By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter For statutory regulation Robert Buckland George Eustice Sir Edward Garnier Zac Goldsmith Against statutory regulation Angie Bray Therese Coffey Damian Collins Richard Drax Kris Hopkins Peter Lilley Jacob Rees-Mogg John Whittingdale This is, as the headline says, a snapshot. It doesn't deal with speeches that didn't touch on the […]
By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter. Guido Fawkes has a list of new Conservative members of Select Committees, from Graham Brady's office. Mr Brady explains: "For the following committees I have received the same number of nominations as there are vacancies, the following are therefore elected". The appointments are: Communities and Local Government John Stevenson […]
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 Joseph Willits Follow Joseph on Twitter In yesterday's Adjournment debate before the start of the Christmas recess, a mix of topics were raised by MPs. Chris Skidmore MP (Kingswood), who also wrote on ConservativeHome yesterday about making history a compulsory subject for under-16s, spoke of the study of history reaching a record low. Skidmore said that […]
By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter Here is the Defence Secretary's statement, and below are questions from Conservative MPs with his answers. It's worth noting that Fox went out of his way to disagree with former serviceman Kris Hopkins – who features in Gazette this morning – that the incident was a dark day for […]
By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter. In February, Kris Hopkins and Lord Janner, the co-Chairman of the putative group, resigned in protest at the proposed engagement of IEngage as its secretariat. A few days later, a motion proposed at a meeting of the group to drop IEngage failed by a single vote. Instead, its co-Chairmen […]
By Jonathan Isaby Yesterday's debate on military action against Libya saw a very large number of speeches and it is not possible to report on all of them. But oen of the more sobering contributions came from Keighley MP and former soldier, Kris Hopkins, who told the House: "During my basic training in the Army, […]
Among the maiden speeches made during the Second Reading debate on the bill to abolish ID cards were two from newly-elected Tory MPs from West Yorkshire. Former Bradford Council leader Kris Hopkins gained Keighley at the election and enthusiastically back the bill: "I want to say a few words about identity documents. As has been […]
Kris Hopkins is Member of Parliament for Keighley & Ilkley. Debating immigration is not racist, is quite proper in a mature democracy and should be encouraged if a void is not to be left vacant for fascist groups to exploit. I have made these points throughout my time in politics, including four years as Leader […]