Cllr Izzi Seccombe is the Leader of the Conservative Group of the Local Government Association and the Leader of Warwickshire County Council. The announcement of the trade deal with the EU on Christmas Eve means that, four and a half years after the referendum, Brexit...
Ben Roback: Will Trump explode America’s two-party system?
Ben Roback is Head of Trade and International Policy at Cicero Group. America’s political system is famously divided between two parties. In the land of the free, anything is possible – besides a successful third party run at the presidency. Owing to successive...
The vaccine roll out accelerates. But testing still remains a vital part of the Government’s strategy.
Now that vaccines are being administered across the UK at astonishing speed, with approximately 2.8 million doses given so far, it’s easy to believe the light at the end of the tunnel is here in the global battle with Coronavirus. Ideally, it is. The best case...
Manchester Arena and Parsons Green bombers charged with attacking a prison officer.
Advertisements The Manchester Arena and Parsons Green bombers have been charged with assaulting a prison officer together. The Metropolitan Police reported three men had been charged with assaulting a prison officer at HMP Belmarsh.Advertisements The following men...
Foreign Secretary accuses China of human rights abuses ‘on an industrial scale’
Advertisements The United Kingdom has accused China of committing human rights abuses “on an industrial scale” against Uighur Muslims, as the Foreign Office announced measures to stop UK firms using products sourced from Uighur labour camps. The Foreign Secretary,...
What Does a Vaccine Mean to you?
Advertisements I have been following and documenting the many twists and turns of the “Covid-19 era” since it began, the confusion, the contradictory and often nonsensical rhetoric coming from government ministers and their “scientific experts” – so many...
Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: This highlight of the parliamentary week is dying from long-windedness
Brevity is the soul of wit. Shakespeare brilliantly gives this insight to the long-winded Polonius. Today at Prime Minister’s Questions too many MPs channelled their inner Polonius. Question after question was sententious and far too long, and the whole session...
WATCH: Johnson announces plans to reform the Mental Health Act
Sir Ian Botham slams BBC saying country people are sick of ‘narrow woke views’
Advertisements The BBC has come under fresh fire, this time by a new member of the House of Lords. Sir Ian Botham, the famous cricketer and now lord has claimed that people from the countryside in particular are “sick” of the BBC’s “virtue-signalling presenters”. The...
Asylum Seekers at Napier Barracks go on hunger strike in protest at living conditions
Advertisements A number of those who are waiting for a verdict on their asylum applications, that are living at the Napier military barracks have decided to go on hunger strike and are sleeping outdoors as part of a protest at the conditions the British...
