The Spectator Blog - Stephen Pollard (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
So I miss a few hours posting and what happens? Ian Blair is forced out by Boris - and to think I had my doubts - and Mandy is brought back by Gordon Brown. Of all the pieces I've read about the former, the most sensible is a post on CentreRight by Greg Hands: I for one believe that there was no politics at all in Boris's desire to see change, and that complaints from Jacqui Smith and (God help us)...
Daily Mail online | Home (Free subscription) | 03/08/2008
A Tory MP fingerprinted after the murder of his 80-year-old uncle claimed last night that he is an innocent victim of Labour’s ‘Big Brother’ state. Greg Hands MP wants to know why, one year on, his details are still on the national DNA database.
Daily Mail on Sunday (Free subscription) | 03/08/2008
A Tory MP fingerprinted after the murder of his 80-year-old uncle claimed last night that he is an innocent victim of Labour’s ‘Big Brother’ surveillance state. Greg Hands MP is demanding to know why, one year on, his details have not been removed from the national DNA database.
donpaskini (Free subscription) | 01/08/2008
Inspired by Greg Hands MP's campaign against left-wing guide books , 'Centre Right' now has an mind-bogglingly awful article called 'Will a Conservative government bring about a change in British literature for the better?' The author argues (I swear I am not making this up) that Labour voting authors have been writing anti-British left-wing books which have fallen to a severe multiculturalism-urbanisation...
Mandate Communications blog (Free subscription) | 31/07/2008
In a great moment of early silly season news, Egypt-bound Conservative MP Greg Hands wonderfully argues a conspiracy to promote leftist thought via the history sections of travel guides, in particular Lonely Planet. Hands argues that Lonely Planet’s assessment of Jihadism in Egypt is a bit soft. Perhaps, he speculates, this is due to the perspectives [...]
ConservativeHome (Free subscription) | 29/07/2008
10am Graeme Archer on CentreRight: A disabled health service ToryDiary: Could a Miliband-Johnson 'dream ticket' revive Labour? Greg Hands MP on CentreRight: Why are guidebooks so left-wing? Chris Grayling MP on Platform: We must end the extreme deprivation of Britain's...
Telegraph Blogs : Guest (Free subscription) | 21/07/2008
Another day and another chapter in the burgeoning row between Respect MP, George Galloway, and Conservative MP, Greg Hands. In his letter to the Tory backbencher last week , not only did Galloway fail to apologise for not telling Hands he was speaking in his constituency, but he mocked him, claiming not to know who he was. Hands has now hit back, s...
Telegraph Blogs : Guests (Free subscription) | 21/07/2008
Full coverage of UK politics At the end of last week, I posted on the blog about how Respect MP George Galloway had incurred the wrath of Tory MP Greg Hands over a supposed breach of parliamentary protocol: Galloway failed to notify him that he was speaking at an event&n...
Telegraph Blogs : Guest (Free subscription) | 18/07/2008
Full coverage of UK politics News of an unseemly spat between Respect MP, George Galloway, and Greg Hands, the Tory MP for Hammersmith and Fulham. Galloway stands accused of failing to follow parliamentary protocol for not informing Hands that he was speaking at the recent Islam Expo at Olympia in his constituency. Hands wrote to the Bethnal Green and Bow MP seeking an explanation for the a...
Telegraph Blogs : Guest (Free subscription) | 17/07/2008
Full coverage of UK Politics Hammermsith and Fulham MP Greg Hands has written a brave post on CentreRight.com , in which he opines that the practice of MPs being able to employ relatives should be outlawed entirely. I say brave, since yesterday's publication by the Conservative Par...
The Cornerstone Group (Free subscription) | 16/07/2008
I have blogged elsewhere about having one of the very highest levels of immigration casework of any MP in Britain and some of the effects of our chaotic immigration administration, its impact on our society and on the applicants themselves, like HERE http://conservativehome.blogs.com/centreright/2008/05/is-our-immigrat.html HERE http://conservativehome.blogs.com/platform/greg_hands_mp/index.html and...
Telegraph Blogs : Guests (Free subscription) | 15/07/2008
Full coverage of UK politics Yesterday I noted that the inquiry into Caroline Spelman's payment of a nanny with Commons allowances won't be published until the autumn. But what about the Standards Commissioner's investigation - instigated by Tory MP Greg Hands - into Gordon Brown for his alleged failure to declare that he was sub-letting a taxpayer-funded office in his c...
Daily Referendum (Free subscription) | 29/06/2008
Greg Hands over on Conservativehome's CentreRight section points out some disturbing news for us regarding business with Zimbabwe. My take: The Independent is reporting that six Conservatives own shares in companies that are doing business in Zimbabwe. But did you know that we the British public are doing business with Zimbabwe? Do your hands feel dirty? Well don't feel too dirty because you probably...
The Cornerstone Group (Free subscription) | 09/06/2008
Maybe I am late onto the story about the allegations around Caroline Spelman and her nanny in 1997, but I wonder if this is the story that actually reverses the current dynamic where a certain crop of journalists feel it to be their professional duty to throw stones at politicians over expenses, almost regardless of [...]
ConservativeHome's Seats & Candidat (Free subscription) | 17/05/2008
Following on from earlier pieces by Jon Harris (in The Guardian) and Simon Chapman and Greg Hands MP (on CentreRight.com), Peter Oborne has today used his Saturday Mail column to wonder if Labour is the new nasty party. He offers...
