Category: MAY, Rt Hon Theresa (Lady), MP (Con, Maidenhead & fmr Tory PM)

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.…

At the February meeting of Full Council, the Leader of Basildon Council, Cllr Andrew Baggott (Con, Burstead), moved the following motion: “Council notes its strong association with the armed forces through the Civil Military Partnership Board and having awarded Freedom of the Borough to the Royal Anglian Regiment. Council deplores the persecution of any Basildon…

On 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.…

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 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…

When you shut the door behind you in the morning, you have the right to know that your home will be secure. When you walk back home at night, you have the right to feel safe in your community. And when you’re away from your loved ones, you have the right to know that they’re…

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…