The way British politics and planning mix tends to push infrastructure decisions into the long grass.
But the Conservative candidate for Mayor London has performed the valuable function of clarifying what can and can’t be said.
Once again, all is explained within.
Stephen Hammond is a Transport Minister and MP for Wimbledon We’ve all suffered from it and one point or another: middle lane hogs clogging up the motorway or irresponsible motorists driving right up to our rear bumper. Whilst we may curse in our car at this thoughtless behaviour, very few of us ever see action […]
Stephen Hammond is Member of Parliament for Wimbledon and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport. Follow Stephen on Twitter. One of the great things about serving as a minister in the Department for Transport is that you can help millions of people in a number of simple but important everyday matters. Rarely have I been […]
Stephen Hammond is Member of Parliament for Wimbledon and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport. Follow Stephen on Twitter. Here is a fact that may surprise you: figures out today show that trips by car accounted for 79 per cent of distance travelled in 2011! The Department for Transport obviously has a wide range of […]
Seven Conservative MPs have teamed up with the Centre for Policy Studies and ConHome to propose ideas to turbo charge the UK economy. Yesterday, Charlie Elphicke argued that we need to reform the banks so they can finance the recovery. Stephen Hammond is the Member of Parliament for Wimbledon. It is a truism in politics that […]
Stephen Hammond is the Member of Parliament for Wimbledon. His article is the second in a seven part series of articles by Conservative MPs, each discussing the Coalition's policies to get more people into good homes. Shadow Housing Minister Jack Dromey, incredibly Labour’s eleventh holder of the brief since 1997, yesterday talked about a "growing housing crisis", […]
by Paul Goodman Stephen Hammond (Wimbledon) returned to Labour's debt legacy – "The shadow Chancellor was wrong blindly to dismiss what is happening in the gilt markets. I read the yield curve this morning, just as he did, and it is clear that 10-year gilts yields are low at the moment. If the market believed […]
The Government can wean solar power off subsidies and empower consumers – but must be careful not to undo its good work to date.