The Telegraph March 27th, 2019 I never much liked the Withdrawal Agreement. There was so much wrong with it – not just the Northern Ireland back stop. It is a monster complete with bells and whistles dreamed up by civil servants on both sides of the English Channel. It was designed, it seemed, to […]
The Telegraph March 13th, 2019 Tuesday started well for the Government. The Prime Minister had lost her voice. “If you think mine’s croaky, you should hear Juncker’s” she quipped at a hastily called 1922 Committee in the morning. Yet she seemed to have come back with a bounce and an improved Deal from Brussels. […]
“Saxon Hill School in Lichfield, which has recently had an excellent report from Ofsted, has had issues finding funding for sleep overs for its severely disabled students” says Michael Fabricant. “So I have been in correspondence with Government Ministers over this and raised the matter in the House of Commons.” Here’s what was said in […]
The Sun March 5th, 2019 Now that Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party is backing a second EU referendum, a “People’s Vote”, I would like to put on record here and now that I support a third referendum, the “Democratic Vote on the People’s Vote”, preferably within three years of the second one. Unlike some in […]
“There are almost 17,000 small rural convenience stores in the UK and they provide work for 140,000 people. In the Lichfield constituency some of our smaller villages would find it hard to exist if they are not sustained by their local shop” says Michael Fabricant. “With limited bus services in rural areas and some older […]
The Telegraph February 21st, 2019 When I entered the House of Commons, I voted for equality so that men could have sex with men at the same age as men could legally have sex with women: 16. I lost that vote back in the early 90s, but the age was dropped to 18 from 21. Eventually, […]
The Telegraph 16th February 2019 On Thursday, the Government lost its main Brexit motion before the House of Commons by attempting to be all things to all wings of the Conservative Party. Incorporating not only changes made by the Brady Amendment which called for the backstop to be renegotiated, but also Caroline Spelman’s amendment ruling […]
On Thursday 14th February, which some have renamed the Parliamentary Valentine’s Day massacre, 41 Labour MPs voted against their leader Jeremy Corbyn and their whips while around 60 Conservative MPs chose to abstain on a Government motion. I was one of them. Two weeks earlier, I had voted against an amendment that argued that a […]
Michael Fabricant met members of the Kingstone Community Society in Abbots Bromley on Saturday 9th February to discuss the future of the Shrewsbury Arms. Michael says “The Shrewsbury Arms is the only pub in Kingstone and it has now closed. The Kingstone Community Society has been formed to reopen the pub and make it into […]
With Valentine’s Day almost upon us, Royal Mail has unveiled four ‘romantic’ postboxes across the UK, with one in Conduit Street in Lichfield, which honour some of the nation’s greatest writers on the subject of love. The postboxes are adorned in quotes from some of the best-loved work of romantic poets and authors Anna Seward, […]