Liberal Democrat deputy leader Daisy Cooper has revealed she was told she had four days to live but the NHS saved her. Speaking to the party's conference in Brighton, Ms Cooper also told for the first time how the Lib Dems were on the brink of extinction in 2020. ...
Apart from yourself other truly conservative MPs in Parliament should ally with Reform informally if not formally to push a truly conservative agenda. But I do not advocate Farage joining the Tory Party as some do because it would kill conservatism forever by tainting Reform with Tory betrayal. R...
The Nuclear Test in 1998 was a defining moment of his Government. He went out of the way to work for peace with Pakistan. But when the need arose, he inflicted a severe blow to it in Kargil. Both Pokhran and Kargil were his high points. On the economic front, he was a liberaliser...
I just wonder if they would allow you to temporarily stay for free in one of the many park cabins and Lodges in the Colorado Rockies. One night I stayed in a nice cabin for free at the 10,000 foot level of Pikes Peak. It had a wood stove and I stayed fairly warm even though it...
If the parliament elected in June 2017 endures for five years, as by law it could and should, then by June 2022 the UK will have experienced ten years of hung parliaments out of the last 12. The Conservative–Liberal Democrat coalition gover...
I won't have to travel far to give my evidence as we will be accommodating the (mostly) Welsh MPs in our Senedd. It is rare to have Members of Parliament from a Select Committee come to the National Assembly to take evidence on their own inquiry. This, hopefully, is a sign of the...
in 2006, followed by an attempt via a Private Members’ Bill to remove Parliament from the FOI law in 2007. Under Gordon Brown in 2010 there was a proposal to remove from the scope of FOI the monarch and heir (Prince Charles). The Conservative–Liberal Democrat coalition then mooted a ...
In the U.S. blue stands for the Democrat and red stands for the Republican. In Canada red stands for Liberal and blue stands for Conservative. No matter which side of the border, though, both red and blue are the parties of big business. ...
Sherlock, later a partner at KPMG and PwC, and special adviser to the Liberal Democrat deputy prime minister Nick Clegg in 2012/13, recalls: “Boris mark one was a very conventional Tory, clearly on the right, and had what I would term an Old Etonian entitlement view: ‘I should get ...
But his determination to transform England’s state schools – often finding his initiatives blocked by the Tories’ Liberal Democrat coalition partners – has marked him out as an abrasive figure in government. In recent months he admitted getting “heated” in a House of Commons row with the ...