All articles written by Theresa Villiers MP on PoliticsHome.com

10 Aug 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 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 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.