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238 Article(s) Found
Is it complacency or just plain arrogance that’s stopping the Tory-led Government from ditching its failing economic...
Date Online: 06/02/2012
Tax rises and spending cuts which go too far and too fast have choked off the recovery, pushed up prices...
Date Online: 23/01/2012
I was saddened to read of the sudden death of Councillor John Byrne the deputy Mayor of Bury. John was...
Date Online: 09/01/2012
Before the Parliamentary recess, I took part in a three hour debate in Westminster Hall, in defence of the Remploy...
Date Online: 26/12/2011
“We are all in this together”, sounds rather hollow now following Cameron’s Euro blunder. What a momentous week this has...
Date Online: 13/12/2011
A year ago the Tories gathered for their conference as a party of government for the first time since 1996....
Date Online: 28/11/2011
As expected, David Cameron is now blaming the Governments’ economic woes on Europe. What a surprise! He contradicts himself every...
Date Online: 14/11/2011
I received around 20 requests from constituents to support a referendum on the E.U. mostly generated by the Daily Express...
Date Online: 01/11/2011
As I write this letter the announcement of Liam Fox’s resignation appears on BBC news....
Date Online: 18/10/2011
As the global economic crisis continues across the USA and the Eurozone there is an obvious lack of leadership towards...
Date Online: 01/10/2011
The Boundary Commission has just published its proposals to begin a process that the Government hopes will present it with...
Date Online: 20/09/2011
In 1948 the Labour Government’s Nye Bevan began the National Health Service. 63 years later in 2011 a survey of...
Date Online: 06/09/2011
August, normally the beginning of the holiday period is generally a quietist month when the hurly burly of normal life...
Date Online: 22/08/2011
This economic crisis began before the last General Election. Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling had been forecasting this repeatedly and...
Date Online: 09/08/2011
The recent visit of Ed Miliband MP to Rochdale to hear about the proposed mutual policies planned by a new...
Date Online: 25/07/2011
There has been shock and disgust across Parliament at the disclosures about phone hacking with Ed Miliband branding the alleged...
Date Online: 11/07/2011
The Government are in disarray on a number of issues but have got it wrong especially on the NHS and...
Date Online: 28/06/2011
I received a letter on 3 June from the GMB Trade Union informing me that I had 4 care homes...
Date Online: 13/06/2011
I was present in Westminster Hall in the House of Commons to listen to President Obama address both Houses of...
Date Online: 29/05/2011
A year is a long time in politics as the saying goes. The people of this country will never forget...
Date Online: 17/05/2011
Our current social and economic climate has led to countless arguments and counter arguments in the media and in the...
Date Online: 03/05/2011
The Pennine Acute Trust is the second largest Acute Trust in the UK. It is responsible for managing four former...
Date Online: 18/04/2011
It is becoming apparent to the public that the Coalition is out to destroy everything that can be described as...
Date Online: 03/04/2011
The reality of globalisation is now becoming more apparent. The disasters around the world in recent months in New Zealand,...
Date Online: 22/03/2011
The man who forgot he was Deputy Prime Minister and was meant to deputise for David Cameron when he went...
Date Online: 08/03/2011
On Monday 14 February, I was invited by the Ministry of Public Health in Kenya to attend the global rollout...
Date Online: 19/02/2011
Every week seems to bring fresh announcements attacking every facet of the public services including local government, NHS, police, education...
Date Online: 07/02/2011
I was allowed away from Westminster to work in the Oldham East by-election for a few days but had to...
Date Online: 22/01/2011
2011 was welcomed in with a rise in VAT to 20 per cent and David Cameron has finally admitted that...
Date Online: 10/01/2011
I begin by wishing every one of my constituents a very hopeful and happy New Year. However decisions taken...
Date Online: 27/12/2010
