St George’s Ward in Islington North have selected a three high-powered candidates for the London Borough elections in May, Jessica Asato, Acting Director of Progress, Alex Smith who runs Labour List and Gary Heather of the CWU. They don’t come much more impressive than that. Yesterday afternoon I was pleased to take up the invite to [...]
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I was pleased to appear on the London regional part of The Politics Show earlier today talking about the petition calling on the Metropolitan Police to keep open their unit dedicated to combatting human trafficking. My thanks to The Politics Show for inviting me on to the programme and for taking up the issue of the trafficking [...]
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Just to say I am due to be interviewed by Ken Livingstone on his programme on LBC this morning. Ken will talk to me about the petition calling for the Metropolitan Police to keep their specialist unit dedicated to combatting human trafficking which I presented to the Metropolitan Police Authority on Thursday. It is good that Ken has [...]
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A campaign for the maximum weight for items of aircraft baggage to be 23 kilogrammes is launched today be aviation trade unions. I recently met with members of the trade union Heathrow Liaison Committee (HLC) and other trade unionists from the aviation sector. I was pleased indeed to have the opportunity to discuss avaiation issues, [...]
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It’s always good to announce a winner. This is exactly what the President of the European Parliament, Mr Buzek, did this morning. Amid much Oscar style drama complete with sealed envelope, the full parliamentary sitting was informed that “Welcome” had made it despite fierce competition. As President Buzek so rightly said, every one of the three short listed [...]
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Yesterday morning I was accosted by Conservative MEP Charles Tannock (on the left in the picture) and harangued about the perils, as he perceived it, of Cathy Ashton being the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs. He has now expanded his views on the Conservative Home website. Following this outburst, it became apparent later in the [...]
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As many of you will know in my previous life I worked in the voluntary sector for many years. I was therefore delighted that yesterday evening the Culture and Education Committee decided that EU support for volunteering should be stepped up to €10 million, as part of the 2011 European Year of Voluntary Activities Promoting [...]
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I’m not going to pretend that I am anything other than ecstatic to see the Tories fall so dramatically in the Ipsos MORI poll in yesterday’s Observer. Only six points behind Labour on 37 % as opposed to our 31%, this is surely a blow for Cameron and his Conservatives. Some have claimed it is [...]
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Hard on the heels of Ian Rankin’s excellent The Complaints, I decided to have a go at an American “cop” novel. First Family had the added bonus (or so I thought) of being the first Baldacci I have read. I was at the beginning quite looking forward to the book, content that it Baldacci would live up to his [...]
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