Chris Grayling is taking a strong stand on the side of the victims against their tormentors.
Nick de Bois is the Member of Parliament for Enfield North and a Secretary of the 1922 Committee. Follow Nick on Twitter. Since becoming a member of the Justice Select Committee I have lost count of the number of times I have been contacted by journalists seeking a comment on statistics which highlight the growing use of […]
Nick de Bois is the Member of Parliament for Enfield North and a Secretary of the 1922 Committee. Follow Nick on Twitter. Everyone should feel safe and secure in their own neighbourhood – but, for far too many people, anti-social behaviour remains a serious problem blighting their daily lives. Successive governments have sought to prevent and control […]
Nick de Bois is the Member of Parliament for Enfield North and a Secretary of the 1922 Committee. Follow Nick on Twitter. It has on occasion been bruising in the Parliamentary Party, as it has been for the voluntary party. I imagine the Prime Minister may even privately admit he, on occasion, has felt much the same. […]
Nick de Bois is the Member of Parliament for Enfield North. Follow Nick on Twitter. Ian Martin argues that Labour have completely lost the plot on Philpott. He is of course right to suggest that their position puts then firmly on the wrong side of the argument and interestingly suggests that on this particular matter, and […]
Nick de Bois is the Member of Parliament for Enfield North. Follow Nick on Twitter. The intervention from 43 Anglican bishops in the public debate on welfare benefits could not be more timely. As a country, we are in very choppy waters. Public policy decisions due to be made in the next few months and years […]
Nick de Bois is Tory MP for Enfield North. Follow Nick on Twitter. I will never forget the last time I saw my mother; it was in hospital three days before she died which also happened to be during the General Election campaign of 2005. She had developed secondary cancer but was most defiantly a […]
Nick de Bois is the Member of Parliament for Enfield North. Follow Nick on Twitter. International development aid is always controversial; and seemingly perceived as unpopular – but ask fair minded people and they would, I suspect, still believe it is the right thing to do; but maybe just not right now. I don’t agree with […]
Nick de Bois is the Member of Parliament for Enfield North. Follow Nick on Twitter. Any new Government coming to office after a three-term administration has to introduce reform of public services. With ever-increasing demands on our doctors, nurses, police and teachers, the fact is that if you don't continue moving our public services forward […]
Nick de Bois is the Member of Parliament for Enfield North. Follow Nick on Twitter. Paul Goodman’s recent ConHome article was absolutely right: the Government mustn’t park the problem of electoral fraud just because Boris won the Mayoral election. As has been consistently raised by the indefatigable Cllr Peter Golds, Britain’s electoral system is wide […]
Nick de Bois is the MP for Enfield North. Follow him on Twitter. I’m not an advocate of spending time in Government with our eyes on the next election. As I’ve seen first hand with the NHS reforms, short-term political advantage warps policy until it doesn’t go far enough in reaching its stated aims – […]
Nick de Bois is the Member of Parliament for Enfield North. The current debate over work experience programs in the press, with the controversy raised by the withdrawal of various companies from the scheme, has produced an absurd narrative that the Conservatives are seeking to punish the unemployed by bullying them into ‘slave labour’ for […]
Nick de Bois is the MP for Enfield North Tim is completely right that the Conservative Party has got itself in a phenomenal political mess over the Health and Social Care Bill, and the concerns that Cabinet Ministers have expressed to him don’t surprise me one bit. Yet his overall conclusion, that we should kill […]
Nick de Bois is the Member of Parliament for Enfield North and a Secretary of the 1922 Committee. Follow Nick on Twitter. As Labour fall mercy to the playground bullying tactics of Len McClusky and the UNITE leadership, it would be a mistake to think that all members of that union will approve of the power play […]