SiberNews (Free subscription) | 15/10/2008
London - British Tamil Forum (BTF) issued a press release over yesterday’s debate in the Westminster parliament on Sri Lanka's humanitarian situation on the request by Joan Ryan, the ruling Labour party MP from London's Enfield North constituency.
SiberNews (Free subscription) | 15/10/2008
London - British parliament debated Sri Lanka's humanitarian situation as the debate was requested by Joan Ryan, the ruling Labour party MP from London's Enfield North constituency. British government said at least 500,000 people are internally displaced in Sri Lanka due to the ongoing conflict.
Robin Wilton's esoterica (Free subscription) | 16/09/2008
Gordon Brown seems to be locked into some kind of strange competition to see whether he or Lehman Bros. can lay people off faster. So far, since Saturday, he's got rid of Siobhan McDonagh (an assistant government whip), Joan Ryan (Labour Party vice-chairman), and Barry Gardiner (Prime Minister's special Envoy on Forestry). All were openly calling for a leadership contest to either confirm Mr Brown's...
Liberal Democrat Voice (Free subscription) | 15/09/2008
Siobhain McDonagh, Labour MP for Mitcham and Morden, was sacked as a Labour whip after calling for a leadership contest. Joan Ryan, Labour MP for Enfield North, was sacked as Gordon Brown’s Cyprus advisor and a Labour Party Deputy Chair. Barry Gardiner, Labour MP for Brent North, quit as Brown’s Special Envoy for Forestry (though that didn’t [...]
Re-cycle of Life (Free subscription) | 15/09/2008
Forget my earlier suggestion that No 10 is going easy on the rebels . Gordon has just gone medieval on them. Not content with sacking Joan Ryan as his point-person in Cyprus, No 10 has just announced that Barry Gardiner has been axed from his post as the Prime Ministers Special Envoy for Forestry . Cue much sniggering among hacks...
Luke's Blog (Free subscription) | 14/09/2008
I've spent this weekend feeling a strong sense of deja vu. My reaction to the calls for a leadership contest from Siobhain McDonagh, Joan Ryan et al is pretty much identical to my reaction to the letter from the 2001 intake of MPs that tried to precipitate a leadership election in September 2006. In both cases I disagreed with the initiative profoundly (I'd be in moral turmoil about trying to oust...
stroppyblog (Free subscription) | 13/09/2008
The BBC reports : An MP has been sacked as Labour's vice chair after publicly joining calls for a leadership election. Joan Ryan and four other Labour MPs - Fiona Mactaggart, Siobhain McDonagh, George Howarth and Janet Anderson - have asked for nomination forms. And fellow MPs Graham Stringer, Gordon Prentice and John McDonnell have called for a leadership contest. Entering the latest row on Saturday...
The Anglo Saxon Chronicle (Free subscription) | 13/09/2008
Ahead of the Labour Party conference next weekend, another senior Labour MP has become the latest to call for a leadership election to decide whether Gordon Brown should continue as prime minister. Joan Ryan was sacked as Labour party vice-chair and as the prime minister's envoy to Cyprus after telling BBC Radio 4's Today programme that there ought to be a "multiplicity" of challengers to compete with...
Les Bonner (Free subscription) | 13/09/2008
Britain is “watching the death throes of the Labour Party”, Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has said. This news comes following the revelations that Five Labour MPs - Fiona Mactaggart, Siobhain McDonagh, Joan Ryan, George Howarth and Janet Anderson - want leadership nomination forms sent out. And fellow MPs Graham Stringer and Gordon Prentice [...]
Channel 4 (Free subscription) | 13/09/2008
Joan Ryan packs her bags as a Labour vice chair after saying there should be a leadership challenge. Victoria Macdonald reports.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 13/09/2008
Gordon Brown has sacked the Labour Party's vicechairman as rebel Labour MPs clamour to force a leadership election.
Iain Dale's Diary (Free subscription) | 13/09/2008
I can reveal the names of three more Labour MPs who have written to request nomination papers, bringing the total to twelve. The new names, told to me by a senior Labour source, are... Mike Hall Fiona Mactaggart Shona McIsaac They add to the existing list of Siobhain Mcdonagh, Joan Ryan, George Howarth, Graham Stringer, Gordon Prentice, Janet Anderson, Jim Dowd, Kate Hoey and Frank Field. In addition,...
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 13/09/2008
GORDON Brown sacked Joan Ryan as his envoy to Cyprus today after she added her voice to calls for him to face a leadership contest.
The Lone Voice (Free subscription) | 13/09/2008
Gordon Brown is facing increasing pressure from within Labour ranks for a leadership election. Four more Labour MPs have confirmed they have written to the party asking for nomination papers to be sent out. They are Slough MP Fiona Mactaggart, Labour vice chair Joan Ryan, Knowsley North MP George Howarth and Graham Stringer, MP for Manchester Blackley. On Friday, junior whip Siobhain McDonagh was fired...
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 13/09/2008
GORDON Brown sacked Joan Ryan as his envoy to Cyprus today after she added her voice to calls for him to face a leadership contest.
