By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter I recently profiled the 2020 and Free Enterprise groups of Tory MPs. Those two groups are formed by ideology: MPs are attracted to the groups because, in the case of the Free Enterprise Group, members wish to open up markets and make Britain business-friendly enough to compete with other world class economies. The 2020's […]
Here is the latest in our series of Twenty Questions with members of the Class of 2010… James Morris was elected MP for Halesowen and Rowley Regis with a majority of 2,023. 1. What is your earliest political memory? The vote of no confidence that led to the fall of the Callaghan government in 1979. […]
Yesterday was day two of the new Parliament and three more Conservative MPs delivered their maiden speeches. Bob Stewart, the new MP for Beckenham who has spent most of his life in the military, described being elected to the Commons as "the best thing that has ever happened to me." He spoke fondly of his […]