Results 1-10 of 10 for smoking speaker:Charles Kennedy

Budget Resolutions — Amendment of the Law (9 Apr 2003)

Mr Charles Kennedy: ...As a country, we should be doing more to prepare our way for entry into the euro. We certainly look forward with considerable interest to the statement at the beginning of June to see whether white smoke emanates from No. 10 or No. 11, depending on what is going to happen—

Budget Resolutions — Amendment of the Law (9 Apr 2003)

Mr Charles Kennedy: ...a more transparent system of fair taxation. They want it to be devoted—properly and efficiently, through more local accountability—to vital public services, and they want less of the smoke and mirrors that has been such a defining feature of the last six years. That is the approach taken by the Liberal Democrats. We are willing to confront people with the fact that one cannot...

Iraq (3 Feb 2003)

Mr Charles Kennedy: ...that the President of the United States and he are objective about the task in front of the weapons inspectors? If Colin Powell produces on Wednesday this week the hard evidence—the so-called smoking gun—that convinces the Security Council of the need for war, will that not prompt another question? If such evidence is concrete, clear cut and so persuasive, why was it not put in...

Budget Resolutions — Amendment of the Law (17 Apr 2002)

Mr Charles Kennedy: ...the value of sterling in the interim and stop the haemorrhaging of jobs right across the manufacturing sector. We are very disappointed with the failure to show leadership and the conflicting smoke signals that the Chancellor and the Prime Minister all too often give out on that issue, but the Conservatives cannot with any intellectual or political rigour decry the decline in our...

Debate on the Address (17 Nov 1999)

Mr Charles Kennedy: .... He made a significant comment to me when I reviewed his diaries, which I thoroughly enjoyed: the smell of politics, whisky and cigarettes rose from each page, as though one was sitting in the Smoking Room of the House. On my way to a radio studio to discuss the diaries with him, I told him how much I had enjoyed them, to which he responded, "The most significant thing of all, Charles, is...

Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill: Beef Bones Regulations (10 Feb 1998)

Mr Charles Kennedy: ...to do so. One was the statement by the Chairman of the Select Committee on Agriculture, the hon. Member for Mid-Worcestershire (Mr. Luff), that the Minister of Agriculture had been spotted in the Smoking Room. The second was that his absence from the Chamber is all the more remarkable since I am certain that, a few minutes ago, there was a rare sighting of that most exotic bird, the...

Bills Presented: European Union (20 Jun 1996)

Mr Charles Kennedy: ...the Government or not—the Liberal Democrats did not, and we have been consistent in our opposition to the entire non-co-operation approach. But Labour has sent out confusing and conflicting smoke signals to appease more than one audience, and it has not come out with any great credit. In the run-up to Florence, the potential deal on the table seems to depend on who blinks first,...

Fisheries and Aquaculture (15 Nov 1990)

Mr Charles Kennedy: ...been receiving from the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland has helped to influence opinion at the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. Scottish Members try to read the smoke signals from the Scottish Office. However, the way things are going between the Minister of State and the Secretary of State, "smoke signals" is probably an understatement. The word "arson"...

Orders of the Day — National Health Service and Community Care Bill: Special Health Boards (13 Mar 1990)

Mr Charles Kennedy: ...Security. We shall go on to one aspect of that later. Those obligations must be borne in mind as well as worthwhile and valuable initiatives such as the Minister outlined. Like the two other smoking sinners, and as the third member of that triumvirate in the House, and with national no-smoking day almost upon us, such is the extent to which I am moved by the Minister that I shall have a...

Oral Answers to Questions — Social Services: Health Education Officers (25 Mar 1986)

Mr Charles Kennedy: ...who is still trying to give up, but failing abysmally. In view of the announcements that were made yesterday by the Department about the extra action to be taken against the promotion of cigarette smoking, I put it to the Minister that the balance between the funds that the Health Education Council enjoys and the amounts that the tobacco companies can spend on advertising should be...