John Penrose speaks in Parliament about the energy price cap. John says that it could save families hundreds of pounds, but could be better still. As it stands, it’s too anti-competitive, complicated, bureaucratic and inflexible; we should ‘cap the gap’ instead….
The ‘Magnitsky’ powers which are being proposed in Parliament next week aren’t just welcome; they’re essential in the wake of the Salisbury nerve-agent poisonings. We’ve clearly got to get a lot tougher with anyone – not just Russians – who tries to use the streets of Britain for ‘hybrid warfare’;…
Corrupt Russian officials targeted with sanctions for their role in human rights abuses should be treated like terror suspects and named in a public list, the Prime Minister’s anti-corruption tsar says today. Writing in The Sunday Telegraph, John Penrose welcomes Theresa May’s so-called “Magnitsky amendments” allowing ministers to impose asset…
OK pay attention at the back: who’s heard of the Blue Belt? Not the Green Belt. Blue. I suppose the clue’s in the name, particularly for the millions of us who’ve been glued to David Attenborough’s Blue Planet 2, which highlighted the awful damage caused by plastic polluting our seas.…