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By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter Lots of Tory MPs reacted angrily yesterday to the decision of the PCS union to disrupt border control on the eve of the Olympics. Here's a selection of what they Tweeted: My hope is that the anger that we felt yesterday and today is not forgotten. We need to […]
Imagine that one of your neighbours is a distributor of pornography. His house is full of the stuff, with all but the most extreme images lying around everywhere. Now imagine that he leaves his door open at all times, allowing your children to wander in where they can view his collection at will. How do […]
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter I wonder if more loyal backbench Tory MPs are getting a little fed up with their more rebellious colleagues? A couple of weeks ago Conor Burns, PPS to the Northern Ireland Secretary, tweeted his irritation at Peter Bone: Now we learn from the Mail on Sunday that Douglas Carswell was […]
By Joseph Willits Follow Joseph on Twitter Yesterday in the Commons, Home Secretary Theresa May reaffirmed her commitment to tackling and ending domestic violence, stating that the Government had fulfilled its pledge. Asked by Devizes MP Claire Perry, about the ways in which the Government was trying to deal with domestic violence against women, May cited a […]
Seven Conservative MPs have teamed up with the Centre for Policy Studies and ConHome to propose ideas to turbo charge the UK economy. Yesterday, Chris Heaton-Harris advocated scrapping European laws that hinder job creation. Below, Claire Perry hails the government's planning reforms as a way to help Britain's crumbling infrastructure receive new investment. Claire Perry is the Member […]
By Jonathan IsabyFollow Jonathan on Twitter Yesterday afternoon, Devizes MP Claire Perry presented a Ten Minute Rule Bill to designate the Monday after Remembrance Sunday as a bank holiday across the UK. She explained: This Bill would consolidate and entrench long-term public support for our armed forces. My constituency of Devizes includes many of the […]
By Jonathan Isaby Yesterday morning saw Caroline Spelman and her team of ministers getting their four-weekly hour-long questioning by MPs. Here's a small selection of the issues raised by Conservative MPs. Wellingborough MP Peter Bone suggested the abolition of Chris Huhne's Department of Energy and Climate Change to a somewhat unconvinced Secretary of State: Peter […]
By Jonathan Isaby On Wednesday, at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, two Conservative MPs made their feelings clear about the recent insistence by the European Court of Human Rights that not allowing prisoners to vote was contrary to the European Convention on Human Rights. Here's what they had to say during a […]
By Jonathan Isaby On Tuesday night, Devizes MP Claire Perry secured an adjournment debate on the subject of pornography on the internet, in order to promote a particular proposal she is championing – to require all UK-based internet service providers to "restrict universal access to pornographic material by implementing a simple opt-in system based on […]
Claire Perry is the Member of Parliament for Devizes. Follow Claire on Twitter. Generally speaking, girls are much better behaved than boys. That isn’t some ludicrous Victorian stereotype, but a fact drawn out by crime statistics. Of 1,744 young people in custody, just 95 are girls. Just 22 per cent of offences committed by children […]