Those on the list who with to apply have been asked to submit a 500 word statement explaining “Why I would make a good Conservative candidate for you”.
Plus: Stephen O’Brien triumphant. What not to wear while canvassing. Commons catering, KFC-style. And: Kensington – that snake-pit of ambitious thrusters.
By challenging the German system of consensus politics, Cameron made himself a hero for a day.
Stephen O’Brien is the Member of Parliament for Eddisbury, the Prime Minister’s Envoy and UK Special Representative for the Sahel, a former DFID Minister and Co-Chair of the Conservative Friends of International Development. The case for a smaller European Union budget is clear: at a time of belt tightening across the continent it is wrong […]
Stephen O’Brien MP is the Shadow Health Minister and MP for Eddisbury. The Conservative Palliative Care Policy is included in ‘The Patient will see you now, Doctor’. Politics lends itself to the imagery of death – to topple a minister is to ‘gain a scalp’, to broach certain topics is ‘career-death’, the New Labour version […]
Stephen O’Brien, MP for Eddisbury and Shadow Minister for Health, questions the future of the supercomputer programme in light of Fujitsu terminating its contract. In September 2003, Patricia Hewitt said: “The principle, the civil liberties and the practicalities of great big IT projects and databases have a horrible habit of going wrong.” Yesterday it transpired […]
Stephen O’Brien is the Member of Parliament for Eddisbury, the Prime Minister’s Envoy and UK Special Representative for the Sahel, a former DFID Minister and Co-Chair of the Conservative Friends of International Development. I strongly welcome the launch, this week, of UNICEF’s significant and hard-hitting report on child nutrition. The report identifies both the key […]