By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter. Conservative Friends of Israel is an influential affiliate group of the Conservative Party which contains perhaps the largest number of Conservative MPs of any group in Parliament. It exists to promote understanding of and support for the State of Israel in the Conservative Party, and its membership reaches the […]
David Burrowes is the Member of Parliament for Enfield Southgate. Follow David on Twitter. Before I became a politician, I worked as a criminal defence solicitor in a small, north London practice. We dealt with issues that are typical to towns up and down the country. Many of the clients I saw – if not most of […]
David Burrowes is MP for Enfield Southgate. Follow David on Twitter. So we're off! Not just at Cheltenham racecourse but now finally the consultation to redefine marriage has been published. It seems like we have already been around a few furlongs with this issue. Since I rose my head above the parapet to support the […]
David Burrowes is the Member of Parliament for Enfield Southgate When did you last talk about dying? Dying is an issue which affects us all but we rarely talk about it. In the media a discussion about terminal illness more often than not turns into one about legalising assisted suicide. On Tuesday morning Parliament has […]
By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter. A question asked yesterday by Conservative MP David Burrowes suggests that Parliamentary authorities are restricting the rights of constituents to bring material of a political nature into Parliament. The incident in question occured when a constituent from Mr Burrowes' Enfield Southgate division tried to attend a Palestine-focused lobby meeting. […]
David Burrowes is the Member of Parliament for Enfield Southgate. In April, a 15-year-old called Negus McClean was stabbed and killed while trying to prevent a gang stealing his brother’s phone. In July, two rival gangs publicly fought with machetes, knives and guns. The members of these gangs were youths, and a sixteen year old […]
By Joseph Willits Follow Joseph on Twitter Enfield North MP Nick de Bois has won plaudits from the Sun in pursuing his knife amendment to the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill. The Sun describes "a lowly MP who humbled a Prime Minister"who "refused to give up, and eventually won the support of the PM's own knife […]
by Paul Goodman I list below every question asked by a Conservative MP yesterday in response to the Prime Minister's Commons statement about Libya. For better or worse, I haven't cited his replies in every case, but his answers on regime change, the arms embargo and the International Criminal Court are of special interest, and […]
David Burrowes MP is a shadow justice minister. Last week Jack Straw announced the launch of the National Victims Service with an additional £8 million being channelled primarily through Victims Support. He said it was in response to the report of Sara Payne, the victims’ champion, which wants to ‘redefine justice’. The main recommendation is […]
David Burrowes, the Conservative MP for Enfield Southgate and chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Umbilical Cord Blood and Adult Stem Cells, was granted the adjournment debate at the end of business last Thursday. He took the opportunity to raise an issue about which many may well be ignorant: the potentially life-saving benefits of […]
Yesterday Conservative MP for Enfield Southgate, David Burrowes, successfully tabled an urgent question to the Home Secretary over his decision not to intervene to stop the extradition of Gary McKinnon, his constituent, to the United States. Mr Burrowes said that he wanted Alan Johnson to consider one particular aspect of the case: "I want him […]
There were questions to Justice ministers yesterday. These are the highlights. Bromsgrove MP Julie Kirkbride raised the thorny issue of the state funding of political parties: "Does the Secretary of State agree that there is a huge conundrum when it comes to party political funding? The public want democracy, but it is expensive. They do […]
Oral questions on Women and Equality also took place in the Commons yesterday. Shadow Justice Minister David Burrowes stuck up for the rights of Christians: "Does the Minister share my concern that equality legislation is in danger of being brought into disrepute by cases such as that of nurse Caroline Petrie, who was disciplined for […]
David Burrowes is the Member of Parliament for Enfield Southgate. Follow David on Twitter. "Inspire a generation" These are the words emblazoned across the Olympics. Will it come true? Many watching the Super Saturday of gold medals will have been inspired. Or even before that brilliantly British opening ceremony, for those in my patch who witnessed […]