The Select Committee for the Department for Exiting the EU has completed and published its first report, as readers will be aware. Much to my surprise this has ended up Read more

British Conservatives have, in recent years, been very lucky in our opponents. The opposition Labour Party was led first by Ed Miliband, and then by Jeremy Corbyn. Neither had substantial Read more

Whenever I hear someone complain that Britain no longer creates and exports products, I remember the Premier League football shirts (mostly Manchester United) that I saw everywhere in July 2009 Read more

Last week marked the first meeting of the Select Committee on Exiting the European Union. Whilst I make no secret of this being the one committee I neither hoped nor Read more

Standing in the Lewisham Conservative Association’s offices, while making my pitch to be the GLA candidate last year, I broached the subject of banning all diesel vehicles by 2021 and Read more

There are few genuinely momentous moments in politics, but no one could deny that we are living through one now. During his decade-long tenure as leader of the Conservative Party, Read more

David Cameron has, against all the odds, transformed our country for the better in many ways, and achieved a great deal of the things he set out to do in Read more

The most important vote every individual in the UK will have in at least a generation is upon us.  On Thursday, we all get to have our say on whether Read more

The more I read about this welfare cap, the crosser I get. Not because it will take money away from anyone – far from it, frankly; more because it will Read more

For some time, it has irked me that the government says it will remove funding from a particular programme, there’s a storm of protest, and then it says it won’t. Read more