Category: CHURCHILL, Rt Hon Sir Winston, KG &c (late Tory PM)
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Conservative Leadership 2019
18th June 2019On Saturday, I attended a meeting of the National Conservative Convention in my capacity as Chairman of Basildon & Billericay Conservative Association and sat in on a hustings for the upcoming Conservative leadership election, attended by all six of the remaining candidates and I thought I would share my recollections and thoughts about the occasion.…
- Basildon & Billericay (constituency)
- BRADY, Sir Graham, MP (Con, Altrincham & Sale West and Chair, 1922 Cttee)
- Brexit
- CAMERON, Rt Hon David (fmr. Tory PM)
- CHURCHILL, Rt Hon Sir Winston, KG &c (late Tory PM)
- Conservative & Unionist Party
- CORBYN, Rt Hon Jeremy, MP (Ind, Islington North & fmr Leader of the Opposition)
- DAVIS, Rt Hon David, MP (Con, Haltemprice & Howden)
- GOVE, Rt Hon Michael, MP (Con, Surrey Heath)
- HAGUE of RICHMOND, William, Lord (Tory peer)
- HARRY (Henry), HRH The Duke of Sussex, KCVO
- HESELTINE, Michael, Lord, CH (Tory peer)
- HOWARD of LYMPNE, Michael, Lord, CH QC (Tory peer)
- HUNT, Admiral Sir Nicholas, GCB LVO DL
- HUNT, Rt Hon Jeremy, MP (Con, South West Surrey)
- JAVID, Rt Hon Sajid, MP (Con, Bromsgrove)
- JOHNSON, Rt Hon Boris, MP (Con, Uxbridge & South Ruislip - Prime Minister)
- JOHNSON, Stanley (fmr Tory MEP)
- Labour Party
- MACKENZIE, Cllr Luke (Con, Pitsea SE)
- MALTHOUSE, Kit, MP (Con, NW Hants)
- MAY, Rt Hon Theresa (Lady), MP (Con, Maidenhead & fmr Tory PM)
- MERKEL, Angela (Chancellor of Germany)
- MI6 (Secret Intelligence Service)
- National Conservative Convention
- OSBORNE, Rt Hon George, CH (fmr. Tory Chancellor)
- RAAB, Rt Hon Dominic, MP (Con, Esher & Walton)
- South Basildon & East Thurrock (constituency)
- STEWART, Brian, CMG
- STEWART, Rt Hon Rory, OBE (fmr Tory MP for Penrith & The Border)
- STOCKTON, Harold, 1st Earl of, OM FRS (Harold Macmillan) (late Tory PM)
- STURGEON, Rt Hon Nicola, MSP (SNP First Minister of Scotland)
- THATCHER, Margaret, Baroness, LG OM (late Tory PM)
- Uncategorised
- WILLIAM, HRH The Duke of Cambridge, KG &c
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Queen's Sapphire Jubilee
26th June 2017On Friday 23rd June, I was deeply proud to be the keynote speaker at a special dinner held by the Rochford & Southend East Conservative Women’s Organisation in honour of the Sapphire Jubilee of Her Majesty the Queen. Below is a transcript of my speech. “Thank you, ladies & gentlemen, for that very warm welcome.…
- BRENTFORD, 1st Viscount (Sir William Joynson-Hicks, late Tory Home Secretary)
- CHURCHILL, Rt Hon Sir Winston, KG &c (late Tory PM)
- CRAWFORD, Marion, CVO
- EDWARD, HRH The Duke of Windsor (fmr King Edward VIII)
- ELIZABETH II, HM The Queen
- ELIZABETH, HM the Queen Mother
- GEORGE of CAMBRIDGE, HRH Prince
- GEORGE V, HM King
- GEORGE VI, HM King
- JAMES II/VII, HM King
- MAY, Rt Hon Theresa (Lady), MP (Con, Maidenhead & fmr Tory PM)
- PHILIP, HRH The Prince, Duke of Edinburgh, KG KT &c
- RAMA IX, late King of Thailand
- STRATHMORE and KINGHORNE, Claud, 14th Earl of KG KT &c
- VICTORIA, HM Queen
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Why I shall vote to Leave the EU
22nd June 2016I have thought long and hard about the momentous decision that faces our nation on Thursday. Not particularly about how I am going to vote, for I have known that with a fair degree of certainty for well over a decade. Rather, I have agonised over whether or not I wanted to blog on the…
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Tony Benn 1925-2014
15th March 2014It is difficult to sum up the emotions I feel at the death of Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn – better known as Tony Benn. He was unquestionably one of the great political iconoclasts of XX-Century British politics – a man of firm conviction and probably one of the Left’s most erudite and sympathetic advocates. No…
- 'APPLEBY, Sir Humphrey' (fictional character)
- BENN, Flt Lt the Hon Michael, DFC
- BENN, Hon Emily (fmr Labour cllr in Croydon)
- BENN, Rt Hon Hilary, MP (Lab, Leeds Central)
- BENN, Rt Hon Tony (late Labour MP)
- BENN, Sir John, Bt (late Liberal MP)
- CHURCHILL, Rt Hon Sir Winston, KG &c (late Tory PM)
- CRIPPS, Rt Hon Sir Stafford (late Labour MP)
- FOOT, Rt Hon Michael, FRSL (late Labour MP)
- GANDHI, Mahatma
- HOLMES, Daniel
- KINNOCK, Neil, Lord (Labour peer)
- Labour Party
- LLOYD-GEORGE of DWYFOR, David, 1st Earl (late Liberal PM)
- Lords, House of
- MacDONALD, Rt Hon Ramsay (late Labour PM)
- SAYEED, Jonathan (fmr. Tory MP)
- ST CLAIR, Lt-Col Malcolm (late Tory MP)
- STANSGATE, Stephen, 3rd Viscount
- STANSGATE, William, 1st Viscount (William Wedgwood Benn) (late Labour peer)
- THATCHER, Margaret, Baroness, LG OM (late Tory PM)
- VARLEY, Eric, Lord (late Labour peer)
- WIDDECOMBE, Rt Hon Ann (fmr. Tory MP)
- WILSON of RIEVAULX, Harold, Lord, KG (late Labour PM)