Category: JOHNSON, Rt Hon Boris, MP (Con, Uxbridge & South Ruislip – Prime Minister)

The year 2019 is coming to a close with an almost mirror image of the end of 2018. In 2018, I entered the year as an Opposition backbencher on Basildon Council, with a Labour-led alliance in power, only for the Conservative Group to regain administration in May and the new Leader of the Council, Cllr…

The most important General Election for a generation The Stakes could hardly be higher…   We are having a General Election. I am assuming this has not escaped anyone’s attention. This is not an election the Conservative Party wanted. We wanted to deliver Brexit, fulfil the mandate of the British people expressed in the 2016…

Since the announced resignation of the Prime Minister, Theresa May, I have been asked many times and by many people – though few as doggedly as Johnny Jenkins at Gateway FM – whom I would be supporting in a Conservative leadership election. I have resisted, up until now, all attempts to coax an answer from…

On 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.…

I used my last blog to explain why I had taken the decision to vote Leave in the EU referendum on 23rd June and I just want to start this one by saying how delighted I was by the result. I always tend to treat voting in a rather theatrical manner but for this one…

My last blog on Full Council (sadly since disappeared due to technical issues) proved popular, so I thought I would do another quick write-up of last Thursday’s meeting of Full Council, which proved almost as hot-tempered as the last one. We knew from the get-go that it was going to be a long meeting because…