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Releasing criminals by mistake is nothing compared to what's coming. Upgrade your alarm - Peter Bleksley
07 Nov 2025 15:11 GMT
… , Jack Straw, Gordon Brown and Margaret Beckett in his cabinet, clearly very … a rapid close. The Home Secretary earns in excess of £160 …
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It’s Browning Street revisited but where’s Starmer’s Watson?
06 Nov 2025 23:35 GMT
… column by Roy Hattersley, Margaret Beckett or Harriet Harman probably … Livermore, now a Treasury minister, was the Brown strategist … Douglas Alexander, the Scottish secretary and another of Gordon’ … Bell, the Treasury minister leading the preparations for …
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Ex-CEO faces trial for allegedly urging MPs to block Chinese-backed acquisition
05 Nov 2025 05:01 GMT
… Act 2021.
The then-Tory Secretary of State issued a call … Richard Holden MP and Dame Margaret Beckett, to ensure the deal was … Richard Holden MP and Dame Margaret Beckett MP, given the company sites …
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Margaret Beckett and her party’s most working-class leader ever | Letters
14 Jun 2024 17:24 GMT
… the former Labour prime minister Ramsay MacDonald, who was … Callaghan?
Alasdair Macdonald
Glasgow
Margaret Beckett has been a remarkable … country. Even when a minister, she tried to ensure … perfectly.
William Bradshaw
Sheffield
Margaret Beckett “can’t think of …
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The woman who led Labour: Margaret Beckett on fights, friends and ferocious change in 50 years of politics
10 Jun 2024 04:13 GMT
Hanging near Margaret Beckett’s desk in parliament is … prime minister, Tony Blair, in 2007, while serving as foreign secretary. … as the first female foreign secretary, before being dropped by … about her time as foreign secretary, during which Bulgaria and …
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Lord Taverne, early SDP advocate who quit as Labour MP
26 Oct 2025 15:13 GMT
… ’s Margaret Jackson, later Margaret Beckett) in the general election … commentators to “Spot the prime minister” of 25 years’ time … minister in the Home Office when Jenkins was home secretary. … as a junior minister. Promoted to financial secretary in 1969, …
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Lord Taverne, moderate Labour frontbencher ousted by the hard Left in 1972 as a ‘filthy Tory’
26 Oct 2025 11:27 GMT
… him at the Treasury as Minister of State, specialising in … in October 1969 to Financial Secretary – his final ministerial post … Labour Party, led by Margaret Beckett’s future husband Leo, … election, his majority – over Margaret Beckett – was reduced to 1,293 …
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Dick Taverne was the last social democrat
26 Oct 2025 10:19 GMT
… Taverne, a one-time Labour Minister turned Lib Dem peer, has … quickly rose to be a minister in Harold Wilson’s … as a Home Office minister and chief secretary to the Treasury.
Taverne … as Margaret Beckett to be Britain’s first female Foreign Secretary and …
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New Year honour for Margaret Beckett starts row over why she can't be given Freedom of Derby
08 Jan 2024 04:44 GMT
Derby South Labour MP Dame Margaret Beckett has been awarded the Dame … the work of local MP Margaret Beckett. To receive an upgrade to … be recognised by the Prime Minister and King is very befitting …
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Lord Prescott, Labour minister known for his left hook
21 Nov 2024 07:04 GMT
… deputy prime minister as well as first secretary of a … year affair with his diary secretary, Tracey Temple, 24 … leadership against the incumbent, Margaret Beckett.
He did respectably against … policies of its hardline general secretary, Bob Crow. He vowed …