Much improved weekend service Additional weekday morning train to London Euston Key Friday evening train from London to run five days a week Lichfield Trent Valley is one of the big winners in details of Virgin Trains’ summer timetable announced today. A number of additional stops will be added to Virgin Trains’ current service form […]
The team from John Taylor High School in Barton under Needwood won the Parliamentary Michael Fabricant-Arthur Price of England Schools Speaking Competition 2016 when it was held on Friday night (26th February) in the Guildhall, Lichfield. Lewis Coles from Chase Terrace Technology College won Best Overall Speaker. “Five local schools took part this year” says […]
Ignore the hyperbole. This is not Maastricht v2.0. It?s completely different. I was there! says Michael Fabricant MP, the Conservative MP for Lichfield and former Senior Government Whip. Whenever any political historian needs to reference internecine political trench warfare, they think of the 12 months of debate and bloodshed in the House of Commons which […]
Today (Thursday 11th February), Michael Fabricant raised the plight of Rugeley Power Station workers in Parliament:- Hansard: Michael Fabricant (Lichfield) (Con): My right hon. Friend will know about the recent announcement of the closure of Rugeley power station, which is half in my constituency and half in that of my hon. Friend the Member for […]
EU referendum: Tory MP Michael Fabricant discusses leaving the EU, in-fighting and the way forward for the splintered Brexit groups by Chris Papadopoullos ?The UK may be 25 miles off the coast of Calais, but culturally it?s 25 miles off the coast of Boston, Massachusetts, or Brisbane, Australia,? says Michael Fabricant, MP for Lichfield and […]
Whips want to gag us, but I will NOT be silenced says former Tory party whip MICHAEL FABRICANT Having spent seven years in the Conservative Whips Office ? in Opposition and in Government ? there isn’t much I don’t know about the political dark arts. So I could not suppress a wry smile a few […]
We will soon be voting on whether or not the UK should remain in the European Union. Like me, David Davis believes Britain is a global trading nation as is constrained by the EU. You can download the report by David Davis on Britain and the European Union here.
Following visiting the Environment Agency Midlands HQ in October last year – see http://www.michael.fabricant.mp.co.uk/news-001174.ihtml – and hearing about the Hanch Tunnel, Michael Fabricant asked to see the Tunnel which travels almost 4 miles beneath Lichfield at a depth of between 10 and a 130 feet underground. It was built 1853 and 1867. “This was a […]
Work/Life Balance? Not for MPs Perhaps it?s my age, but I have taken to giving advice to newbie MPs: Take one weekend off in 3 or 4. Like teachers and university lecturers, MPs get longish holidays. But Unlike most other people MPs generally work solidly at weekends too. Each MP has a different way of […]
Commons People: Why don’t we allow breastfeeding here? We’re used to screaming It was only five years ago that the first nursery in Westminster was built The Conservative MP Michael Fabricant last year went incognito for ‘The Independent’ to chronicle the highs and lows of his life as a candidate fighting the general election. Now, […]