Corbyn’s Latest Brexit Position Betrays The Very Spirit Of Internationalism That He And Labour Claim To Hold So Dear In his landmark Brexit speech on Monday, Jeremy Corbyn announced that Labour would seek to keep Britain in a Customs Union with the EU after Brexit and, in doing so, be “internationalist”. Yet Corbyn’s latest […]
Prohibition Has Failed – We Need A Radical New Drug Policy This issue however goes far beyond medicinal marijuana. Our whole approach to drugs is flawed Our approach to drugs is broken. Not only does it not work, it directly causes suffering that could otherwise be avoided. Yesterday in the Commons, an Urgent Question […]
Michael Fabricant raised the case of his Burntwood constituent Vicky Clarke who is suffering from advanced multiple sclerosis and needs cannabis to help relieve her acute and stabbing pain. No other treatment works. Michael says “This is a tragic case. Vicky is currently receiving pain management at St Giles Hospice in Whittington near Lichfield. They […]
Michael Fabricant voted against the HS2 Bill last night (30th January) which will extend the line from Lichfield to Crewe explaining in detail all the flaws with the line’s design and getting some helpful commitments from the Secretary of State for Transport, Chris Grayling. Here is the video of the speech followed by the Hansard transcript. […]
Despite what Michael Fabricant refers to as “a cosy consensus between the main political parties”, MPs will discuss an amendment tabled by Michael Fabricant on Tuesday 30th January when the House will vote for the first time on the second phase of HS2: the route from Lichfield to Crewe. Michael says “It is remarkable that […]
Michael Fabricant met with the Jan Chaudhry-van der Velde, the managing director of West Midland Trains shortly before Christmas. “We discussed in detail the facilities at Lichfield City and Lichfield Trent Valley stations as well as services on the two rail franchises they have taken over from London-Midland. I raised a whole series of issues […]
Daily Telegraph MICHAEL FABRICANT The Prime Minister has had a tough 2017. A squandered majority, PR disasters and a delicate Brexit process which has seen her attacked from all sides. The received wisdom has it she won?t lead the Conservatives into the next General Election. But other Prime Ministers and political leaders would have already […]
National Unemployment has fallen yet again – to the lowest it has been since 1975. Michael Fabricant says: “Unemployment in the Lichfield Constituency based on the claimant rate is less than 1 percent: just 0.9%. “We have one of the lowest unemployment rates in the country. It is the 594th highest of the 650 UK […]
The Guardian Michael Fabricant My red lines are the freedom to agree trade worldwide, control over our borders, and supremacy of our law. Today?s agreement meets those tests The deal sealed on Friday morning in Brussels and first heralded by the tweet of a puff of white smoke is ? as all deals are ? […]
The UK should follow Trump’s lead and move the British embassy to Jerusalem Michael Fabricant MP When my father served in the British Army during World War II, he witnessed some of the Nazi atrocities and remained in the Army after the war, posted to Jerusalem, the headquarters of the British Mandate of Palestine. He […]