Tag: David Cameron

Saturday, May 9th 2015 - 09:23 UTC
PM Cameron confirms economic policy: names Osborne first secretary of state

Prime Minister David Cameron reappointed George Osborne as his finance minister on Friday and gave him a bigger cabinet role after Britain's economic recovery helped their party to an unexpectedly big election victory.
Saturday, May 9th 2015 - 09:06 UTC
Tory majority government, but looking to Scottish independentists' landslide

Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservatives won a stunning victory in Britain's election on Friday, which cut short the careers of his top three rivals and put the country's European Union future in doubt.
Friday, May 8th 2015 - 06:59 UTC
Conservatives on course to a major victory, as SNP wipes out Labor in Scotland

The Conservatives are on course to be the largest party with David Cameron hopeful of gaining a majority in the UK general election. Labor faces being wiped out by the SNP in Scotland and is failing to make the gains it needs in England to stand a chance of forming a government.
Tuesday, May 5th 2015 - 09:01 UTC
Hung parliament and delicate coalition knitting forecasted for UK Thursday vote

The Conservatives and Labor on Monday launched their final push to woo voters ahead of Britain's general election this week, as potential kingmaker parties made their pitch for power.
Thursday, April 16th 2015 - 02:22 UTC
Falklands people's “democratic rights” will be upheld, pledges Tories' manifesto

With less than a month to UK's election the Conservative party released its manifesto which explicitly declares that a Tory government “will uphold the democratic rights of the people of Gibraltar and the Falkland Islands to remain British, for as long as that is their wish, and protect our Overseas Territories”.
Tuesday, April 7th 2015 - 05:43 UTC
Europe at center of debate in UK electoral campaign that anticipates no clear winner

Several lawmakers from British Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservatives will join the anti-EU UK Independence Party if he renews a coalition with the pro-EU Liberal Democrats, UKIP’s leader Nigel Farage forecasted.
Friday, April 3rd 2015 - 06:03 UTC
Argentina poses no military threat to the Malvinas Islands. So why is the UK ratcheting up tension?

The following column by Alicia Castro (*) was published 02 April by the Independent - On 24 March, the day that a debate was held in Parliament over the increase in defense expenditure for the Malvinas Islands, Argentina was commemorating the anniversary of the 1976 military coup.
Friday, April 3rd 2015 - 03:28 UTC
Argentina ‘malvinazing’ history through ‘mature nationalism’ says president on Malvinas war 33rd anniversary

Argentina is ‘malvinazing’ (Malvinas) its history, but not through chauvinist patriotism but mature nationalism that seeks international law and peace to recover sovereignty over the Malvinas Islands, said president Cristina Fernandez during the 33rd anniversary of the beginning of the South Atlantic conflict on 2 April 1982.
Tuesday, March 31st 2015 - 09:24 UTC
UK electoral campaign takes off; no party expected to win a clear majority

British Prime Minister David Cameron paid a courtesy call on Queen Elizabeth II, then launched a most non courteous attack on his main political rival as campaigning formally began Monday in the most unpredictable U.K. election in decades.
Wednesday, March 25th 2015 - 06:39 UTC
Argentina as a 'live threat' to the Falklands, triggers fury from Buenos Aires

The government of President Cristina Fernandez accused the United Kingdom of using an alleged Argentine threat to the Falkland/Malvinas Islands in order to boost its military budget, while also claiming that the archipelago has been turned into an electoral campaign issue.