Category: Europe
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Thanks, Dave!
18th July 2016I must begin this blog with my customary apology for the length of time it has taken to write it. A number of people have complained that I have not yet written up the Full Council meeting of 7th July, well over a week ago, including no less a figure than Cllr David Harrison (WI,…
- BLAIR, Rt Hon Tony (fmr. Labour PM)
- BROWN, Rt Hon Gordon (fmr. Labour PM)
- Buckingham Palace
- CAMERON, Elwen
- CAMERON, Florence
- CAMERON, Nancy
- CAMERON, Rt Hon David (fmr. Tory PM)
- CAMERON, Samantha
- CLARKE of NOTTINGHAM, Kenneth, Lord, CH PC QC (Tory peer)
- Corporation Tax
- DAVIS, Rt Hon David, MP (Con, Haltemprice & Howden)
- Downing Street
- DUNCAN SMITH, Rt Hon Sir Iain, MP (Con, Chingford & Woodford Green)
- ELIZABETH II, HM The Queen
- Europe
- European Exchange Rate Mechanism
- European Union
- G8
- GOVE, Rt Hon Michael, MP (Con, Surrey Heath)
- HARRISON, Cllr David (WInd, Wickford Park)
- HOWARD of LYMPNE, Michael, Lord, CH QC (Tory peer)
- Keynesianism
- Labour Party
- LEADSOM, Rt Hon Andrea, MP (Con, South Northamptonshire)
- Liberal Democrats
- MAY, Rt Hon Theresa (Lady), MP (Con, Maidenhead & fmr Tory PM)
- MAY, Sir Philip
- National Insurance
- One Nation Conservatism
- PMQs
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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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Lord Howe of Aberavon (1926-2015) – RIP
11th October 2015I was deeply saddened to learn of the death of former Conservative Chancellor, Lord Howe of Aberavon, at the age of 88. Geoffrey Howe was Margaret Thatcher’s longest-serving Cabinet minister and was one of the primary authors of her government’s economic revolution. Although best remembers as Mrs Thatcher’s first chancellor, he was also the second…
- Anglo-Irish Agreement of 1985
- BIFFEN, John, Lord, PC DL (late Tory Peer)
- Bow Group
- BRITTAN of SPENNITHORNE, Leon, Lord, PC QC (late Tory peer)
- BROOKS, Dr Edwin
- BUTLER of SAFFRON WALDEN, R. A., Lord, KG CH (late Tory peer)
- CAMILLA, HRH The Duchess of Cornwall, GCVO
- CARRINGTON, Peter, 6th Lord, KG GCMG CH MC (late Tory peer)
- Centre for Policy Studies
- Community Charge (Poll Tax)
- Conservative & Unionist Party
- CORBYN, Rt Hon Jeremy, MP (Ind, Islington North & fmr Leader of the Opposition)
- Economy
- ELIZABETH II, HM The Queen
- Employment Act (1980)
- Euro (European Single Currency)
- Europe
- Exchange Rate Mechanism
- FOOT, Rt Hon Michael, FRSL (late Labour MP)
- GILMOUR of CRAIGMILLAR, Iain, Lord (late Tory peer)
- Government
- GREY of FALLODEN, Edward, 1st Viscount, KG (late Liberal Foreign Secretary)
- HEAD, Anthony (actor)
- HEALEY, Dennis, Lord, CH MBE FRSL (late Labour Chancellor)
- HEATH, Rt Hon Sir Edward, KG MBE (late Tory PM)
- HESELTINE, Michael, Lord, CH (Tory peer)
- Hong Kong
- HOSKYNS, Sir John
- House of Lords Reform Act (2014)
- HOWARD of LYMPNE, Michael, Lord, CH QC (Tory peer)
- HOWE of ABERAVON, Geoffrey, Lord, CH QC (late Tory Chancellor)
- HOWE of IDLICOTE, Elspeth, Baroness, CBE (Tory peer)
- HOWE, B. Edward
- Industrial Relations Act (1971)
- INGHAM, Sir Bernard
- Iron Lady, The (film)
- JENKINS, Sir Simon, FSA FRSL (journalist)
- JOSEPH, Keith, Lord, CH (late Tory peer)
- KAUFMAN, Rt Hon Sir Gerald (late Labour MP)
- LAMONT of LERWICK, Norman, Lord (fmr. Tory Chancellor)
- LAWSON of BLABY, Nigel, Lord (fmr. Tory Chancellor)
- LILLEY, Peter, Lord (Tory peer)
- Lords, House of
- MacDONALD, Rt Hon Ramsay (late Labour PM)
- MACLEOD, Rt Hon Iain (late Tory MP)
- MAJOR, Rt Hon Sir John, KG CH (fmr. Tory PM)
- OAKSHOTT, Hendrie, Lord (late Tory peer)
- Office of Fair Trading
- Parliament, Houses of
- POWELL of BAYSWATER, Charles, Lord, KCMG OBE (Tory peer)
- PRIOR, Jim, Lord (late Tory peer)
- REIGATE, John, Lord (Sir John Vaughan-Morgan) (late Tory peer)
- Right Approach to the Economy, The
- SHAND, P. Morton
- SHULTZ, Prof George P
- ST JOHN of FAWSLEY, Norman, Lord, FRSL (Sir Norman St John-Stevas) (late Tory peer)
- STOCKTON, Harold, 1st Earl of, OM FRS (Harold Macmillan) (late Tory PM)
- STRAUSS, Norman
- STREEP, Meryl (actress)
- TEBBIT, Norman, Lord, CH (Tory peer)
- THATCHER, Margaret, Baroness, LG OM (late Tory PM)
- THORNEYCROFT, Peter, Lord, CH (late Tory peer)
- WALTERS, Prof Sir Alan
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Toodle-oo, Abu Q!
7th July 2013After nearly a decade and more than £1m of taxpayers’ money has been spent, fighting against the European Court of Human Rights and our own often self-defeating and rather crackpot legal system, Theresa May has finally achieved what FIVE Labour Home Secretaries failed to do! Omar Mahmoud Othman (also known as ‘Abu Qatada’) – the…
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Only the Conservatives will give you a say on Europe
5th July 2013I am proud that the Conservative Party – through the Private Member’s Bill of James Wharton MP, which is receiving its Second Reading in the House of Commons today – will, finally, give the British people the opportunity to have their say over our future relationship with the European Union by setting out in statute…