Brooks Newmark MP has been MP for Braintree since 2005 and is an Opposition Whip. Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer in young women under the age of 35 in the UK. This is an important issue for young women and I was surprised to learn that in 2004 the Government increased the […]
Brooks Newmark MP has been MP for Braintree since 2005, is an Opposition Whip and has just written The Hidden Debt Bombshell, a paper published today by the Centre for Policy Studies. Gordon Brown has proven himself the master of obfuscation when it comes to the public finances. Over the last 12 years he has […]
Brooks Newmark has been Conservative MP for Braintree since 2005 and is an Opposition whip. He writes here about the humanitarian crisis in the Central African Republic, which he witnessed at first hand at the end of last year. Last year I spent a week in the Central African Republic (CAR) with international health relief […]
Brooks Newmark is MP for Braintree, Essex, was a Member of the Treasury Select Committee and is now the Conservative Treasury Whip. This Platform summaries a paper that Brooks has written for the Centre for Policy Studies, available of the CPS website. The Government has hubristically congratulated itself on its efforts to keep public finances […]
Tory MPs speak against Julie Morgan MP’s Private Members’ Bill in favour of lowering the voting age to sixteen. Brooks Newmark: "One of the big challenges is that it is hard enough to get 18 to 21-year-olds to vote, yet they too, at an earlier stage, called for more representation and wanted a say in […]
Brooks Newmark, MP for Braintree, defends the private equity industry. The private equity industry is in the process of being tarred and feathered with accusations that it is secretive, privileged and harmful to UK plc. The overwhelming majority of the industry would refute those accusations vigorously. But then why is the industry in the dock? […]
Brooks Newmark, pictured in Lebanon with Tobias Ellwood, is MP for Braintree Last week when President Bush committed “America’s full diplomatic resources to rally support for Iraq” he excluded Syria from the list of potential interlocutors. The Minister for the Middle East seemed keen to distance himself from that decision during Foreign Office Questions on […]
Brooks Newmark is MP for Braintree. Gordon Brown’s buzzwords since 1997 have been prudence, transparency and accountability. But there are increasing signs that the Chancellor is systematically understating the true extent of the Government’s debt because of lax accounting standards. In a study co-authored with Stephen Hammond MP, entitled Simply Red: The True State of […]
Brooks Newmark MP is Conservative MP for Braintree and a member of the Treasury Select Committee. Charlie Elphicke is a research fellow of the Centre for Policy Studies and Vice Chairman of the Cities of London & Westminster Conservative Association. Tax cuts of £21 Billion were proposed by the Tax Reform Commission last week. The […]
On the Platform Blog yesterday Kate Jackson considered the limited number of female bloggers. Today Brooks Newmark MP considers what might be done to increase the number of women Conservative MPs. Westminster is often seen as a Gentleman’s Club. I will freely admit that when I sat on the green benches during my first session […]
Brooks Newmark MP has been MP for Braintree since 2005 and is an Opposition Whip. At the Commonwealth’s biennial summit recently held in Trinidad and Tobago, the much anticipated news that Rwanda was to be admitted as its fifty-fourth member was announced. The significance of this decision should not be underestimated – neither for Rwanda, […]