With hardly any debate, the Government wants to introduce legislation that will alter our way of life. Not if tens of Tory MPs have their say.
The miscarriage of justice was technically caused by technology – but actually came down to human greed and arrogance.
Andrew Bridgen is Member of Parliament for North West Leicestershire. Follow Andrew on Twitter. In 2011 when I commented on this website on the reforms to the structure of the NHS, I wrote that the organisation had ‘Stalinist Protectionist Elements’. At the time I was subjected to criticism from those who thought the phrase was too […]
Andrew Bridgen is Member of Parliament for North West Leicestershire. Follow Andrew on Twitter. The result of the election for the next French President will undoubtedly have an impact on the UK both politically and economically. With a socialist being the likely winner, first instincts are that this would be bad news for the Conservative […]
Andrew Bridgen is Member of Parliament for North West Leicestershire. Follow Andrew on Twitter. As we look back on the first two years of this Coalition Government, we should ask which issue or action caused the most significant sustained jump in the Conservative Party opinion poll ratings? An action that gave our Party a share […]
Andrew Bridgen is Conservative MP for North West Leicestershire. Successive Government’s have argued that the UK needs to be part of the European Union so it can influence its direction and its directives. The Government has the perfect opportunity to put this to the test following recommendations put forward by the Lofstedt review on Health […]
Andrew Bridgen is Conservative MP for North West Leicestershire. This weekend, like all of my Parliamentary colleagues, I will be attending Remembrance services in my constituency. It is a weekend when I feel honoured to be in a position to lead tributes in towns and villages in North West Leicestershire and remember those who gave […]
Andrew Bridgen is the Member of Parliament for North West Leicestershire. Last week the Deputy Prime Minister made a speech on growth. I applaud the sentiments and actions from this speech but I have to ask the question: if Nick Clegg and Vince Cable are serious about growth, why are headlines appearing suggesting Nick Clegg […]
Andrew Bridgen is Conservative MP for North West Leicestershire. As we enter recess and in the spirit of helpfulness, I am prepared to offer myself in the role of travel agent for the Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls where he may soak up the culture and perhaps find time to speak to some of George Osborne’s […]
Andrew Bridgen is Conservative MP for North West Leicestershire. When I look up a definition for the National Health Service, the most common definition is ‘the system of national medical services since 1948, financed mainly by taxation’. This seems a fair enough explanation. Medical services, free at the point of need, financed by taxation. Nowhere […]
Andrew Bridgen is Conservative MP for North West Leicestershire. In 1999 I was actively involved in the Business for Sterling and NO campaigns, working and campaigning against Britain’s adoption of the Euro. Like many businessmen and women and who understood economics, I could see that the Euro was a political project that was destined to […]
Andrew Bridgen is Conservative MP for North West Leicestershire. For those of you who have watched the classic Blackadder goes Forth series, you may remember a scene where Blackadder refers to the lawyer Bob Massingbird, who, he claims, is the finest legal mind in British history and, in the case of the ‘Bloody Knife’, a […]
Andrew Bridgen MP is Conservative MP for North West Leicestershire. I’ve always been a great believer in the quote that “Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it”. So when Alistair Darling brought in the 50p tax rate, I naturally assumed that he did not take on board the sentiments of […]
Andrew Bridgen is MP for North West Leicestershire and explains here the background to the Private Member's Bill he will be introducing later in this parliamentary session. Normally being drawn twelfth in the Private Member's Bills ballot would not be considered that hopeful, but this is an eighteen-month Parliament so there should be more time […]
Andrew Bridgen is Member of Parliament for North West Leicestershire. Follow Andrew on Twitter. To many fellow Conservatives who have taken the view that HS2 is a White Elephant, we find ourselves in a strange position today by being in agreement with an article written by Lord Mandelson in which he states HS2 could be an […]