SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
Breaking News.ie 29/09/2008 The stalemate in the North has developed into a very serious situation, Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams warned today . Mr Adams made his comments after he held private talks with Secretary of State Shaun Woodward at Stormont. The Sinn Féin leader called for action to end the deadlock, but his remarks come amid fears that an Executive meeting planned for Thursday may not...
Mr Eugenides (Free subscription) | 22/09/2008
"You need to count on your leader, and your leader should know he can count on you!" - Shaun Woodward, Conservative MP for Witney Labour MP for St Helens South.
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 22/09/2008
It’s worth pointing out that whilst the Northern Ireland Secretary of State, Shaun Woodward, MP, talks of the devolution of policing and justice powers in terms of it being the completion of the devolution process, it still leaves tax-varying powers here in the hands of Members of Parliament. Meanwhile, in Wales, as the 10th anniversary of devolution approaches, the public are evenly divided on whether...
Three Thousand Versts of Loneliness (Free subscription) | 22/09/2008
Shaun Woodward believes that policing and justice might be devolved to the Northern Ireland Executive within 12 months. I suppose he MIGHT be right. In the same speech he stressed the importance of the executive beginning once again to meet. Yet in contrast, on the Politics Show , the Northern Ireland Secretary seemed to suggest the present ‘tense situation’ is not a crisis and that the media have...
Redemption's Son (Free subscription) | 21/09/2008
The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Shaun Woodward has set another 'target date' for the devolution of Policing & Justice, specifically that it should be completed within the next 12 months. I have noted before that there was certainly a nauseous whiff of choreography going on between the DUP and Sinn Fein with the IMC report linking into this; also I have already floated the idea of an arbitrary...
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 21/09/2008
Fair deal noted Northern Ireland Secretary of State Shaun Woodward’s creative suggestion to deal with avoid the question of the devolution of policing and justice powers and he, Woodward that is, popped up on the Politics Show today keen to stress that administration by correspondence is working.. He begins by dismissing opinion polls, not that opinion poll obviously.. and goes on to blame the media...
ireland.com (Free subscription) | 21/09/2008
Northern Secretary Shaun Woodward today called for “leadership” from the North’s politicians and demanded that the Executive must meet.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 21/09/2008
Devolution in Northern Ireland could be complete within 12 months, the Northern Ireland secretary, Shaun Woodward, said today as he vowed to help the parties reach an agreement on policing and justice in Ulster
BBC News (Free subscription) | 21/09/2008
Devolution in Northern Ireland can be completed within 12 months, Shaun Woodward tells the Labour Party conference.
The Half-Blood Welshman (Free subscription) | 20/09/2008
I see that Shaun Woodward, ex-Tory adviser to John Major and former Member of Parliament for Witney, now (following his 1999 defection) Labour MP for Liverpool St. Helen's and Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, has now just shot another attempted Brown Comeback by saying that the Prime Minister has " something to apologise for ." Of course, he has been to an extent misquoted. What he really meant...
Iain Dale's Diary (Free subscription) | 20/09/2008
Listening to Shaun Woodward on ANY QUESTIONS I was struck by several things. Firstly, he seemed to acknowledge that this credit crisis had happened on Gordon Brown's watch and he should therefore apologise. I suspect it will be a cold day in hell before that happens. But apologise for what? According to Woodward and his Cabinet colleagues, the banking crisis is almost entirely down to the effects of...
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 18/09/2008
It’s been a busy week for the Northern Ireland Secretary of State [and his butler? - Ed] . Apart from today’s kerfuffle , there has been a poll to publish , and publicise, the Prime Minister to meet , and greet, and on Wednesday Shaun Woodward, MP, was at the Police Federation's Annual Conference where he praised “The bravery and dedication of PSNI officers [which] has resulted in a police service...
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 15/09/2008
Interestingly the NIO have released another of their famed surveys. This time the Northern Ireland Secretary of State, Shaun Woodward, MP, is focusing on the over-all figure - “(58%) support the devolution of policing and justice powers from Westminster to Stormont within the next 12 months.” He does also provides this handy graph indicating the levels of support across the various parties’ supporters....
Boulton & Co. (Free subscription) | 11/09/2008
The early indications are that while today's energy efficiency package will not provoke a wave of enthusiasm within the Labour parliamentary party, nor will it spark a dangerous level of dissent. Importantly Rob Marris, Shaun Woodward's PPS whose worries about the direction of government policy in this area were publicised in the Times, has given the plan a guarded welcome. He told me on the phone...
The UK Daily Pundit (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
The joint general secretary of Unite and arguably the most important figure inside the Labour Party after Charlie Whelan, Shaun Woodward, Ed Balls, Chris Hoy and anyone else you care to mention has complained bitterly over the Observer's treatment of his widely reported interview with Toby Helm at the weekend. Simpson told Sky's Jon Craig that he'd spoken to Helm for an hour 'and it was only
