Christopher Pincher is MP for Tamworth. Follow Chris on Twitter. Britain faces an energy crisis. It is not the same as a political or economic crisis. It does not normally make the front pages (unless you read the FT) or lead on the Six o’clock news. It may only get a cursory look in on […]
Christopher Pincher is the Member of Parliament for Tamworth. Follow Christopher on Twitter. The Blogosphere and Twittersphere are awash with rumour of what is in the budget. T’was ever thus of course. Last year I wrote such an article on “what the Chancellor should do” here on ConHome. Nor is it new for the opponents […]
Christopher Pincher is MP for Tamworth. Follow Chris on Twitter. Britain should not build on-shore wind turbines because they are “elegant”. There are no points to be won for that. We should build them only if they are efficient and contribute significantly to our energy needs, our security requirements and our carbon reduction targets. Unfortunately, […]
Christopher Pincher is the Member of Parliament for Tamworth. The Chancellor’s Autumn Statement contained important initiatives to wean Britain off the dangerous Brown cocktail of a burgeoning public sector, ballooning deficit financing and an over-reliance of the financial services sector. The drink was laced, some might say purposely spiked, by the Labour government in its final […]
By Joseph Willits Follow Joseph on Twitter Proposals to give Parliament the power to take action on ministers who leak announcements to the media, before informing the Commons, have failed. The motion tabled by Phillip Hollobone MP (Kettering), aimed to be as "non-partisan as possible", was defeated by 228 votes to 119. Hollobone accused all three major parties of […]
Christopher Pincher is the Member of Parliament for Tamworth. In the not so far-flung future, we face the prospect of a national power shortage. Global competition for fuel is increasing (look at the energy hunger in China alone) whilst at home our dwindling supplies of North Sea oil and gas mean that whereas a decade ago […]
By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter Here is the Defence Secretary's statement, and below are questions from Conservative MPs with his answers. It's worth noting that Fox went out of his way to disagree with former serviceman Kris Hopkins – who features in Gazette this morning – that the incident was a dark day for […]
by Paul Goodman As some MPs prepared for the Easter recess, one in particular was still in the Commons yesterday – that inveterate attender, Peter Bone (Wellingborough). He moved the second reading of his Broadcasting (Public Service Content) on behalf of Christopher Chope (Christchurch), which succeeded the Broadcasting (Television Licence Fee Abolition) Bill, also originally […]
Here is the latest in our series of Twenty Questions with members of the Class of 2010… Christopher Pincher was elected MP for Tamworth with a majority of 6.090. 1. What is your earliest political memory? The three day week in 1973. I remember the power cuts and did not like suddenly being plunged into […]
Christopher Pincher is Member of Parliament for Tamworth. Follow Chris on Twitter. This week power outages swept across northern India as three grids covering 20 states and 600 million people failed to cope with demand. Transport and water systems ground to a halt. Hospitals were plunged in darkness. Miners were trapped below ground. India, in […]