Dr Simon Opher

At the close of the third day of debate on the Budget, I will not go into all the detail that I might have gone into. I will concentrate on support for our high streets, and the transfer of power from

The hon. Lady is making an excellent speech. I would like to talk about natural flood management and how it sits naturally with district councils. In my constituency we have had more than 1,200 interv

My hon. Friend is being so generous with his time. I echo what he said about my hon. Friend the Member for Lichfield (Dave Robertson), who has led this campaign so strongly in Parliament. In Stroud, o

I thought that, in Reform’s manifesto, it was going to abolish the House of Lords and replace it with a much smaller, more democratic second Chamber.

I have been working with Baroness Smith on her Bill. We need to get the great minds of this country to devise a good political system, one that reflects our country and gives us our best government. I

I would say that we need experts to look at how our democracy works and to devise a better way of doing it.