by Claire Kimber | 17th April 2021 | General, Politics
Nick Fletcher is MP for Don Valley. Since the imposition of the first lockdown in March last year, our high streets have suffered enormously while online retail outlets such as Amazon have made huge profits. I am in no way wholly against internet shopping, and I am...
by Claire Kimber | 17th April 2021 | General, Politics
Now peers are dragged into the lobbying storm: Cameron’s top aide works for firm “A top aide to David Cameron is one of several members of the House of Lords who also work for major lobbying firms. Baroness Fall was deputy chief of staff to the former prime...
by Claire Kimber | 17th April 2021 | General, Politics
On June 24 last year, Rose Paterson walked from her family’s home in Ellesmere, near Oswestry in Shropshire, and hanged herself, leaving no note for her husband and children. It was his birthday. The inquest was told that she had searched for ways of killing...
by Claire Kimber | 17th April 2021 | General, Government, Politics
Sarah Ingham is the author of The Military Covenant. The Greensill controversy has come like pennies from heaven – and definitely not in a brown envelope – for the Leader of Her Majesty’s Opposition. After a year as Labour leader, his personal Key Stage 1, SKeir...
by Claire Kimber | 16th April 2021 | General, Politics
Harry Benson is Research Director for the Marriage Foundation and co-author of What Mums Want (and Dads Need to Know). The recent report by the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities, released a month ago today, claims to be the first...
by Claire Kimber | 16th April 2021 | General, Politics
Paul Howell MP for Sedgefield & co-chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for ‘left behind’ neighbourhoods. Since I was elected in December 2019, the world has become a very different place. As I entered office, I pledged to support the Government’s “levelling...
