The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
Former Conservative Chancellor Lord Geoffrey Howe has said Britain could be headed for depression as a result of Gordon Brown's economic mismanagement
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
Former Conservative Chancellor Sir Geoffrey Howe has said Britain could be headed for depression as a result of Gordon Brown's economic mismanagement
Irfan Ahmed (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
George Osborne and David Cameron have called in past Conservative Chancellors to advice them on the economy according to Hopi Sen, the Blogger whilst enjoying a coffee with Iain Dale. The pair of them (Hopi and Iain) spotted Geoffrey Howe, Nigel Lawson and Norman Lamont. These three were seen coming out of Norman Shaw buildings after a meeting and Hopi think they were there to advice Cameron and cronies....
Hopi Sen (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
As I was having a (very enjoyable) coffee with Iain Dale today we couldn’t help but notice ex-Chancellors Geoffrey Howe, Nigel Lawson and Norman Lamont coming back from a meeting in the Norman Shaw buildings, where they’d presumably been advising Mr Osborne or Mr Cameron. Howe, Lawson and Lamont. 3 million unemployed, Black Monday and a [...]
Three Thousand Versts of Loneliness (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
Dennis Healey famously likened a political attack he endured from Tory minister Geoffrey Howe to being ‘savaged by a dead sheep’. As tongue tied UUP MLA, Fred Cobain, allowed Jeffrey Donaldson’s pompous intonation to swamp a perfectly valid argument on Radio Ulster’s Evening Extra yesterday, I had pause to reflect, how much more unpleasant it must be to be savaged by Daniel O’Donnell. It wasn’t a good...
The Why of the World (Free subscription) | 01/09/2008
Full coverage of UK politics Beware the savagery of a dead sheep. The spectre of Geoffrey Howe stalks the corridors of Number 10. It is a universal axiom that Alistair Darling, the nominal Chancellor of the Exchequer, is as loyal to Gordon Brown as Greyfriars Bobby was to his master. So commentators could be forgiven for interpreting his "We're a' doomed" interview with the Guardian as emba...
Evening Standard (Free subscription) | 31/08/2008
Alistair Darling’s comment that voters were ‘p****d off’ with the Government could go down in history as his ‘Geoffrey Howe moment’.
Daily Mail News (Free subscription) | 31/08/2008
Alistair Darling’s comment that voters were ‘p****d off’ with the Government could go down in history as his ‘Geoffrey Howe moment’.
politicalbetting.com (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
Is this why a cabinet re-shuffle could be a minefield? All of those old enough remember it - the speech to the commons by the deputy prime minister, Sir Geoffrey Howe, in November 1990 after he had resigned from Mrs. Thatcher’s cabinet. Click on the picture to watch. This was probably the most dramatic event that [...]
