2+ hour, 10+ min ago   (84+ words) She says the Prime Minister should not be "jetting off" to Beijing to secure trade deals when China is guilty of human rights breaches. The post Starmer should not go to China, Patel insists appeared first on Conservative Home. "I…...

2+ mon, 6+ day ago   (576+ words) Lord Hannan of Kingsclere was a Conservative MEP from 1999 to 2020 and is now President of the Institute for Free Trade. I was trying to draft amendments to the Diego Garcia Bill, but it made me so angry that I kept…...

3+ mon, 3+ day ago   (843+ words) James Tumbridge is a barrister and partner at Keystone Law, a city councillor, and sometime advisor to Conservative politicians. He is counsel in a judicial review seeking to have the Chagossian people consulted before their rights are changed. The plight…...

7+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1153+ words) It makes no sense to pretend that it is not possible to engage with the people of the territory to affect a proper process of decolonisation. Rather than correcting the historic injustice this approach simply compounds it. The post Jim…...

8+ mon, 2+ day ago   (814+ words) It's difficult even to make humorous references, because they all use words such as 'bought' or 'sold' and there's no word for paying someone lots of money to take something valuable off you. The post Chagos, again. How do you…...

8+ mon, 3+ day ago   (749+ words) A cowardly arrangement done in a cowardly manner: signing the deal and providing a statement to the Commons only the day before recess, scrambling to avoid real parliamentary scrutiny. The post Chagos, China, and a British betrayal appeared first on…...

10+ mon, 1+ week ago   (537+ words) Katie Lam is the MP for the Weald of Kent and a former advisor in Downing Street and the Home Office. It is obvious to everyone that the "deal" the Prime Minister has done to give away the Chagos Islands…...

10+ mon, 3+ week ago   (73+ words) The Conservative leader adds: "It is not in our national interest to give away the Chagos Islands and pay for the privilege of doing so." The post "We will not stop our opposition to the surrender of the Chagos Islands…...

11+ mon, 1+ week ago   (71+ words) The Shadow Defence Secretary attacks the Government's "terrible" Chagos Islands deal. The post Cartlidge " "Forget the [Chagos] deal, spend every penny of that on our armed forces" appeared first on Conservative Home. "Forget the deal, spend every penny of that…...

11+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1745+ words) A pachyderm squats in the corner regarding Keir Starmer's ever-more-expensive quest to surrender the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. All on the Right " and an increasing number on the Left, up to and including his Cabinet " agree that the Prime Minister's…...