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CENTRAL to the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement last week were measures to address Britain’s longstanding productivity gap. The issue, in the simplest terms, is...

Yorkshire’s tourism boss Sir Gary Verity made some very interesting points about the way the rural economy works last week in Westminster. Sir Gary was giving...

LOCAL bus services are a lifeline for many people in the Richmond constituency and I regularly deal with questions about how to keep our most isolated...

REMEMBRANCE Sunday is one of the biggest days in the constituency year. With two of the UK’s major military bases in the patch – RAF Leeming and Catterick...

UNWANTED telephone calls, either to our mobiles or landlines, are a blight on our daily lives. To some these calls are a minor convenience but to an increasing...

THE Government minister in charge of formulating a British Agricultural Policy after we leave the EU has given me some encouraging assurances about the future...

THERE are times when the House of Commons chamber looks very empty and understandably people ask: where are all the MPs? I can assure you that while we may not...

OUR legal system is sometimes criticised for being slow and expensive. While that might be true to a degree in some areas of the law, much of the day-to-day...

The American food writer Bill Marsano once wrote that “the British Empire was created as a by-product of generations of desperate Englishmen roaming the world...