Mark Field is MP for Cities of London and Westminster. Last week, ConHome noted the absence of any questions at PMQs about Britain’s role in a potential bailout of Ireland. With the possibility of the UK contributing billions of pounds to help shore up our near neighbour’s economy, the Opposition leadership instead focused all six […]
By Jonathan Isaby On Wednesday afternoon, Tory backbencher, regular ConHome contributor and MP for the City of London, Mark Field, secured a debate in Westminster Hall with the title "Rebalancing the UK Economy". He opened the debate by stating his fear that those, including Conservative Ministers, who talk about "rebalancing the economy" so that it […]
Mark Field is MP for Cities of London and Westminster. For almost two decades now, British psephologists have been in firm agreement that the First Past the Post (FPTP) electoral system has worked to the Conservative Party’s detriment. Yet despite this, at each of the past four general elections we have campaigned robustly in its […]
Mark Field is MP for Cities of London and Westminster. I fear that the acute financial woes in Greece are but a side-show to a much more serious sovereign debt crisis that threatens to engulf the Eurozone in the months ahead. The lesson of this week’s global stock market jitters is that the UK, whilst […]
Mark Field is MP for Cities of London and Westminster. We now know for sure that the nation faces a huge hole in its public finances. So amidst an economic crisis that has opened wider the social divide between the haves and have nots, a rise in capital gains tax to 40% seems to be […]
Mark Field is Conservative MP for Cities of London and Westminster. I guess even David Cameron must have been surprised how quickly his prescient warnings last month of the impending scandal over lobbying came to pass. Our national campaign rightly identifies that the UK’s broken politics requires urgent repair. Which is why I believe it […]
Mark Field is Conservative MP for Cities of London and Westminster. Inevitably an MP’s direct personal experience has a strong bearing on his or her views on ethical and moral issues, which are generally subject – rightly – to a free vote in Parliament. My own father’s terminal cancer and death almost twenty years ago, […]
Mark Field is MP for Cities of London and Westminster. The relentlessly breathless press coverage of the financial crisis over the past two years may have persuaded the electorate that we have already been through the worst of the recession. The truth is that such optimism is dangerously unwarranted. The economic reckoning for the general […]
Mark Field is MP for Cities of London and Westminster. As the CWU begins a two-day national postal strike, he considers what the future holds – if anything – for the Royal Mail. Any organisation whose performance and reputation declines as precipitously as the Royal Mail’s in recent years cannot expect to survive. Battered by […]
In an extended Platform article, Mark Field, the MP for Cities of London and Westminster, analyses the West's relationship with Russia and says that it is time to positively re-enegage with Russia based around a set of clear priorities. Political stability in Iraq and Afghanistan; resolution in the Middle East; the rise of India and […]
Mark Field is MP for Cities of London and Westminster. If we are to understand the broader reasons why the global economy has unravelled so swiftly, we need to examine the crucial relationship between the world’s biggest economy, the United States, and its eastern pretender, China. This relationship has for many years driven globalisation and […]
Mark Field is MP for Cities of London and Westminster. Next week’s election of a new Commons’ Speaker is widely anticipated as the starting point for a brief period of frenetic parliamentary reform. We Conservatives are instinctively suspicious of revolutionary change, but as a Party we should grasp this rare opportunity in the aftermath of […]
Treasury questions came around yesterday. The Equitable Life scandal was rightly prioritised by Conservative members, who leapt on Economic Secretary to the Treasury Ian Pearson, who had this to say: "I am very disappointed that the Public Administration Committee should choose to obscure the real help that it accepts the Government’s payments scheme will deliver […]
Mark Field MP. Last week a few unpalatable home truths began to become apparent to the UK political class. Nevertheless, the acute financial woes in Ireland are likely to prove a side-show to a much more serious sovereign debt crisis that threatens to engulf European financial markets in the months ahead. Outside the single currency […]