Category: Europe

I 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,…

I 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…

I 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…

After 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…

I 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…