Mr Benyon was speaking to Channel 4 after he negotiated an improved but still unsatisfactory deal for British trawlers.
by Paul Goodman The combination of an Early Day Motion signed by almost 250 MPs and a Commons debate – courtesy of the new Backbench Business Committee – leaves a government with little alternative but to give way. It's thus worth reading carefully the motion which the House passed yesterday in relation to the Common […]
Richard Benyon is MP for Newbury. At last week’s PMQs I asked the Prime Minister if he would give his assurance that our servicemen and women serving abroad would be able to vote in the coming election. Some people may say that this is a trivial point and that there were many more important matters […]
4.20pm update: The Speaker has just ruled in favour of George Osborne’s call for an emergency debate on the Government’s Pre-Budget Report. A three hour debate will take place tomorrow. Another victory for the Conservatives. *** Newbury MP and Opposition Whip Richard Benyon has blogged today on his experience of watching the Pre-Budget Report from […]
Richard Benyon has been blogging on the Conservative Party website, and offers this observation about PMQs: "Prime Minister’s Questions is what much of the country think Parliament is like all the time. I try to point out that for most of the time the “crucible of the nation” is as sparse as a late night […]
Richard Benyon is Fisheries Minister at the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Imagine the level of popular outrage if half the cattle or lamb reared and slaughtered in the UK were dumped along roadsides. But this is pretty much happening in our seas with the perverse practice of discarding fish. I support […]