Dear Number 10 – unless you’re a shipping forecaster, ‘Tyne’ is not a place

A good start in wooing Tyneside’s voters would be getting its name right.

Allan Mallinson: What on earth has happened to “the Party of Defence”?

Photo-opportunities with Angelina Jolie are no substitute for military preparedness.

Queen’s Speech debate: Penny Mordaunt rocks the House

If you wonder what post-feminism is, doesn’t this good humoured and confident speech encapsulate it?

Edward Leigh MP: The lesson of these Euro-elections: Modernisation has failed. Get back to real conservatism. End the Coalition now.

My programme: Let grammars expand. Means-test incidental health costs. The Green Deal is a joke. Immigration is still a farce. Apologise for same sex marriage.

Interview by Andrew Gimson: Philip Hammond declares war on lunch, and on regimental campaigners

The Defence Secretary denies he is stifling debate, and attacks “misdirected individuals”

Loss of ship-building is a harsh blow to Portsmouth

Conservatives will have to work hard to prevent Hammond’s announcement becoming a gift to UKIP

‘Casino capitalism’ – a disgraceful slur (on casinos)

Those who compare the financial sector to the gambling industry show little understanding of either. Whereas casinos, bookies and the… Read more »