Boris Johnson’s proposals to raise the 40 per cent tax rate threshold have been met with predictable hysteria on the Left. With comical inevitability, Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell declared that the suggestion represented a “race to the bottom”, seeking to portray it as being for the benefit o

For anyone still clinging to the idea that the local election results, the European Parliament results, or the consistently calamitous polling since we failed to leave the EU on 29th March were unrepresentative outliers, the Peterborough by-election will have been a final wake-up call.

This is the text of my speech to the House of Commons on 15th January 2019.

Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire) (Con)

On the 1st January 2019, there will be 87 days before we leave the European Union. There is, therefore, much to look forward to in the coming year.

The Rt Hon Owen Paterson MP

The Heritage Foundation
Washington, D.C.

19th September 2018

Since the Prime Minister’s speech at Lancaster House in January, it has been Government policy to deliver Brexit by withdrawing the UK from both the Single Market and the Customs Union.

2017 marked the 20th year that I have served as Member of Parliament for North Shropshire. It was a great honour to be re-elected in June with an increased mandate for the sixth consecutive time.

The agreement that Theresa May and the EU Commission made during phase 1 of the Brexit negotiations allows the talks to move forward. But nothing is agreed until everything is agreed and there are obvious causes for concern.

The ECJ should have no role post-Brexit, and “alignment” must not be used to keep us in the Single Market 

The idea of EU citizens 'protected' by the ECJ would create a privileged class of three million people with rights in this country enforced by a court beyond Parliament

By Owen Paterson, ex Environment Secretary

10th December 2017