‘Policy’ Archives
Nadhim Zahawi welcomed to contest
I would like to welcome former Wandsworth councillor Nadhim Zahawi to the Stratford on Avon parliamentary contest, selected tonight by the Conservative Association as their candidate. Nadhim is a highly respected figure and Chief Executive of YouGov. I do want to send my condolences to Councillor Philip Seccombe who, as the only local candidate, [...]
Don’t break up the BBC
The Tory-backed Policy Exchange think-tank has today called for the BBC to be dismantled, with BBC Worldwide privatised, the BBC Trust scrapped, and sport and popular entertainment dumped to create opportunities for commercial channels, according to a preview to the report "Changing the Channel" covered by the BBC website and the Guardian. It's [...]
Why I don’t respond to blanket ‘pledge’ campaigns
If you're visiting this site looking for my email address so that you can send me a two-sentence pledge to sign up to, you're wasting your time. Like many sitting MPs, it's my policy not to respond to them. Why is this? First, I don't want to encourage the approach to politics which says that everything is really very simple, and if only [...]
Where to find Lib-Dem policies
Now that the General Election is on the horizon, people are getting increasingly interested in what the parties stand for. Both David Cameron and Gordon Brown have tried to suggest that they are very, very close to the Liberal Democrats. Nick Clegg has pointed out that this is entirely not the case -- indeed, the Liberal Democrats are not for [...]
