Alan Duncan is a member of the shadow Justice team as shadow minister for prisons and probation.
Prison reform by reducing reoffending is an area where a changed Conservative Party intends to make a massive difference.
Some progress has been made in the last thirteen years, but still our prisons are on the brink of crisis. The [...]
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Alan Duncan MP: A Conservative Government would not only reform prisons but also address the underlying causes of our broken society which lead people to offend in the first place
Nick Clegg fears Liberal Democrats will split if he backs minority Tory government
Nick Clegg may keep labour in power – ONLY the Conservatives will end Labour rule!
In his Saturday column Peter Oborne lists three reasons why Nick Clegg is likely to manoeuvre his party into a deal with Labour if there is a hung parliament:
“Clegg has discovered (rather to his personal dismay) that most of his party [...]
Good government costs less with the Conservatives – David Cameron
Rt Hon David Cameron MP,
Saturday, March 6 2010
It’s great to be back in Wales. It’s four years since I first addressed this conference. Back then we were just a footnote in Welsh politics. And just look at what we’ve done since then.
We’ve won council seats in Denbighshire, in Powys, in Pembrokeshire. We’re running councils in [...]
Dan Hannan calls for a return to sanity in the public finances and a revolutionary dispersal of power at the Brighton Tea Party
It was standing room only at the Boston Brighton Tea Party organised by the Freedom Association early this evening at which Dan Hannan was guest speaker. He said that it was time to “bring sanity and order back to the public finances” an that had to be done by reducing expenditure rather than increasing taxes.
He [...]
We still need a public inquiry into Stafford Hospital – Andrew Lansley
Andrew Lansley has called on the Government to launch a full public inquiry into the failings at Stafford Hospital, following the publication of the Francis report.
The Shadow Health Secretary said that the only way to finally eliminate the “culture of secrecy and fear” that pervaded the hospital was to look at the issues “with maximum [...]
Grant Shapps: We must shout from the rooftops about our radical and progressive policies on housing and planning
By Grant Shapps MP, Shadow Housing MInister
Following the launch of the Planning Green Paper on Monday (which Caroline Spelman wrote about on ConHome yesterday) I bumped into a couple of national journalists – from either side of the political spectrum – who were raving about the progressive and radical ideas that had just been announced.
Both [...]
David Cameron: Rebuilding trust in politics
Rt Hon David Cameron MP, February, 2010
Last week we had the latest revelations from Parliament. The details might be new but the feelings they provoke are all too familiar. Disappointment. Despair. Even disgust. But as I argued in my speech at the Open University in May last year, anger at the expenses scandal is just [...]
Liam Fox wants to pull British forces out of Germany as part of a Tory defence “revolution”
That is the headline story from a wide-ranging interview with the Shadow Defence Secretary in today’s Daily Telegraph:
British forces will pull out of Germany for good, nearly 70 years after the Allied victory in World War Two, as part of a Tory defence “revolution” being drawn up by Dr Liam Fox. The Shadow Defence [...]