Conservative Home 1st January 2019 One of the many old jokes in the Carry On films is: “where is all your get up and go?” The answer comes: “it got up and went.” It seems, sometimes, that half the population feels that way, when I read some of the more depressing letters and articles […]
Daily Telegraph 13 December 2018 In politics, timing is everything. And, with less than four months until we leave the EU and no obvious successor in place standing out as a popular alternative to Theresa May, the timing of Wednesday’s vote of no confidence could not have been worse for those who have sought to […]
Lichfield Mercury 6th December 2018 Before I became an MP, a friend and I started a company from scratch which supplied broadcasting equipment and services to radio and tv stations. We eventually ended up supplying broadcasters in 48 countries around the world. Some were in Britain and the rest of Europe while many others were […]
The Jerusalem Post 3rd December 2018 It has now been a year since President Trump’s announcement that the United States would be moving its embassy to Jerusalem and recognising it as the capital of Israel. With Vice President Mike Pence looking on, US President Donald Trump gives a statement on Jerusalem, during which he recognized […]
The Telegraph 27th November 2017 On the morning of 17th January 2017, seven months after the EU Referendum, Prime Minister Theresa May said at Lancaster House “We will pursue a bold and ambitious free trade agreement with the European Union. “This agreement should allow for the freest possible trade in goods and services between Britain […]
Daily Telegraph 19th November 2018 I vehemently oppose the current iteration of the Chequers Agreement negotiated by the Prime Minister with the European Union. And I will vote against the Government if this version is presented to Parliament. But what I will not be doing is writing to Sir Graham Brady, the Chairman of […]
Daily Telegraph 17th October 2018 Another round of Brexit negotiation and there’s deadlock. As Mr Corbyn and others have said: “It’s groundhog day”. Over the weekend, there had been whispers that a deal had finally been agreed between the UK and EU. Despite campaigning for Brexit from the very beginning, I can see the […]
The Telegraph MICHAEL FABRICANT In an interview intended to focus on his successor as Chairman of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, Mervyn King chose to attack the Government on the pace of EU negotiations. I think Lord King’s criticism is unfair. Just like my exam revision of so many years’ ago, the EU always leaves decisions […]
The Telegraph MICHAEL FABRICANT Perhaps one of the most bizarre aspects of the post-Brexit political debate is how Leavers and Remainers have been divided into two neat, homogeneous groups of crude stereotypes. Leavers: working-class and salt-of-the-Earth but backward looking reactionaries who live in deprived seaside towns. Naturally, they read the tabloids and don’t like […]
The Telegraph MICHAEL FABRICANT Hard as it is to believe, Parliament has sailed through even rougher waters than these My colleague Sir Nicholas Soames tweeted this week: “I don’t think in my 35 years as an MP that I have ever known such a truly unpleasant and deeply uncertain time in the House”. Although not as […]