Tim Loughton: Mindfulness has a crucial role to play in tackling mental illness

Anything that is easy to administer and available to everyone at low cost has to be a useful aid in dealing with this epidemic.

Tim Loughton: Brexit can make it safer and easier for refugee children to rejoin their families

I voted Leave because I felt it would present chances to do things better. This is just such a chance.

Tim Loughton: George, I’ll have another round please.

Cutting duty on wines and spirits has boosted revenue. So why shouldn’t the Chancellor serve up more reductions in next week’s Budget.

Tim Loughton: Why on earth is the Prime Minister rushing into this referendum?

The co-Chairman of the Fresh Start Group says that the Government would be in a better position to conduct a renegotiation during the run-up to 2016.

Tim Loughton MP: We have the child abuse inquiry that I and others campaigned for. This is what it now needs to do.

It hasn’t helped that responsibility for children and young people’s issues has now been fragmented from the deafeningly silent DfE across Government departments.