Latest James Purnell News
- Now Cabinet turns on wounded Brown 26 Jul 2008 02:09 GMT
... appeared yesterday as Labour MPs urged senior ministers to tell him to quit after the ... contest. And The Independent has learnt that James Purnell, the Work and Pensions Secretary, and a rising star in the Cabinet, ...
- UK Cabinet turns on wounded Brown 26 Jul 2008 01:54 GMT
... appeared yesterday as Labour MPs urged senior ministers to tell him to quit after the ... contest. And The Independent has learnt that James Purnell, the Work and Pensions Secretary, and a rising star in the Cabinet, ...
- Division over Brown deepens 26 Jul 2008 00:30 GMT
... across the country, David Cameron as prime minister would face a rump of about 20 ... is no obvious successor. David Miliband, foreign secretary, would be the frontrunner, but his would ... wield the knife? Cabinet Blairites – including James Purnell, John Hutton, Ruth Kelly and David Miliband ...
- Things only got worse 25 Jul 2008 23:57 GMT
... that be a surprise? For all that ministers prattle on about listening and learning, their ... tackle tax evasion, while Work & Pensions Secretary James Purnell declared war on incapacity benefit claimants and ...
- Back to work in Brown's Britain 25 Jul 2008 22:34 GMT
... in 1997, he appointed Frank Field as minister for welfare reform and told him to "think ... for a decade. Now a new minister, James Purnell, has put it back again and the ...
- Labour Loses Glasgow By-Election 25 Jul 2008 19:37 GMT
... of a "political earthquake." The British Prime Minister talks to TIME's Michael Elliott about the ... Labour cabinet ministers: David Miliband, Alan Johnson, James Purnell and Ed Balls. Party insiders also tip ... Labour veteran who has served as Foreign Secretary and Home Secretary, to play a key ...
- Glasgow by-election disaster for Brown 25 Jul 2008 03:32 GMT
... Mr Brown to step down as Prime Minister or risk leading the party to disaster at ... David Miliband, Jack Straw, Alan Johnson or James Purnell could replace him. The day before polling, ...
- Real Issues: Equality, Education, Welfare 24 Jul 2008 22:56 GMT
... focus on personal responsibility and encouraging people to move off benefits and into employment. James Purnell, British Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, has released a public consultation paper on a ...
- Evolution, not revolution 24 Jul 2008 18:13 GMT
... of welfare reform on July 21st by James Purnell, the work and pensions secretary, is a tacit admission that Labour has ... already in a mess. Stephen Timms, a minister in Mr Purnell’s department, points to the ...
- How do income support and incapacity benefit work? 24 Jul 2008 17:10 GMT
... biggest shake-up to welfare in Britain since 1942" is how describes Work and Pensions Secretary James Purnell's proposals. At their heart, notes , is the abolition of "two of the benefit ...
- The miracle cure in a poisoned chalice 24 Jul 2008 16:14 GMT
... chalice THE miracle cure for so-called dole and benefit scroungers – the blueprint the minister James Purnell unveiled on Monday – has been given gung-ho headlines, especially in the tabloids. It ...
- How Labour's tough talk on benefits missed the point 24 Jul 2008 12:16 GMT
... never going to look soft-hearted. Not that James Purnell's launch was intended to bring comfort to ... people off benefits. Even the former Tory minister Peter Lilley (who boasted of having a ... "little list" of benefit cheats) praised the secretary of state for taking over where he, ...
- What the Tories think of James Purnell 24 Jul 2008 12:09 GMT
... What the Tories think of James Purnell Ok, so it seems like you CoffeeHousers generally don't agree with our appraisal of ...
- Ok, so it seems like you CoffeeHousers generally don't agree with our appraisal of... 24 Jul 2008 11:47 GMT
... What the Tories think of James Purnell Ok, so it seems like you CoffeeHousers generally don't agree with our appraisal of ...
- Labour's lifted welfare reform policies 24 Jul 2008 00:37 GMT
... James Purnell says "the Tories still don't get it" ... Grayling is the shadow work and pensions secretary section. It was last updated at 00:15 ...
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