Fleur Butler: Why Conservatives need to reclaim their feminist heroines
By refusing to engage with feminist dialogue, we have lost our heroines to the Left, who consequently deride their work and dismiss them.
By refusing to engage with feminist dialogue, we have lost our heroines to the Left, who consequently deride their work and dismiss them.
“This is the most important job of your political career so far – and there’s a lot riding on what you make of it. On this one you need to make a difference.”
As we celebrate the last hundred years of women’s suffrage, let’s encourage more women to stand for public office – and champion rights and equality.
The clock is ticking on the Brexit negotiations and spreading confusion in this manner will only undermine the Prime Minister’s negotiating hand.
In the first of two pieces on Higher Education, the former Universities Minister argues that the conventional account of how fees and funding works is mistaken.
Once the State starts monitoring the counter-cultural Christian opinions, it could be your voluntary group next for thought-policing.
If we do, we could reverse at least some of the six per cent hit to GDP it has caused so far. If we don’t, we could continue to lose productivity growth of 0.2 per cent a year.
I finish by imploring you to consider the effect on our Brexit negotiations if we change negotiators half way through.
Once free of EU regulations, the Government can finally revive Britain’s long-neglected network of regional airfields to bring regions closer to major markets.
It would allow the Prime Minister to gain support from the moderates of her party and, crucially, gain the initiative in the more centrist national debate.
It’s often suggested that the Remain wing of the Cabinet wouldn’t wear such a choice. I doubt it.
Cornwall has a strong track record on this important environmental issue, and I’m proud to be bringing that spirit to Parliament with my APPG.
I was drawn to work here by the values which I believe can help a struggling economy become more productive: autonomy, hard work, and enterprise.
I hope that fellow Conservative MPs will support my attempt to rebalance the scales in favour of drivers and responsible companies.
And, of course, only if there is an agreement to implement. Otherwise, we must leave immediately on 29th March 2019.