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Another left wing pro-choice web site has today launched another ‘conspiracy theory’ attack on the Dorries Field amendments, only this one is worth highlighting for a couple of reasons. Link http://tinyurl.com/3bcp8u9 The blog post is written by ... [...]

I have been alerted to an incredible conspiracy theory which is appearing on some left wing blogs linking me to a presentation given by Dr Peter Saunders, of the Christian Medical Fellowship, which I have never seen, but is apparently free to view on... [...]

Following the tabling of our amendments to the Health and Social Care Bill, Frank Field and I have been under predictable attack via the notoriously inaccurate medium of the internet, by both the pro-life and pro-choice lobbies. http://tinyurl.com/... [...]

Five months ago, I forecast that default within some Eurozone countries was going to happen.  Indeed, I suggested Britain ought to encourage certain countries to default - and decouple from the Euro - rather than piling up and parcelling out yet more debt.  How did I come to such a view?  With debts rising [...]

  Part of the excitement of the coming Assembly Election result is the prospect of a fresh group of exciting new AMs. Until Monday I expected one of those to be Mari Rees. When I cheerfully answered the phone to Mari’s father my friend Caerleon Doctor Russell Rees on Monday I had [...]

And so, NHS reforms hit the buffers with speculation in the press that we may not hit the April 2013 deadline for D day, which frankly should be complete nonsense. The only failing of the Health and Social Care Bill, is that no one has explained to... [...]

Interesting article by Nick Clegg and Iain Duncan Smith on the need for greater social mobility in today's Telegraph.  They are absolutely right to point to the problem.  What bothers me are their proposed solutions, which all seem to be about government doing more. The coalition duo begin their article by accepting that Labour's big [...]

This interesting article appears on Conservative Home today and highlights the fact that David Cameron is to take responsibility for selling health reform. http://conservativehome.blogs.com/thetorydiary/2011/04/the-principles-of-the-governments-nh... [...]

I think it is ok for me to say that last week I stood down from the Health Select Committee. This is because I have been invited by the Speaker to sit on the Chairman's Panel. I will be chairing Westminster Hall debates, Public Bill Committees, an... [...]

Yesterday, Tom Chivers wrote an article on the Daily Telegraph blog attacking the amendment Frank and I are to lay down to the Health and Social Care bill, with regard to abortion counselling, and then went on to outrageously mislead his readers. H... [...]

This article on the bacp web site can only be described as helpful. http://www.bacp.co.uk/media/index.php?newsId=360 'Recently, an anonymous patient sued the NHS because she wasn’t offered counselling after an abortion. Nor was she warned that p... [...]

Conservative Home have very kindly surveyed their readers to see how many support our amendment.. http://conservativehome.blogs.com/parliament/2011/03/79-of-tory-members-back-nadine-dorries-right-to-know-campaign-on-abortion.html We couldn't be mo... [...]

This video tells the story of Tanya, one of the many women we have spoken to, and Frank and I explaining the solution - how our amendment to the Health and Social Care Bill, will help to prevent the ever increasing number of heart wrenching stories l... [...]

  No party ever prepares for opposition. Even predictable defeats are a shock and a trigger for prolonged misery. Nigel Fisher’s book ‘How to be in opposition’ is a tale of years of arid futility occasionally enlivened by minor triumphs. Heroes of past oppositions are described for our admiration and encouragement. Neil [...]

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Early this morning I did a pre record interview with Ann Furedi from BPAS which went out on BBC R4 Woman's Hour. I have yet to access i-player to see if Woman's Hour broadcast everything Ann said, however, in the pre cut interview Ann declared hersel... [...]

I just did an interview on the Daily Politics about public spending cuts - and why the government was actually finding it rather more difficult to curb spending than the rhetoric suggests. It is a mathematical fact that total public spending is actually set to rise from £669 Billion in the last year of Labour, to a projected £740 Billion [...]

This morning we held a press conference for our 'Right to Know' campaign at St Stephen's Club. In attendance was Tanya, whose story cannot fail to move anyone to tears. The conference began with a video,  I shall post the link shortly, along with t... [...]

Why didn't I think of that? It was such a strange question that I had never given it a thought. Aled ap Dafydd asked me on the Welsh Politics Show today, 'Why did AV in Australia double the number of voters who spoil their ballot papers?.' I do not believe they [...]

Having come down from my Oldham constituency this morning, I joined the march in ‘Whitehall at at 1.15pm, about an hour and a half after the vanguard had begun the march to Hyde Park.   After hearing the speeches I returned along Piccadilly where people were still marching towards Hyde Park [...]