MP leads campaign for Westminster lights to go off
Local MP, Dan Rogerson, has publicly backed WWF’s Earth Hour 2010 event and is spearheading the campaign for the Houses of Parliament to take part too. The event, which urges people across the world
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 | Memoirs are made of thisDANIEL Kawczynski is not a happy camper. Shewsbury’s Tory MP has written to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, John Lyon, to complain that Paul Flynn MP used a room on the House of Commons estate to launch his memoirs. Kawczynski has been gracious enough to “share” his letter of complaint with conservativehome, the site... |
MP Blogs
Gutless
Many, many times have I blogged about my pride in the work of the Public Administration Committee (PASC). Now it’s demise...
Infallible Gordon
Hard on the heels of my post of yesterday (showing that, contrary to Gordon Brown’s assertion that defence spending is rising...
Why I love t’web
We're in Chirk on the Prescott Express for the start of a three day tour of North Wales and Cheshire marginals. Obviously, I...
High Speed (6)
I have just come off the phone after a ten minute conversation with the Transport Secretary, Lord Adonis. He accepted straight...
Drafting the manifesto
Regular readers will know that I do rather like to contribute when it comes to policy...
A new personal best!
You might not have expected it from me, but yesterday lunchtime I swapped my suit and tie for my shorts and trainers and jogged...
High Speed Two (5)
The Department of Transport has now published most of the key documents on its website here. There is also information on the Exceptional...
Association AGM
It's really nice to have an evening to say 'well done' to people. ......
Back to the Balkans
Straight from the transport statement in the Chamber to a meeting (in my Shadow Foreign Minister role) with the President of Bosnia....
Another day, another boycott in the blogosphere
SOME might say that, as the author of a blog that did rather well in the last two Total Politics Blog Awards, I have more to lose...
Goats and Tsars
An excellent report out today from the prolific Public Administration Select Committee on which I serve. “Goats and Tsars”...
High Speed rail (4)
Just left the Chamber after statement. Said would be devastating news for many constituents and asked what were the environmental...
Ashcroft misses the deadline
Lord Ashcroft was asked to respond by 9.30am this morning to the invitation by the Public Administration Select Committee to appear...
High Speed Labour
Labour rescued High Speed 1 (the link to the Channel Tunnel) from collapse under the Tories and delivered it on budget and on...
MP statements and party news
Tory threat to new schools cash
New cash for Cornish schools could be under threat if the Conservative Party takes a majority of seats at the next election. Liberal Democrat MPs say the £69m ‘Building Schools for the Future’ (BSF)
A Year for Change on the NUS
For a number of years, NUS elections have been contested by open Labour Students, and “Independents” who are often Labour Party Members (or at a push Liberal or Green). But this year, I’m
We need a public inquiry into new nuclear says Hughes
Commenting, Simon Hughes said:“It would be completely unacceptable for the Government to rush through new nuclear in its last days in office without a public inquiry. “New reactors still
Scrap Scotland Office says former Minister
Former Scottish Secretary, Ian Lang, has said that the position of Secretary of State for Scotland ‘no longer has any influence in the cabinet’, ‘pads out the cabinet’ and 'defies credibility’.read
Iraq memorial re-dedicated
A momument to 179 people who lost their lives in the Iraq war has been re-dedicated at a service in the East Midlands today. The Prime Minister and his wife were among those who attended the ceremony at
Walverden Water Flood Alleviation Scheme
Work on the Walverden Water Flood Alleviation Scheme gets under way in April and, according to the Environment Agency, is expected to take about a year. The Agency told local MP, Gordon Prentice, that
MP Backs High Speed Rail
Pendle MP, Gordon Prentice, has enthusiastically welcomed Government plans, published today, to build a new high speed railway north from London to create a network linking the capital to Birmingham, Manchester,
Revolutionised Rail Travel
Gisela Stuart welcomes today’s announcement by Transport Secretary Andrew Adonis on the proposals to revolutionise Britain’s rail network by delivering a high speed rail network linking London
Conservative Technology Manifesto launched
Conservatives publish plans to make the British government the most technology friendly in the world.
Hermon Condemns Hammer Gang Attack
“It is an absolute disgrace that a gang of thugs should take the law into their own hands and attack a group of people in a house on Beechwood Gardens in the early hours of Sunday morning. Such violent
