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

At the last General Election I promised to campaign to improve road, rail, broadband and mobile phone communications across North Shropshire. 

Rural economies are diversifying fast and Government must work with all forms of providers to improve communications.

The future of immigration policy was one of the most emotive subjects of the Brexit campaign. To the detractors on the Remain side, concerns over immigration amounted to nothing more than racism or xenophobia, but they are nothing of the kind.

Brexit must mean taking back control of Britain’s borders — and here is how.

In recent years, the UK has continued to experience a period of robust economic growth, record levels of employment and a falling deficit.

A Shropshire army barracks would be the perfect home for Jaguar Land Rover’s electric car project, an MP said today.

Owen Paterson says Tern Hill Barracks would be the perfect site for JLR

Now that the European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill has received Royal Assent, the Prime Minister will trigger Article 50 by writing to the European Council before the end of this month. The two year countdown to leaving the EU will then begin, allowing negotiations to start.

As shadow Agriculture Minister I travelled all around the British Isles between 2003-2005, and saw tragically damaged fishing communities and degraded marine environments.

In my first Adjournment Debate in the House of Commons in 1997, I described the deplorable state of the A5 north of Shrewsbury. Since then, I have lobbied Ministers to dual the whole road. There have been 1,785 casualties on this stretch of road up to the Welsh Border at Chirk since 1991.