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Posts Tagged: Mark Francois MP

Book review: Francois describes how the unfashionable side won Brexit

And how the editor of ConHome popularised the term “Spartans” for the diehard Tory opponents of May’s Withdrawal Agreement.

By Andrew Gimson | 8 January 2022

Profile: Steve Baker, Christian Conservative, ERG organiser, small stater – and thorn in Johnson’s side

Baker has infuriated some Tories, but others regard him as the rising hope of the stern unbending Austrian economists.

By Andrew Gimson | 22 December 2021

Charlotte Gill’s Podcasts Review 6) Christopher Hope with Mark Francois, Ailbhe Rea and Stephen Bush with Mark Harper

In this feature, we look at some of the most memorable podcasts of the last few weeks.

By Charlotte Gill | 8 December 2021

The two Conservative rebellions yesterday: 32 votes on self-isolation, 19 on face masks.

Fifty-three Conservatives opposed the tiering plan last December, the largest Covid-related rebellion to date.

1 December 2021

WATCH: Francois – ‘We need to work together to persuade the people of Scotland that we’re better together’

He talks to GB News as fresh polling shows a six-point swing away from independence since January.

4 August 2021

The 29 Conservative MPs who supported the China genocide amendment

The Government won the division during yesterday’s consideration of the Trade Bill by 18 votes.

23 March 2021

Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: Johnson the statesman is working for open borders by sea and land

Johnson the politician laid an ambush for Starmer, inducing him to deny ever having wanted Britain to stay in the European Medicines Agency.

By Andrew Gimson | 3 February 2021 | 17 comments

Profile: Ben Wallace, one of Johnson’s Long Marchers, and a traditional but also irreverent Defence Secretary

Here is a politician educated at Sandhurst and on active service with the Scots Guards in Northern Ireland, not by reading PPE at Oxford.

By Andrew Gimson | 26 January 2021 | 13 comments

The 33 Conservative MPs who rebelled over the Genocide Amendment

This rebellion had little in common with most others, but the names of many who oppose the Government now show a certain predictability.

19 January 2021 | 34 comments

Tory MPs, Downing Street and the Treasury are poised to clash over plans to cut the army to 60,000. Who will win out?

One MP said this is more than enough for Islamists here, not nearly sufficient for Estonia and “for the Middle East, you’d want something in between”.

By Paul Goodman | 21 July 2020 | 128 comments

Can Lewis really deliver equal and proper protection for veterans of the Northern Irish campaign?

To deliver on his promise to the House of Commons, the Secretary of State will need to overcome deeply entrenched attitudes in his own Department.

By Henry Hill | 20 March 2020 | 6 comments

The 38 Conservative MPs who rebelled over Huwaei

They included seven former Cabinet Ministers, the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee and the Chairman of the 1922 Executive Committee.

11 March 2020 | 57 comments

Baker, the Spartan leader, puts down his spear

As ERG Chairman his unyielding opposition to May’s Deal proved to be of great significance.

By Harry Phibbs | 26 February 2020 | 47 comments

The Commons should vote on the Big Ben bing bang bong bung

A vote by MPs is the only sensible way to resolve the matter one way or the other – assuming that the £500,000 target is reached.

By Paul Goodman | 18 January 2020 | 141 comments

Rebecca Ryan: Help us to get Big Ben bonging for Brexit

If 50,000 people each gave £10, we’d hit our target. Please, Brexiteers – help us outmanoeuvre the Establishment again, and mark the occasion in style.

By Rebecca Ryan | 17 January 2020 | 107 comments

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