I’m extremely pleased to be here before you today and it’s an important part of my role to speak to the people charged with the responsibility for the effective running of the electoral processes that underpin our overall democratic system. As some of… read more
British officials are not given to expressions of righteous anger; the dispatches in my red boxes usually reflect the Foreign Office tradition of measured and judicious prose. Thankfully, there are exceptions. As we approach Holocaust Memorial Day tom… read more
Thank you for that kind introduction. Welcome everybody to tropical Teesport. When the Cabinet meets next week and various of my colleagues moan about how cold it was in Davos I’ll suggest they try the North Sea in January. Teesport – this is the expo… read more
Chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Sir Stephen Hillier, visited the site of the new £10m Remote Radar Head facility, at Saxa Vord, Unst, Shetland, to inspect its progress. The radar will improve RAF and NATO understanding of the airspace north … read more
Baroness Stowell of Beeston was Leader of the House of Lords and the Lord Privy Seal until July 2016. Tina Stowell was made a peer in January 2011 and joined the Government in September the same year. As a junior minister she led the landmark Marriage… read more