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# Shabana Mahmood

Shabana Mahmood (Urdu: شبانہ محمود; born 17 September 1980) is a British Labour Party politician and barrister who has served as Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice since July 2024. Mahmood has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Ladywood since 2010 when she became one of the UK's first female Muslim MPs, along with Rushanara Ali and Yasmin Qureshi.

## Quotes

* My faith is the centrepoint of my life and it drives me to public service, it drives me in the way that I life my life and I see my life. I believe that life is a gift from God, but it's also a test. I feel like I've been very blessed in my life. But every blessing is a test. It's not just something you bank for yourself. You should almost fear your success because now you have to answer for it. You have to use it for good. And that's how I think about my political career.
* [On her decision not to serve in Jeremy Corbyn's Shadow Cabinet] I don't like anything that smells of fundamentalism in any way, religious or political or ideological, it doesn't really matter what it is, in the end. It's quite authoritarian in nature, and in my own life experience of people that are most intransigent and the most prescriptive about what everyone else can say and think and do tend not to be the best of people themselves.
** From an interview, as cited in "Faith, Gaza and racism, by Labour MP who could become justice secretary", The Sunday Times (30 March 2024).
* Hashtag movements are sometimes used to shut down debate and often many women have had to go to court, usually in employment tribunals, in order to clarify their rights to free speech. To clarify their right to believe that for example because you referenced JK Rowling, clarify their right to say that biological sex is real and is immutable – a position that I also agree with.
** From an interview, as cited in Genevieve Holl-Allen "Shadow justice secretary agrees with JK Rowling over gender critical views", The Telegraph (22 April 2024)
* I know what a Muslim looks like. A Muslim looks like me. I know what Muslim values are. Muslim values are mine.
** From her acceptance speech after the votes cast were read out, as cited in Amy Gibbons "Ashworth loses seat to pro-Palestine independent in shock defeat", The Telegraph (5 July 2024).
** Mahmood, whose previous majority/share of votes was much reduced by a candidate opposing Labour's policies on the war in Gaza, faced intimidation during the campaign.
# David Gauke

David Michael Gauke (/ɡɔːk/; born 8 October 1971) is a British political commentator, solicitor and former politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for South West Hertfordshire from 2005 to 2019. He served in the Cabinet under Theresa May, including as Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor from 2018 to 2019. First elected as a Conservative, Gauke had the Conservative whip removed on 3 September 2019 and, until the dissolution, sat as an independent politician.
Gauke served in the Cameron Government as Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury from 2010 to 2014 and Financial Secretary to the Treasury from 2014 to 2016. During the formation of the May Government in July 2016, he was appointed to the Cabinet as Chief Secretary to the Treasury, where he remained until being appointed Secretary of State for Work and Pensions in 2017. Gauke was appointed Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor in January 2018. He resigned on 24 July 2019 following the Conservative Party leadership election.

## Quotes

* It is tempting to linger over some of the confusions and contradictions in the various pronouncements at the conference. We need to reduce immigration because immigrants place too great a pressure on public services and housing. But we also need women to give birth to more children. Presumably, these will not be children who will be born in hospitals, attend schools and live in houses. We need more British people to work so we need fewer immigrants. But we certainly should not be funding childcare support to help mothers enter the labour market. In fact, we are not that keen on mothers entering the labour market at all.
* The tone is pinched and narrow and disapproving but, above all, rather foreign (to use a phrase that might be understood by its contributors). It feels like an agenda for a different country or a different time. And that, of course, is what it is.
** "The National Conservatives are a glimpse of the Tories’ grim future", The New Statesman (18 May 2023)
** Observations on the politics of the National Conservatism Conference of the Edmund Burke Foundation held in London during May 2023.
* First, at the Treasury and subsequently at International Trade and then at the Foreign Office, she became adept at self-promotion. Not that one would pick that up from her account. She rails at the “trivialisation” of politics but was known as much for her Instagram posts as her policy positions; she complains of her time as prime minister about “a growing culture of leaks” but was widely suspected by her colleagues of being the most prolific leaker of cabinet meetings, presumably because she hoped to win favourable press coverage.
** "What’s the point of Liz Truss?", The New Statesman (19 April 2024)
** From a review of Ten Years to Save the West by Liz Truss (Biteback).
# Chris Grayling

Christopher Stephen Grayling (born 1 April 1962 in London) is a British Conservative Party politician and author who served as Secretary of State for Transport from 2016 to 2019. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Epsom and Ewell from 2001 to 2024. Before his political career, Grayling worked in the television and film industry.

## Quotes
### 2016

* It's not us that loses financially if we don't have a free trade agreement, it's Germany and France and other European countries, and that's why of course there will be a free trade agreement that allows all our business to trade freely to and from continental Europe. It will take a relatively short period time in my view because they lose financially.
** Interviewed on Sunday Politics London (21 February 2016)

### 2017

* Did anyone honestly think we were going to walk into a room with the European Union, shake hands, and do a deal in half an hour? These are going to be lengthy negotiations, they're going to challenging negotiations.
* Nobody has ever said the negotiation would be straightforward and simple.
** Interviewed on The Andrew Marr Show (15 October 2017)

### 2018

* [A new runway at Heathrow is needed to secure] a clear path to our future as a global nation in the post-Brexit world.
** Heathrow airport: MPs vote in favour of expansion BBC News (26 June 2018)

## Quotes about Chris Grayling

* Finally we have a confirmed use for Chris Grayling. He is the government's secret weapon to make even the most incompetent and second-rate of ministers feel good about themselves. Not content with having wasted the best part of £14m on the government's first-ever roll-on, roll-off pizza delivery service – all toppings guaranteed to be ferry free, the transport secretary has now spent more than £50K on failing to organise a lorry jam in Kent.
** John Crace writing in The Guardian (7 January 2019)

## External links

* Official website
* Announcements on the gov.uk website
# David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir

David Patrick Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir, GCVO, PC (29 May 1900 – 27 January 1967), known as Sir David Maxwell Fyfe from 1942 to 1954 and as Viscount Kilmuir from 1954 to 1962, was a British Conservative politician, lawyer and judge who combined an industrious and precocious legal career with political ambitions that took him to the offices of Solicitor General, Attorney General, Home Secretary and Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain. One of the prosecuting counsels at the Nuremberg Trials, he subsequently played a role in drafting the European Convention on Human Rights.

## Quotes

* Loyalty is the Tory’s secret weapon.
** Quoted in Anthony Sampson, Anatomy of Britain (1962), ch. 6

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir on Wikipedia
# Hardinge Giffard, 1st Earl of Halsbury

Hardinge Stanley Giffard, 1st Earl of Halsbury, PC, KC (3 September 1823 – 11 December 1921) was a leading barrister, politician and government minister. He served thrice as Lord Chancellor of Great Britain.

## Quotes

* I yield to authority. I think the practice of the Court of Chancery for more than one hundred years, and the authority of Judges of very great eminence, establish such a course of practice and such a chain of authority, that I do not think I am at liberty to assume that either the Court or those very learned Judges were in error as to their powers and jurisdiction.
** Attorney-General v. Marquess of Ailesbury (1887), L. J. (N. S.) 57 Q. B. 89.
* I should regard it as certainly a novelty in our jurisprudence if the regular order of a learned Judge could be affected, or qualified, or altered in the slightest degree by what some subordinate officer of the Court thought proper to say in writing about it, even though in so doing he committed this additional irregularity—that to that private correspondence he affixed the seal of the Court.
** Stonor v. Fowle (1887), L. R. 13 Ap. Ca. 27.
* We should treat with great respect the opinion of eminent American lawyers on points which arise before us, but the practice, which seems to be increasing, of quoting American decisions as authorities, in the same way as if they were decisions of our own Courts, is wrong. Among other things it involves an inquiry, which often is not an easy one, whether the law of America on the subject in which the point arises is the same as our own.
** In re Missouri Steamship Company (1889), L. R. 42 C. D. 330.
* "Discretion" means, when it is said that something is to be done within the discretion of the authorities that that something is to be done according to the rules of reason and justice, not according to private opinion2; according to law and not humour. It is to be not arbitrary, vague, and fanciful, but legal and regular. And it must be exercised within the limit, to which an honest man, competent to the discharge of his office, ought to confine himself.
** Sharp v. Wakefield (1891), 64 L. T. Rep. 180 [1891], Ap. Ca. 173.
* I should regret to place a narrowing construction upon rules intended to remove expense and delay.
** Jay v. Budd (1897) 66 L. J. Rep. (N. S.) 864.
# Richard Bethell, 1st Baron Westbury

Richard Bethell, 1st Baron Westbury PC, QC (30 June 1800 – 20 July 1873), was a British lawyer, judge and Liberal politician. He served as Lord Chancellor of Great Britain between 1861 and 1865.

## Quotes

* Then, sir, you will turn it over once more in what you are pleased to call your mind.
** Quoted by Thomas Arthur Nash in The life of Richard Lord Westbury, formerly Lord High Chancellor (1888) vol. 2, p. 292: Early mentioning of Mental rotation
# John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon

John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon (4 June 1751 – 13 January 1838) was Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain from 1801 to 1806 and from 1807 to 1827.

## Quotes

* It is better that the law should be certain than that every judge should speculate upon improvements in it.
** Sheldon v. Goodrich, 8 Ves. 481, 497 (1803)
* I always thought it better to allow myself to doubt before I decided, than to expose myself to the misery, after I had decided, of doubting whether I had decided rightly and justly.
** In Horace Twiss, The Public and Private Life of Lord Chancellor Eldon (1844), p. 350

## Quotes about Lord Eldon

* I was with you, Mr. Scott — till I heard your argument.
** Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow, related by Scott in Horace Twiss, The Public and Private Life of Lord Chancellor Eldon (1844), p. 79
# Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow

Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow (9 December 1731 – 12 September 1806) was Lord Chancellor of Great Britain from 1778 to 1783, and again from 1783 to 1792.

## Quotes

* I was with you, Mr. Scott—till I heard your argument.
** Related by John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon, in Horace Twiss, The Public and Private Life of Lord Chancellor Eldon (1844), p. 79.
* The accident of an accident.
** Speech in Reply to the Duke of Grafton. Recounted in Butler's Reminiscences, vol. i. p. 142.
* When I forget my sovereign, may my God forget me.
** 27 Parliamentary History, 680; Annual Register, 1789. Wilkes is reported to have replied, somewhat coarsely, but not unhappily it must be allowed, "Forget you! He ’ll see you damned first". Edmund Burke also exclaimed, "The best thing that could happen to you!" —Henry Peter, Lord Brougham, Statesmen of the Time of George III (Thurlow).
* Corporations have neither bodies to be punished, nor souls to be condemned; they therefore do as they like.
** Quoted in John Poynder, Literary Extracts (1844), vol. 1, p. 268.
** This is often misquoted as "Did you ever expect a corporation to have a conscience, when it has no soul to be damned, and no body to be kicked?"

## About Edward Thurlow

* I suppose no one ever was so wise as Thurlow looks.
** Charles James Fox, quoted in Thomas Moore's Journal, November 26, 1818.
# Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden

Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden (baptised 21 March 1714 – 18 April 1794) was an English lawyer, judge and Whig politician who was first to hold the title of Earl of Camden. As a lawyer and judge he was a leading proponent of civil liberties, championing the rights of the jury, and limiting the powers of the State in leading cases such as Entick v Carrington. He was the son of John Pratt.

## Quotes

* A good corroborating chain, if they fail in the last link, the whole will fall to the ground.
** Wilkes v. Wood (1763), Lofft. 12.
* Gentlemen, I speak for myself as well as for you: I never read anything about what may come before me in a Court of Justice; I keep my mind free from everything of the kind. There is often a necessity for me to look into the law: but I never suffer my mind to be biassed by reports, or such papers or pamphlets as are written with a view to pervert justice.
** Wilkes' Case (1763), 19 How. St. Tr. 1410.
* The great end, for which men entered into society, was to secure their property. That right is preserved sacred and incommunicable in all instances, where it has not been taken away or abridged by some public law for the good of the whole. The cases where this right of property is set aside by private law, are various. Distresses, executions, forfeitures, taxes etc are all of this description; wherein every man by common consent gives up that right, for the sake of justice and the general good. By the laws of England, every invasion of private property, be it ever so minute, is a trespass. No man can set his foot upon my ground without my license, but he is liable to an action, though the damage be nothing; which is proved by every declaration in trespass, where the defendant is called upon to answer for bruising the grass and even treading upon the soil. If he admits the fact, he is bound to show by way of justification, that some positive law has empowered or excused him. The justification is submitted to the judges, who are to look into the books; and if such a justification can be maintained by the text of the statute law, or by the principles of common law. If no excuse can be found or produced, the silence of the books is an authority against the defendant, and the plaintiff must have judgment.
** Entick v. Carrington. 19 Howell’s State Trials 1029 (1765). Constitution Society. Retrieved on 2008-11-13.
* Taxation and representation are inseparable... whatever is a man's own, is absolutely his own; no man has a right to take it from him without his consent, either expressed by himself or representative; whoever attempts to do it, attempts an injury; whoever does it, commits a robbery; he throws down and destroys the distinction between liberty and slavery.
** Speech in the House of Lords, on the taxation of Americans by the British parliament, 7 March 1766; as reported in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1990), 2nd edn., p. 60.
# William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper

William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper PC KC FRS (c. 1665 – 10 October 1723) was an English politician who became the first Lord Chancellor of Great Britain. Educated at St Albans School, he was called to the bar in 1688.

## Quotes

* There is no instance where men are so easily imposed upon, as at the time of their dying under the pretence of charity.
** Attorney-General v. Barnes et uxor (1707), Gilbert Eq. Ca. 5; reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, The Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. 245-248.
* God forbid that Judges upon their oath should make resolutions to enlarge jurisdiction.
** Reeves v. Buttler (1715), Gilbert, Eq. Ca. 196; reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, The Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. 137.
* I should have all manner of tenderness for the right of the College; they are nurseries of Religion and Learning, and therefore all donations for increase and augmentation of their revenue are to be liberally expounded.
** Devit v. College of Dublin (1720). Gilbert Eq. Ca. 248; reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, The Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. 242.
* It is a general rule of Judgment, that a mischief should rather be admitted than an inconvenience.
** Devit v. College of Dublin (1720), Gilbert Eq. Ca. 249; reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. 176.

## Quotes about Cowper

* He the robe of justice wore, Sully'd not, as heretofore, When the magistrate was sought With yearly gifts. Of what avail Are guilty hoards? for life is frail; And we are judg'd where favour is not bought.
** Ambrose Philips, Ode: "On the Death of the Right Honourable William Earl Cowper" (1723), lines 137–142.
# Thomas Becket

Thomas Becket, also known as Saint Thomas of Canterbury, Thomas of London and later Thomas à Becket (21 December 1119 or 1120 – 29 December 1170), was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 until his murder in 1170. He is venerated as a saint and martyr by both the Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion. He engaged in conflict with Henry II, King of England, over the rights and privileges of the Church and was murdered by followers of the king in Canterbury Cathedral. Soon after his death, he was canonised by Pope Alexander III.

## Quotes
### Edward Grim's account of the Murder of Thomas Becket

    Translated from the Latin by William Holden Hutton, The Lives and Legends of the English Saints (1914), pp. 253–6
* There has been no satisfaction, and I will not absolve them.
* I am ready to die for my Lord, that in my blood the Church may obtain liberty and peace. But in the name of Almighty God, I forbid you to hurt my people whether clerk or lay.
* For the Name of Jesus and the protection of the Church I am ready to embrace death.

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Thomas Becket on Wikipedia
* Media related to Thomas Becket on Wikimedia Commons
* Works related to Author:Thomas Becket on Wikisource
# Thérèse Coffey

Dame Thérèse Anne Coffey DBE (born 18 November 1971) is a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party, she served as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions from 2019 to 2022 (while Boris Johnson was prime minister) and Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Secretary of State for Health and Social Care from September to October 2022 (under Liz Truss). She served as Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs from October 2022 to November 2023 (under Rishi Sunak). Coffey, the first woman to hold the title of Deputy Prime Minister, was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Suffolk Coastal from the 2010 to 2024 general elections.

## Quotes

* My focus is on how we deliver for patients and I appreciate I may not be the role model, but I am sure that the Chief Medical Officer and others will continue to be role models in that regard and I will do my best as well. I will probably get all sorts of comments, Nick, but nevertheless, on a more serious matter, I have been a patient of the NHS too and have had some brilliant experiences and I have had some experiences where it could have been better. My focus is on patients and that is what I will be making sure the department focuses on too.
** Questioned by Nick Ferrari on LBC after her appointment as Secretary of State for Health, as cited in "'I'm not a role model': Therese Coffey questioned over smoking and weight as Health Secretary" The Telegraph (7 September 2022)
* It's important to make sure that we cherish the specialisms that we have in this country. A lot of people would be eating turnips right now rather than thinking necessarily about aspects of lettuce and tomatoes and similar, but I'm conscious that consumers want a year-round choice and that is what our supermarkets, food producers and growers around the world try to satisfy.
** Speaking in the House of Commons (23 February 2023), as cited in "Thérèse Coffey says turnips could help alleviate fruit and vegetable shortage" The Times (24 February 2023)
** After being asked about too many imports in the supermarkets and the neglect of seasonal food.
* I'm frankly fed up with the right to roam campaign. The only things that have rights to roam are farmers, their pigs and cattle.
** At a British Association of Shooting and Conservation event at the Conservative Party conference "Coffey criticised after saying she's 'fed up' with right to roam campaign", The Guardian (2 October 2023)
# Thomas Olmsted

Thomas James Olmsted (January 21, 1947–) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as the bishop of the Diocese of Phoenix.

## Quotes

* God, our loving Creator, created two sexes. So, femininity and masculinity are linked to the design of God. You see this in a good marriage; each partner anticipates the other’s needs, and appreciates the other's gifts. I've seen this in the marriage of my own parents, who have been married for 72 years. Their love is so beautiful, and their complementarity so evident.
** A Bishop Speaks to the Men of His Flock (26 January 2016)
# Vasyl Ivasyuk

Vasyl Ivasyuk (21 January 1960–) is a Ukrainian Greek Catholic hierarch who serves as an Eparchial Bishop of the Eparchy of Kolomyia.

## Quotes

* We are grateful to God for His large grace and mercy to the people. At the same time we ask all people of good will to pray for the successful building of the church, because we know very well that when the Lord does not build a house, builders work in vain.
** In Kirovohrad foundation stone of church was blessed (30 November 2009)
* This is not new. During Soviet times, we were always accused of being "agents" of the Vatican. Of course not all people in Crimea think we are spies, but there is a very active pro-Russian group there that does.
** Ukrainian Catholics experiencing 'total persecution' in Crimea (18 March 2014)
# Nasty Savage

Nasty Savage is an American thrash metal band from Brandon, Florida, formed in 1983 by vocalist "Nasty" Ronnie Galletti.

## Quotes about Nasty Savage

* Ronnie Galetti used to have all these TV sets onstage that he'd smash, and I remember putting my fist through some of them. Talk about a show, the guy used to roll around in the glass from the TVs, and one night I saw his old lady pulling broken glass out of his back after the gig and I thought, Holy shit, this is the real deal.
** Glen Benton of Deicide "Florida Death Metal's Gory Rise, Groundbreaking Reign: The Definitive Oral History", Revolver (June 18, 2019)
* We moved from Miami to Tampa when we were young, and the first people we came in contact with in our neighborhood were the guys in Nasty Savage and Savatage. Those were the two bands that even got us interested in playing music.
** John Tardy of Obituary "Florida Death Metal's Gory Rise, Groundbreaking Reign: The Definitive Oral History", Revolver (June 18, 2019)
* Down in Florida, people were listening to Nasty Savage and Savatage as well as shredders like Randy Rhoads before the really heavy stuff started with bands like Celtic Frost, Slayer, Hellhammer and Venom.
** Trevor Peres of Obituary