It’s only Day Three – but Brussels is angling for a Britain with “the rights of Canada and the obligations of Norway”. Will there be a Managed No Deal instead?
His big win marks the end of the EU Ascendancy and the beginning of a new era: that of Britain as a sovereign nation.
Amber Rudd is Member of Parliament for Hastings and Rye. Follow Amber on Twitter. Last month I received a number of negative comments when I suggested on ConservativeHome that, despite the disappointing Q2 2012 GDP figure, there were some reasons to be optimistic about the outlook of the UK economy. I pointed to encouraging employment […]
Amber Rudd is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Hastings and Rye. There is no getting away from the fact that today’s GDP figures are intensely disappointing, especially since employment and inflation statistics have been pointing to steady progress. However, the subsequent chorus of the Left demanding a change of course in economic policy is […]
Amber Rudd is the Member of Parliament for Hastings and Rye. This week she was reporting from the plenary session of the Council of Europe. Read her report from yesterday. It is true that the chamber (actually called the hemicycle) at the Council of Europe can sometimes make the House of Commons Chamber even during an […]
Amber Rudd is the Member of Parliament for Hastings and Rye. Throughout this week she'll be reporting from the plenary session of the Council of Europe. Read her report from yesterday. Every delegate at the Council of Europe is appointed to one of the eight Committees covering key themes of human rights, democracy and the Rule […]
Amber Rudd is Conservative MP for Hastings and Rye. Throughout this week she'll be reporting from the plenary session of the Council of Europe. Her first report appeared yesterday. It seems I needn't have worried about friction between the Russians and the Poles in our European Democrat Group meeting on Monday morning. For a start […]
Amber Rudd is Conservative MP for Hastings and Rye. Throughout this week she'll be reporting from the plenary session of the Council of Europe. Today is the first day of the plenary session of the Council of Europe that lasts until Friday and I will be joining fellow Parliamentarians for a discussion with our political […]
Amber Rudd is Conservative MP for Hastings and Rye. In May this year, my own Primary Care Trust, Hastings and Rother, suddenly appeared on a "sin" list in the recently departed News of the World as having one of the worst waiting lists for vital tests, including cancer scans, in the country. The waiting list […]
Amber Rudd is MP for Hastings and Rye. The recent Index of Multiple Deprivation has seen Hastings slip from 31 to 19 (out of 352) in the rank of most deprived districts. The two largest components in deciding this overall rank are income and employment, areas that Hastings continues to perform badly in and the […]
Amber Rudd is Conservative MP for Hastings and Rye. I note that employment and training opportunities for young people has been something of a theme of late on Comment with John Hayes MP and Robert Halfon MP contributing articles on the subject of apprenticeships. By coincidence, I have recently completed a survey in my constituency […]
Amber Rudd, candidate for Hastings & Rye, reviews this year’s CWO conference. The Conservative Women’s Organisation (CWO) met for its annual conference on November 12th at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre in Westminster. The theme was billed as “creating a better world for future generations”. The theme that I took away was that women in […]
Amber Rudd is the Member of Parliament for Hastings and Rye. Follow Amber on Twitter. Since she suggested reforms to childcare earlier this year, the new Minister for Childcare, Elizabeth Truss has been attacked by the left – not least Polly Toynbee in the Guardian on Friday. Much of the debate has centred around staff-child ratios – in […]