Showing posts with label Sharon Bowles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sharon Bowles. Show all posts

Thursday, August 27, 2015

Those new Liberal Democrat peers in full

According to Guido Fawkes:
  • Sir Alan Beith – former MP for Berwick-upon-Tweed and former Chair of the Justice Select Committee
  • Sharon Bowles – former MEP for South East England
  • Sir Malcolm Bruce – former MP for Gordon, and former Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats
  • Lorley Burt – former MP for Solihull and former Chair of the Liberal Democrats 
  • Rt Hon Sir Menzies ‘Ming’ Campbell CH, CBE, QC – former MP for North East Fife and former Leader of the Liberal Democrats 
  • Lynne Featherstone – former MP for Hornsey and Wood Green and held several ministerial positions 
  • Don Foster – former MP for Bath and former Liberal Democrat Chief Whip 
  • Jonny Oates – former Chief of Staff to the Deputy Prime Minister in the coalition government 
  • Shas Sheehan – former Councillor for Kew and involved in several community groups 
  • Sir Andrew Stunell – former MP for Hazel Grove and former Department for Communities and Local Government Minister 
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  • Dorothy Thornhill MBE – Mayor of Watford; former Councillor and Assistant Headteacher

Wednesday, August 26, 2015

The Sun names some of the 11 new Liberal Democrat peers

An 'exclusive' from SunNation this evening:
The Sun can reveal they will include at least two ex-MPs thrown out by voters at the general election three months ago, Lorely Burt and Lynn Featherstone. 
Three long-serving Lib Dem grandees who stood down as MPs in May – Sir Alan Beith, Sir Menzies Campbell, and Sir Malcolm Bruce – are also being enobled, alongside defeated ex-MEP Sharon Bowles and Mr Clegg’s former chief of staff Jonny Oates.
The report also says that Danny Alexander and Vince Cable will be knighted.
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Later. The full list of Lib Dem peers is here.

Thursday, March 06, 2014

Sharon Bowles interviewed by the Guardian on bankers' bonuses

The Liberal Democrat MEP Sharon Bowles, ranked by a 2012 survey as the most influential Briton in EU policymaking, is interviewed by Jennifer Rankin in tomorrow's Guardian:
Taking a break between meetings at the National Liberal Club in Whitehall, Bowles says she is not looking to change the bonus cap legislation, but acknowledges that "what angers a lot of people is that the overall sum, no matter what it is called, is too big. And to be honest there is nothing you can do about that unless there is rehabilitation of banking in general back to the ranks of normal." That is still some way off, she says. 
"I think the nature of banking will change: it is going to be harder for the banks to be able to engage in risky structures," she says, citing plans to separate risky investment banking from high street operations. These are the fundamental reforms that matter, she argues, rather than "the bit on the side" about bonuses.