Gordon Brown said he would take “no further action” against Attorney General Baroness Scotland after she was fined £5,000 for hiring an illegal immigrant as her housekeeper.
The peer, the Government’s most senior law officer, apologised for the “technical breach” and accepted the ruling of the UK Border Agency, sparking Tory calls for her to resign.
But Prime Minister Gordon Brown said he would not sack her.
* Sorry: Baroness Scotland apologises.
“In line with the Ministerial Code I have...Read Full Story
Under current legislation, introduced by the Labour party, Baroness Scotland has failed in her duty as an employer to verify the authenticity of the paperwork supplied by her Tonganese cleaner/nanny who has been an illegal immigrant in this country for the last five years. In her position as Attorney General, Baroness Scotland steered the legislation [...]
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The real reason why Baroness Scotland hasn't gone yet? Well, there are two.Firstly, Labour MPs are so lacking in talent, Gordon Brown has his hands tied behind his back. Replace a third-rate attorney general with a fourth-rate has been? A definite problem, me thinks. The main reason though is because members of the government know the prime minister hasn't got an honourable bone in his body. He shows no leadership or moral fibre, so why should they?There was a time when I would have predicted...Read Full Story
London, July 30: The Baroness Scotland of Asthal, Patricia Janet Patricia Janet has said Churchgoers should take priests out for a glass of wine or to football matches so they are not tempted to become paedophiles.Read Full Story
In September 2010 during the visit of Pope Benedict XVI to England and Scotland, Baroness Warsi said the Labour government appeared to have viewed religion as "essentially a rather quaint relic of our pre-industrial history. They were also too ...
But Labour's Baroness Scotland of Asthal, a former attorney general, successfully put forward amendments that would widen the sorts of evidence that could be used in legal aid applications and lengthen the time for which the evidence would be admissible ...
The co-chair of the Conservative Party, Baroness Warsi, has suggested that UKIP's increase ... All 21 unitary authorities in Wales are electing new councillors while counting in Scotland - where every seat on 32 unitary authorities is also up for election ...
Baroness Scotland, former Attorney General of England and Wales chaired the opening session on "Anti-corruption - the rule of law and economic, political and social development," with participants from Egypt, Zambia, Hungary, Qatar and the World Bank ...
Among those in the church were former Attorney General Baroness Scotland, Met Deputy Commissioner Craig Mackey and Assistant Commissioner Cressida Dick. Sir Keith Ajegbo, of the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust, referred to the ‘critical intervention ...
Labour spokesman and former Attorney General Baroness Scotland argued that making use of women's refuge services a qualification for legal aid would "exclude many women who are unable to access such services, and yet are experiencing violence". Referring ...
The new Assembly Group aims to tackle the problem through awareness-raising, building co-operation with parliamentary counterparts in England, Scotland, Wales and Republic ... Speakers include, Baroness Butler-Sloss, Co-Chair of APPG on Human Trafficking ...
The changes were prompted by the decision of justice spokesman Lord Bach and deputy chief whip Baroness Crawley to stand down ... Former Glasgow Rutherglen MP Lord McAvoy takes on both the Scotland and Northern Ireland portfolios, while trade unionist ...
13.39 Baroness Buscombe will step down as chair of the PCC ... Sara Payne was visited by officers from Scotland Yard’s Operation Weeting, who confirmed that her contact details were on a list compiled by Glenn Mulcaire. Her friend, Shy Keenan, said ...
Presided over by Baroness Scotland QC, and using dramatic reconstruction to illustrate the crime, we watch the anatomy of a case unfold in the Old Bailey courtroom. Top-class barristers and other experts in the field mentor the young people in the run up ...