Category Archive for 'Policy'

Nadhim Zahawi welcomed to contest

Feb 20th, 2010

I would like to welcome Nadhim Zahawi to the Stratford on Avon parliamentary contest, selected tonight by the Conservative Association as their candidate.

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Don’t break up the BBC

Jan 14th, 2010

The Tory-backed Policy Exchange think-tank has today called for the BBC to be dismantled, with BBC Worldwide privatised, the BBC Trust scrapped, and sport and popular entertainment dumped to create opportunities for commercial channels, according to a preview to the report “Changing the Channel” covered by the BBC website and the Guardian.
It’s difficult to pin [...]

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Why I don’t respond to blanket ‘pledge’ campaigns

Jan 11th, 2010


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If you’re visiting this site looking for my email address so that you can send me a two-sentence pledge to sign up to, you’re wasting your time. Like many sitting MPs, it’s my policy not to respond to them.
Why is this?
First, I don’t want to encourage the approach to politics which says that everything [...]

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