By David Campbell Bannerman with contribution by Derek Bennett Simon Richards was a person you'd welcome seeing at events and make a beeline over to talk to. Always cheery, polite, humorous, principled, freedom loving, gregarious and well-informed, his untimely loss is a great one for us all to bear. Simon was a determined but gentlemanly Brexiteer...
Norman Tebbit was born to working class parents on March 29th 1931. He was bright and won a place at Edmonton County Grammar School. He left school aged sixteen and got a job working for the Financial Times. He had to join NATSOPA and developed an intense dislike of union power and vowed to "break the power of the closed shop". He was called up in ...
To summarise the whole Raab "bullying" scandal is best described from Conservative MP for Peterborough, Paul Bristow, deploring the saga as cynically making the UK as "not a serious country". Certainly Mr Bristow is pristine clear about this, the mockery that the accusation of "bullying" affecting the civil service makes our nation a joke.From...