ConservativeHome's Seats & Candidat (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Dominic Raab, Chief of Staff to Dominic Grieve MP, was today selected as the Conservative candidate for Esher and Walton. He gave up a career at the Foreign Office three years ago to work full-time for the party and has...
Spectator - The Magazine (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
After a good meal, Tory MPs like to play a game: guess the first resignation from David Cameron’s Cabinet. For a party that loves plots and intrigue, this goes some way to making up for the fact that everyone will be on their best behaviour between now and the election. When it comes to who might walk on a point of principle, one name comes up more frequently than any other: Dominic Grieve,...
Next Left (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
The Conservatives may not complete the repeal of the Human Rights Act and the introduction of a new British Bill of Rights in their first term in office if they were elected to government. And it is also becoming increasingly difficult to work out what substantive difference the policy would be intended to make. "I would like to think we could do it in the course of a parliament", shadow...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Former Tory leader says sentences of under two months ought to be replaced by tougher community penalties Iain Duncan Smith, the former Conservative leader, today called for the abolition of prison sentences lasting less than two months. In a speech marking the publication of a report from his Centre for Social Justice think tank, Duncan Smith said that short jail sentences should be replaced by tougher...
ConservativeHome (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
ToryDiary: Dominic Grieve slams the threat to democracy posed by possible cuts to election costs Cheryl Gillan MP on Platform: As the Welsh Conservatives recover from the 1997 "near death experience", Labour is having to resort to the politics of...
National Secular Society (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Dominic Grieve MP asked in Parliament this week how many prosecutions have been brought for the offence of incitement to religious hatred
Old Holborn (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
From [ edit ] Old Holborn To [ edit ] The Rt Hon. Ed Balls MP, The Rt Hon Gordon Brown MP, The Rt Hon Nick Brown MP, The Rt Hon Yvette Cooper MP, The Rt Hon the Lord Mandelson, The Rt Hon Jim Murphy MP, The Rt Hon Jack Straw MP, The Rt Hon David Cameron MP, The Rt Hon George Osborne MP, The Rt Hon Eric Pickles MP, The Rt Hon Michael Gove MP, The Rt Hon Dominic Grieve MP, The Rt Hon William Hague MP...
ConservativeHome's Seats & Candidat (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
Christina Dykes has recently been appointed Honorary Senior Visiting Fellow in the Department of Psychology, School of Social Sciences at City University London. She is an adviser to Dominic Grieve MP and ran the Candidates Department during the last Parliament....
NO2ID Birmingham (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
During a debate between Dominic Grieve QC, the Shadow Justice Secretary, v Lord Falconer on the Human Rights Act. Dominic Grieve said that- What the Act had not done was to protect society from “one of the most authoritarian periods of government” that had seen proposals for 42-day detention before trial, ID cards, databases and the growth of the surveillance state. “On all this the...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
Back in 1996 a European court of human rights ruling that prevented Michael Howard deporting a Sikh separatist, Karamjit Singh Chahal, left a deep, frustrating impression on one young Home Office adviser. His name was David Cameron and he is now in a position to do something about it. At least, he thinks he is and the tabloids are goading him on. Conservative campaign leaflets pushed through letter...
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
A confrontation is hotting up between the legal establishment and politicians of both main UK parties over the future of what has become a fundamental document of the UK's uncodified constitution, the Human Rights Act. This has implications for Northern Ireland. The Conservatives identify what they see as key flaws in the workings of the Act and are pledged to replace it with a new British Bill of...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
New Labour's constitutional reforms have lacked the incisiveness of Oliver Cromwell's restless search for durable modernisation. But they share one feature with the lord protector's republican model: not knowing where they were going, ministers have gone further than they realised in shaking up the system. A prime example of unintended consequences is the Freedom of Information Act. First promised...
Andy Peacock (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
A New Labour candidate for Beaconsfield is hoping to win voters in the Next General Election. Lawyer Jeremy Miles is the Labour Party candidate for Beaconsfield and hoping to topple Conservative Dominic Grieve from his seat. The seat is probably best known for being the only time former Prime Minister Tony Blair lost a public vote in 1982 by-election but was convincing beaten.Mr Miles faces a hard...
The Lone Voice (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
Another day another crime screw up: Ministers have been accused of presiding over a 'shambles' as it emerged they do not know how many criminals are escaping with soft sentences. The Ministry of Justice said that inaccuracies were preventing the publication of the two most important sets of punishment statistics kept by the Government. They will now be severely delayed - keeping the public in the dark...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
Cameron's promise to cut the number of cabinet posts if he becomes PM leaves a number of his top team nervously wondering what their future holds Despite David Cameron's insistence that "we are all in this together", sources tell me there is something of a fight going on within the shadow cabinet – and it can only have been exasperated by the Conservative leader's speech today. The...
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