"that he had visited Fox in the Ministry of Defence Main Building on 22 occasions during a period of 16 months. In addition, Werrity was present on 18 overseas trips undertaken by Fox in the course of his duties as Secretary of State. On 10 October 2011 the MoD published a full list of Fox's meetings, from the beginning of his term in office (20 May 2010) to 8 October 2011, and it revealed that Werrity was present at 40 of Fox's 70 engagements in that period. His friendship with Liam Fox began in the late 1990s, when Fox was"
"will be writing to the registrar to make this clear"". During October 2011, Fox's close friendship with Adam Werritty attracted extensive media attention and eventually led to Fox's resignation. Werrity had been best man at his wedding, had lived rent-free in Fox's flat, and been involved with him in business and in the conservative Atlanticist think-tank The Atlantic Bridge. While Fox was Secretary of State for Defence, Werrity had visited Fox at the Ministry of Defence on many occasions, had accompanied Fox on numerous official trips, attended some of his meetings with foreign dignitaries, and had used official-looking business cards"
"MoD's Permanent Secretary, Ursula Brennan and latterly the Cabinet Secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell. Fox claimed that Werrity had never worked for him either in an official or unofficial capacity despite allegations that he was using a source of advice outside the Civil Service, paid for by private funds. Disclosure of increasing amounts of detail of their contact, funding and explanations of their relationship led to Fox's resignation on 14 October 2011 in advance of O'Donnell's report of his investigation. Born in Kirkcaldy, Werrity was raised in St Andrews, Fife, and went to Madras College, where he played rugby in the"
"stage was he acting independently, or out of line with government policy."" On Sunday 9 October 2011, in advance of Brennan's initial report of the result of her inquiry to the Prime Minister, Fox made a statement apologising publicly for his conduct in relation to Werrity, denying wrongdoing but admitting errors of judgement in mixing his professional and personal loyalties. The inquiry was escalated and Fox resigned in advance of publication of the full report by the Cabinet Secretary. The full list of Fox's meetings for his time in office to date, 20 May 2010 to 8 October 2011, was"
"a reminder of the Reagan-Thatcher era and Werritty was given a lead role. The charity also functioned as a counterpart to the ALEC-founded Atlantic Bridge Group, a sister organisation in the United States. Following criticism by regulators that the charity was too politically oriented to be eligible for charitable status, the UK wing disbanded in September 2011. On 14 October 2011, following the furore over Adam Werritty, Liam Fox resigned from his position of Defence Secretary. Adam Werritty Adam Werritty (born 18 July 1978) is a Scottish businessman. Werritty is a close friend of the former UK Secretary of State"
"to ferry Cameron and Osborne from Newcastle to Biggin Hill after the Conservative Party conference. In October 2011, it was revealed that Adam Werritty, a close friend and business associate of then Secretary of State for Defence Liam Fox, was provided with a free desk by Hintze at CQS's London base as part of his £29,000 donation to Fox's charity ""The Atlantic Bridge"". Hintze also supplied a private jet for Fox and Werritty to fly from the United States to London in May 2011. These disclosures led to the resignation of Liam Fox (who was then Secretary of State for"
"Adam Werritty Adam Werritty (born 18 July 1978) is a Scottish businessman. Werritty is a close friend of the former UK Secretary of State for Defence, now Secretary of State for International Trade, Liam Fox. He lived for a period in 2002 and 2003 at Fox's London flat and was best man at his wedding in 2005. The two were also business associates who once held joint investments in the healthcare consultancy firm UK Health. Werritty was reportedly an adviser of Fox's and is known to have accompanied him on at least 18 foreign business trips between 2009 and 2011."
"as Constitutional Affairs Spokesman from 1998 to 1999, Shadow Health Secretary from 1999 to 2003, Chair of the Conservative Party from 2003 to 2005, Shadow Foreign Secretary in 2005 and Shadow Defence Secretary from 2005 to 2010. In the 2009 expenses scandal, he was the Shadow Cabinet minister found to have the largest over-claim on expenses and, as a result, was forced to repay the most money. In 2010, he was appointed Defence Secretary by Prime Minister David Cameron, a position from which he resigned on 14 October 2011 over allegations that he had given a close friend, lobbyist Adam"
"for an interim report of the MoD internal inquiry by 10 October 2011. The final report was initially due to be submitted on 21 October 2011 but O'Donnell's finding were released earlier than anticipated on 18 October. Amongst other findings, the report stated that the former defence secretary had blocked civil servants from attending key meetings where Adam Werritty was in attendance and had also failed to tell his permanent secretary that he had solicited funds to bankroll Werritty, he had also ignored private office requests to distance himself from the relationship. The investigations into Werrity's close ties also revealed"
"2011, The Atlantic Bridge was dissolved by its trustees. In October 2011, ""The Guardian"" newspaper published details of an alleged improper relationship and interactions between Adam Werritty and Liam Fox, culminating in Liam Fox's resignation on 14 October and a continuing official investigation. The controversy surrounded Werritty attending official defence meetings with Fox (notably in Pakistan) despite not being employed in any official capacity by the British government, Werritty's running of Pargav Ltd, and his ties with powerful Tory figures, supporters, and lobbyists through The Atlantic Bridge. Considering the rejected charitable status of The Atlantic Bridge, the question of Fox's"
"Labour Party information on a public Labour Party website, and that with the help of Jason Ede – one of the press secretaries of the Prime Minister, John Key – Slater used the information to attack the Labour Party during the 2011 election campaign. On Saturday 30 August 2014 Judith Collins, a senior Cabinet Minister in the John Key-led National Party government, resigned as a minister in the wake of an email suggesting that she had sought to undermine former Serious Fraud Office (SFO) Chief Executive Adam Feeley in league with Slater. In June 2015, Cameron Slater published a love"
"Private Secretary to the Shadow Cabinet Minister for the Olympics, Tessa Jowell, in October 2010. In 2012, she was made shadow junior education minister after the reshuffle triggered by the resignation of Peter Hain. In October 2013 she was appointed shadow charities minister. Following Labour's election defeat in May 2015 and Ed Miliband's subsequent resignation as party leader, there was some media speculation that Nandy would announce her candidacy in the leadership contest. Nandy declined and endorsed Andy Burnham. In August 2015, Owen Jones, the left-wing journalist, revealed in a blog post that he initially tried to draft Nandy into"
"Darcy Lilo, reportedly for conspiring with the Opposition. Hours later, Philip announced his resignation, as he clearly no longer had the numbers with which to govern. He stayed on as caretaker Prime Minister until Parliament elected a new Prime Minister on 16 November. The Philip Cabinet was initially shadowed by Opposition Leader Steve Abana's Shadow Cabinet. Cabinet ministers from 18 April to 9 November 2011. On 16 November 2011, Parliament elected Gordon Darcy Lilo, who had been sacked by Philip and now had the support of part of the Opposition as well as of Philip's former majority, as Prime Minister."
"revealing in his autobiography ""A Journey"" that he did not think she was ""right for government"" but had to give her a job because she was one of Gordon Brown's key allies; and political commentator Danny Finkelstein arguing that she was ""contender no. 1"" for title of ""Labour's worst Minister"". Jonathan Powell, Blair's Chief of Staff, is reported as saying ""We fired Dawn Primarolo about ten times. And each time Gordon (Brown) insisted we put her back."" Primarolo joined the Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Minister for Children when Labour entered opposition in May 2010. In June 2010 she became a"
"Office, its chief executive Adam Feely, and the Financial Markets Authority, while they were investigating the collapse of Hanover Finance in 2011. Carrick Graham, his PR consultant at the time, and Nicky Hager claim Mr Graham's company, Facilitate Communications, paid Slater $6,555 a month. Slater obliged by writing a series of highly critical blogs about Feely in late 2011. Justice Minister Judith Collins was forced to resign and an investigation launched into her role after an email was released alleging that she was directly involved and ""gunning"" for Adam Feely. Amongst the most controversial of his New Zealand assets is"
"as Minister for Public Service. On 20 January 2011, citing dissatisfaction with the Cabinet being ""manipulated by one or two people"", Bodo Dettke (Minister for Fisheries), Douglas Ete (Minister for Forestry), Martin Sopage (Minister for Lands and Housing) and Mark Kemakeza (Minister for Mines, Energy and Rural Electrification) all left the government and formally joined the Opposition. Government backbencher Alfred Ghiro also defected to the Opposition. On 22 January, Stanley Sofu (Minister for Public Service) also resigned from his Cabinet post and rejoined the Opposition, of which he had been a member until the previous month. On 25 January, Police"
"been raised by Opposition Transport spokesperson Judith Collins. On 24 August, Ardern announced the removal of Clare Curran from Cabinet, and stripped her of her Open Government and Government Digital Services porfolios. These were reassigned to Education Minister Chris Hipkins and Energy and Resources Minister Megan Woods respectively. Curran's sacking was the result of her failure to disclose that she had held informal meetings with entrepreneur Derek Handley in November 2017 and February 2018, which could have created potential conflicts of interest. After a poor performance during Question Time during a question from National's Spokesperson for Broadcasting Melissa Lee, Curran"
"the Treasury in Jeremy Corbyn's shadow cabinet. On 26 June 2016, Malhotra resigned from the shadow cabinet over Jeremy Corbyn's leadership, along with dozens of other shadow ministers. Following her resignation, Malhotra formally complained to the Speaker of the House of Commons about aides to Corbyn and McDonnell gaining unauthorised access to her office after her resignation and ""harassment"" of her staff. John McDonnell's explanation was that the office was a shadow Treasury team office which Malhotra was moving out of, and his office manager who was a key holder, after seeing boxes outside, went in to check if it"
"comfortable majority. This government was always viewed as temporary and Labour had muted looking for a coalition partner following their persevered poor showing in the 1999 election. Developments quickly occurred during the autumn culminating in Tom Middlehurst resigning as Secretary for post-16 education on 9 October claiming he could not “contemplate sitting down at the Cabinet table with the Liberal Democrats”. A new coalition government (officially referred to as the Coalition Partnership) was officially announced on 5 October 2000 with policy details emerging the day later. Cabinet Ministers were then appointed on 16 October and Deputies on 17 October. This"
"was also rebellion within the ranks of government. On 15 November 2011, Willie Penrose resigned as Minister of State for Housing and Planning due to his opposition to the Government's decision to close the army barracks in Mullingar. He also resigned the Labour parliamentary party whip. Tommy Broughan TD was expelled from the Labour Party on 1 December 2011 after voting to reject a government amendment to extend the bank guarantee for another year. Later that month, Patrick Nulty, another Labour TD, also voted against the government. In January 2012, Taoiseach Enda Kenny denied Ireland would need a second bailout"
"Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen was to announce his new cabinet, Henriette Kjær resigned as minister. Henriette Kjær was later appointed political spokesperson and group leader of the Conservative party, but resigned from those posts on 25 January 2011, due to renewed media attention concerning the state of her private finances and her ability to fulfil her political tasks. Furthermore, she announced her intention to leave politics altogether after the parliamentary election held on 15 September 2011. Karina Boldsen succeeded Henriette Kjær as parliamentary candidate on 14 April 2011 but was not elected receiving 2,432 direct votes against 'Henriette Kjær's 10,195"
"ensure that allegations of bribery involving Bernie Ecclestone were properly investigated. In 2011, Thornberry challenged David Cameron over his false claims about wages at Islington Council, campaigning against government measures which Thornberry claims have exacerbated child poverty in Islington, and answering over 1,000 enquiries a month from constituents. Thornberry resigned her Shadow Cabinet position on 20 November 2014, shortly after the polls closed in the Rochester and Strood by-election. Earlier in the day, she had received much criticism after tweeting a photograph of a house in the constituency adorned with three flags of St George and the owner's white van"
"brought in as part of the latest austerity budget and said to Enda Kenny that he would be ""the new Captain Boycott of austerity in this country"". He asked that Minister for Finance Michael Noonan provide EBS staff with the 13th month end of year payment they were being denied. In September 2012, he publicly disagreed with former Socialist Party colleague Clare Daly, saying it was ""unfortunate"" that she had resigned from the party, but that it was impossible for Daly under the banner of the Socialist Party to continue to offer political support to Mick Wallace, who was at"
"relation to the Bank Guarantee Scheme. On 6 December 2011 Patrick Nulty lost the party whip after voting against the VAT increase in the 2012 budget. On 26 September 2012 Róisín Shortall resigned as Minister of State for Primary Care and lost the party whip after conflict with the Minister for Health James Reilly. On 13 December 2012 Colm Keaveney lost the party whip after voting against the cut to the respite care grant in the 2013 budget. Senator James Heffernan lost the party whip in December 2012 after voting against the government on the Social Welfare Bill. MEP Nessa"
"was originally scheduled for December 2010 but a disagreement with the foreign secretary, William Hague, saw the visit changed to July despite allegations that the Sri Lankan government supported paramilitary groups in defeating the Tamil Tigers. As a result of the trip questions were raised about the appropriateness of Werritty accompanying Fox on government trips abroad. Fox had previously claimed that Werritty had never joined him on such trips but details relating to how frequently Werritty was in his company while abroad later emerged. Between February 2009 and 2011 Werritty was in Fox's company on many trips abroad: Wealthy Conservative"
"appointed Shadow Secretary of State for Health on 13 September 2015, the day after Jeremy Corbyn was elected as Labour leader. On 26 June 2016, Alexander became the first of many Shadow Cabinet ministers to resign and call for a new party leader following the EU referendum result and sacking of Hilary Benn. ""I loved being the shadow health secretary. But I hated being part of the shadow cabinet"", Alexander wrote in ""The Guardian"" in August 2016, ""because it was entirely dysfunctional"" and ""so inept, so unprofessional, so shoddy. There was no effort to build a team"". In 2016 Alexander"
"these new positions. McCarthy was close to Taoiseach Brian Cowen on Partnership and other issues and often accompanies him on official engagements in Ireland. In April 2011 after the 2011 General Election it was announced that McCarthy intended to step down a few months ahead of schedule as part of a major reorganisation of the Civil Service. He also announced the Government had decided to create a new post of second secretary in the Department of the Taoiseach to support the Economic Management Council established by the Coalition. He was succeed by Martin Fraser on 1 August 2011. Dermot McCarthy"
"Tetra's boss, to Boulter, Werrity is described as the ""special adviser to the secretary of state for defence Liam Fox."" Werritty's initial meeting with Boulter in April 2011 led to discussions with Fox regarding the sale of a product called Cellcrypt. The 45 minute Dubai meeting in June 2011 was primarily about the possible sale of the voice encryption software to the British MoD. Boulter has claimed that the matter of a legal battle between Porton Group and 3M concerning Acolyte, a EU regulatory approved rapid detection technology for MRSA, and a deal worth £41 million was allocated no more"
"campaign. Shapiro said to Sgro, ""It appears you acted appropriately."" Also the same day, Singh retracted his allegations and apologized to Sgro. He said, ""I now admit I did not have a meeting with Judy Sgro and at no time did she request any campaign assistance from me. Nor did she help me with my immigration problems."" Sgro was the first member of Cabinet to resign from Paul Martin's government. There was some speculation in the media that fellow minister Joe Volpe helped to engineer her resignation given that they had a cool relationship. In June 2010 it was revealed"
"NHS reforms in May 2011, paying emotional tribute to the doctors and nurses who cared for his wife, who had died the previous year, and feared an ""ideological free-market agenda"" which he said would undermine “all that is great about the NHS”. In October 2011, Jarvis was appointed Shadow Arts and Culture Minister, part of the Shadow Culture, Media and Sport team led by Harriet Harman; he moved to become Shadow Youth Justice and Victims Minister in Labour leader Ed Miliband's October 2013 shadow cabinet reshuffle. Following the Labour Party's defeat in the 2015 general election, and the resignation of"
"(Chief Secretary to the Treasury), with others such as Ed Davey and Steve Webb holding ministerial posts, while it has been speculated that the more socially liberal Beveridge Group members were under-represented in the Cabinet, perhaps signalling a 'takeover' of the Liberal Democrats by the so-called ""Orange Bookers"" . However, Group members Norman Baker and Alistair Carmichael each held ministerial ranks in the government, as Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Transport and Chief Deputy Whip for the Liberal Democrats in the government respectively, with Mark Hunter assigned as an Assistant Whip. Furthermore, in 2010 Group members Simon Hughes and Tim Farron were"
"as Minister of State for Housing and Planning. On 15 November 2011, he announced his resignation as Minister of State, due to his opposition to the government's decision to close Columb Barracks in Mullingar. Penrose said: ""I understand and appreciate that significant efforts were made by my Labour colleagues in government, who fully understood the depths of my feelings in this regard, to resolve this matter, but to no avail."" He also resigned the Labour parliamentary party whip. In February 2012, the Phoenix magazine contrasted Penrose who ""eats at the PLP tables in the Dáil restaurant and is often seen"
"On 11 May 2010, Labour Party leader and prime minister Gordon Brown announced his resignation, which allowed David Cameron to become Prime Minister, after forming a coalition with the Liberal Democrats. Among the Liberal Democrat MPs to be given roles in the cabinet was the deputy party leader Vince Cable, who became Business Secretary and resigned from his role as deputy party leader. Cable's resignation as deputy leader caused a deputy leadership election, with Hughes defeating Tim Farron by 38 votes to 18. Outside politics, Hughes is a noted supporter of Millwall Football Club, which whilst considered to be in"