The visit of President Obama has been the highlight for the UK this week, illustrating the vital nature of the UK-US relationship to be a rock-solid bastion for promoting our jointly shared values and beliefs. As President Obama said in his historic speech to the Houses of Parliament on Wednesday, ...
Many constituents, as well as others further afield who enjoy the Chilterns, set in their area of outstanding natural beauty, feel that the proposal to build HS2 – a high-speed rail link between London and East Birmingham – is unacceptable on both environmental and financial grounds.
It is significant that no ...
With the final results of the local elections not yet known, a major highlight for me in the campaign was to support candidates from the local Kashmiri community standing for our Party in Wycombe. We should be very proud that we already have five Conservative Kashmiri Councillors on the current Council; the ...
As we come out of one of the biggest financial and economic crises in modern history, there are still many obstacles for Europe and the United States to overcome on the journey towards economic recovery. Remember that this is more of a Transatlantic than a global phenomenon as Asian economies ...
Earlier this week, the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, presented the 2011 Budget to "reform the nation's economy so that we have enduring growth and jobs in the future". In presenting the Budget, he sets out four economic ambitions for Britain to:
Have the most competitive tax system ...
Listening to the debate last week in the European Parliament concerning Turkey's progress report towards joining the European Union, I began to think, as others did, that little progress was being made towards this ultimate objective. And more substantively, I began to ask the fundamental question of what was now ...
The 'Jasmine Revolution', spreading through the Arab world in the past month like a prairie fire, has highlighted the power that the internet has to create political change. Using social networking websites such as Facebook and Twitter to organise themselves and to gather support, protestors are putting pressure on autocratic ...
As the Christmas break approaches, what are the main challenges likely to be in 2011? As I see it, three important themes from a European outlook are stabilising the Euro and achieving sustained economic growth, budgetary debates on the post-2013 Financial Perspective, and developing strategic thinking for EU decision-making.
1. Stabilising ...
