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Guy Opperman was a Criminal Barrister for over 15 years engaged in many murder and other trials. He became the MP for Hexham in 2010. His book “Doing Time” – Prisons in the 21st Century is available in all bookshops, and on Amazon /Kindle. Proceeds go to an NHS charity, the National Brain Appeal. Follow […]
By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter It might be assumed that the overwhelming majority of Tory MPs are adamantly opposed to prisoners voting. Not so – at least, if yesterday's Commons statement is anything to go by. By my count, David Davis, Gerald Howarth, Nick de Bois, Eleanor Laing, Peter Bone, James Clappison, Christopher Chope, […]
Guy Opperman is Conservative MP for Hexham. Here, he updates ConHome readers on his Pennine Walk and his bid to understand why Conservatives are struggling in the North. Follow Guy on Twitter. For the first 22 days in August I have been walking from Yorkshire to Scotland, stopping off at multiple places along the way, […]
Guy Opperman is Conservative MP for Hexham. Here, he updates ConHome readers on his Pennine Walk and his bid to understand why Conservatives are struggling in the North. Follow Guy on Twitter. Twelve days ago I set out on my walk through Yorkshire on my way to Scotland, via my home seat in Northumberland. I […]
Guy Opperman is Conservative MP for Hexham. Follow Guy on Twitter. While others will be settling down to watch the Olympics I have cancelled my summer holidays to take a walk from Sheffield to Scotland. Why? I want to put on my hiking boots and find out for myself why our party is failing to connect with […]
By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter. Robert Halfon, the Member of Parliament for Harlow, and one of the most successful campaigning MPs in Parliament, has organised a motion, backed by 60 MPs from all parties, and including 41 Tories, calling for the Office of Fair Trading to investigate allegations of price-fixing by British oil companies. […]
By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter. Yesterday evening a debate was held on regional pay. I blogged earlier this week on why I don't think the Government will introduce regional pay bargaining – and the Commons debate last night certainly didn't dispel my theory. After initial pro-regional pay contributions to the debate from Elizabeth Truss, […]
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter One of the most encouraging things about today's Conservative Party is the liveliness of the Class of 2010. Starting tomorrow Matthew Barrett will be looking at the work of different backbench groups but here's a summary of some of the more interesting projects and thoughts launched by some of our […]
The two Tory MPs contributed to this report from Channel 4’s Michael Crick. Earlier today on ConservativeHome, Guy Opperman wrote: A bit of extra tax on properties over £2million seems perfectly fair to me
Guy Opperman is Conservative MP for Hexham. Follow Guy on Twitter. In the run up to the budget MP's up and down the country get asked what they would like to see the Chancellor do when he stands at the dispatch box to deliver his budget. The government has very little money, which means very […]
Guy Opperman is the Member of Parliament for Hexham. In the 1982 Falkland Islands war, 255 British troops and 650 Argentinean troops died. As the 30th anniversary approaches, and Prince William prepares to be deployed there as a search and rescue pilot, tensions are rising. Tomorrow, Parliament will be debating the future of the Falkland […]
Well over one 150,000 people have been killed, at least nine million people are internally displaced and two and a half million refugees.