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Press Release
30 October 2007
Maggie Throup, Solihull’s Conservative Parliamentary Spokesman has today accused the Government of burying bad news as it finally slipped out an announcement confirming that bin taxes will go ahead, despite recent denials.
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Press Release
30 October 2007
Mid Worcestershire MP Peter Luff today declared victory in his fight against the Government’s decision to claw back budget surpluses from schools in Worcestershire.
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Press Release
30 October 2007
Simon Rouse and Dan Byles, Parliamentary Candidates for Nuneaton and North Warwickshire respectively, have stepped up their campaign to highlight the NHS crisis at George Eliot hospital by calling on the 2 local Labour MPs to join them in a public debate.
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Press Release
30 October 2007
Jeremy Lefroy, the Conservative prospective parliamentary candidate for Stafford, has made a submission to Stafford Borough Council’s Housing Strategy Consultation which closes on October 31st.
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Press Release
29 October 2007
On Monday evening I was at the House of Commons for a tax briefing from Shadow Chancellor, George Osborne...
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Press Release
29 October 2007
Theresa May MP sees effect of Home Office withdrawing funding
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Press Release
29 October 2007
Hereford parliamentary candidate, Jesse Norman, has slammed new evidence of waste and incompetence at DEFRA, the Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
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Press Release
23 October 2007
Chris Grayling MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, visited Leamington this week to meet with Steve Nightingale from the Council for Voluntary Service – Warwick District.
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Press Release
22 October 2007
Harriett Baldwin, Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for West Worcestershire, has this week written to Health Minister Ben Bradshaw to ask him to intervene in the botched West Midlands Ambulance Trust consultation.
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Press Release
18 October 2007
Shadow Foreign Secretary William Hague launches a Conservative poster, calling on Gordon Brown to keep his promise and hold a referendum on the EU Constitution.
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Press Release
16 October 2007
Parliamentary Spokesmen for Coventry South and Coventry North West, Kevin Foster & Gary Ridley have reacted with shock to news that the Trust running Coventry's University Hospital has been told to make a further £10m cut to services provided in 2008/09.
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Press Release
15 October 2007
Simon Rouse, Conservative Parliamentary Spokesman for Nuneaton, today called on Gordon Brown and Nuneaton's Labour MP to deliver on their election promise and call a referendum on the European constitution to be debated by European leaders this week.
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Press Release
15 October 2007
As Gordon Brown heads for Lisbon this week to negotiate with other EU leaders about the new “Treaty of the Functioning of the EU”, Sir Michael Spicer MP and Harriett Baldwin, PPC for West Worcestershire sent him a petition from residents.
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Press Release
15 October 2007
Conservative parliamentary candidate Jesse Norman for Hereford and South Herefordshire has welcomed the Government's decision to release new funding for flood defences. But how much will there be for Herefordshire?
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Press Release
12 October 2007
Neighbourhood Watch celebrates its 25th anniversary on Oct 15th, and to mark the occasion Edgbaston Parliamentary Candidate, Deirdre Alden, went along to the first meeting of the latest Neighbourhood Watch Group to set up in the Edgbaston constituency.
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Press Release
10 October 2007
Andrew Mitchell MP has called on the Government to deliver on its promise to move forward on the Birmingham New Street Gateway Project.
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Press Release
9 October 2007
Rugby Conservatives are continuing their dialogue with voters in Rugby by holding a regular monthly survey. The survey takes place on the doorstep, over the telephone and in the town centre. This month’s topic concerns the new European Union Treaty.
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Article for Birmingham Post
9 October 2007
Two Prime Ministers coined phrases which witnessed their nexus over the last few days. John Major talked about “wealth cascading down through the generations” and two decades earlier Harold Wilson uttered the truism: “a week is a long time in politics”.
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Press Release
8 October 2007
Gordon Brown’s decision to back down from a General Election contest is not merely a humiliation for a man who has presented himself as strong and reliable...
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Press Release
7 October 2007
Edgbaston Candidate Deirdre Alden joined William Hague, West Midlands MEPs and other delegates in sending a postcard to Gordon Brown from the Conserative Party Conference in Blackpool.
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Press Release
5 October 2007
Tom Biggins, the Conservative Parliamentary Spokesman for Telford, welcomed today new proposals designed to help families and first-time buyers, unveiled at the Conservative Party Conference in Blackpool.
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Letter
5 October 2007
Andrew Mitchell MP, Shadow Minister for Birmingham writes an open letter to the Birmingham Post and Mail
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Press Release
4 October 2007
Speaking to a packed hall of more than 1,000 people at the Conservative party conference in Blackpool this week, Jesse Norman called for a huge change in wheelchair provision for severely and profoundly disabled young people.
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Press Release
4 October 2007
The largest group of people ever from Rugby in recent memory to attend the Conservative Party Conference have just returned from three days in Blackpool.
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Press Release
4 October 2007
In the keynote speech of the Conference, David outlined his vision for Britain.
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Press Release
3 October 2007
Click here to read Caroline Spelman's speech to conference...
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Press Release
3 October 2007
Shadow International Development Secretary and local MP, Andrew Mitchell speaks at Conference...
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Press Release
3 October 2007
Francis Maude tells Conference 2007 that the Party is ready for an election and has a "coherent, contemporary, Conservative" programme for government.
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Press Release
2 October 2007
Francis Maude MP, Shadow Minister for the Black Country, said, “After nearly one hundred days of Gordon Brown’s premiership it is clear that he cannot deliver nor be the change that the Black Country needs.
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Press Release
29 September 2007
Results of Rugby Conservatives Survey now available
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Press Release
28 September 2007
Dan Byles, Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for North Warwickshire and a former Army Major, has launched a withering attack on what he called Brown’s “Council Tax Con for Forces Families”.
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Press Release
28 September 2007
Campaign to stop rail service cuts gets boost following visit from Conservative front-bench spokesman
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Press Release
27 September 2007
Harriett Baldwin has joined forces with fellow Conservatives from across the two counties propose an alternative proposal for the reconfiguration of Emergency Operations Centres to improve patient care, resilience and efficiency for the taxpayer.
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Press Release
25 September 2007
"Gordon Brown is offering nothing new for hardworking people in Worcester." says Robin Walker
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Press Release
25 September 2007
John Maples MP, will meet with representatives of both Warwickshire County Council and Stratford on Avon District Council on Friday to discuss the recent flooding which affected hundreds of residents in and around Stratford upon Avon.
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Press Release
24 September 2007
Shadow Minister for the Black Country, Francis Maude MP, recently visited the Citizen’s Advice Bureau (CAB) in Wolverhampton to mark National Advice Week.
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Press Release
24 September 2007
Jesse Norman: There is huge local support for Ross Community Hospital, a new survey has shown.
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Press Release
24 September 2007
Parliamentary Candidate Dan Byles and local Conservatives want the people of North Warwickshire to have their say on the EU Constitution Treaty
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Press Release
19 September 2007
Harriett Baldwin, Conservative Parliamentary Candidate, West Worcestershire, expressed concern this week at the small print of the Liberal Democrats’ new tax plans, which back a move to European-style house price taxes.
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Press Release
19 September 2007
Ahead of a visit to Solihull later this week, Conservative Work and Pensions Spokesman Chris Grayling revealed the extent to which growth in employment has been absorbed by people coming to Britain.
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Press Release
19 September 2007
The Conservative community action team and local residents this week transformed the former carriageway that runs from Wettenall Drive to Hillside Drive on the Wallbridge estate in Leek.
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Article
19 September 2007
John Redwood’s lengthy policy document “Freeing Britain to Compete” is so packed with wisdom, good ideas and refreshing common sense it’s difficult to know which aspect to highlight.
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Press Release
18 September 2007
Staffordshire University has recently upheld the policy of its Students Union, which bans all political parties from the university campus, including Conservative Future, the youth branch of the Conservative Party from its Freshers Week.
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Press Release
18 September 2007
Edgbaston Candidate Deirdre Alden has been checking out some local foods at her constituency's Farmers' Market ahead of British Food fortnight, which runs from Sept 22nd - Oct 7th.
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Press Release
15 September 2007
Kemerton Post Office and Stores is a winner in the favourite local shop competition - the results of the “Use them or lose them” campaign in West Worcestershire were announced by Conservative Parliamentary candidate, Harriett Baldwin.
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Press Release
14 September 2007
Last week Jesse Norman, the Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for Hereford and South Herefordshire, sent out 40,000 surveys - one to every household in the constituency.
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Press Release
14 September 2007
Gordon Brown’s failure to visit Birmingham and the Black Country will reach a landmark 80 days on Friday (14th September).
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Press Release
14 September 2007
Andrew Mitchell MP, Conservative Shadow Minister for Birmingham, will support the plans to create a new six-week ‘National Citizen Service’ programme for 16 year-olds across Birmingham and the UK.
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Press Release
13 September 2007
Philip Dunne MP for Ludlow and a livestock farmer himself, has expressed his deep concern at news of another outbreak of Foot & Mouth Disease in Surrey.
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Press Release
10 September 2007
Residents of housing estates on the outskirts of cities were among those hardest-hit by post office closures, a new report shows.
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