This evening we held our monthly Conservative Friends of America drinks reception with Department for International Trade Minister Penny Mordaunt. Penny and her team have been doing some fantastic work securing trade agreements with individual US states, with more to be announced soon.
On the morning of Monday 13th June 2022, Dr Liam Fox, MP for North Somerset, welcomed students from Gordano School, Portishead, North Somerset to the Houses of Parliament.
The Private Members’ Bill process involves many stages. Having been selected in the ballot for the first time ever last year, I decided to introduce the Down Syndrome Bill. This video shows how we navigated each of these stages, ensuring the Bill became the Down Syndrome Act.
Dr Liam Fox MP:
Since 1996, 22,317 houses have been built in North Somerset compared with a target of 24,687, which shows that this is not a nimby district. However, as many colleagues will recognise, the overall figures hide enormous variability.
Dr Liam Fox:
Over the last three months, we have seen a war of choice in Europe. Putin and his close allies have revealed their callous and barbaric nature, plumbing new depths of human depravity and reaching new peaks of human wickedness.
Writing in the Sunday Telegraph on Sunday 22nd May 2022, The Rt Hon Dr Liam Fox MP said:
According to some parts of the press, the Prime Minister is between the devil and the deep blue sea on the matter of the Northern Ireland protocol.
Writing in ConservativeHome on Wednesday 18th May 2022, The Rt Hon Dr Liam Fox MP said:
For many younger people in Britain, inflation is a new and startling experience, something they had previously only heard of in history books.
Differences in the #inflation rates of the UK, US and Eurozone compared to Japan and Switzerland show that it is wrong to say global inflation rates are affecting us all equally. Clearly the countries that have printed too much money have got more inflation.
