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Postman Patel (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
Yesterday Lord Patel was able, after my Lord Bishop of Norwich Rt Revd Graham James so beautifully intoned the customary Prayers before business, to hear Baroness Hayman, the Lord Speaker announce "My Lords, I have to notify the House, in accordance with the Royal Assent Act 1967, that the Queen has signified her Royal Assent to the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act." This curious Bill has
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Mike Ion (Free subscription) | 10/11/2007
Denis MacShane has written to both Baroness Hayman and David Cameron to seek clarification as to whether the noble Lord Ashcroft is domiciled in the UK in the full tax-paying sense. I wonder what the reply will be? Baroness Hayman Lords Speaker House of Lords London SW1 9 November 2007 Lord Ashcroft I am writing to you to see if you can clarify the status of Lord Ashcroft as a UK tax-paying resident...
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Kevin Maguire - Mirror Blogs (Free subscription) | 10/11/2007
The heat has been turned up on super-rich Michael Ashcroft, the multi-millionaire who liked the Tory Party so much he bought it. Below are a couple of letters sent by Rotherham Labour MP and former Europe Minister Denis MacShane to Leader of the Lords, Baroness Hayman, and Conservative leader David Cameron asking if undertakings Lord Ashcroft gave in 2000 have been honoured. Ashcroft, Deputy Chair...
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Iain Dale's Diary (Free subscription) | 17/10/2007
There's been a huge - and I mean HUGE - row between the Lord Chancellor, Jack Straw and the Lords Speaker Baroness Hayman. In their typical cock-eyed fashion, no one had thought about the Queen's Speech procession when Gordon Bronw made a Member of the House of Commons Lord Chancellor. Jack Straw still wanted to walk backwards in front of the Queen even though he is not in the Lords. This was firmly...