"John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan PC (born 8 May 1947) is a British Labour Party politician. He was a Member of Parliament from 1987 to 2010, and served in the Cabinet under Prime Minister Tony Blair in a number of positions. He was Health Secretary from 2003 to 2005, Defence Secretary from 2005 to 2006, and Home Secretary from 2006 to 2007. Born in Bellshill to working-class, Roman Catholic parents, Reid first became involved in politics when he joined the Young Communist League in 1972. He later joined the Labour Party, working for"
"2006 British cabinet reshuffle Following poor results for the Labour Party in the local elections in England on 4 May 2006, British Prime Minister Tony Blair held a cabinet reshuffle the following day. John Reid moved from Defence to become the new Home Secretary, following Blair's decision to remove Charles Clarke from the position. Clarke refused the offer of other Cabinet positions and returned to the back benches. This was John Reid's ninth cabinet position in nine years. Margaret Beckett, previously Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, was promoted to become Britain's first ever female Foreign Secretary,"
"bench as his party’s critic for Democratic Reform and for Fednor (Federal Economic Development Initiative for Northern Ontario). Reid was re-elected in the 2006 federal election, in which the Conservatives won a minority government. He has served ever since as deputy Government House Leader. While an opposition MP, Reid had argued that returning officers in elections should be appointed by a non-partisan agency instead of the government. This measure was included in the Harper government's ""Accountability Act"", introduced in 2006. In May of the same year, Reid brought forward a motion to prevent the Federal Ethics Commissioner from making public"
"the time (John Reid) in 2006. He has served on many national boards, including as Chair of the National Children and Young People's Workforce Partnership of the Department of Education, Deputy Chair of the Social Work Task Force — a joint unit across the Department for Health and the Department for Children, Schools and Families, and Chair of Children England. Bob Reitemeier Bob Reitemeier (born in Rochester, Minnesota, USA) is the Chief Executive of I CAN, a post he took up in January 2016. He was previously Chief Executive of Essex Community Foundation between 2012 and 2015 and The Children's"
"and he was dropped from cabinet entirely on February 27, 2006. During his time as government services minister, Reid announced that the Charest government would replace an information management system approved by the previous ministry. Reid supported the Charest government's plan to sell part of the Mont-Orford National Park to private interests in 2006, despite the concerns of environmental groups and some Liberal backbenchers. Critics noted that Reid was the friend of a key developer who stood to benefit from the sale, although Reid responded that his friend was only one of many potential buyers. Reid was narrowly re-elected in"
"2006 he was appointed by the University of Glasgow as an Honorary Professor in the School of Law. Between 2008 and 2011 he was an independent adviser on the Scottish Ministerial Code. In September 2009, Reid was appointed by the National Trust for Scotland to lead a wide-ranging internal governance review. Reid produced a report, making a range of recommendations that were accepted by the Trust. He was an Electoral Commissioner from 2010 to 2014. In 2013 he underwent major surgery for bladder cancer. He resigned all his positions, then made a good recovery. After relief efforts for the 1988"
"Reid Government The Reid Government refers to the period of federal executive government of Australia led by Prime Minister George Reid. It lasted from 18 August 1904 - 5 July 1905. Reid was the one and only Prime Minister of Australia to belong to the Free Trade Party. Allan McLean of the Protectionist Party served as deputy. George Reid led the Free Trade Party and was Opposition Leader for 6 of the Australian Parliament's first 7 years of existence. The major issue of the first General Election of March 1901 was to be whether or not Australia would be established"
"Institute for International and Comparative Law from 2001 to 06, and of the UN Task Force on Access to Justice since 2006. He is Convener of the charity Children in Scotland (since 2006) and Chairman of the University of Edinburgh Centre for Commercial Law (since 2008). He has been an Honorary Professor of Law at Glasgow Caledonian University since 2005, and the School of Law of the University of Glasgow since 2006. On 20 December 2011, it was announced that Reed would replace the late Lord Rodger of Earlsferry as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom."
"with the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food into the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. All departments were given their own Secretaries of State. In May 2002, the Local Government and the Regions portfolios were separated from Transport and given to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, which in turn became the Department for Communities and Local Government in May 2006. From 1997 to 2001, the Ministers of State with responsibility for Transport were: John Reid attended cabinet meetings, but was not formally a member of the cabinet, whereas Gavin Strang was given a seat in the"
"in May 1995. In the late 1980s/early 1990s, he served as a School governor first at Stonehill High Birstall, then at Highgate Primary School in Sileby. He married Sarah Elizabeth Chester in August 1992 at Glenfield Methodist church Leicestershire and lives in Quorn in the Loughborough constituency with Sarah and their son (born March 1999) and daughter (born April 2002). Reed first stood for Loughborough in 1992. His 1997 election followed boundary changes which saw the previous incumbent, Conservative Health Secretary Stephen Dorrell move with his key rural voters to the newly created Charnwood constituency. Prior to the 2001 election"
"Clarke's resignation, not only from the opposition; Clarke reportedly offered to resign, but Tony Blair, the Prime Minister, refused to accept. However, in the wake of a poor Labour performance in the local council elections of 4 May 2006, Clarke was dismissed in the biggest cabinet upheaval in the history of the Blair governments, to be replaced by Defence Secretary John Reid. Having reputedly turned down the offer of Defence Secretary by Tony Blair, Clarke became a backbencher. At the end of June 2006, he did a series of interviews in which he criticised John Reid for claiming that the"
"2005 and fully supported Scottish independence. He died in 2010 after a long illness. Reid was born in Govan, Glasgow, then a major British shipbuilding centre. In his youth, Reid joined the Young Communist League and was later a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain. He was involved in organising a major apprentices' strike at the Clyde shipyards in 1951. Reid came to prominence in the early 1970s, when he led the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders work-in to try to stop Edward Heath's Conservative government from closing down the shipyards on the River Clyde. The government had decided that"
"of Minnesota (an environmental non-profit organization which manages a revolving land trust of across the state) from May 2008 to November 2008. Reed is a member of the Medical Reserve Corps and was deployed in the aftermaths of the 2005 Louisiana Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and the 2007 Interstate 35-W bridge collapse. She was the Independence Party of Minnesota's candidate for lieutenant governor in 2006. She served on the Minnesota Governor's Health Care Transformation Task Force in 2007-2008. In 2011 Reed became the Executive Director of the Nobel Peace Prize Forum, recasting it as a high-tech international event, securing participation"
"further away from them. Reid also caused controversy in August 2006 by calling for the creation of an independent committee to impose a national annual limit on the number of immigrants entering the UK. ""The Guardian"" claimed that Reid was ""playing to the racist gallery"" and compared his plans to Soviet-style central planning of the economy. Because of the prisons' overcrowding crisis in Birmingham, on 9 October 2006 he announced emergency measures amid fears that the prison population was nearing maximum capacity. Reid has announced his support of measures to restrict the ability of extremist messages to be disseminated on"
"the November 2, 2010 general election. Rory Reid Rory Jason Reid (born July 11, 1963) is an American attorney and politician. He served as elected Chairman of the Clark County Commission in Clark County, Nevada and was the Democratic nominee for Governor of Nevada in the 2010 gubernatorial election. Reid is a member of the Democratic Party and a son of former United States Senator Harry Reid. In 2007, the ""Las Vegas Sun"" called Reid a political ""rising star"" in Nevada. Reid declined to run for Governor of Nevada again in 2014. Reid was born on July 11, 1963 in"
"troubled Northern Ireland Assembly. Reid also joined the European Union's Caucasus-Caspian diplomatic commission. On 19 April 2007 he was made a Freeman of the County of Clackmannanshire. He had his portrait taken by photographer Harry Benson the same year. He was then appointed Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in January 2008, to serve as the Queen's personal representative to the Church of Scotland. This position is second only to the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh in the ceremonial Order of Precedence. He served as Lord Lieutenant of Clackmannanshire from 2011 to 2014. In"
"the 2007 provincial election, which reduced the Liberals to a minority government. He was returned to a third term in the 2008 election, as the Liberals regained majority status. He has not been returned to cabinet. In 2010, Reid and Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper announced funding for a new arena in honour of hockey coach Pat Burns, who was suffering from and later died of terminal cancer. The arena is located in Stanstead, in Reid's Orford division. Pierre Reid Pierre Reid (born August 16, 1948) is a Canadian politician and educator in the province of Quebec. He served in"
"Party candidate for the riding of Lanark-Carleton. From 1998 to 2004, Reid was the president of the evangelical Christian organization Focus on the Family Canada. He promoted conservative Christian family values, while actively campaigning against issues such as divorce, abortion and same-sex marriage. In 2004, Reid left Focus on the Family Canada to become Vice-President of Current Corporation, a high-tech firm specializing in night vision systems for the marine industry. In May 2005, Reid won the Conservative nomination for Richmond and ran unsuccessfully in the subsequent federal election. Following his January, 2006 election loss, Reid became Vice President of Project"
"altogether to make way for new blood. In May 2007, Reid announced his intention to resign from the Cabinet when Tony Blair left office, and stated his plans to return to the Labour backbenches. He stated he would support Gordon Brown in the leadership election and his administration. In September 2007 he announced that he would not seek re-election at the next general election. Reid was linked with a return to cabinet in June 2009 under Gordon Brown but reportedly turned down the offer. In December 2004 and October 2005, Reid voted in favour of a bill enabling the British"
"books; three non-fiction and three fictional political thrillers. He has also written several articles. Ralph Reed Ralph Eugene Reed Jr. (born June 24, 1961) is a conservative American political activist, best known as the first executive director of the Christian Coalition during the early 1990s. He sought the Republican nomination for the office of Lieutenant Governor of Georgia but lost the primary election on July 18, 2006, to state Senator Casey Cagle. Reed started the Faith and Freedom Coalition in June 2009. Reed and his wife JoAnne Young were married in 1987 and have four children. Born in Portsmouth, Virginia,"
"release stated that: Later in 2006, Charles Clarke was dismissed as Home Secretary and replaced by John Reid, who shortly after his appointment made a statement to Parliament in which he described the Home Office as ""unfit for purpose"". In early January 2006 Gieve was appointed as the new Deputy Governor for Financial Stability at the Bank of England. The appointment was for a five-year term, and carried with it membership of the influential Monetary Policy Committee. On 30 April 2006 the UK's ""The Independent"" newspaper reported that Gieve was being pressed to resign from the Bank of England because"
"Pierre Reid Pierre Reid (born August 16, 1948) is a Canadian politician and educator in the province of Quebec. He served in the National Assembly of Quebec from 2003 to 2018, representing Orford as a member of the Quebec Liberal Party. Reid is a former cabinet minister in Jean Charest's government. He is not to be confused with a senior public servant in Quebec named Pierre Reid. Reid was born in Jonquière, Quebec. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Université Laval (1970) and a Ph.D. in mathematics from Université de Paris XI (1974). After working as a computer"
"served, for one term, as a part-time Commissioner of the Ontario Securities Commission. From 1989-1998, Reid was the President of the 170,000-member Canadian Chamber of Commerce, Canada's largest and most representative national business association. In this position, he played a role in the public debate over the federal budget deficit, and the potential economic impact of the 1995 Quebec referendum on separation. Reid served on many boards of directors, including VIA Rail Canada from 2000–2006, and as an Alumni Governor on the Governing Council of the University of Toronto from 2002 to 2011. In 1962, Reid met and married Julyan"
"Party. Reid envisaged a spectrum running from socialist to anti-socialist, with the Protectionists in the middle. This attempt struck a chord with politicians who were steeped in the Westminster tradition and regarded a two-party system as very much the norm. The Reid Government was succeeded by the Deakin Government (1905-1908). Reid Government The Reid Government refers to the period of federal executive government of Australia led by Prime Minister George Reid. It lasted from 18 August 1904 - 5 July 1905. Reid was the one and only Prime Minister of Australia to belong to the Free Trade Party. Allan McLean"
"on the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, before moving to speak on Defence in 2002. He returned to be a spokesman on the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs following the 2005 General Election. He stood down from Parliament in April 2010 and did not seek re-election. His seat was lost to the Conservatives. Breed is a Methodist lay preacher and voted conservatively on issues such as homosexuality. He married Janet Courtiour in 1968 in Torbay and they have a son and a daughter. Colin Breed Colin Edward Breed (born 4 May 1947 in Surrey) is a British Liberal Democrat politician."
"Society. In the 2003, Newfoundland and Labrador provincial election Reid served as the Progressive Conservative Party's campaign chair. The party went on to form government under Danny Williams and Reid was appointed Deputy Minister to the Premier. In January 2007, he resigned his post as Deputy Minister to be re-appointed as the party's campaign chair for the 2007 election. The Progressive Conservatives were re-elected in the October election and in December 2007, Reid was appointed Deputy Minister for the Voluntary and Non-Profit Sector. Reid resigned as Deputy Minister in June 2011, so he could once again chair the PC Party's"
"Home Secretary, John Reid MP, voicing his disapproval of the plans. In September 2006, the plan was approved by Lewis MacDonald, Deputy Health and Community Care minister. In May 2007, the Labour administration lost out to the Scottish National Party in the Scottish Parliament Elections 2007 and the decision was overturned by the new Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing, Nicola Sturgeon. She demanded that NHS Lanarkshire find a way of keeping three fully functioning consultant-led A+E departments in Lanarkshire. NHS Lanarkshire have since developed seven possible combinations of keeping three A+E departments open, which have now been delivered for"
"Reed served as a Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to the Culture, Media and Sport ministerial team, working with Chris Smith, Alan Howarth, Janet Anderson and Minister for Sport Kate Hoey. In 2001 he was returned with an increased majority of 6,300 and became the PPS to Environment Secretary Margaret Beckett, but resigned in 2003 in protest at the Government's decision to support a US-led invasion of Iraq without a United Nations resolution. He retained his seat in the 2005 election but with a reduced majority of 1,996, and was recalled to the Government to be a PPS to the Treasury"
"ministerial team, working with the Paymaster-General, Dawn Primarolo. He stood down from the role of PPS in 2007 when Gordon Brown became Leader of the Labour Party to return to the backbenches as a member of parliament. Reed said that he would not seek Ministerial Office again. Reed was a member of various All-Party Parliamentary Groups and was an officer in the following: Bermuda–Britain (Secretary), Athletics (Treasurer), Balanced and Sustainable Communities (Treasurer), Christians in Parliament (Vice Chair), Debt, Aid & Trade (Treasurer/Secretary), East Midlands Rail Franchise (Treasurer), Health and Wellbeing in Schools (Vice Chair), Hockey (Vice Chair), Leisure (Vice Chair),"
"president of the Association of Physicians of Great Britain and Ireland; of the British Society of Hypertension; and of European Society of Hypertension. He was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2001 New Year Honours. John Reid (pharmacologist) Professor John Low Reid (born 1943) is a British clinical pharmacologist. Reid graduated in medicine from the University of Oxford, then completed his training in clinical pharmacology at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, where he was subsequently a senior lecturer and reader. He also undertook a Medical Research Council travelling fellowship to the United States'"
"Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (1916). In 1969 he was honoured on a postage stamp bearing his portrait issued by Australia Post. George Reid Sir George Houstoun Reid (25 February 1845 – 12 September 1918) was an Australian politician who led the Reid Government as the fourth Prime Minister of Australia from 1904 to 1905, having previously been Premier of New South Wales from 1894 to 1899. He led the Free Trade Party from 1891 to 1908. Reid was born in Johnstone, Renfrewshire, Scotland. He and his family immigrated to Australia when he was young. They initially"
"Gordon Reid (governor) Gordon Stanley Reid AC (22 September 1923 – 26 October 1989) was an Australian academic who served as the 28th Governor of Western Australia. Born in Hurstville, a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, he was educated at Hurstville Boys High School before enlisting in the Royal Australian Air Force, where he served as a Flying Officer during the Second World War. After the conclusion of the war, Reid studied at the London School of Economics in England, later winning a scholarship to Nuffield College at the University of Oxford. Having obtained his Doctorate of Philosophy (PhD),"
"George Reid Sir George Houstoun Reid (25 February 1845 – 12 September 1918) was an Australian politician who led the Reid Government as the fourth Prime Minister of Australia from 1904 to 1905, having previously been Premier of New South Wales from 1894 to 1899. He led the Free Trade Party from 1891 to 1908. Reid was born in Johnstone, Renfrewshire, Scotland. He and his family immigrated to Australia when he was young. They initially settled in Melbourne, but moved to Sydney when Reid was 13, at which point he left school and began working as a clerk. He later"