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Posts Tagged: Aberdeen

Henry Hill: The beacons are lit! Aberdeen calls for aid, and London must answer

An embattled Scottish local authority is trying to bypass Holyrood’s stranglehold and appeal to the city’s other government. Time for the Union to prove itself.

By Henry Hill | 17 December 2020 | 38 comments

Andrea Leadsom: The legacy that I’ve left my successor at the Business Department

Our priorities were: tackling global climate change, solving Grand Challenges and making the UK the best place in the world to work and to grow a business.

By Andrea Leadsom MP | 9 March 2020 | 60 comments

The life of Gove, Cameron’s Jeeves and Johnson’s stooge

Owen Bennett sets out the known facts about an astonishing Tory.

By Andrew Gimson | 3 August 2019 | 31 comments

Jeremy Hutton: There are 6,047 empty council-owned commercial properties in the UK – what a shocking waste

Providing security, insurance, maintenance and renovation of these vacant properties costs £74 million a year. Many could be converted into housing.

By Jeremy Hutton | 12 July 2019 | 8 comments

Thomas Kerr: In Glasgow, the SNP is punishing business

The City will see increased parking charges across the city as well as higher Council Tax. Road maintenance is neglected, yet £800,000 a year is spent on PR.

By Cllr Thomas Kerr | 1 March 2018 | 4 comments

Chris Grayling: Upgraded roads. New trains. A record modernisation programme. Putting straight our record on transport and the North.

We are waiting for Labour to deliver their proposals. Because this should be too important an issue to become a political football.

By Chris Grayling MP | 13 September 2017 | 20 comments

Struggle to form coalitions of chaos in Scottish town halls

Labour’s deal with the LibDems to introduce STV to Scotland’s local elections has led to instability, confusion and a bad deal for the taxpayer.

By Harry Phibbs | 23 May 2017 | 13 comments

Coalition deal means Conservatives take charge in Nottinghamshire

The Party will also be sharing power in a number of Scottish local authorities.

By Harry Phibbs | 16 May 2017 | 2 comments

Sunder Katwala: There are big choices ahead on immigration – we need a national conversation about what to do

To restore trust on the issue requires both sides to balance the pressures and gains of immigration.

By Sunder Katwala | 2 February 2017 | 146 comments

Carolyn Fairbairn: If the Government gets its Industrial Strategy right, we can help make the economy stronger and fairer

We need sectoral centres of excellence that strengthen our economy, create higher wage jobs and help us trade across the globe.

By Carolyn Fairbairn | 22 January 2017 | 20 comments

Alexander Temerko: Out go Cameron’s clip-voiced Etonians. In comes McLoughlin, Tory working class hero.

The former pit worker is the man to make the Conservatives a true One Nation party.

By Alexander Temerko | 11 August 2016 | 51 comments

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