Monthly Archives: July 2011

“HUGE DISAPPOINTMENT” AT LEUCHARS DECISION

Sir Menzies Campbell MP has expressed his “huge disappointment” that the “committed and passionate” campaign for the retention of RAF Leuchars was unsuccessful. Sir Menzies said: “The decision to close RAF Leuchars is a bitter blow for the local community …

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Just Pay! Campaign For Living Wages In The Ftse 100

Menzies Campbell has signed EDM2023. Motion reads: “That this House notes with concern that an estimated 3.5 million adults over 22 years are paid less than 7per hour; further notes that in 2008-09, over half of all children in poverty in the UK had at…

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RAF LEUCHARS: DECISION “FUNDAMENTALLY WRONG, STRATEGICALLY INEPT AND LIKELY TO INCREASE RISK TO OUR CITIZENS”

North East Fife’s Member of Parliament Sir Menzies Campbell has described the decision announced by the Defence Secretary not to retain RAF Leuchars as “fundamentally wrong, strategically inept, and likely to increase the risk to our citizens”. Speaking during the …

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Point of Order | Commons debates

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Point of Order | Commons debates

Further to that point of order, Mr Speaker. Those of us who were in the Chamber towards the end of yesterday evening’s sitting, over which, if I recall correctly, you presided for a…

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