I reproduce below the Lord Chancellor’s letter to MPs setting out his new proposals, as I think they are good. I am writing to inform you that the Government has laid before Parliament a White Paper entitled ‘A Smarter Approach to Sentencing’. This p… read more
The Prime Minister is right to say he does not want another national lock down. The Chancellor is right to warn of economic damage were the government to impose one. It appears that the Cabinet is arguing over what is the right balance between encoura… read more
Dear Matt I sympathise with the government’s need to balance the aim of getting deaths and serious illness from CV 19 down, and to allow recovery of the business activity from the economic disaster of lock down. Now that we see cases o… read more
Margaret Thatcher understood the UK had a bad deal out of our EEC/EU membership. At a time when she was battling to get the public finances under control and to get value for money for UK taxpayers, she naturally expected the same of our EU contributi… read more
The only past UK Prime Minister to have conducted a successful UK negotiation with the EU was Margaret Thatcher. I wish the current PM every success in pursuing a Free Trade Deal and a full assertion of UK powers over borders, trade, money and laws. A… read more