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New government partnership with airlines to fly back more tourists stranded abroad

by Ex-staff 31 March 2020 in Politics Comments are Disabled

I know many constituents have been in touch with concerns about family members who are overseas. I know the Foreign Office is working hard to assist in the face of unprecedented travel restrictions. So I am pleased to see the Foreign & Commonwealth Office announce a new government partnership with […]

Commonwealth D-Day

by Ex-staff 13 March 2012 in Politics Comments are Disabled

NB: this post is by Tim Hewish, my Parliamentary Researcher, and the views expressed are his own. Commonwealth Day passed the world by yesterday. As a network of nearly a third of the world’s population and with the Queen as its Head, you would think that the British would notice. The […]

The Commonwealth: No longer a club of the past

by Ex-staff 22 July 2011 in Politics 1 comment

NB: this post is by Tim Hewish, my Parliamentary Researcher. Both on the Left and the Right, there is a growing case for Britain to reassess her position in the world. One only needs to look at The Economist’s posters at tube stations and the recent Henry Jackson Society’s report: […]