Yesterday’s paper published by the ERG has put the Irish border issue to bed, from a UK perspective at least. Crucially it outlines how we will overcome each obstacle the EU has attempted to throw in our way, keeping the border as it is and preserving the territorial integrity of the United Kingdom. There is no longer […]
Mr Speaker. I am pleased to introduce to the House the first Spring Statement. The UK was the only major economy to make hundreds of tax and spending changes twice a year. And major international organisations and UK professional bodies alike have been pressing for change. In 2016 I took the decision to move to […]
Ask yourself, what would happen if it was revealed that Theresa May had been a member of a closed Facebook group which was a hotbed of racist bigotry? What if Theresa May had been engaged in that group and organised meetings with its members, then tellingly left the group when she became Conservative leader? We […]
‘As reported by the Sun and a few of other newspapers, Public Health England is going ahead with its insane plan to withdraw a fifth of calories from the food supply. Not quite the whole food supply, as the quango has admitted that it can’t take energy out of vegetables, but the targets apply to the following: Egg […]
I am grateful to the Lord Mayor and all his team at the Mansion House for hosting us this afternoon. And in the midst of the bad weather, I would just like to take a moment before I begin my speech today to thank everyone in our country who is going the extra mile to […]
The other day a woman pitched up in my surgery in a state of indignation. The ostensible cause was broadband trouble but it was soon clear – as so often in a constituency surgery – that the real problem was something else. No one was trying to understand her feelings about Brexit. No one was […]
Mr Deputy Speaker. I report today on an economy that continues to grow, continues to create more jobs than ever before and continues to confound those who seek to talk it down. An economy set on a path to a new relationship with our European neighbours and a new future outside the European Union. A […]
A little over forty years ago in a small village in Oxfordshire, I signed up to be a member of the Conservative Party. I did it because it was the party that had the ideas to build a better Britain. It understood the hard work and discipline necessary to see them through. And it had at […]
This was Theresa May’s election: it was her manifesto, her campaign strategy, and all the messaging was for ‘Theresa May’s candidates’. And the Conservative Party has lost as a result. Let’s be clear – no one else has won. Faced with the worst Conservative campaign in an awfully long time, Labour has failed to get […]
It’s become increasingly clear that libertarians are losing the battle for the heart of the Conservative Party – never more so than on the publication of ‘our’ latest election manifesto: “We must reject the ideological templates provided by the socialist left and the libertarian right and instead embrace the mainstream view that recognises the good […]
The leak of the Labour manifesto is either further evidence of the leadership’s utter incompetence, or speaks volumes about the deep divisions further opening between the Far Left and the rest of the Party. If it was a strategic leak; it shows the leadership’s ineptitude as it gives the Conservative party time to hone its […]
When is a Conservative not a Conservative? When they clobber entrepreneurs, increase taxes & spending, and add to the national debt. The press was briefed pre-budget that we were in for a dull affair, and Philip Hammond duly delivered. There was no radicalism, no imagination and – bizarrely – no proactive response to the […]
