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It must be stressed that we do not currently face a choice between lockdown or no lockdown. The choice in policy terms that faces us is whether to continue with...

Please see my statement below on extending free school meals into the school holidays. I previously said on Twitter that I felt some of the reaction to how MPs...

I wish I was writing about something other than Coronavirus, which I have touched on to some degree in each of my last few columns. However, these are...

The overall purpose of the UK Internal Market Bill is to ensure that businesses across the whole of the United Kingdom will continue to enjoy seamless internal...

I entirely understand that many people are frustrated that over half a year since full lockdown we have heard much of that word again, at a time when many are...

In a matter of days something should be happening that has occurred at around this time of every year of my life, and probably every year of most readers’...

Until the Coronavirus lockdown I had spent my entire five years as an MP talking about unemployment going in one direction: down. The phrase ‘record employment’...

Regular testing for NHS staff NHS staff, care workers and other medical professionals are on the frontline in the fight against coronavirus, and I have nothing...

It seems like only yesterday that I was writing in this column about the need to ‘stay at home’ at the height of the pandemic. That was around Easter, as...