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Telegraph Blogs : Guests (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
Phil Woolas is to be the new immigration minister, Three Line Whip can reveal. He will succeed Liam Byrne who is moving up to the Cabinet Office to be the government's "enforcer". Woolas is a trenchant character who will be well suited to one of Whitehall's toughest jobs. The news has not been officially announced by Number 10 yet but sources close to Woolas have confirmed it. The announcement of...
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Express & Star (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
West Midlands MP Liam Byrne was today celebrating his ministerial leap to Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s Cabinet team. The Home Office high-flier and Birmingham Hodge Hill MP has been promoted to Minister of the Cabinet Office and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. It means he will be leaving his immigration … [visit site to read more]
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Benedict Brogan's political blog (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
As ever, there's a bit of confusion about who's doing what. Margaret Beckett is returning, but to take on the Housing brief. And Liam Byrne does get a seat at the top table, but as a Minister of State attending...
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Iain Dale's Diary (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
1. Hilary Benn to be sacked from the Cabinet and replaced by Ed Miliband at DEFRA. 2. Tony McNulty to be Chief Whip or Transport Secretary. 3. Caroline Flint to enter the Cabinet. 4. Geoff Hoon to remain in the Cabinet, but possibly not as Chief Whip. 5. Liam Byrne to enter the Cabinet, possibly at the Cabinet Office. 6. Jim Murphy to be the first Secretary of State for the Nations 7. John Hutton...
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Shiraz Socialist (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
This is from the NCADC mailout and I thought it was worth sharing here. Recently the New Statesman has been running a campaign to end the detention of refugee children. In response to claims made about conditions in detention centres, immigration minister Liam Byrne had this to say: I know our contract staff in removal centres provide care with [...]
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The Virtual Stoa (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
Ted Vallance has a piece up at the New Statesman website. You can tell he’s a man of sound judgment, as he labels Liam Byrne’s recent pamphlet, “An atrociously written piece of invidious nonsense.”
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Telegraph Blogs : Guests (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
The odds according to Ladbrokes are on Liam Byrne becoming the new Transport Secretary. I'm not so sure. A Cabinet minister has just mentioned the name Tony McNulty to me. "He's a former transport minister and has been knocking on the door of Cabinet for a while," he said. He's a 16-1 outsider. Here's one from left field. Geoff Hoon. He could well be shuffled from his chief whip slot but I don't buy...
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Dizzy Thinks (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
"In line with current Cabinet Office guidance, the Home Office does not always encrypt personal data before transferring it by disc." - Liam Byrne Source
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Liberal England (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
Newsnight has just claimed there is to be a Cabinet reshuffle next Friday. They say that Geoff Hoon will be sent to Brussels as Britain's new European Commissioner and that Ruth Kelly has chosen to stand down. The programme is tipping Liam Byrne and Jim Murphy as the ministers to be promoted. Geoff Hoon is being interviewed at the moment and has certainly not contradicted any of this.
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Independence Cymru (Free subscription) | 20/09/2008
Courtesy of Ray Bell These are the 27 suggestions put forward by Liam Byrne, the immigration minister, to bring together the different communities living in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland for Britishness Day. These suggestions are contained in his pamphlet, titled "A More United Britain". It is all make-believe! 1 As a national event, celebrated in local areas2 With a good cross-section...
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ORDOVICIUS (Free subscription) | 19/09/2008
Vaughan Roderick notes Liam Byrne's attempts to foist a Britain an England Day on all of us: Liam Byrne, the immigration minister, has returned to one of his favourite subjects - the nature of Britishness. In a pamphlet published by Demos this week he expands on his call for a special bank holiday to celebrate the United Kingdom. For the first time he lists possible dates for such a holiday.
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Amlwch to Magor (Free subscription) | 19/09/2008
Vaughan Roderick points us in the direction of a paper by the Minister of State Liam Byrne on Britishness . Apparently: " Britishness is quite simply one of the most important associations that we have; it is a code, shaped by our history and reinforced by our everyday experience, which defines so much of the way we look at the world" Really? One of the days suggested as a potential bank Holiday to...
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BBC NEWS | Blog Vaughan Roderick (Free subscription) | 19/09/2008
Mae Liam Byrne, y gweinidog mewnfudo wedi dychwelyd at un o'i hoff bynciau- natur Prydeindod. Mewn taflen a gyhoeddwyd gan Demos yr wythnos hon mae'n ymhelaethu ar ei alwad am ŵyl banc arbennig i ddathlu'r Deyrnas Unedig. Am y tro...
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Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 18/09/2008
While we're waiting for not-the-Executive to meet or whatever, I feel it's my duty to bring you up to date with the latest in the Britishness debate from immigration minister Liam Byrne now hold on, this isn't about neo-imperialism or DUP triumphalism. It would have been helpful if Gordon Brown the convenor of the debate had firmly ruled out any idea of British Ulster from the Stormont podium,...
