Tag: David Cameron

• Monday, October 10th 2011 - 05:13 UTC

  UK Defence minister admits ‘mistakes’; PM Cameron decides Monday

  

  British Defence Secretary Liam Fox has apologised over his working relationship with his former flatmate and best man Adam Werritty. Fox said it was “a mistake to allow distinctions to be blurred between my professional responsibilities and my personal loyalties to a friend”.

• Monday, October 3rd 2011 - 07:33 UTC

  Thousands demonstrate at the Conservatives’ conference in Manchester

  

  An estimated 35,000 people have turned out in Manchester to demonstrate at the governing Conservative Party's annual conference, which opened on Sunday. The march was organised by the Trades Union Congress, which billed it as a rally for “the alternative - jobs, growth, and justice”.

• Monday, September 19th 2011 - 06:52 UTC

  Brazilian president first woman to open round of UN General Assembly speeches

  

  Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff will become on Wednesday the first woman ever to open the round of speeches marking the beginning of the United Nations General Assembly, according to Brazilian sources.

• Monday, August 15th 2011 - 00:56 UTC

  PM Cameron expected to announce a social ‘fight-back’ program

  

  Prime Minister David Cameron said his government would mend Britain's “broken society” to prevent a repeat of the country's worst riots in decades.

• Thursday, August 11th 2011 - 23:12 UTC

  PM Cameron promises to track down and punish rioters and looters

  

  British Prime Minister David Cameron, facing a defining crisis of his premiership, promised on Thursday to crack down on street gangs as a national priority and said rioters behind Britain's worst violence in decades would be hunted and punished.

• Thursday, August 11th 2011 - 06:48 UTC

  UK Parliament expected to grill PM Cameron for police cuts in the wake of rioting

  

  British Prime Minister David Cameron is set to come under renewed pressure to reverse the coalition government's police cuts in the wake of riots sweeping the country.

• Wednesday, August 10th 2011 - 17:43 UTC

  PM Cameron authorizes water cannons and baton rounds against rioting

  

  UK Prime Minister David Cameron on Wednesday authorized police to use water cannons after four nights of rioting, looting and arson - saying a “fight back” is under way to restore law and order to Britain's streets.

• Thursday, July 21st 2011 - 09:30 UTC

  Cameron regrets having hired former editor at heart of phone-hacking scandal

  

  British Prime Minister David Cameron, defending his integrity in an emergency debate in parliament, said on Wednesday he regretted the uproar caused by his hiring of a former newspaper editor at the heart of a phone-hacking scandal.

• Tuesday, July 19th 2011 - 05:06 UTC

  Parliament to question PM Cameron on links with the Murdoch empire

  

  British PM David Cameron cut short a trip to Africa and will fly home on Tuesday to defend himself from a scandal that has battered Rupert Murdoch's media empire, forced British police chiefs to resign and raised doubts about the prime minister's judgment.

• Friday, July 1st 2011 - 06:20 UTC

  EU paymasters reject point blank proposal for a 5% budget hike

  

  The European Commission’s request for a 5% hike in member states’ contributions in the next EU budget met immediate resistance from big countries such as Germany, France and Britain yesterday.