By challenging the German system of consensus politics, Cameron made himself a hero for a day.
The Telegraph’s Andrea Leadsom story helps to show how the join between executive and legislature is under pressure as never before.
Ed Miliband had nothing but class war to offer in reply.
Cheryl Gillan is the Member of Parliament for Chesham and Amersham. Follow Cheryl on Twitter. Can it be coincidental that the HS2 paving bill has been scheduled for the same day as the spending review? Yet the real, far from ironic, question for Parliamentary colleagues – and their constituents – to consider is how, and where, […]
Cheryl Gillan is the Member of Parliament for Chesham and Amersham. Follow Cheryl on Twitter. Today’s National Audit Office report into High Speed 2 will set off alarm bells all across Government and should bring about a major rethink of the Government’s transport policy. The 50-page report was understatedly damning of the preparation for HS2, […]
By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter The four in question, as above, were Peter Luff, Tim Loughton, Cheryl Gillan and Nick Herbert. My report on their views of how British government now works – and to what degree it requires overhauling – can be read on the Conservative Intelligence website.
By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter. The Daily Mail this morning reports on the 118 Conservative MPs who have written to constituents indicating their opposition to gay marriage proposals. The Mail says "Their opposition has been expressed in letters and emails sent to constituents who have contacted them with their own concerns", and points out that […]
Cheryl Gillan is the Member of Parliament for Chesham and Amersham. Follow Cheryl on Twitter. The decision earlier this week by the Transport Secretary, Patrick McLoughlin, to scrap the West Coast Main Line contract has brought into question the overall integrity of the Department for Transport’s decision-making process. With this in mind, I believe that […]
Cheryl Gillan MP, Secretary of State for Wales, accuses Labour in Wales of taking an increasingly isolationist approach which undermines the Union. Much of the debate about the future of the United Kingdom in recent months has focused on the SNP’s plan for a referendum on Scottish independence. But quietly, and with growing concern, fears […]
By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter Here is the list of those who went into the No lobby to oppose the Dorries/Field amendment. It included such senior Conservatives as George Osborne, Ken Clarke, Cheryl Gillan, William Hague, Eric Pickles, David Willetts, Sir George Young. NOES Abbott, Ms Diane Abrahams, Debbie Ainsworth, rh Mr Bob Alexander, […]
By Jonathan IsabyFollow Jonathan on Twitter Welsh Secretary Cheryl Gillan's private opposition to the proposed High Speed Rail scheme is well known. It would dissect her Chesham and Amersham constituency in Buckinghamshire and her local Conservative association has already stopped paying into CCHQ coffers in protest. A couple of weeks ago, the Sunday Times (£) […]
Cheryl Gillan is Shadow Secretary of State for Wales. Rarely do we Welsh politicos have any Welsh specific polling to pore over. So this week’s YouGov poll on Wales was bound to set political and journalistic tongues wagging. As well as going into some detail on matters from constitutional arrangements to confidence in the Labour […]
Yesterday the House of Commons staged Welsh questions. Shadow Deputy Leader of the House of Commons Shailesh Vara and Wellingborough both asked about the treatment of Welsh and English residents in the other country's hospitals: "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. Wayne David): My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State and I […]
The Welsh Conservatives Conference took place at the weekend. A number of announcements were made, including a promise from David Cameron to submit to questions and answers every year at the Welsh Assembly, if he becomes Prime Minister. Shadow Welsh Secretary Cheryl Gillan said that under a Tory government Welsh Office ministers would attend three question and […]
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