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John Redwood MP for Wokingham

These are the most recent articles mentioning "opposition" John Redwood Searches for Answers on Northern Rock Posted 04/01/08, 16:06 ... ribes what he says would have been œtough love� by the Bank of England in managing it through. I presume that he is talking about the proposal, which Opposition Members have described, of a Bank of England-led administration. That would effectively use powers that do not currently exist. We think th... Northern Rock - now the government’s problems will mutliply Posted 04/01/08, 08:56 ... ced by more than the workforce, implying further job losses to come later. The Chief Secretary contented herself with claiming that the Opposition had no alternative to nationalisation, declining to answer my points about how the Bank of England and the Treasury could have acted as Nor... What should Gordon do now? Posted 05/03/08, 07:06 ... tives, because the public rightly blamed the government which actually took them in. They did not concern themselves with the advice we offered from Opposition. I am afraid it is not about the Conservatives at the moment “ it is about the government and the problems we need to confront. We can turn... No wonder “green taxes” have a bad image Posted 05/15/08, 07:40 Yesterday the Opposition highlighted the great Vehicle Excise Duty take away. Brought to you by the same people who doubled the income tax rate on the lower paid, they have thought up another unpopular wheeze to lift an extra £2.5 billion from motorists as if we were not paying enough already. D... Mr Miliband should shut up - Mr Brown won’t ask him to put up Posted 05/26/08, 06:23 ... wishes to be loyal, his best career option is to offer full support up to a possible General Election defeat, and then run for the Leadership of the Opposition once Gordon resigns and a vacancy is called. It is easy to do to stop speculation. I remember MPs approaching me in the 1990s... The lessons of Crewe for both main political parties Posted 05/23/08, 06:47 ... he Conservative party could defeat Labour. These are all worrying developments for a party in government that has survived so far by helping keep the opposition split between Lib Dem, UKIP, Green and others to make it more difficult for Conservatives to win, and by vilifying the Conservatives in cru... Let’s cut through the tax and spend debate Posted 07/15/08, 07:33 ... front bench were to say it wanted to spend less than Labour, the government then chooses the most idiotic and inappropriate cuts in spending for the Opposition “ ones which they would never adopt - and the BBC dutifully peddles these to the electorate. The government wants us to believe th... Labour’s unfunded tax cuts? Posted 07/30/08, 05:56 Over the Brown years the Chancellor/PM has applied an iron law to the Opposition - they must speak no tax cuts and no spending increases. If they venture either Labour reserves the right to list the worst kind of spending cuts to “pay” for them, as no “unfunded” spending inc... Kennet Valley Park development proposals Posted 08/12/08, 09:08 Many of my constituents have written to me expressing their opposition to the inclusion of Kennet Valley Park as a Strategic Development Area in the Government™s South East Plan. I have today written to the Government Office of the South East setting out my opposition to any proposals to build an ... Labour’s style of debating Posted 11/15/08, 09:01 ... ng to Rosie Winterton last night on the Any Questions Panel, I became angry about the way Labour handle every criticism and every difficult issue the Opposition and the public put to them. They always assert they are completely right. They refuse to accept there could be any other answer or way of... Labour’s style of debating Posted 11/15/08, 09:01 ... ng to Rosie Winterton last night on the Any Questions Panel, I became angry about the way Labour handle every criticism and every difficult issue the Opposition and the public put to them. They always assert they are completely right. They refuse to accept there could be any other answer or way of... Figures on Government correspondence reveal no major demand for Identity Cards Posted 11/28/08, 16:30 ... d October 2008, just 1,142 were recorded under the theme of œWants an Identity Card�, or just over a third. It is likely the true scale of people™s opposition is even higher than that claimed by the Government. In their answer to John Redwood™s Parliamentary Question, the Home Office only include... David Cameron and Damian Green Posted 11/30/08, 08:38 ... to our democracy perpetrated in the Blair years. Here, Prime Minister is your chance. Make a statement about Parliamentry privilege and the role of Opposition as soon as we are back next week. Otherwise David Cameron will have to develop in the Commons what he has had to start in the newspapers, a... One cheer for Ms Harman Posted 12/04/08, 08:30 ... , and speak up in government to ensure fair play for the minority, insisting on proper time for debate and examination of the Executive on things the Opposition is unhappy with or where it has a differing view. I have not been a fan of Ms Harman in this role, as she has failed to allow the ... << back