Restaurants should not be able to hide hygiene ratings Michael Fabricant Summer is here. For many people, that means more meals out – often in towns they have not visited before. Unfortunately, restaurant-goers in England are being short-changed by a lack of hygiene transparency. Food hygiene in the UK is regulated by the Food Standards […]
Airlines must be forced to be fair on fuel surcharges Michael Fabricant With the summer now upon us, the holiday rush has begun. Airports are packed as millions of Brits jet off for their vacations abroad. Families across the country work hard to pay for these holidays, which can sometimes cost several thousand pounds. However, […]
Michael Fabricant got to hold one of the new polymer £10 notes at a meeting with the Bank of England today (19th July 2017) in advance of their being made available to the public. “The new plastic £10 note is a little larger than the new £5 note, but 15% smaller than the existing paper […]
The Parliamentary Bill for HS2 Phase 2a authorising the high speed rail link between Lichfield and Crewe was published yesterday. Michael Fabricant and Cheryl Gillan (the Conservative MP for Amersham) joined Ed Miliband MP mid-afternoon in demanding an oral statement from the Transport Secretary. This duly took place at 10pm last night (17th July). This […]
In a Statement to the House of Commons yesterday (17th July), the Education Secretary, Justine Greening, said that no schools will lose out as a result of the new funding formula. Michael Fabricant says “Staffordshire has lost out over the last 30 years or more receiving less money per pupil than most other counties. This […]
Michael Fabricant met with Network Rail and London Midland today (Friday 14 July) to see first-hand how the railway in his constituency is run and maintained. Michael was taken on track where he saw Network Rail’s orange army repair a track fault just outside Lichfield Trent Valley station before visiting the nearby signal box where […]
Theresa May could teach Jeremy Corbyn a thing or two about standing up against racism Michael Fabricant It would be an understatement to say it has been an eventful year for the Prime Minister. From the barnstorming party conference speeches last autumn and double digit poll leads this spring to a crushing election that saw […]
Michael Fabricant tackled Schools Minister in the House of Commons Chamber today (4th July) on the new ‘Fairer Funding Formula’. Michael asked: “My right hon. Friend will recall, probably with gloom, my question to him two or three weeks before the general election, but, as Arnie Schwarzenegger would say, “I’m back”, and I want to […]
Brexit and Hope are the tools we Tories need to crush Jeremy Corbyn Michael Fabricant CONSERVATIVE MP FOR LICHFIELD AND FORMER VICE-CHAIRMAN, CAMPAIGNING The political narrative has been turned on its head over the last month. At the first Prime Minister?s Questions since the election, it wasn?t the Conservatives who cheered Jeremy Corbyn as he […]
Hard Brexit will let liberalism thrive in Britain, not snuff it out Michael Fabricant Conservative MP for Lichfield It has become fashionable among some of the young and the habitu?s of Islington wine bars to convince themselves that enthusiasts for Brexit (with the exception, perhaps, of Jeremy Corbyn) are both illiberal and reactionary. I was […]