Tag Archives: Liam Byrne

failures of leadership and judgment by No 10

Posted on February 2, 2022 by ianchisnall

The session on Monday afternoon in Parliament involving Boris Johnson and his response to the Sue Gray report covered a huge amount of comments and some very disturbing responses. I wrote about some of them yesterday and here are a … Continue reading →

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Government must reverse its Youth Parliament funding action

Posted on April 28, 2021 by ianchisnall

Ten years ago on 29th March 2011 in the House of Commons Iain Wright who was the shadow education Minister asked Tim Loughton who was the Parliamentary Under Secretary for Education a question related to the UK Youth Parliament funding. … Continue reading →

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A high priority is to avoid £2bn of prosperity cuts

Posted on July 23, 2019 by ianchisnall

When the coalition Government arrived in Whitehall in May 2010 one of the most well known events that took place was the discovery of a letter written by Liam Byrne who was the Treasury Chief Secretary in the Labour Government … Continue reading →

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