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David welcomes Prime Minister’s position on Prisoner Voting
David welcomed the Prime Minister’s clear statement at PMQ’s that it was for parliament- and not a foreign court such as the European Court of Human Rights- to decide whether prisoners have the vote in this country. In recent days, the ECHR has ruled that a blanket ban on prisoner voting is unlawful, despite strong […]
David continues to campaign for scrapping of the “Caravan tax” as members present petition
David, together with other East Yorkshire MPs, continued to campaign for a scrapping of the so-called “caravan tax” which- it is feared- will seriously harm the local caravan manufacturing industry, which constitutes up to 95% of all British production. A petition demanding the scrapping of the tax, with thousands of local signatures, was presented to […]
New target is “no compulsory redundancies”
Following the announcement by BAE that 218 further jobs are to be mitigated, David said that the new target of the Brough campaign- which has been spearheaded by local MPs and the Unite union- was for no compulsory redundancies at the site. David appeared on both BBC Look North and ITV’s Calendar news following the […]
David on Rod Liddle’s “Got Issues”, highlighting the futlity of “anti-insult” laws
David appeared in Rod Liddle’s Got Issues video for the Sunday Times. In it, he discussed the futility of the current attempts by the law to prevent people from giving offence- pointing out that insults are sometimes a key part of even the grandest of debates.
David calls for a repeal of the law against ‘insulting’ language
Why repealing the law against ‘insulting’ language would be a victory for free speech and common sense The Daily Mail Wednesday 16 May 2012 In the final year of the Major government, during a debate about Europe, a backbench Labour MP shouted ‘two-faced Tories’ at the government frontbench. As a Foreign Office Minister at the […]