Our glorious, fragile parliament – and its hungry, scurrying mice The Palace of Westminster is crumbling and won’t, be fixed unless MPs find a temporary home elsewhere Big Ben, being cleaned Photo: PA By Michael Fabricant Daily Telegraph, 4 Mar 2015 Around 1,220 years ago, Lichfield was the ecclesiastical capital of Mercia with an Archbishop […]
Let non-celibate gay men donate blood, Tory MP to demand Michael Fabricant, MP for Lichfield, say rules introduced in wake of Aids epidemic no longer make sense By Matthew Holehouse A blanket ban on sexually active gay men giving blood should be lifted, a Conservative MP will say today. Michael Fabricant, a former Government whip […]
The EU ?outers? must win hearts and minds in 2017 A Europe without Britain looks possible now, but the out campaign will need strong leadership, not Little Englanders at the helm by Michael Fabricant MP A starting pistol has been fired by the outgoing president of the European commission, Jos? Manuel Barroso. His strongly expressed […]
Equalising the right to donate blood is the next frontier for UK gay rights If you are gay and have safe sex you can?t give blood, if you are straight and promiscuous you can. The logic ? and the science ? don?t add up by Michael Fabricant MP The equal marriage legislation passed in this […]
A pact with the people – not with UKIP by Michael Fabricant MP An urgent call to end the Coalition before it?s too late. The European Election results make grim reading for the Coalition, but this should be no surprise. Eighteen months ago, In November 2012, I did something that many in the Conservative Party […]
Sex, spies… and the truth about my hair: Cameron sacked Michael Fabricant as Tory vice-chairman for being so indiscreet. But has he learnt his lesson? Not on your life! By Jane Fryer Which of the following statements about Michael Fabricant, Conservative MP for Lichfield, is true? A: He was expelled at gunpoint from the Soviet […]
Celebrate peace by letting Ireland join the Commonwealth Ireland should join the Commonwealth following the Queen’s dinner with Martin McGuinness, says Michael Fabricant By Matthew Holehouse, Political Correspondent Ireland should join the Commonwealth in the wake of Martin McGuinness? dinner with the Queen as a signal to the world of peaceful reconciliation, a senior Conservative […]
Michael Fabricant: Llamas, incest, bestiality, and the demise of the Tories? Deputy Chairman OLIVER WRIGHT Michael Fabricant is perched on the edge of his House of Commons desk clutching a small black ukulele and grinning for The Independent?s photographer. He doesn?t look much like a man who has just been summarily sacked by the Prime […]
Absolutely Fabricant: the sacked Tory vice-chair who’s whipping up a Twitterstorm He?s the maverick, wild-haired Tory vice-chair who was summarily sacked this week, and has since whipped up a Twitterstorm. Rosamund Urwin asks where next for Mad Fab ? Strictly? Keep your hair on: ?The REAL reason for my sacking was anti-blond bias in the […]
An English Parliament… And Not in London Either I was never one of those people convinced by the arguments for an English Parliament, but the Scottish Referendum has changed my mind. There should be one, and oh, it really ought to be in Lichfield – or not, in any event, in Westminster. The Act of […]