Cameron does his party chairman Caroline Spelman no good at all. He is apparently "standing by her" over the difficulties in deciding if Tina Haynes was her secretary as well as being her kids' nanny. At least, he's standing by her just so long as she has clearly done nothing wrong. In which case why wouldn't you stand by her? If, on the other...
Daily Referendum (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
I've read some terrible rubbish over the last day or so about Caroline Spelman paying he live in nanny to work as her Constituency secretary during the day (Including some right leaning Blogs). For one thing this is very old news, for another, Tina Haynes (the nanny) did act as Caroline's Constituency secretary for the period in question. Spelman's Constituency phone number was her home number at the...
The Barnsby Blog (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE ARMS TRADE. CAATNEWS June July issue reports a historic victory in the Courts when the High Court quashed the Serious Fraud Office decision into BAE’s Saudi arms deal. This is a major step forward to end the unhealthy influence of arms dealing within government. The decision followed a legal [...]
Iain Dale's Diary (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
This is the full text of a statement released to the Press Association by Tina Haynes, the former nanny to Conservative Party Chairman Caroline Spelman. During the period of 1997 to 2002 Mrs Caroline Spelman employed me at her home address and during the period of 1997 to 1998, I had two roles, one helping Mrs Spelman with childcare and another providing secretarial help to her as a MP. My roles and...
Daily Referendum (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
You can tell that it's been a quiet news week when the media go into a frenzy over a Tory MPs expenses from ten years ago. Caroline Spelman has been accused of paying her nanny, Tina Haynes, from her expenses for the period 1997-98. Sounds bad doesn't it? But, how does this sound: Caroline Spelman had a live in nanny at the time who was paid to carryout secretarial work for Caroline while the kids...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
The nanny at the centre of an expenses row releases a statement saying she did do secretarial work for a senior Tory MP.
Raw Story (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
The former head of Britain's arms export agency has been issued with a subpoena by US officials investigating allegations of bribery and corruption over a £43bn arms deal between BAE Systems and Saudi Arabia. Alan Garwood, who is now BAE's business development director, was served with a subpoena in late May - the third executive to have been targeted by the US department of justice inquiry. It is...
Sox First (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
The intrigue surrounding the BAE-Saudi bribery scandal continues with the Financial Times reporting that a third man, BAE's business development director Alan Garwood has been issued with a subpoena by US authorities. BAE chief executive Mike Turner and Sir Nigel Rudd, a BAE non-executive director, have already been issued with subpoenas but this one is particularly significant because it might shed...
Sic Semper Tyrannis 2007 (Free subscription) | 25/05/2008
I think Harper is absolutely right in suggesting that, important though the corruption story may be, the political element -- centering around the 'slush fund' -- is the really significant element in this story. I am curious about, and slightly...
Blood & Treasure (Free subscription) | 23/05/2008
I’m not vouching for this, but it's an interesting angle on the ongoing BAE/Saudi scandal: To summarize: BAE delivered about $40 billion in arms and services to Saudi Arabia. BAE padded the bills substantially, up to nearly $80 billion. The...
Solomonia (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
Craig Unger: House of cards - From 9/11 to BAE, the Saudis have turned the purchase of political power into a fine art...
Another Green World (Free subscription) | 04/05/2008
The ever excellent Schnews report on efforts to shut down showings of a film on the arms trade. Government here is for and by arms dealers, just look at the bill for Trident tax payers are picking up and the drive to war in Iraq and the BAE/Saudi affair. LIKE A VERGO ON? It seems that even students are in the firing line when in comes to censorship in UK plc. In an unprecedented lack of concern for...
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 25/04/2008
THE High Court in London yesterday quashed the decision of the Serious Fraud Office to drop an investigation into deals between BAE and Saudi Arabia, and gave the SFO permissi
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 25/04/2008
THE High Court in London yesterday quashed the decision of the Serious Fraud Office to drop an investigation into deals between BAE and Saudi Arabia, and gave the SFO permissi
