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Richard Benyon MP

Posts by Richard Benyon MP

Richard Benyon is a former Environment Minister and is MP for Newbury

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Richard Benyon: Climate change is bigger than Brexit

The school strikers have a point, and we ought to listen – not least because we have a great story to tell about what Conservative governments have done.

Comment | By Richard Benyon MP | 15 March 2019 at 3:00 pm | 89 comments

Richard Benyon: Climate Change. There’s an opportunity, as this Commonwealth summit opens, to follow the Queen’s lead.

It is vital that we discuss how we eliminate the plastic waste brought to the surface of our collective consciousness in Blue Planet II.

Comment | By Richard Benyon MP | 17 April 2018 at 4:30 pm | 25 comments

Richard Benyon: Water privatisation has been a triumph, and we need to say so

If we can win the argument for well-regulated, competitive provision of essential services in this sector, we can win it elsewhere.

Comment | By Richard Benyon MP | 16 November 2017 at 2:00 pm | 34 comments

Richard Benyon: Corbyn on terrorism – wrong then, wrong now

From the IRA through to today’s Islamist extremist threat, the Labour leader has misidentified the causes and proposed the wrong solutions.

Comment | By Richard Benyon MP | 31 May 2017 at 12:44 pm | 27 comments

Richard Benyon: No, we’re not ahead of the pack in tackling climate change. But we should be. Here’s how to do it.

Ministers must give certainty to investors by accepting the Committee on Climate Change’s recommendation on the level of the fifth carbon budget.

Comment, Highlights | By Richard Benyon MP | 28 May 2016 at 6:30 am | 58 comments

Richard Benyon MP: A pact with UKIP? Time for some facts

All the evidence of polling and experience shows that a pact would make the centre-right’s electoral position worse – not better.

Comment | By Richard Benyon MP | 24 October 2014 at 6:30 am | 147 comments

Richard Benyon MP: How the GMB is exploiting Freedom of Information to attack Conservatives

A week ago, the Daily Mirror did me over. Its figures were wrong and its assumptions ludicrous. And there’s a story behind it…

Comment, Highlights | By Richard Benyon MP | 3 March 2014 at 6:30 am | 52 comments

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