Simon Hughes Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change - sideways since he had nothing to do as no longer party president.Steve Webb Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions - sideways.David Heath Shadow Leader of the House - return of euro-rebelJenny Willott Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - pad out the female countDavid Howarth Shadow Secretary of State for Justi...

For Urgent Attention From George Galloway MP - Arrangements for Rally in Kensington on 10 January To the Rt Hon Andy Burnham MP Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport 8th January 2008 Dear Andy, I’m writing as one of the officers of the Stop the War Coalition, and one of the leaders of the current protests against the Israeli

Highlights from the full story: Simon Hughes: Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Steve Webb: Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions David Heath: Shadow Leader of the House Jenny Willott: Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster David Howarth: Shadow Secretary of State for Justice Susan Kramer: chosen to leave the shadow cabinet to take up

When David Cameron was elected leader three years ago, there was some doubt about how long Andrew Mitchell, as a supporter of David Davis's leadership campaign, would remain in the shadow cabinet. But Mr Mitchell has proved to be one of the sharpest characters in the Shadow Cabinet, and appears to be highly regarded by David Cameron. As Shadow Secretary of State for International Development,...

A table-tennis match on Jan. 7 in Beijing marked the 30-year anniversary of the establishment of normalized diplomatic relations between China and the United States on Jan. 1, 1979. U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte, center left, and China's Vice Foreign Minister Wang Guangya, center right, attended. In April 1971, China invited the U.S. table-tennis team to visit in what Time ma...

Harry Reid punts Blago's choice for the Senate back to Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White.

Geoff Hoon MP, Labour's Secretary of State for Transport, today wrote to his shadow counterpart, Theresa Villiers, asking her to make clear where the Tories' proposed £840m cuts in the Department of Transport budget would fall. He said: "Unless the Conservatives can tell us exactly where the cuts will fall, no major transport project is safe. "Labour are determined to invest in our...

The next secretary of state did a huge favor for a developer who contributed thousands to her campaign and her husband's library.

Labour's Regional Minister for the East Midlands, Phil Hope MP, has written to Alan Duncan MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform and MP for Rutland and Melton, demanding to know whether he supports David Cameron's cuts to key services in the area. In the letter Phil Hope says: "In 2009 we face a crucial choice: to continue to invest in key services ...

When did we hear this before? The US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, called for a "durable and sustainable" ceasefire - one which should "not allow a re-establishment of the status quo ante, where Hamas can continue to launch rockets out of Gaza". "We cannot return to the status quo ante," Ms Rice told a press conference. Lebanon had to have "one authority and one gun". For those that have b...