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29 Aug 2023 Environment

Tory MPs Welcome Housebuilding Boost Despite Backlash Over Scrapping Environmental Rules

Government has announced plans to ditch EU rules on nutrient neutrality in order to build 100,000 homes across the UK, prompting praise from MPs despite a backlash from opposition parties and environmental groups.

30 May 2023 Environment

We cannot afford any further delay to ban live animal exports

Like many MPs, I felt a deep sense of disappointment when I learned that the government was withdrawing the Animal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill which would have banned the live export of animals for slaughter.

10 Mar 2023 Communities

Planning reform must give local communities greater control over what is built in their neighbourhood

Few subjects cause as much friction between front and back benches as planning and housing targets.

08 Mar 2023 Communities

Can we build beautifully and affordably?

In 2019, a petition on the parliamentary site entitled “Stop councils being forced to build twice the number of houses we need” emerged online. The summary of the petition ran: “We need new houses, but we want affordable new developments to fit into local infrastructure, to help build a sense of community and pride. The countryside is being swamped by huge housing developments. Small rural villages turned into suburbs, through ugly big out-of-town satellite developments.”

03 Feb 2023 Political parties

Former Minister Welcomes Rishi Sunak's "Willingness To Listen" Despite Continued Scandal

Former cabinet minister Theresa Villiers has praised Prime Minister Rishi Sunak for being “willing to listen” to backbenchers, even as Downing Street remains engulfed in scandal since he took office late last year.

10 Aug 2022 Economy

Money Expert Compares Energy Crisis Inaction To UK "Watching European Hospital Beds Fill Up" With Covid

Personal finance expert Martin Lewis has accused the government of inaction on soaring energy prices, and compared the "cataclysmic" scale of the crisis to watching Covid hospitalisations soar across Europe while the UK continued to allow sporting events to go ahead in 2020.

16 May 2022 Brexit

The UK must be prepared to act unilaterally over the Northern Ireland Protocol if negotiations fail

The Northern Ireland Protocol is a source of deep concern amongst many in Northern Ireland’s unionist community.

12 Jan 2022 Health

Welcoming back retired GPs can help tackle the Covid backlog and increase face-to-face appointments

Even before the pandemic, GPs were struggling with increasing workloads as healthcare need amongst their patients spiralled. Some have left the profession as a result.

09 Feb 2021 Political parties

Tory Peer Ordered To Apologise For Trying To Influence Disgraced Ex-MP Charlie Elphicke's Trial

A Tory peer has apologised to the House of Lords after trying to influence a judge in the case of the disgraced former Conservative MP Charlie Elphicke.

08 Sep 2020 Education

Black people have lived in Britain since before the English came here – it is time our curriculum reflected that

It is not possible to understand modern Britain without an understanding of its past. That means teaching the nearly 2000-years of black history in Britain in our schools

10 Jul 2020 Coronavirus

Scrapping Politics Live TV show would ‘seriously harm’ chance to grill politicians, MPs warn BBC bosses

A cross-party group of MPs is calling on the BBC not to scrap the Politics Live show.

01 Jun 2020 Coronavirus

Tory backlash mounts over ‘blanket’ coronavirus quarantine for people entering the UK

The Government is facing a growing Conservative rebellion over its plans to impose a “blanket” 14-day quarantine on everybody who arrives in the UK.

21 Apr 2020 Coronavirus

Coronavirus: Philip Hammond says UK should start ‘reopening the economy’ as calls for lockdown exit plan mount

Britain must start “reopening the economy” to avoid sustained damage from the coronavirus shutdown, former Chancellor Philip Hammond has warned.

29 Sep 2019 Environment

We can hand on the natural environment in a better state than we found it

New legalisation to mitigate climate change and grow the rural economy must be top of our agenda, writes Theresa Villiers MP

12 Mar 2018 Culture

The task of returning objects stolen by the Nazis is not complete

The crimes of the Nazis can never be remedied. But there are steps we can take to return works of art to the families from whom they were stolen, writes Theresa Villiers

24 Jan 2017 Environment

Leaving EU allows UK to reaffirm and strengthen standards for animal welfare

The end result of the Great Repeal Bill should be retention, not dilution of animal welfare standards says Theresa Villiers MP.