Robin Millar: The Shared Prosperity Fund will unleash Wales’ potential – and take back control from unaccountable bureaucrats

Robin Millar: The Shared Prosperity Fund will unleash Wales’ potential – and take back control from unaccountable bureaucrats

Robin Millar is the MP for Aberconwy. Welsh devolution began twenty years ago with a promise. We were told that it would bring power to a local level and empower us to fix the problems we saw around us. Fundamentally, it was about giving people in Wales the power to improve our communities. The dream…

Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: Johnson the statesman is working for open borders by sea and land

Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: Johnson the statesman is working for open borders by sea and land

“Be the Unionist we need you to be,” Ian Paisley (DUP, Antrim North) exhorted the Prime Minister via video link. Paisley lamented that “the Protocol has betrayed us and made us feel like foreigners in our own country”. He added that “tea and sympathy will not cut the mustard” and asked the Prime Minister: “Will…

Montana Lawmaker Outlines Troubling Implications of Biden’s Executive Actions

Montana Lawmaker Outlines Troubling Implications of Biden’s Executive Actions

Freshman Rep. Matt Rosendale, R-Mont., has entered the House with a bold plan to develop America’s natural resources and push back on the agenda of the far left. Rosendale joined “The Daily Signal Podcast” during a recent trip to the U.S.- Mexico border to discuss why he ran for Congress, his former service in the…

Elliot Colburn: This pandemic has shown the urgent need for social care reform

Elliot Colburn: This pandemic has shown the urgent need for social care reform

Elliot Colburn is the MP for Carshalton and Wallington As we reflect on our shared experiences during the pandemic, it’s clear to me that one of the biggest lessons our party can learn from 2020 is that the time for addressing the issue of long-term social care reform is now. As the party of government,…

Our survey. If there is English separatism among Conservative activists, it’s well concealed.

Our survey. If there is English separatism among Conservative activists, it’s well concealed.

The answers have barely moved since we asked the same question last August – a tribute to the consistency of the survey panel members. Those to whom the Union isn’t important at all are a tiny fraction of the whole, four per cent. The August figure was five per cent. Add the seven per cent…

Trump Lawyers Counter Democrats With These 4 Impeachment Arguments
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Trump Lawyers Counter Democrats With These 4 Impeachment Arguments

Former President Donald Trump’s lawyers have fired back against House Democrats’ charge that he incited an insurrection.  Two Trump lawyers, David Schoen and Bruce Castor, filed a 14-page counterbrief Tuesday, the same day Democrats’ impeachment managers made an 80-page filing.  The Trump brief denies that calling for supporters to “fight” is inciting a riot. It…

Democrats’ 4 Top Arguments  for Trump Impeachment Trial
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Democrats’ 4 Top Arguments for Trump Impeachment Trial

House Democrats prosecuting former President Donald Trump released a memorandum Tuesday laying out key points against Trump, the first president to face an impeachment trial in the Senate after leaving office.  The House impeached Trump for the second time seven days before the end of his four-year term, accusing him of “incitement to insurrection” before…

Cherry’s dismissal shows that the SNP leadership is under more pressure than ever

Cherry’s dismissal shows that the SNP leadership is under more pressure than ever

Yesterday morning, the Scottish National Party’s Westminster group called an emergency meeting at which they voted to sack Joanna Cherry from her frontbench role as the party’s Justice spokesperson. This is not the first move the Nationalist leadership has made against Cherry, a high-profile critic of Nicola Sturgeon who is widely seen as an ally…