The Parliamentary Commissioner found he had misused his parliamentary privilege, and the Standards Committee accepted the report.
Conor Burns is MP for Bournemouth West and PPS to Owen Paterson, the Northern Ireland Secretary An interesting debate may well be about to begin springing from a little-noticed Written Ministerial Statement about electoral administration put out shortly before last year’s summer recess. It was made by the excellent Mark Harper who it has been […]
Conor Burns MP is the Chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Bahrain This week sees critical political developments in Bahrain, Britain’s oldest ally in the Gulf and in the Arab world. Our approach to foreign policy is all too often both informed and complicated by our past. That is the consequence of Britain’s […]
Conor Burns looks at the history of the important role of Speaker, and concludes that it is time for Speaker Martin to retire with dignity. "May it please your Majesty, I have neither eyes to see nor tongue to speak in this place but as the House is pleased to direct me, whose servant I […]
Conor Burns fought the Eastleigh constituency in the general elections of 2001 and 2005. He is a former member of Southampton City Council. He is the Senior Honorary Vice President of Conservative Future. Let me begin with a health warning for any LibDems tempted to read beyond the first paragraph of this article: Don’t. It […]
Conor was the Conservative Candidate in Eastleigh at the last two General Elections. He was recently appointed Senior Hon Vice President of Conservative Future. If, as he obviously wanted to do, Brown had called an election in November where would Nov ’07 have sat in the context of the elections since the Second World War? […]
Conor Burns is MP for Bournemouth West. Follow Conor on Twitter. I thought carefully before writing this article. About whether to bother. I write it secure in the knowledge that cloaked in the anonymity of the internet it will get comments asking what right I have to comment on Eastleigh given my track record there. […]