Theresa May vs Brussels: what’s the game?
Theresa May is clearly relishing the headlines spawned by Brussels leaks. She has stoked them by digging up Ken Clarke’s overheard description of her as a “bloody difficult woman.”
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Theresa May is clearly relishing the headlines spawned by Brussels leaks. She has stoked them by digging up Ken Clarke’s overheard description of her as a “bloody difficult woman.”
Shadow home secretary Yvette Copper and former cabinet minister Ken Clarke discuss the success of Ukip in Thursdays by-elections.
Like Boris Johnson, Ken Clarke and few others in politics, Nigel Farage speaks fluent pub. Can Ed Miliband compete?
Feral Underclass is a humdinger of a phrase from Ken Clarke, but what does it mean? Previously, David Cameron lumped the rioters together as “pockets of our society that are not only broken, but frankly sick”. And after almost a month of naming and shaming the rioters in the national press, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has released the facts. So do they deserve the stigma? FactCheck investigates.
Riots which swept across England in August were the result of a “broken penal system” which failed to stop a “feral underclass” from reoffending, says Justice Secretary Ken Clarke.
The claim “The only place with more expensive Legal Aid than England and Wales is Northern Ireland, and no doubt they’ll be addressing the same question” Ken Clarke, Justice Secretary, on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, June 29, 2011
Justice Minister Ken Clarke has ordered a review into the case of a prisoner who was granted permission to artificially inseminate his partner while serving his sentence.
The claim “It is true that we are thinking of putting up the reduction to a half. It makes an enormous difference to costs, police time and the involvement of unnecessary preparations for trial if everybody leaves guilty pleas to the last possible moment.” Ken Clarke, Justice Secretary, House of Commons debate, May 17, 2011
Ken Clarke has been warning the middle classes are unaware of the scale of spending cuts that will hit them this year, prompting calls from some Tory quarters for him to quit.
Justice Secretary Ken Clarke pledges to end the rise in prison numbers by tackling criminals who reoffend, as he is accused of a U-turn after scrapping a key Tory election pledge.
As Ken Clarke hints at a Cabinet position for Vince Cable and a possible deferrment of the Tories plans to cut the deficit, Faisal Islam asks: is this the shape of the Con-Lib alliance?
Shadow business secretary, Ken Clarke, asserts that a hung parliament will result in the IMF bailing out the British economy.
“The government failed to discharge its fundamental duty to ensure the safety of the public” is the damning conclusion from today’s report.
“You shouldn’t have bullies in government”, according to the former top civil servant at the Home Office. Sir David Normington says Boris Johnson is the first prime minister he can recall who won’t stand up for standards in public life. The former home secretary Ken Clarke and former party chair Baroness Warsi joined a host…
There are just two months to go before we’re due to leave.