The Telegraph Saturday 5th January 2019   Tories are warming to the idea of Brexit without an Agreement – and even the EU plans to make it work   On Wednesday next week, with just 79 days before Brexit is due, MPs will commence the debate on whether to accept Theresa May’s Withdrawal Agreement. The […]

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 […]