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Lady Scotland

June 2024

  • A late middle-aged black woman wearing a crucifix talks to someone off-camera

    Commonwealth health ministries under pressure amid rise in climate-related illnesses

    Heat stress and increase in insect-borne diseases particularly acute in smaller states, warns secretary general Lady Scotland

June 2022

  • Lady Scotland

    Boris Johnson fails to oust Lady Scotland from Commonwealth role

    PM publicly stated he was supporting her Jamaican rival, which Scotland’s supporters said was an abuse of his position

September 2021

  • Patricia Scotland

    Caribbean leader warns against challenge to Commonwealth secretary general

    Attempts to remove Lady Scotland run contrary to principle and tradition, says chair of Caricom bloc

August 2021

  • Baroness Patricia Scotland

    Lady Scotland faces challenge for top Commonwealth role

    Surprise nomination of Kenyan defence minister for secretary general comes despite no date being set for summit

July 2021

  • An elderly woman wades through sea water that flooded her village in Kiribati

    Forget GDP, ‘vulnerability index best gauges aid’ to small islands

    Commonwealth research says UVI is better measure of small island states’ aid needs, especially on climate

July 2020

  • Leicester lockdown

    Politics Weekly UK
    Leicester lockdown puts government on notice: Politics Weekly podcast

    Jonathan Freedland and Sonia Sodha break down a chock-a-block week for the government and opposition. Patrick Wintour explains the latest spat in the Commonwealth, and local councillors David Williams and James Lewis discuss council finance pressures post-Covid-19

June 2020

  • Lady Scotland has been under fire from Downing Street.

    Lady Scotland to stay on as Commonwealth secretary general

  • Boris Johnson with Patricia Scotland, centre, at a Spectator summer party in 2011

    No 10 accused of 'colonial mindset' over Commonwealth appointment

February 2020

  • President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih addresses the United Nations general assembly in September.

    Maldives rejoins Commonwealth after evidence of reforms

    Nation quit in 2016 after being threatened with suspension over its human rights record

November 2019

  • Patricia Scotland

    Commonwealth head warns of dangers of denying justice to all

    Lady Scotland says lawyers from across the commonwealth must unite to uphold rule of law

September 2019

  • Canada’s prime minister, Justin Trudeau, with other Commonwealth heads of state at Buckingham Palace, London

    Commonwealth ministers look to revitalise progress on gender equality

    Women’s affairs officials meet in Nairobi to devise fresh strategy on ending inequality

August 2017

  • Newly Appointed Secretary-General Of The Commonwealth Of Nations, Baroness Scotland<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - MARCH 10: Patricia Scotland, Baroness Scotland of Asthal, poses for a photograph in Marlborough House on March 10, 2016 in London, England. Patricia Scotland QC is the Secretary-General Designate of the Commonwealth of Nations. Baroness Scotland will take office as the Sixth Secretary-General of the Commonwealth of Nations on 1st April 2016. She is the first woman to hold the post. Photographed at Marlborough House where the Commonwealth Secretariat and Secretary-General's office are located. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)

    'It’s unfair to call me Baroness Brazen' – inside Lady Scotland's refurbished home

    The Labour peer has been vilified for a £338,000 refit of her residence as Commonwealth secretary general. Is she simply guilty of ruffling feathers as she tries to reform the organisation, or is there a deeper prejudice at work?

November 2016

  • Patricia Scotland, Baroness Scotland of Asthal, poses for a photograph in Marlborough House on March 10, 2016 in London, England.

    Theresa May demands answers from Baroness Scotland over expenses reports

  • Lady Scotland,

    Lady Scotland says she has PM’s backing amid row over spending

October 2016

  • The Commonwealth secretary general, Patricia Scotland, engages in discussion with scientists at the climate-change reversal workshop in London.

    Commonwealth drives strategies to put climate change into reverse

    Highways lined with wind turbines among designs on show as Commonwealth aims to be a pathfinder that can ‘say sorry for screwing up’ on climate

May 2016

  • Patricia Scotland

    Commonwealth chief draws up anti-corruption plan

    Patricia Scotland proposes criminal justice reform network to help smaller countries improve their laws and practices

November 2015

  • Lady Scotland

    Lady Scotland vies to be next Commonwealth secretary general

    Former Labour attorney general’s candidacy has been supported by Dominica, the island of her birth, sparking a fierce inter-Caribbean rivalry

November 2012

  • Sister Ruth Augustus 25/7/12

    'Nun' sentenced for hoax threat letters to Nick Clegg

    Sister Ruth Augustus, 72, sent envelopes containing suspicious powder to deputy PM and other leading politicians

February 2012

  • Greenslade
    Dacre to speak at Stephen Lawrence lecture

    Daily Mail editor joins ex-police chief Ian Blair at special event

November 2011

  • Joshua Rozenberg

    Law: the expert view
    First choice among equals

    Joshua Rozenberg
    Joshua Rozenberg: It's far from clear the government's proposed new panel will succeed in appointing more women and BAME judges
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