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James Cleverly
Conservative member of the London Assembly
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I think the reference to TA Officers is a ConHome sub-editing issue rather than the H&F policy issue.
The plan is for members of the TA (all ranks) to be eligible.
Hammersmith & Fulham plans housing preference for TA members and Special Constables
I am pleased to report that my council, Hammersmith and Fulham, plans to be the first in the country to put members of the Territorial Army as well as members of the regular armed forces, at the front of the housing queue. We were the first in the country to start prioritising working househol...
The department made a mistake which was presented as fact by the SoS, Michael apologised for the mistake. This chain of events is unfortunate but these things happen, the idea that this was some cynical act is comic.
Watson's behaviour was childish and so poorly acted as to be incredible, he goes from complete calm to furious and back to calm in about 10 seconds. He has got his Youtube moment which is, I suspect, all he was after.
Tom Watson calls Michael Gove a "miserable pipsqueak of a man"
Great news, a result for both Nicola and the association.
Nicola Bates selected to take on Nick Clegg in Sheffield Hallam
After the short-lived candidacy of Daniel Gage, Nicola Bates has now been selected to contest Sheffield Hallam, the seat of Lib Dem leader, Nick Clegg. Nicola is a 29-year old PR consultant, specialising in Government Relations, who was educated at the University of York. She has served as a S...
As Teesbridge said a ban on employing family members would not prevent this from happening: "Tufton Bufton MP will employ the fragrant Mrs Gore-Blimey, while quite by chance Tarquin Gore-Blimey MP will employ the equally fragrant Mrs Bufton". Nor would it prevent the employment of the child of the Association chairman etc.
MPs work funny hours and if having a wife or husband on the staff helps to keep a few marriages together then I'm not opposed to it.
I would have thought that the simple answer was to stop MPs employing anyone directly. Their staff should be employed by the House and should meet the job spec, personal spec, working hours etc. as defined for the job.
As long as they are qualified to do the job and then actually do the job there should be no problem in employing family.
A ban on MPs employing family members will produce new wave of retirements
Last Sunday Jonathan produced a list of Tory MPs retiring at the next election. Because of David Wilshire's resignation that list is already out-of-date. More retirements are still expected. "At least a dozen, perhaps twenty" was the verdict of one Tory whip talking to ConHome earlier this week....
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