behind that white cloth. that will hopefully be made clear shortly. sir is expected to place health services at the heart of the campaign. the parties travelling to what it describes as blue while battlegrounds in a bid to challenge the conservatives in southern england. sir ed has been talking to the media this morning and saying he wanted to not only launch the local election campaign, but he also looked at it as the party s general election campaign. he talked about how he wants to offer the chance for voters to come as he put it, send the conservatives a strong message that they want them gone. this is the first of the party launches for the first of the party launches for the local elections taking place in may. we understand it will be health services that sir ed davey will focus on as part of their pitch. we expect him to urge voters to, as he has said this morning, send this out of touch conservative government message about the state of local health services. this ev
intuitive common sense. mr. speaker, i think charles would be the first to admit cheerily that he was not a details man when it came to policy. he treated the necessary, but often tedious detail of policy discussions within the noble democrats with the same attitude he viewed his constituency, admired from afar but a trial endured by others. [ laughter ] at one of his earliest decisions when he was leader of the liberal democrats was to end the long health convention the leader of the party, should attend all of the regular and invariably lengthy meetings of the democrat party committee. it was a characteristically wise decision for which i was forever grateful during my time as leader. [ laughter ] again, mr. speaker his disregard for the undergrowth of policymaking should not obscure his unusually instinctive and deadly serious appreciation of the bigger picture in politics. whether in europe constitutional reform, arguments against national and politics of identity or life
parliamentarians. mr. speaker, if we carry ourselves with the honesty and wisdom of mr. kennedy, politics would be held in much higher esteem than it is today. mr. clark. mr. speaker grateful for the opportunity to make a brief addition to the tribute already paid to the party leaders which i wholly agree. i, too, remember charlie kennedy arriving in the house of commons in 1983 making a startling impression. he was very young. he was a student. he looked like a schoolboy. and rapidly people realized that in addition to all these rather striking attributes, he combined it with being intelligent articulate, self-confident, and capable of addressing the house in a very, very fluent and eloquent way with that joking relaxed charm, which was his very distinctive style which i don t recall anybody else achieving in the way that he did. he rapidly became because he was such an unexpected but unique figure very prominent, not just in parparliament, but nationally, and he looked
work and need to work all the time, and the way we work, role work occupies in our life for most men and women is complicated right now in our culture. the nightingale school about 15 years ago, an all-girl school, had a career day. they invited a corporate lawyer/partner, the mother of a child in the school, to come and speak, and she came, and she spoke, and she talked about all the wonderful things she did as partner, and then there was a question period. these were girls between 14 and 18. first question was, what time do you get home for dinner? second question was, what happens if your child is sick? the third question was, how often do you spend the whole weekend with your child? not one of these girls asked this woman a thing about the law or law firm or her political beliefs or corporate belief, so that the pressure on women who are corporate lawyers is enormous because underneath them, the generation that they re raising are complaining, and with justification, pe
brown, the 18-year-old gunned down seven days ago has just started. brown s family is expected to be there. the church is filled with people from the entire area there. it comes after another night of protests, this time overnight there was bloodshed. police say a protester was shot early this morning and is now in critical condition. protesters stayed out early this morning during the newly imposed curfew. police used smoke bombs and then teargas to try to break up the across the board. police say the curfews will be in place again tonight, all of this as people still have so many questions about the shooting death of michael brown. people have been leaving candles and flowers at the very spot he was killed last week. that rally is under way at a church in ferguson. ed lavandera is outside the church, where inside it looks like perhaps a celebration of life, so ed, it looks like also standing room only. you have a lot of people right behind you at the doors of that church.