Cllr Mackintosh was born and brought up in Northampton and has been Leader of Northampton Borough Council since 2011
Brian Binley is Conservative MP for Northampton South. It was at 11 p.m. on Halloween, Oct. 31, that Iraqi security forces made their latest menacing incursion into Camp Ashraf. Thirty military vehicles accompanied by 10 police cars entered the camp northeast of Baghdad where 3,400 Iranian dissidents live, intimidating residents with glaring lights and deafening […]
Brian Binley is Conservative MP for Northampton South. The growing difference between what the Office of Budget Responsibility anticipated as our path from recession, and what has actually happened causes me increasingly substantial concerns. Our response seems to be an insatiable appetite to reach for ever more expensive monetary instruments to kick-start our failing growth […]
Brian Binley is Conservative MP for Northampton South. This week’s growth figures do not make happy reading. The Government’s strategy relies on steady growth and rising exports and neither is happening to the extent we need. Growth has declined to negligible proportions and our trade deficit continues to deteriorate. The reason is clear. Demand is […]
Brian Binley is Conservative MP for Northampton South. Much attention has focused on the broad support offered by the International Monetary Fund to the Government’s strategy to restore fiscal control – through adopting a rigorous and robust approach to public spending cuts. The Chancellor has, rightly, stressed the importance of credibility in engendering the confidence […]
Brian Binley is Conservative MP for Northampton South. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton rightly used her address at the end of the recent Nato Ministers’ meeting in Berlin to warn of the attempts being made by Iran to exploit the popular uprisings in Libya and beyond. Sadly, however, she failed to highlight the importance […]
Brian Binley is Conservative MP for Northampton South and a UK delegate to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. After the House of Commons voted in defiance of the ECHR ruling on giving the vote to prisoners, Christos Pourgourides – a Cypriot who chairs the Council of Europe's Committee on Legal Affairs and […]
Brian Binley is Conservative MP for Northampton South. The General Election created some unlikely political bedfellows. A by-product of the coalition agreement has, perhaps unwittingly, been to throw together the likes of Bill Cash and Simon Hughes on the Government’s benches and who would have dared to have predicted such a outcome? For my own […]
Brian Binley is Conservative MP for Northampton South. On the occasion when the German polity decided to turn nasty in their desperate attempts to paper over the cracks of the rapidly dis-integrating European project, it is worth remembering a few truths about the whole dastardly story. Volker Kauder’s intemperate outburst at the CDU conference reveals […]