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Montevideo, November 5th 2024 - 10:28 UTC

Tag: Tom Watson

  • Thursday, July 14th 2016 - 03:54 UTC

    May pledges to work “for all not just the privileged few”; Johnson foreign secretary and Hammond chancellor

    On arriving at Downing Street after being appointed by the Queen, Mrs. May vowed to lead a government that works for all, not just the “privileged few”.

    New Prime Minister Theresa May has made Boris Johnson, the former London mayor who led the Brexit campaign, foreign secretary in her new government. He replaces Philip Hammond, who becomes chancellor and ex-Energy Secretary Amber Rudd is home secretary and Euro skeptic David Davis is the Brexit secretary. Ex-chancellor George Osborne was not included apparently because his “brand” was seen as “too tarnished”.

  • Friday, November 1st 2013 - 21:23 UTC

    Britain sleepwalking into becoming a surveillance state, wars MP Hubert

    ”How would we react if the Chinese admitted they had been tapping the Prime Minister’s phone?

    Britain is sleepwalking into becoming a surveillance state, the like of which has never been seen before in peacetime Britain, MPs have been told. Opening a packed Westminster Hall debate on intelligence and the security services, Liberal Democrat MP Julian Huppert (Cambridge) said there were serious questions to be asked about the extent and scale of intelligence agencies’ activities.