Ros Altmann should be sacked

Numbers 10 and 11 say that she attacked Duncan Smith without their approval. They can prove it by removing her as Pensions Minister.

The majority of ethnic minority Conservative MPs are backing Leave

Meanwhile, Leave campaigners are pitching targeted messages to voters from a non-EU background.

Chris Grayling MP: We have made great strides among minority communities – now we can go even further

From the many role models at senior levels to a boom in grassroots support, our Party is reaching groups whose core values are Conservative.

Securing the Majority 6) Build on CCHQ’s ethnic minority campaigning

Priti Patel, Alok Sharma, Shailesh Vara – all have played a part in the big push among Indian-origin voters. It needs more money and support.

Shailesh Vara MP: How can we justify helping the Libyans but not the Syrians?

Shailesh Vara is the Member of Parliament for North West Cambridgeshire. After Iraq and the continuing struggle in Afghanistan, scepticism… Read more »

Lord Popat and Shailesh Vara: Britain found a home for Ugandan Asians

By Lord Popat of Harrow and Shailesh Vara Member of Parliament for Northwest Cambridgeshire. On 4th August 1972 Idi Amin, the Ugandan… Read more »

Shailesh Vara MP: Only a Conservative Government will give each Englishman the right to defend the castle that is his home

Shailesh Vara MP is Shadow Deputy Leader of the House of Commons. David Cameron is right again to have raised… Read more »

Healthcare in Wales undermines localism

Yesterday the House of Commons staged Welsh questions. Shadow Deputy Leader of the House of Commons Shailesh Vara and Wellingborough… Read more »

Why shouldn’t cabinet ministers come from the House of Lords?

There was a thought-provoking exchange between Deputy Leader of the House Chris Bryant and his Shadow Shailesh Vara yesterday. "Mr…. Read more »

Shailesh Vara uncovers lax data security at the MoD

Shailesh Vara, Shadow Deputy Leader of the House of Commons, has received some troubling written answers. It emerges that the… Read more »

Shailesh Vara MP: The modern slave trade – human trafficking

Shailesh Vara MP is Shadow Deputy Leader of the House and Joint Vice-Chairman of the All Party Group on Trafficking… Read more »