The Cornerstone Group (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Edward Leigh MP I will not condemn any other man’s conscience, which lieth in their own heart far out of my sight. Sir Thomas More Thomas More, who was declared by Pope John Paul II to be patron saint of statesmen and politicians, is a man all MPs should celebrate, whatever their religious convictions. It is to [...]
The Cornerstone Group (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Edward Leigh says that only an Iraqi Christian province can preserve the Assyrian Church I have just spent a memorable week in northern Iraq as a guest of the Assyrian Christians, becoming the first British MP to visit these people in the lawless land north of Mosul since 2003. When we think of Christianity here in [...]
The Cornerstone Group (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Congratulations to David Cameron on his party conference speech. His best yet. Solidly right-wing, it could have been delivered by Margaret Thatcher. I loved the bits on marriage, sound money, strong defence and respect for the law. Some of his lines on political correctness and the nanny state were really stunning. Gut Conservative stuff. This is [...]
The Cornerstone Group (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
Abortion and the Human Embryology Bill - Conservative Party Fringe Event Today Speakers: Nadine Dorries MP & Edward Leigh MP 1.00pm Upper Cloister Hall, the Oratory, Hagley Road (Refreshments available)
The Cornerstone Group (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
As Gordon Brown said in his Conference speech on Tuesday “There’s a lot to be serious about.” This was put over as a jocular way of celebrating his famous dourness. But whilst he went through a brief mea culpa over the 10p tax fiasco, he was content to lay all the blame for our current [...]
The Cornerstone Group (Free subscription) | 12/09/2008
The Palin bounce One swallow doesn’t make a summer of course, but an Obama victory no longer seems a safe bet. The Palin phenomenon is obviously having an effect. In front of the cheering crowds of Republican supporters who interrupted her speech to chant or whoop every few minutes, the moose-hunting “pit-bull” was clearly in her element. [...]
The Cornerstone Group (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
Westminster politics had left me feeling a little jaded as the summer recess came upon us. Then the other day I watched Sarah Palin’s address to the Republican National Convention, accepting her nomination as running-mate to John McCain. Now I feel absolutely reinvigorated. Palin’s heartfelt defiance of the East Coast liberal elite and its media cheerleaders will resonate [...]
The Cornerstone Group (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
Last February the NAO found that the Government had overpaid £6 billion of tax credits. Not only was this an all-too-frequent example of incompetence by government bureaucracy, but it was compounded by the requirement on many of the country’s poorer families to pay back money they had already spent. The Ombudsman has upheld many complaints [...]
Free Internet Press (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
The £73 billion ($146 billion) cost of decommissioning nuclear power sites in Britain could be increased "significantly", the head of an influential committee of Parliament members has warned. Edward Leigh, chairman of the Public Accounts Committee said the cost of work over the next five years has already risen "steeply." The committee said in a report that the Government was unable to provide a...
The Cornerstone Group (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
Introduction The failures of our current education system are too numerous and familiar to bear repetition. Suffice it to say we all know that something is rotten in the state of British education. After 11 years of a Labour government, too many children leave school functionally illiterate and innumerate, and too many, fed through the sausage-machine [...]
auntie joanna writes (Free subscription) | 24/06/2008
...was held at Parliament this morning. Rousing hymns, and Danish pastries, and coffee and orange juice and croissants. I sat next to Edward Leigh MP , a fellow-Catholic, and we didn't wave our arms about in the hymns. But I must say I like the evangelical rousing singing, even early in the morning (I was cycling to the station at 6 am to get to Westminster on time). General pro-life tenor to the various...
Neptunus Lex (Free subscription) | 04/06/2008
Not so cool as it sounds. The Ministry of Defence has been accused of a “gold standard cock-up” over eight helicopters which have cost £422m but have yet to fly for the RAF. Commons public accounts committee chairman Sir Edward Leigh said the Chinooks had been “languishing” while troops in Afghanistan needed aircraft. A National Audit Office report [...]
The Cornerstone Group (Free subscription) | 27/05/2008
We had a good, if somewhat short, debate on abortion in the Commons last Tuesday, although as everyone knows by now, not one proposal for reducing the time-limit for abortion was successful. As much in its Frankenstein-style proposals for fatherless children, animal-human hybrids and ‘saviour siblings’ as in its confirmation of a grim commitment to the [...]
The Cornerstone Group (Free subscription) | 27/05/2008
I had little hope for a victory on my amendment banning animal-human hybrids - a provision of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill now making its way through Parliament. And of course it was crushed when it came to the vote. The Prime Minister had indicated his support for such research. Some celebrity scientists like [...]
Vital Signs Blog (Free subscription) | 20/05/2008
...Edward Leigh, Conservative MP for Gainsborough, moving the amendment to ban all admixed embryos, said that mingling animal and human DNA crossed an “ultimate boundary”. He said that exaggerated claims were giving patients false hope and that the dangers of the research were unknown. “In many ways we are like children playing with landmines without any concept of the dangers of the technology we...
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The Man Is A Fool but a Dangerous One
This in response to the article in the Independent Tuesday May 20 2008 Hybrid embryo research given the go-ahead by MPs Quote from the article: Opening...
Wood - (not a member) - 04/06/2008
The Man Is A Fool but a Dangerous One
This in response to the article in the Independent Tuesday May 20 2008 Hybrid embryo research given the go-ahead by MPs Quote from the article: Opening...
Wood - (not a member) - 04/06/2008