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angels in marble (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
The Westminster New Labour regime is on to its third Secretary of State for Scotland since Alex Salmond became Prime Minister of Scotland. Angus Robertson, leader for the Scottish National Party at the Westminster parliament remarked: "Des Browne's departure shows just how much of a dog's dinner Gordon Brown has made of his reshuffle...It would have been far better to admit that the game is up for...
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Welsh Ramblings (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
The cabinet reshuffle has been generally very well analysed by Nick Robinson , but without paying any attention to the appointment of Jim Murphy as Secretary of State for Scotland and the retention of the roles of Welsh Secretary and the Northern Ireland Secretary. Rumours had continued to circulate that Brown might merge the Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland offices to create a Ministry of the...
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David Torrance (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Jim Murphy, the Labour MP for Eastwood, has just been appointed the new Secretary of State for Scotland - seemingly without another department as has been convention since 2003. The outgoing Scottish (and Defence) Secretary Des Browne was reportedly offered another job but turned it down. Instead he leaves the Government. You can read coverage of his exit at BBC Online . So far, only the super, soaraway...
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David Torrance (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
Yet another story based on 'senior Whitehall sources' in today's Scotland on Sunday . This time the post of Secretary of State for Scotland is to be retained in Gordon Brown's imminent reshuffle. So not scrapped, amalgamated with the Northern Irish and Welsh counterparts, or restored to full standalone status - all as reported on the basis of 'senior Whitehall sources' over the past few weeks - but...
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David Torrance (Free subscription) | 22/09/2008
A belated post to mark the appointment of Ann McKechin MP, only recently elected chair of the Scottish Labour group of MPs, to the Scotland Office in place of David Cairns, who resigned last week over Gordon Brown's leadership of the Labour Party and the Government. Eagle-eyed politicos will have noticed that while Cairns was a Minister of State, his successor is a more humble under-secretary of state....
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RssDaily (Free subscription) | 18/09/2008
In the high drama of David Cairns's departure, another victim went unnoticed. Mark Lazarowicz, the Edinburgh MP, was appointed by Mr C as his parliamentary private secretary. Given that the minister of state's replacement at the Scotland Office is Glasgow North's Ann McKechin but only with the title of a parliamentary under-secretary, then Mr L's bag-carrying role has also ended; only senior ministers...
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Independence Cymru (Free subscription) | 17/09/2008
With the resignation of David Cairns MP as Minister for Scottish Affairs brings up the question of whether or not the Scotland Office has any meaning for the people of Scotland, except as a sounding board for the government in London. The same applies to the Wales Office. There has been talk of combining the three offices, Scotland, Wales and N. Ireland into one. Yet, as Alex Salmond has indicated,...
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Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 17/09/2008
TO HIS colleagues, he was an unlikely assassin. A former Catholic priest who quit his vocation to pursue his political ambitions, David Cairns was a loyal Labour MP who had ne
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News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 17/09/2008
TO HIS colleagues, he was an unlikely assassin. A former Catholic priest who quit his vocation to pursue his political ambitions, David Cairns was a loyal Labour MP who had ne
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The Daily Record (Free subscription) | 17/09/2008
DAVID Cairns last night claimed Gordon Brown's leadership had plunged Labour into a year-long "malaise".
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The Herald (Free subscription) | 17/09/2008
Profile: But for a change in the law David Cairns could not have become an MP.
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Times Online (Free subscription) | 16/09/2008
The debate over Gordon Brown’s future is now fully out in the open. The coded phrases of July and August have been replaced by the public statements of September. The resignation of David Cairns from an unnecessary post in the redundant Scotland Office is irrelevant in itself; he is merely the latest in the line of obscure Labour MPs anguishing about the leadership. The message, however, matters more...
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Times Online (Free subscription) | 16/09/2008
Cabinet ministers tried last night to use the world financial crisis to shore up Gordon Brown’s troubled leadership after a second minister quit in the continuing attempt to bring him down.
