Westminster News

The official figures for death rates in the UK show that the death rate in 2020 was considerably higher than in recent years. They also show, contrary to some...

A contributor asked for an update on government debt. The UK had a difficult borrowing problem in the IMF crash of the mid 1970s when the country ran out of...

Yesterday I asked the government to legislate to ensure smooth passage of goods between GB and Northern Ireland. The government promised us we were taking back...

The ever tightening lockdowns increase the damage to businesses requiring social contact. They delay the start of recovery and make the loss of more small...

The establishment media has been concentrating on the Dover Calais route and expressing concern that there were no lorry queues there on our first Brexit days...

The pandemic lockdowns have posed a series of difficult questions to universities. Today we live in a world where they have been told to go over to remote...

The decision to put the country back into lockdown ended the argument about whether the schools should stay open. It also strengthened the position of all those...

The UK has lost market share in long distance haulage. Lower labour rates and lower taxes on vehicles in parts of the EU have allowed undercutting of UK...

Many countries have imposed lockdowns and curfews. There is no sign from the international numbers that those locking down more for longer have been more...