Nick Timothy is right; the age of austerity is nearly over. After eight long years, we’re aren’t having to borrow to pay for day-to-day spending on essentials like health, education, policing or defence. It’s all funded by our taxes, at last. We’re paying our way without maxing out the national…
Along with Karin Smyth (Labour MP) and Baroness Judith Jolly (Lib Dem Peer), John discusses Brexit’s impact on the West Country, the response to the ‘Salisbury Spy Assassination attempt’ and defence spending.
Former constitution minister, John Penrose MP, said the following about amendment 7: “Even though I spent most of yesterday persuading the Government to change the so-called ‘Henry VIII’ powers in the EU Withdrawal Bill, today’s amendment 7 would make us weaker, not stronger. “The Government has already promised not only…