Mark Field is the Member of Parliament for the Cities of London and Westminster and currently serves as a member of the Intelligence and Security Committee. Follow Mark on Twitter. In the battle to keep British citizens safe and our streets secure, we rely on intelligence not just from UK agents but from those of […]
Mark Field is the Member of Parliament for the Cities of London and Westminster. Follow Mark on Twitter. Although first mooted over two years ago, it is only this week that changes in child benefit will become fully apparent, as letters drop through the letterboxes of over a million households where one earner is bringing […]
Mark Field is the Member of Parliament for the Cities of London and Westminster. Follow Mark on Twitter. When historians look back upon the first decade or so of the twenty-first century, I suspect they will analyse just how and why every one of Britain’s institutions (bar the Monarchy) came to be discredited. They will […]
Mark Field is the Member of Parliament for the Cities of London and Westminster. Follow Mark on Twitter. As the Greek economic tragedy reaches yet another climax, it remains fashionable from these shores to decry the Eurozone for its schizophrenic lurching between hapless inaction and spurts of frenetic, if misguided, activism. However, with this critique […]
Mark Field is the Member of Parliament for the Cities of London and Westminster. Follow Mark on Twitter. The global media circus has moved on from Cairo, Alexandria and the Egyptian seaboard. Soon the current rapt attention to the terrible bloodshed in Damascus, Houla, Aleppo and Homs will similarly pass. Yet for the nine million […]
Mark Field is Member of Parliament for the Cities of London and Westminster. Follow Mark on Twitter. Sarkozy is history, the Greeks are in paralysis, the Coalition has for the first time experienced mid-term electoral blues (just wait until May 2013 and 2014). This month has already been one of savage reprimand at the polls […]
By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter In the Commons yesterday, a debate was held on whether to suspend Sunday trading restrictions for the period of the Olympic and Paralympic Games this summer. The Bill passed through the House, with only extremely minor rebellion from the Tory benches. This was surprising because there was some consternation felt by […]
Mark Field is the Member of Parliament for the Cities of London and Westminster. Follow Mark on Twitter. Perhaps predictably as MP for Cities of London & Westminster I am unashamedly pro-business. For the UK to emerge from the serious economic malaise that has impacted us all since 2008, we must prioritise global trade and economic […]
Mark Field is the Member of Parliament for the Cities of London and Westminster. Follow Mark on Twitter. Regardless of post-Budget and party donor squalls, I reckon it still remains a sensible working assumption that the coalition will sustain for the full five year term of this parliament. Incumbents are notoriously difficult to prise out […]
Mark Field is MP for the Cities of London and Westminster "Maybe something will turn up." One of the classic stratagems of last resort in politics – and indeed for life in general. I suspect Chancellor George Osborne’s tactical handling of the UK economy owes rather more than he might willingly admit to the Mr […]
Mark Field is the Member of Parliament for the Cities of London and Westminster. There is not much that unites Eurozone politicians and the financial markets. But it is undeniably the case that neither trusts the Greek government or its people to stick to their latest bailout deal. This matters because the real impact of […]
Mark Field is the Member of Parliament for the Cities of London and Westminster. As we have all learned from the graveyard of failed forecasts, economics is an unerringly inaccurate as well as a dismal science, inextricably bound to the whims of irrational human behaviour. All too frequently it follows that economies develop haphazardly and […]
Mark Menzies is the Member of Parliament for Fylde. The Prime Minister travelled to Scotland last week to set out the Conservative Party’s case for the defence of the United Kingdom. As a Scottish MP serving an English constituency, I have a dual interest in this referendum: Scottish independence matters as much to my constituents […]
Mark Field is the Member of Parliament for the Cities of London and Westminster and currently serves as a member of the Intelligence and Security Committee. Follow Mark on Twitter It’s the demographics, stupid. This is truly the thread that links November’s re-election of an incumbent US President and a series of disappointingly poor Conservative […]