John Reid

...Brown's refusal to allow Gurkha veterans to settle in the United Kingdom. During the second, Mrs Beckett and Mr Reid were among a group of Labour rebels who rejected plans to clean up the Commons following the expenses scandal by ending...

In this article: Gordon Brown, Labour, Margaret Beckett, University of Nottingham, Liberal Democrats, and John McDonnell MP

...Army, Labour MPs have told the BBC. The U-turn came after Gordon Brown spoke to former defence secretary John Reid, amid calls from his own party to intervene and reverse the cutbacks. The Tories said the episode had been a...

In this article: Labour, David Cameron, Gordon Brown, Brown U, Afghanistan, Tories, Liberal Democrat, and Nick Robinson

...Brown had personally intervened to reverse the decision. The move followed a series of conversations with Labour critics of the plan, including former Defence Secretary John Reid. "I very much welcome the fact that the Prime Minister has...

In this article: Gordon Brown, Labour, Lindsay Hoyle, David Cameron, Liberal Democrat, Bill Rammell, and Gerald Howarth

...had mishandled immigration. Mr Reid waded into the debate a day after Mr Johnson said Labour had been 'maladroit' in its approach to immigration and that this had placed a 'strain' on jobs and services. 'He was right to accept that...

In this article: Alan Johnson, Labour, Britain, Chris Grayling, Allegation, Dog, and Iraq conflict

...well. Officials are working through a backlog of 450,000 asylum cases discovered in 2006 when John Reid, the former Home Secretary, described the immigration and asylum division of the Home Office as not fit for purpose. There are a...

In this article: Alan Johnson, Labour, Britain, Tax, Dog, Liberal Democrat, David Blunkett, and Chris Grayling

...GBP20m cut in the Territorial Army's training budget, following representations by the former defence secretary John Reid and other senior Labour backbenchers such as Lindsay Hoyle. The U-turn came in advance of an opposition-led...

In this article: Gordon Brown, Lindsay Hoyle, Labour, Bob Ainsworth, David Cameron, and Afghanistan