Parliament said goodbye to Sir David Amess this week. The murdered MP for Southend was a lovely, gentle, kind man with a perky sense of humour and endless, boundless energy for helping the people he represented in Parliament. But it wasn’t just who he was that mattered; it is what…
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One of the most fun jobs in Government is being Heritage Minister, because you get to ‘list’ historic buildings so they can’t be destroyed or knocked down. The list includes more than 500,000 listed buildings, gardens, battlefields, protected shipwrecks and monuments, covering everything from Stonehenge and Wells Cathedral to the Iron…
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This article was originally published on CAPX. The rather boringly named Subsidy Control Bill starts its journey through Parliament today. But in spite of the soporific handle, it does something rather important: it replaces all those clunky, bureaucratic EU subsidy rules with a much simpler, quicker, lighter-touch set of UK…
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This article was originally published in ‘Onward’. For hundreds of years, businesses have transformed our lives for the better by creating wealth, improving living standards, creating jobs, and inventing cool gadgets that make life easier, more interesting and fun. But they can create problems too; if we don’t set things…
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