Syed Kamall is Conservative MEP for London and sits on the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee of the European Parliament. Follow Syed on Twitter. While it is better to be part of a coalition government than not in government at all, we could achieve so much more if Conservatives occupied all the offices of state. For that […]
Syed Kamall is Conservative MEP for London and sits on the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee of the European Parliament. Three years after the depths of the financial crisis, if a bank went bust tomorrow it would still have to ask for taxpayers’ money to bail it out. For all the noise generated on the […]
Syed Kamall is a Conservative MEP for London and Chairman of Progressive Conservatives. With the grating repetitiveness of scratched records, the Left in this country are hard at work attempting to smear the Big Society project as merely a smokescreen for 'devastating cuts' to services. Let's get the so-called 'cuts' into perspective. The spending plans […]
Syed Kamall is a Conservative MEP for London and Chairman of Progressive Conservatives. One of the reasons the Conservative Party failed to win an absolute majority at the General Election was that many people did not know what we stood for beyond not being a tired out party, being "not Labour". We did stand on […]
Syed Kamall is a Conservative MEP for London and Chairman of Progressive Conservatives. When a poll last summer found that the public trusted the Conservative Party more than the Labour Party on the NHS, it hit the headlines. Newspaper columnists devoted pages about how the Conservative Party had finally banished its 'nasty' image, while socialist […]
Dr Syed Kamall is the Conservative MEP for London and until recently was the Conservative Spokesman for International Trade. Last week, I returned from Cote d' Ivoire where I co-chaired a winter school on the Principles of a Free Society for young centre-right politicians from Cote D'Ivoire, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Tanzania and Uganda. The winter […]
Syed Kamall, Conservative trade spokesman in the European Parliament, has responded to the news that the European Union and United States of America have ended a dispute over hormone-treated beef: "The European Union has shown a great deal of goodwill towards the United States. While opening access to markets is always a welcome move, it must […]
Syed Kamall is one of the Conservative MEPs who represents London and is a member of the European Parliament committee on International Trade. Politicians play to their voters. That is a fact of political life. It sometimes means that we are tempted into taking up positions that are superficially attractive to a section of the […]
Syed Kamall, who speaks for the Conservatives on international trade in the European Parliament, has voiced his concerns over the protectionist nature of America’s draft recovery bill. Under the proposed legislation, only US steel, iron and manufactured goods could be used in construction work funded by the US’s stimulus package. Mr Kamall comments: "Protectionist gestures […]
Syed Kamall, a London MEP (and spokesman on international trade), has received confirmation from the European Commission that the British Government is encouraging coach companies to spy on their customers. One of Mr Kamall’s constituents was on a coach that was held for two-and-a-half hours while passengers were grilled about how much tobacco they were […]
Syed Kamall is one of the Conservative MEPs for London. Recognising his government’s desperate situation, Gordon Brown has decided he needs someone in his Government with the similar political skills to Labour’s last election winner Tony Blair. But Peter Mandelson is a totally different character to Blair – and more flawed. Mr Brown’s decision to […]
Syed Kamall, MEP for London, expresses his concern about the potential the EU constitution creates for future transfers of power. When Margaret Thatcher signed up to the Single European Act, she must have had no idea it would have come to this. She saw the Act as a means of entrenching free markets and liberty […]
Syed Kamall is a Conservative MEP for London and sits on the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee of the European Parliament. Follow Syed on Twitter. This week, Brussels has been asking for the power to rewrite national budgets if they do not comply with deficit and debt rules. With this power, Eurocrats would have the ability to […]