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Scotsman
January 2, 2009
In March last year the then Defence Secretary, Des Browne, said it was for Holyrood and not Westminster to change the law to allow deaths of military ...
Scotlands Oracle
December 23, 2008
Mr Murphy, 41, who was elected to parliament in 1997, succeeds Des Browne, who was also Defence Secretary. News of his appointment has been welcomed by Jim ...
Ayrshire Post
December 18, 2008
However, just hours after congratulating his Labour colleague, MP Des Browne demanded an apology from his nationalist rivals claiming that they issued ...
Daily Mail
December 16, 2008
We have therefore gone from a part-time Defence Secretary (Des Browne, remember him?) to a Defence Minister who does it for a hobby. ...
Telegraph.co.uk
December 16, 2008
In one of his last acts before being sacked as Defence Secretary, Des Browne won a battle with the Treasury to spend £500 million buying 600 new armoured ...
New Statesman
December 15, 2008
This will prove particularly difficult for Des Browne at Defence, who has already come under sustained fire from retired generals. But here, perhaps, is one ...
Press and Journal
December 13, 2008
Mr Murphy presented a number of the medals, and praised the
army's work, particularly in
Afghanistan, which he said his predecessor,
Des Browne, ...
Cumnock Chronicle
December 12, 2008
He spent yesterday campaigning with local MP Des Browne and MSP Cathy Jamieson, knocking on doors, visiting polling stations, and meeting local people. ...
The Herald
December 12, 2008
In May, the then defence secretary,
Des Browne, gave the go-ahead for two
aircraft carriers, which would be the biggest
warships ever built in the
UK. ...
West Sussex County Times
December 11, 2008
The carriers received the long-awaited green light in May from the then defence secretary Des Browne. Their construction and assembly at shipyards in ...
BBC News
December 11, 2008
Former defence secretary
Des Browne had given the green light for the creation of HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of
Wales in May. ...
4ni.co.uk
December 10, 2008
The cause of the crash on the Mull of Kintyre in 1994 was re-examined last year by former NIO Minister and later Defence Secretary, Des Browne, ...
Telegraph.co.uk
December 10, 2008
April 1: Defence Secretary
Des Browne tells the House of Commons that plans to withdraw further British troops from
Iraq have been put on hold in the light ...
The Herald
December 10, 2008
It is curious how
Gordon Brown was happy to see
Des Browne, the previous Scottish Secretary, spending only a fraction of his time looking after
Scotland and ...
ChronicleLive
December 8, 2008
Former defence secretary
Des Browne led tributes to Lance
Bombardier Makin when it was decided he was fit enough to return to the front line. ...
Liverpool Echo
December 8, 2008
2008 has seen the departure from
Gordon Brown's cabinet of Peter Hain, Ruth Kelly and
Des Browne plus the demise of a raft of more junior ministers. ...
PRESS TV
December 7, 2008
... the ship's captain, and Des Browne, the then defense secretary who lost his job in October's reshuffle are among senior figures widely seen as having ...
Times Online
December 6, 2008
Des Browne, then defence secretary, lost his job in October's reshuffle and was widely seen as having been sacked. Turney and Batchelor are still serving. ...
Scotsman
November 24, 2008
... Rosyth, Portsmouth and Barrow-in-Furness, creating or underpinning a total of 10000 jobs - was given in May by the then defence secretary, Des Browne. ...
Carrick Today
November 24, 2008
... yards in Portsmouth and Barrow-in-Furness, creating or underpinning a total of 10000 jobs - was given in May by the then defence secretary, Des Browne. ...
Scotlands Oracle
November 21, 2008
Mr Murphy, 41, who was elected to parliament in 1997, succeeds Des Browne, who was also Defence Secretary. News of his appointment has been welcomed by Jim ...
Scotlands Oracle
November 21, 2008
Many of Mr Gould's key recommendations were quickly accepted yesterday by
Des Browne, the secretary of state for
Scotland. Whitehall sources admitted the ...
Scotsman
November 20, 2008
... Ms Alexander and Liberal Democrat Nicol Stephen, have resigned; the team in charge of the
Scotland Office,
Des Browne and David Cairns, have also been ...
Yorkshire Post
November 18, 2008
This was exemplified by the retention, until last month, of the dismal Des Browne as a part-time Defence Secretary and the appointment of Miliband as ...
Daily Mail
November 18, 2008
The appointment of new defence minister John Hutton, who replaced Des Browne last month, has added to the sense that major changes are afoot. ...
Pakistan Observer
November 17, 2008
In the spring, Des Browne, Mr Hutton's predecessor, launched an "equipment examination" in a bid to reprioritise the MoD's spending commitments. ...
Glasgow Sunday Mail
November 16, 2008
He took over from
Des Browne when party morale in
Scotland was at an all-time low after defeat at the hands of the SNP in the
Glasgow East by-election. ...
ChronicleLive
November 15, 2008
Former Defence Secretary Des Browne said: "L-Bdr Makin is a fine example of the bravery and selfless commitment the British armed forces demonstrate daily. ...
This Is Lancashire
November 13, 2008
Mr Straw also told Minister of Defence
Des Browne about Jean's quest, and she not only received full details about the location of her
uncle's grave in the ...
Telegraph.co.uk
November 13, 2008
"I said publicly nothing that I had not previously said to Des Browne (the former Defence Secretary). My intention was to be open and honest about how I saw ...
InTheNews.co.uk
November 11, 2008
In his first major speech since taking over from
Des Browne last month, Mr Hutton argued
Britain's continuing involvement in the country "was and remains in ...
Telegraph.co.uk
November 10, 2008
Mrs Smith and seven other families met the then Secretary of State Des Browne last December but found "a complete denial that Snatch was the wrong vehicle". ...
guardian.co.uk
November 8, 2008
The
Scotland secretary's government duties are fairly minimal (which is why
Des Browne did the job part-time), so Murphy has been able to focus on ...
Telegraph.co.uk
November 7, 2008
... has seen the party adopt a more professional approach and Mr Murphy has also gone on the attack since replacing Des Browne as Scottish Secretary. ...
World Socialist Web Site
November 4, 2008
However, ex-British Defence Minister
Des Browne pointed to wider concerns, saying that protecting the
EU's security and way of life depended on being able ...
Telegraph.co.uk
November 1, 2008
... a "good start" with new Defence Secretary John Hutton, who is seen as more sympathetic to the industry's needs than his predecessor, Des Browne. ...
BBC News
November 1, 2008
In 2006, the Defence Secretary Des Browne ordered a review of the Land Rovers, which had increasingly become known as "soft targets". ...
The Post
October 30, 2008
As for
Britain, Defence Secretary
Des Browne, like Mr Gates, has rubbished the rifts with Foreign Secretary David Miliband letting out an air of optimism, ...
The Herald
October 30, 2008
Three benches behind him the member for Kilmarnock and Loudoun, Des Browne, looked slightly bemused to be viewing events from the perspective of the back ...
Times Online
October 28, 2008
Here's the former Defence Secretary Des Browne, an essentially decent man, not quite pronouncing the S word after a PR gaffe in which service personnel who ...
