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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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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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Labour’s new deputy leader Lucy Powell says she wants Starmer to succeed but party must change
25 Oct 2025 07:47 GMT
… government.
Prime minister Keir Starmer and education secretary Bridget Phillipson applauds … woman to this position, after Margaret Beckett, Harriet Harman, and Angela Rayner … at the justice secretary, the home secretary and the prime minister.
They have …
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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 …
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Margaret Beckett: ‘Government must urgently awaken to threat ransomware poses to UK national security’
13 Dec 2023 10:13 GMT
In May 2021, president Joe Biden declared a national state of emergency after a ransomware attack by Russian DarkSide forced one of the United States’ largest and most vital oil lines to shut down for six days.
Today in the UK we are at high risk of a …
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