North Wales Weekly News – Leaving the EU
As I travel around my constituency, the refrain I hear most often repeated is: “For heaven’s sake, let’s get Brexit done.” It is now over three years since this...
North Wales Weekly News – The Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011
The Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 was introduced by the 2010 – 2015 Conservative – Liberal Democrat Government with the best of intentions. It abolished the power of the Prime...
North Wales Weekly News – Send my Friend to School campaign
The last weeks of summer term bring their own repeated rituals. In many respects, they are among the happiest of an MP’s duties. Most Sundays in June and...
North Wales Weekly News – Assistance Dogs
Members of Parliament are used to having a large number of visitors from their constituencies at the House of Commons. Recently, quite a few of my callers have been...
North Wales Weekly News – Leadership of the Conservative Party
The contest for the leadership of the Conservative party is nearing the end of its first stage. At its start, it appeared that almost every Conservative Member of Parliament...
North Wales Weekly News – European Parliamentary election
The European Parliamentary election was won emphatically by the Brexit party. It was a remarkable result, particularly given that the party itself had been formed only some six...
Daily Post – The Conservative leadership campaign
The tearful announcement by Theresa May of her resignation as leader of the Conservative Party was, at a human level, deeply distressing. It would have taken the hardest of...
North Wales Weekly News – 5G
The debate about whether the Chinese company, Huawei, should participate in the construction of the United Kingdom’s 5G network has, at least temporarily, diverted attention from the exciting...
Speech to Politeia – The role of the ECJ post-Brexit – 15 May, 2019
At the outset, let me set out my credentials. I am a “Spartan”, one of the awkward squad of Conservative MPs who have, on three occasions, voted down...
North Wales Weekly News
Life as an MP entails a lot of travelling. During the working week in term time, I am, of course, in Westminster. Weekends are spent in the constituency, seeing...
