Hosted by UK 2020 at the Carlton House Terrace in London
With the Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith MP

26 January 2016 - Page 20-21 of Oswestry and Border Counties Advertizer

Since 1991, there have been more than 1,785 casualties on the A5 north of Shrewsbury up to the Welsh border at Chirk. At the last count, 1,407 of these were slight, 320 were serious and 58 were fatal. Sadly, the latest figures may be worse as they will be updated at the end of September.

Elephants are killed for their ivory and the world loses an elephant every 15 minutes. The latest Great Elephant Census in 2016, estimates that the population of savanna elephants is down 30 per cent. 144,000 elephants have been killed since the last census in 2009.

The referendum was very clear when 17.4 million people voted for Brexit, the largest vote for anything in British history. The people voted to ensure democratically elected politicians take back control of our laws, our borders and our money.

Each month the Office for National Statistics publishes data on the UK labour market.

Last weekend, I attended the 132nd Oswestry Show at the Park Hall Showground. With attendance estimated at 15,000 the Show is a great exhibition of North Shropshire’s agricultural industry and farming community.

Last Friday, it was a real honour to attend the opening of the new state-of-the-art theatre and oncology building at The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital by HRH Princess Alexandra.

Read the speech to the Harvard Club in Hamburg here. 

This evening, I will be discussing Brexit at a conference in Hamburg.