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More productivity, higher pay
Most governments want higher productivity, or say they do. most grasp that if you get people to produce more goods or services in a working week you collect more revenue and can share that with employees.
Seeing that is not the same as selling it to those who need to deliver....Read More »
GP appointments and waiting times
On Friday I joined a regular local health review meeting to hear from management where the NHS has reached in restoring services post covid and tackling waiting lists. I was told that activity levels are up on pre 2020 figures and all waits of over 2 years have been eliminated....Read More »
If you vote Conservative you want Conservative policies
It was a strange idea that in the Red Wall seats Labour voters had lent their votes to the Conservatives in 2019. It was an even stranger idea that that meant those voters wanted a Conservative government to behave more like a Labour one.
A vote is a vote. People mean...Read More »
My Question about strengthening UK Courts that should not be answerable to Foreign courts
Rt Hon Sir John Redwood MP (Wokingham) (Con): This Parliament is the main guarantor of our rights and liberties; it created them in battles over many centuries for the benefit of us all. Would not this great role be strengthened if our Supreme Court were indeed supreme and not answerable...Read More »
My Question on advancing UK prosperity post-Brexit
Rt Hon Sir John Redwood MP (Wokingham) (Con): I thank my right hon. Friend for all that he is doing to advance UK prosperity and growth, including this Bill. The common fisheries policy sunk many of our fishing boats. Can we have a policy to replace that fleet? The EU policy...Read More »