Labour has chosen its new leader, and they’ll come at us with everything they’ve got. One of the most important future battlegrounds will be over ideas. The competing, era-defining visions of what kind of country post-Brexit Britain should be. And the stakes couldn’t be higher, because the winners will define…
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Revised plans to build thousands of homes across North Somerset need ‘big improvements’, according to Weston’s MP. John Penrose said he believed North Somerset Council’s decision to withdraw from the Joint Spatial Plan (JSP) and draw up its own approach instead was the right call. The authority’s move comes after…
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Politicians have never had a great reputation. In most polls of occupations you’d like your children to enter, they rank somewhere between bankers, journalists and smallpox. And if you look at old-time newspaper caricatures, it’s been that way for centuries. But most MPs I meet, from every political party, do…
Read MoreWith speculation about a General Election mounting, John is asked by the BBC whether the Queen's Speech is a waste of time...