A panel discussion with Jack Lopresti MP, Jade Marsden, Matthew Elliot, and Mark Wallace on getting the right policies for jobs and enterprise.
They included seven former Cabinet Ministers, the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee and the Chairman of the 1922 Executive Committee.
I hope that, one day, it is no longer just an autonomous region in Iraq, but gets the independence it deserves.
It doesn’t seem to be complete yet, but here are as many of the appointments as have been released to date.
While on the Labour front bench, Watson smiles the smile of a man who knows he will one day have to get rid of Corbyn.
Harman tried in vain to convince the House that Boris is in charge of airports policy.
By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter. Conservative Friends of Israel is an influential affiliate group of the Conservative Party which contains perhaps the largest number of Conservative MPs of any group in Parliament. It exists to promote understanding of and support for the State of Israel in the Conservative Party, and its membership reaches the […]
By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter. Robert Halfon, the Member of Parliament for Harlow, and one of the most successful campaigning MPs in Parliament, has organised a motion, backed by 60 MPs from all parties, and including 41 Tories, calling for the Office of Fair Trading to investigate allegations of price-fixing by British oil companies. […]
By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter It's the London Marathon tomorrow, and five Conservative MPs have decided to take on the great task of completing it for charity. Last year, Edward Timpson and Stephen Crabb ran the Marathon, and this year, Timpson is competing again – with four other MPs who will join more than 35,000 other runners […]
Tim Montgomerie Thirty-nine pubs are closing each and every week. The all-party save the pub group secured a Westminster Hall debate last week to highlight the problem and discuss solutions. Contributions from MPs are extracted below. Karen Bradley MP said pubs are socially useful: "The group shares a belief that the British pub is an […]
Here is the latest in our series of Twenty Questions with members of the Class of 2010… Jack Lopresti was elected MP for Filton and Bradley Stoke with a majority of 6,914. 1. What is your earliest political memory? The power cuts at school in the early 1970s during the Heath era strikes. 2. Complete […]
Jack Lopresti is MP for Filton and Bradley Stoke. Last Friday, Judge Richard Goldstone dramatically retracted the central findings of this now infamous UN report into the conduct of the Israel Defense Forces during Operation Cast Lead in Gaza in December 2008. Goldstone’s Washington Post op-ed didn’t beat around the bush: “If I had known […]