By Catherine McBride LIZ TRUSS has been elected leader of the Conservative & Unionist Party and will now go on to be invited to form a Government by HM the Queen. Here are eight points she should consider to tackle the energy crisis. 1. Cut VAT and CCL on energy bills for Domestic and Business [...]
WE HAVE known all along that it was only a matter of time before the truth would out about the chaos, cynicism, fear, self-preservation and hypocrisy surrounding the decisions to introduce lockdowns in response to the Covid pandemic. The truth was always going to percolate up to the surface from the deep dark intestines of [...]
WHILE THE Conservative Party indulges itself with a mammoth election bore lasting an extraordinary eight weeks – a process that any sane organisation could have arranged over perhaps three weeks in this digital age – Britain faces its greatest crisis, I would argue, since the Second World War. The crisis is not just energy and [...]
THE Northern Ireland Protocol mess was not created by Liz Truss. Yet it risks undermining her entire premiership if not decisively dealt with by her likely Government in its first few weeks. When Liz Truss introduced the Northern Ireland Protocol Bill back in June, the EU gave our Government an ultimatum: fall into line by [...]
WHILE MOST PEOPLE are worried about coming shortages: fuel, food and even water, there are still some members of the Twitter fraternity worried about surpluses. Specifically gluts of agricultural products – or what most of us would call ‘food’ – being imported into the UK from Australia and New Zealand. Increased supply of food usually [...]
