by Claire Kimber | 15th April 2021 | Europe, General, Politics
Garvan Walshe is a former national and international security policy adviser to the Conservative Party. Tanks rolling towards the Ukrainian border. Paratroopers in Crimea. Mechanised troops to the Kaliningrad enclave on the Baltic sea between Poland and Lithuania. A...
by Claire Kimber | 13th April 2021 | Brexit, Europe, General, Politics
David Gauke is a former Justice Secretary, and was an independent candidate in South-West Hertfordshire at the recent general election. The Government’s announcement that it is undertaking an independent enquiry of the Greensill Capital affair is unlikely to bring...
by Claire Kimber | 5th April 2021 | Defence, Europe, General, Politics
Neil O’Brien is co-Chairman of the Conservative Party’s Policy Board, and is MP for Harborough. Typical, isn’t it? You’re trying to get the kids off to school and nursery, running late as you hunt around for your son’s snuggly giraffe. You have a busy day...
by Claire Kimber | 31st March 2021 | Europe, General, Politics
Lord Hannan of Kingsclere is a Conservative peer, writer and columnist. He was a Conservative MEP from 1999 to 2020, and is now President of the Initiative for Free Trade. I hate everything about the lockdown. I hate the confiscation of liberty, and the ease with...
by Claire Kimber | 27th March 2021 | Brexit, Europe, General, Politics
David Gauke is a former Justice Secretary, and was an independent candidate in South-West Hertfordshire at the recent general election. At Thursday’s virtual European Council meeting, the EU stepped back from imposing a vaccine export ban. This is just as well. At a...
by Claire Kimber | 25th March 2021 | Europe, General, Politics
The UK has had huge success with its vaccine programme, and understandably the Government wants to avoid anything that jeopardises this progress. Thus it has been incredibly careful about the future of travel. Currently most international travel is banned and new laws...
