Whitehall cost-cutting must not be allowed to damage the status of the government's annual human rights report, Sir Menzies Campbell warned yesterday.
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Scotsman on 23rd Aug 2010 (via news.scotsman.com)
Former Liberal Democrat leader Sir Menzies Campbell warns the prime minister against "watering down" the UK's commitment to human rights.
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BBCPolitics on 21st Aug 2011 (via bbc.co.uk)
Sir Menzies Campbell has said fellow Liberal Democrat MPs could be "emboldened" to follow him in voting against increased tuition fees, in breach of coalition agreements.
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Telegraph on 18th Jun 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
SIR Menzies Campbell today adds to the criticism of Gordon Brown over his funding of the Iraq war, saying his claim that he had always given military chiefs everything they as
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Scotsman on 7th Mar 2010 (via news.scotsman.com)
FORMER Liberal Democrat leader Sir Menzies Campbell today turned on both Labour and the Tories as he said it was his party that offered voters a "fair future".
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Scotsman on 19th Apr 2010 (via news.scotsman.com)
Sir Menzies Campbell is to chair an inquiry into the police raid on the Commons office of Tory MP Damian Green.
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BBCPolitics on 10th Jul 2009 (via news.bbc.co.uk)
Late last year, Scottish Liberal Democrat Leader Willie Rennie appointed North East Fife MP and former leader Sir Menzies Campbell to chair a Commission on Home and Community Rule to set out exactly how a liberal Scotland would divide up government power. Uniquely, our party looks at ways of devolving power from as well as
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 25th Jan 2012 (via libdemvoice.org)
Here's the latest in our Bookbenchers series of posts. This week, Sir Menzies Campbell pulled up a pew and told us what he's reading. What book’s on your bedside table at the moment? The End of the Party by Andrew Rawnsley. What book would you read to your children? Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson to my grandchildren. What literary character would you...
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Spectator on 15th Oct 2011 (via spectator.co.uk)
THE prospect of a future SNP-Lib Dem coalition in the Scottish Parliament looked more distant than ever yesterday after a major spat between Sir Menzies Campbell and Alex Salm
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Scotsman on 14th Mar 2009 (via news.scotsman.com)
Sir Menzies Campbell, the former Liberal Democrat leader, has warned that the Coalition's decision to cut defence spending at the same time as it takes on missions in Libya have "come home to roost".
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Telegraph on 21st Jun 2011 (via telegraph.feedsportal.com)
Sir Menzies Campbell MP, marks his return to front-line politics with the publication of report into the state of the ‘military covenant’ and Britain’s defence policy. The report, commissioned by Liberal Democrat Leader Nick Clegg, sets out the tough choices required if the ‘military covenant’ is to be honoured. Sir Menzies argues that unless defence strategy is funda...
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LibDems on 26th Sep 2008 (via libdems.org.uk)