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Having recently retired as a Labour politician after 25 years in public life and escaped the horrors of a hung parliament in Britain to enjoy a sabbatical in sunny Sydney, I have had plenty of time to observe this great Australian contest at close quarters. What a drab, joyless, uninspiring [...]

I was just about to provide you with the link so you could listen to my appearance on LBC last Wednesday night, in case you missed it, but it appears that you have to sign in and pay for the privilege so I think I'll have to give that a [...]

Oh for goodness' sake! Christina Hendricks is a fine looking woman and it is great to see a curvy woman rather than a stick insect. But that was hardly the point of the article in the Sunday Times! However the follow-on newspaper articles in other publications seem to focus only [...]

YES. Obviously. And that’s why I’ll be signing up to pay for access to The Times behind its shiny new paywall. The idea of actually paying for news is making a lot of people very angry. In fact, the idea of paying for anything on the internet is making a lot [...]

There was no problem persuading local people that the General Election was important – the 72 per cent turnout in South Norfolk was higher than the national average, which was itself significantly higher than last time. Personally I think we are very lucky to live in a democracy where we have [...]

Nick Clegg is finally confirming what we have long suspected. The Lib Dem leadership will support David Cameron’s Tories in a hung parliament. His comments in newspaper articles show that he is clearly signalling he wants a deal with the Tory leader. Under the leadership of Nick Clegg it has been [...]

New media is a great way of bringing to wider attention the work done by 'old media' in dissecting and judging claims made by politicians during the campaign. Here, for example, is James Purnell's piece for Channel 4 about the Tories' pledge to cut benefits for people who refuse to [...]

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Mr. John Redwood (Wokingham) (Con): It is a disgrace that the House is not treated with courtesy by the Government. It is quite wrong that a Bill of such importance and magnitude was not tabled earlier. It is quite wrong that there is an attempt to rush through all parts [...]

Loughborough MP Andy Reed this month featured in 'Sorted Magazine' alongside articles featuring world famous footballer Kaka and actor Andrew Lancel. www.sorted-magazine.com [...]

It was a privilege to have the Minister for Veterans, Kevan Jones MP, visit the town last week to meet with people from Hartlepool who had served in the country’s Armed Forces. The Minister met with Veterans (in appalling weather, if you remember last week) at the restored Heugh Gun Battery. [...]

The people of Hartlepool are the town’s greatest asset. One of the great things about my job as Member of Parliament is the opportunity to meet with many, many of the great characters of the town. I’ve said it many times before – but I’ll keep on saying [...]

The Big Freeze that hit Britain this winter inflicted massive damage on our road network. Snow, ice and plummeting temperatures not only made it the severest winter in 30 years, they also left a moonscape of pitted and potholed roads to be repaired up and down the country. Councils have been [...]

The present government has used its powers and its passion for regional planning to demand that districts like Wokingham accommodate large numbers of extra houses in the years ahead. They have done so at a time of unprecedented collapse in the housing market, [...]

Once again I was surprised to be the only Berkshire MP who bothered to turn up on Saturday to support the excellent Magistrates Court Mock Trial Competition featuring schools from across the county. It’s a shame my colleagues don’t show more interest in this fantastic event which, in a very [...]

Corus in the Teesside area has been in the news for the last few months, very often for the wrong reasons. The mothballing of the plant at Redcar is a devastating blow for that town and the surrounding area. I know that Vera Baird and the late Ashok Kumar have [...]

Tourism is growing in importance for the British economy. A recent survey showed that the industry is worth about £115 billion to the British economy and supports close to 3 million jobs. It is forecast to grow quite markedly in the next decade, to about 9 per cent [...]

Diss is becoming the base for a wide variety of small high-tech businesses such as BERU f1systems, which I visited recently. The company supplies performance engineering solutions such as wiring harnesses, tyre pressure monitoring systems and lightweight composites to motorsport, automotive, aerospace and marine industries. The company’s products are used at [...]

Sometimes people come to see me at my surgery with debt problems. They often have a large mortgage, and on top have borrowed too much on the Credit card and personal loans. The first advice I always give [...]