Questions loom large in the Transport arena, like a gigantic camel with endless humps: each one another tax Labour wants to load onto business, drivers, and passengers.
Taking public transport shouldn’t mean putting up with disruption, noise, and intimidation. It should mean calm, reliable, and secure journeys. That’s what we intend to ensure.
Cousin marriage is not a private matter when it affects entire communities and generations. Those calling for reform are not outsiders meddling in someone else’s culture but often members of the very same communities, tired of watching suffering mislabelled as heritage.
The last time I saw my grandmother was via a Zoom link before a few weeks later I gave the eulogy at her funeral.
Whatever the outcome of Sue Gray’s investigation, we must draw a line under the questions being faced by the Government.
Our columnist provides the second piece in our series this week about Brexit – almost a year since the end of transition.
I won’t stand for my constituents being taken for fools or treat like second rate citizens.
The Health and Social Care Bill contains some important measures that you won’t see splashed broadly across the mainstream media.
Being in local schools during recess has brought home just how important levelling up is on the doorstep in my North West Durham constituency.
Essentially, the Solvency 2 regulations make it difficult for our pensions and insurance firms to invest in long-term, secure, fixed assets in the UK.
A basic rule of thumb comes to mind and seems universally accepted: you should be able to keep at least half of every extra pound you earn.
Three issues concern me ahead of the next election: the post-pandemic jobs recovery, NHS waiting lists, and getting a handle on illegal migration.
To build back better, we need to reassure voters that we are the party which can deliver good, high-paid jobs and training.
Remote working has its place, but something vital to us all is lost, especially for younger people, if we lose the opportunity to mix, socialise and learn.
It is a decision that reflects one of the Conservative Party’s greatest strengths: pragmatism. When the evidence, the facts, and the fundamentals change, we respond to that change rather than dig our heels in and ignore the reality before us.