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Read MoreOf course, the media would have us believe that everyone in Elmbridge is loaded. The reality is very different, with diversity across the borough and pockets of relative deprivation. Over the last week I have been dropping in on our Citizens Advice Bureaux (CABs) in Walton and Esher (pictured below, with Linda Wheatley and her […]
Read MoreI have written an article for The Times tomorrow, on the need for protection from the economic sabotage planned by union hard-liners like Len McCluskey. Targeted strikes against petrol haulage and the Olympics are vindictive and groundless, threatening severe economic damage and disruption for millions. You can access the article here.
Read MoreChairman of the National Trust, Simon Jenkins, has an interesting piece in the The Guardian today, rather begrudgingly accepting that the final version of the National Planning Policy Framework (published yesterday) strikes a ‘sensible’ balance. It is worth a read here. The Telegraph also back the revised guidance, summarising the changes here. I support cutting […]
Read MoreFor all the detail of last week’s budget, Ed Miliband and Ed Balls focused almost exclusively on attacking the cut of the 50p rate of income tax. Now, I’m in favour of cutting it because it deters enterprise, raised little revenue and smacks of the politics of envy. But, I accept that there are reasonable […]
Read MoreYesterday, I debated the increasing number of injustices under the European Arrest Warrant, on the Today program. The debate was sparked - yet again - by another stark case, that of Graham Mitchell. You can listen to the package and debate here (at 2 hrs, 32 mins).
Read MoreI have written a piece for the Daily Telegraph today, here, making the case for an overhaul of the inefficient green subsidies and tariffs that are punishing the squeezed middle. Our environmental priorities must make wider economic sense - which, I argue, means a greater focus on research and development, mitigation (especially flood defences) and […]
Read MoreOn 30 January 2011, the Mail on Sunday printed a story based on two second-hand and anonymous sources implying I was a sexist bully in a previous job before becoming an MP. I told the Mail on Sunday at the time that this was a smear, and that ‘any insinuation that I have behaved improperly […]
Read MoreIn December, the House of Commons voted unanimously for reform of our extradition regime with the US and under the European Arrest Warrant. Yesterday, the Prime Minister and President Obama announced a review of the UK-US arrangements. Today, I discussed whether this amounts to a breakthrough on the Daily Politics show here.
Read MoreI blogged recently about my campaign for a House of Commons debate on targeted sanctions against the henchmen who carry out torture and assassination on behalf of tyrants and dictators here. The motion, inspired by the tragic case of Sergei Magnitsky, was debated yesterday. The motion was supported by 5 ex-Foreign Ministers, and it passed […]
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