My experience – mastering those detailed briefs, winning support, driving through reform – leaves me in the best position to achieve Brexit.
Despite polarisation on Brexit, there is more agreement among voters than often appears – and therefore more cause for optimism.
Governments are more likely to help create conditions for it by seeking economic growth, rather than well-being.
My Harlow constituent described her life as having been served a “lifetime sentence” of psychological and emotional torment.
Plus: The good and bad sides of Twitter – all in my week. How it may have helped to save a life. But also saw me slagged off for something I didn’t say.
My minority report, unlike the majority one of the Women’s and Equality Committee, respects the province’s devolution settlement.
“That’s why I’ve asked the Bishop of Truro…to conduct an independent review into the global persecution of Christians.”
The police force exists “to prevent crime and disorder”; the public rightly expect everything the police do, to contribute to that objective.
When we bend the rules in our favour, we cheapen our country. We become, in effect, the colonial power that the IRA accuse us of being.
Former paramilitary fighters are out of prison. IRA killers have restarted their lives. Yet British soldiers face the threat of prosecution.
The Justice Secretary makes a good case that short prison sentences make reoffending worse. But he must persuade a sceptical public.
The Home Secretary is afloat on a sargasso sea of returning jihadis, human rights laws, bewildering intelligence, gaps in the law – and a shrieking media.
Let’s see if Labour stands with Venezuela’s oppressed. For what party could truly say that it supports labour, while lending support to the butchery of labourers?
We don’t need a ‘Brexiteer’ leader, we need a unifier, a leader who is not marked by labels but by their ability to implement the referendum result.