By Joseph Willits Follow Joseph on Twitter In yesterday's Adjournment debate before the start of the Christmas recess, a mix of topics were raised by MPs. Chris Skidmore MP (Kingswood), who also wrote on ConservativeHome yesterday about making history a compulsory subject for under-16s, spoke of the study of history reaching a record low. Skidmore said that […]
By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter. As the Feltham and Heston by-election reaches its later stages – it is set to take place next Thursday – senior Conservative MPs have been paying visits to the constituency. In the last few days, the Secretary of State for International Development, Andrew Mitchell, the Minister of State for […]
Bob Blackman is MP for Harrow East. Our society is changing: it is getting older and we are living longer. The baby boomers are reaching retirement age, while 1 in 4 children born today are predicted to live to be over a hundred. With the changing nature of our population is the concomitant strain on […]
By Jonathan Isaby Before yesterday's debate on EU Economic Governance there was another minor Tory backbench rebellion during proceedings on the Equitable Life (Payments) Bill. An amendment was proposed by Labour MP Fabian Hamilton which would have extended compensation payments to policyholders who took out annuities before September 1992. The newly-elected Conservative MP for Harrow […]
Here is the latest in our series of Twenty Questions with members of the Class of 2010… Bob Blackman was elected MP for Harrow East with a majority of 3,403. 1. What is your earliest political memory? Coming home from school to hear from my parents that Harold Wilson had been elected as Prime Minister […]
Dominic Raab, the new MP for Esher and Walton (and author of the excellent The Assault on Liberty: What Went Wrong with Rights) set out his stall as the civil libertarian-in-chief among the new intake in his maiden speech yesterday: "There is much to cheer in the coalition Government’s programme, and in particular the commitment […]
Bob Blackman is the MP for Harrow East Campaigning in Feltham and Heston is now well underway, with the by-election being held in less than two weeks. Conservative MPs including Robert Halfon, Paul Uppal, Alok Sharma, Sir George Young, and neighbouring MP Mary Macleod, have been working hard campaigning in the seat over the last few days, and […]