I recall one Tory MP hauled in by whips for voting against government was given short shrift when he said this was due to following me into voting lobby

Sound phrase …

How about locating the UK’s national migrant processing and accommodation centre in Northern Ireland close to the open border with Ireland ?

If the Dublin convention allows asylum seekers to be returned within the EU, why can’t Ireland send them back to France?

It is also very counter-productive for Cameron to make Remainer arguments like this now as they can only rebound against his party

Anyone want to put the First Minister of Wales in here?

It was also David Cameron who gave us the referendum. He promised during the Rochester by-election to legislate for it within 100 days if re-elected as PM and then did as he had promised.

Matthew Parris’s column on assisted dying as unhelpful for his cause as when he wrote similarly about Clacton when UKIP were winning by-elections

10 years ago today, the first same sex marriages took place in the UK.

It remains one of my proudest moments.

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I was asked to assess options for such a facility 20 years ago when I worked for the Conservative party policy unit and proposed Ascension Island back then

Yes, we stopped subsiding EU students

Speaking of history - on the 20th June 1897, 2000 former slaves paraded in Seychelles celebrating Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee.

Carrying Union Jack flags printed with the words ‘The Flag that sets us free’,

All had been rescued by the Royal Navy from the East African slave…

Indeed, a key moment Daniel Hannan

To those who insist Britain is a racist society I would like to point out that the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (Conservative) the Scottish Leader (SNP), the Welsh Leader (Labour) and the Mayor of London (Labour) are all from ethnic minorities. #JustSaying 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 👇

… if only they said same about Brexit

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… and got Britain fully out of the EU

He says (at 1:40) they told him “You are British now, be British and be proud of it” and this was “Most excellent advice”

'Thank you for the Backstop, very helpful for us'

Elizabeth II was one of the greatest Britons to have ever lived.

Our longest reigning monarch, she served us all with dedication and respect throughout her whole life.

This International Women’s Day, I took a moment to reflect and remember her unprecedented contribution.