Boris Johnson, my mayor is macho. GB: Cameron contraint de se justifier dans une affaire de trafic d'influence. GB: Cameron contraint de se justifier dans une affaire de trafic d'influence LONDRES - Le Premier ministre britannique David Cameron, au coeur d'une affaire de trafic d'influence, a tenté de calmer le jeu lundi en reconnaissant avoir dîné à quatre occasions à Downing Street avec des donateurs importants, dont le Parti conservateur a publié les noms. Le chef du gouvernement a été contraint de se justifier après la démission dimanche du trésorier du Parti conservateur, Peter Cruddas, soupçonné d'avoir monnayé un accès privilégié à M. Cameron. Depuis deux ans que je suis Premier ministre, il y a eu trois occasions où des donateurs importants sont venus dîner à mon appartement. Aucun de ces dîners n'était destiné à lever des fonds et aucun de ces dîners n'a été payé par les contribuables, a-t-il affirmé.
M. M. M. Le chef de l'opposition a aussi regretté que M. De son côté, le Premier ministre assure que M. Grande-Bretagne : le trésorier du parti conservateur monnayait l'accès à Cameron. Le trésorier du parti conservateur britannique a dû démissionner dimanche, après la diffusion d'une vidéo le montrant en train de proposer à de prétendus donateurs un accès privilégié à David Cameron moyennant finance, une affaire embarrassante pour le Premier ministre. Dans cette vidéo tournée en caméra cachée par des journalistes se faisant passer pour des donateurs potentiels et diffusée par le Sunday Times, le trésorier, Peter Cruddas, leur offre la possibilité de rencontrer le Premier ministre au cours de dîners privés en échange de dons de 250.000 livres (299.000 euros).
Peu après la diffusion de cette vidéo, Peter Cruddas a annoncé sa démission, tout en assurant que ses déclarations n'étaient que "fanfaronnades" et qu'il n'était "pas question que des donateurs puissent influencer la politique ou avoir de manière injustifiée accès aux hommes politiques". "Ce qui s'est passé est totalement inacceptable. Le Labour n'a pas été épargné non plus dans le passé par ce type d'affaires. International : Le gouvernement Cameron perd le soutien de l'opinion.
Les baisses d'impôts pour les plus riches et une série de bourdes font plonger le premier ministre dans les sondages. De notre correspondant à Londres Fin de l'état de grâce. Après avoir conservé le soutien de l'opinion plus d'un an et demi après son accession au pouvoir, en mai 2010, malgré une politique d'austérité sans précédent, le gouvernement de David Cameron plonge dans les sondages. Depuis un mois, l'écart se creuse entre le Parti conservateur, au pouvoir au sein d'une coalition avec les libéraux-démocrates, et le Parti travailliste, dans l'opposition, jusque-là au coude-à-coude. Dans le dernier baromètre YouGov pour le Sun, mardi, l'écart atteint un record de onze points (43% d'intentions de vote pour le Labour, 32% pour les tories, 8% pour les libdem). Selon un autre sondage de l'institut Populus, seuls 37% des Britanniques approuvent désormais l'action du gouvernement, contre 61% d'insatisfaits.
Une gestion catastrophique » David Cameron baisse les impôts des plus riches. Liam Fox met Adam Werritty 40 times over 16 months - UK Politics, UK. In a Commons statement, Dr Fox also disclosed that Mr Werritty had visited him 22 times at the Ministry of Defence in the past 16 months - more than previously acknowledged. He said he was now putting in place measures to ensure Mr Werritty did not make private visits to the MoD in future, will not attend international conferences where he is present and they will not meet socially abroad when Dr Fox is on official business. Dr Fox said he had first met Mr Werritty in 1998 and that he had worked as a paid intern in his House of Commons office while the Conservatives were in opposition.
In addition he said that he had paid Mr Werritty £5,800 for research work that he did for him in opposition. He said that the majority of his meetings with Mr Werritty in the MoD had been "short social meetings" and that in only four instances were other people present. "I accept my personal responsibility for this. " "I made it clear that I was willing to testify that I had never had any such discussions.
Sorry is not enough. Fox has to go and, if he won't, Cameron should fire him | Jonathan Freedland. Liam Fox's statement to the Commons was so tortured that Radio 5 Live asked its listeners to volunteer translations. Photograph: David Sillitoe for the Guardian If the first casualty of war is the truth, then an early victim of scandal is always language. Those in trouble routinely resort to euphemism and obfuscation, and yet Liam Fox's crimes against syntax still stand out as in a class of their own. Consider the torture he inflicted on the language in his Sunday statement. It began: "I accept that it was a mistake to allow distinctions to be blurred between my professional responsibilities and my personal loyalties to a friend.
" Distinctions to be blurred. What a choice phrase that is, its use of the passive voice so deliberate and so telling. Illustration by Belle Mellor In the House of Commons, however, the defence secretary surpassed himself. That formulation was so tortured that Radio 5 Live asked its listeners to volunteer translations. It wasn't always this way. This Tory rebellion over Europe tells us nothing we don't already know | Polly Toynbee.
The neighbours' house is on fire and a high wind is blowing the flames our way. Do we rush for our hoses and offer to help? No we lean over the fence, shout orders and pelt stones at the firemen, worrying more about our own water meter than the fire hazard. No wonder the French fireman shouts over his shoulder: "You have lost a good opportunity to shut up. We are sick of you criticising us and telling us what to do. " Extraordinarily, that richly deserved riposte has been rare from European leaders. So by the light of that conflagration, MPs debated whether we should stay in, get out or choose the fantasy option – "renegotiate" however each voter chooses to imagine. But the British have not heard that truth declared much in the last two decades. Tony Blair made no great pro-Europe rallying speeches at home.
Support for the union has waned across Europe, but Britain has been exceptionally allergic for decades. Some say let's settle this once and for all, but a referendum is never final. Liam Fox resigns - live coverage. 4.10pm: The defence secretary, Liam Fox, has resigned. More details soon ... How the Guardian broke the story The Guardian's Rupert Neate broke this story in June and has led the way in uncovering new developments. Here's how the story unfolded: 27 June 2011 Government weighs into 'blackmail' row over 3M and MRSA test 13 July 2011 US firm 3M could summon Liam Fox to give evidence in blackmail case 7 August 2011 Liam Fox forced into U-turn over legal spat with US multinational 3M 18 August 2011 Liam Fox's friend set up crucial legal meeting 29 August 2011 Liam Fox under fresh pressure over adviser 4 October 2011 Liam Fox faces questions for allowing former flatmate access to MoD 5 October 2011 Charity created by Liam Fox axed after watchdog issues criticism 7 October 2011 Liam Fox was joined by former flatmate on official visit to Sri Lanka Liam Fox had already been warned over Adam Werritty links Liam Fox, his adviser, and an irregular meeting in Dubai 8 October 2011 10 October 2011 11 October 2011.
Le ministre de la défense britannique, Liam Fox, démissionne. Scottish Conservatives elect gay leader | Politics. An openly gay woman has been elected leader of the Scottish Conservatives after the membership rejected her leading rival's radical proposals to create a new centre-right party. Ruth Davidson, 32, widely seen as David Cameron's favourite, was chosen to lead the Scottish Conservative and Unionist party by a comfortable margin after the most bitterly-fought and divisive leadership campaign in party history. Officials in London believe that Davidson, a lesbian and the youngest of the four candidates, will be able to freshen up the Tories' faltering appeal to Scottish voters. She has only been an MSP for six months after working as a senior aide to Annabel Goldie, the departing party leader and campaigned against any significant increases in the Scottish parliament's powers. Her victory saves the prime minister from the embarrassment of watching the UK party being split by Davidson's rival for the leadership, Murdo Fraser.
She said: "A political party isn't a leader. David Cameron veut réduire l'immigration légale en Grande-Bretagne. David Cameron swept up on the wind of change to Egypt | Politics. When prime ministers encounter a bumpy period there is always a pithy quote at hand from the late Harold Macmillan to explain the challenge. Two of the sayings of "Supermac" – the last Etonian to have served more than a year as prime minister – are apt as David Cameron becomes the first world leader to fly into Cairo since the recent revolution. "Events, my dear boy, events," the old showman reportedly said to a journalist in response to a question about what is most likely to blow a government off course. The "events" could might be blowing Cameron's foreign policy off course are the "wind of change" sweeping across the Arab world.
The "wind of change" was one of Macmillan's other great sayings as he told the South African parliament, during his 1960 tour of Africa, that the apartheid state had to accept the world was changing. When Cameron arrived in Downing Street he said that one of the main priorities of British foreign policy – after stabilising Afghanistan – was to promote trade. Tory MP Philip Davies: disabled people could work for less pay | Society. A Tory MP has sparked anger by suggesting that disabled people should work for less than the minimum wage to increase their chances of being taken on by employers [see footnote]. Philip Davies told the Commons: "If an employer is looking at two candidates, one who has got disabilities and one who hasn't, and they have got to pay them both the same rate, I invite you to guess which one the employer is more likely to take on.
"Given that some of those people with a learning disability clearly, by definition, cannot be as productive in their work as somebody who has not got a disability of that nature, then it was inevitable that, given the employer was going to have to pay them both the same, they were going to take on the person who was going to be more productive, less of a risk. "My view is that for some people the national minimum wage may be more of a hindrance than a help. The mental health charity Mind dismissed the Shipley MP's comments as "preposterous". Big Society, grand fiasco ? | Presseurop – français. Avec son concept phare de “Big Society”, David Cameron entend remplacer l'action de l'Etat par les initiatives locales.
Mais il commence se rend compte que lorsqu'on réduit les dépenses publiques, c'est la société civile qui chancelle. Alors que David Cameron est Premier ministre depuis neuf mois, ses coupes budgétaires, à hauteur de 81 milliards de livres (96,7 milliards d'euros), commencent à faire mal. Cette expérience budgétaire agressive (une réduction des dépenses d'une ampleur jamais vue dans une grande économie mondiale) a été saluée par les rigoristes du monde entier, du Fonds monétaire international (FMI) à l'Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques (OCDE).
Au pub The Bell pourtant, sur les propres terres du Premier ministre, on reste poli mais la colère gronde. La raison ? Un pays de "petites brigades" David Cameron est cependant bien conscient que l'idée n'enthousiasme pas l'opinion. Même les alliés de Cameron sont sceptiques. Tory MPs | Conservative Home. The list includes 46 Tory MPs. Tory MPs are highlighted in blue.
The emboldened names were the first six signatories. [New names in CAPS including people who have since said they will support the motion.] Here's a reminder of the motion due to be discussed on Thursday 27th October Monday 24th October: "The House calls upon the Government to introduce a Bill in the next session of Parliament to provide for the holding of a national referendum on whether the United Kingdom (a) should remain a member of the European Union on the current terms; (b) leave the European Union; or (c) re-negotiate the terms of its membership in order to create a new relationship based on trade and co-operation.
" Steve BakerJOHN BARONANDREW BINGHAM Mr Brian BinleyBOB BLACKMAN Mr Peter BoneGraham BradyAndrew BridgenDAN BYLES Mr Gregory CampbellRONNIE CAMPBELL Mr Douglas CarswellMr William Cash Mr Christopher Chope Mr James ClappisonTracey CrouchJOHN CRYERDavid T. Fox and Werritty: how many blokes see a friend 40 times in 16 months? I'm afraid my first reaction, upon hearing that the defence secretary, Liam Fox, met with his friend Adam Werritty 40 times in the last 16 months, was one of shame. I haven't seen any of my male friends 40 times socially in the last 16 months. I'm struggling to think of a friend I've made in the last five years whom I've seen 40 times in total. I should probably declare something here: I am what is known in my circle of acquaintance as a "bad friend" – thoughtless, neglectful, hard to get hold of.
Seeing a male friend 40 times over 16 months sounds reasonable enough, I suppose, but the idea of arranging all those appointments, the sheer maintenance involved in that level of contact, fills me with horror. You know what? I'll see you when I see you. At the risk of sounding like a sociopath, it seems to me that male friendship is characterised by a certain breezy neglect anyway.