Frank Field

'As Parliamentarians, We Believe In Free Speech'

Posted 27.11.2012 | UK Politics

David Cameron is facing fresh demands to reject statutory regulation of newspapers as he prepares to take delivery of the Leveson report. More than...

The Tories Must Not Dither Over Immigration

David Cowan | Posted 10.11.2012 | UK Politics
David Cowan

The immigration debate is often reduced to a mundane battle of statistics. Though just focusing on the economic aspect of immigration does not do nearly enough justice to the scale of the problem.

Frank Field: Universal Credit Benefit System A 'Disaster'

Posted 11.09.2012 | UK Politics

Plans to replace the current system of welfare benefits with a single payment known as the Universal Credit will continue to "rot the soul" of the poo...

Too Many Homes Going To Foreigners, Claims Senior Labour MP

PA | Posted 14.06.2012 | UK Politics

The Government should review who is given priority in housing queues after figures showed that nearly half of new tenants in some parts of the capital...

Coalition Has Failed On Social Mobility, Says Tory MP

The Huffington Post UK | Asa Bennett | Posted 01.03.2012 | UK Politics

The coalition has come under attack from one of its own MPs for the “yawning gap” that exists between the rich and poor. Conservative MP Damian...

Frank Field And David Davis Team Up

PA | Posted 06.01.2012 | UK Politics

Tenants in housing association properties should be given the right to buy their homes to help end the shortage of social homes, two senior MPs have s...

Government's Poverty Tsar Offers Grim Assessment For Young People

The Huffington Post UK | Dina Rickman | Posted 17.12.2011 | UK Politics

The government's approach to tackling poverty is akin to putting out a "bushfire with odd pails of water", according to the coalition's poverty tsar F...

Frank Field, Labour MP, Says His Party Are 'Ruled By Scots'

pa | Posted 24.12.2011 | UK Politics

Labour is apparently ruled by its Scottish members, damaging the party in England, one of its senior backbenchers has claimed. Former welfare minis...

Commons to debate abortion advice

PA | Posted 06.11.2011 | UK Politics

MPs are braced for a highly-charged showdown over plans to bar abortion providers from giving advice to pregnant women. In the first ...

Dina Rickman

Adrian Yalland From Right To Know, Lobbyist And Former Tory Approved Candidate

HuffingtonPost.com | Dina Rickman | Posted 01.11.2011 | UK Politics

The director of the campaign to change abortion laws in Britain is a Westminster lobbyist and a former approved Tory candidate for parliament who has...

Abortion Row: Dorries Claims Government Concerned About Financial Rewards

Huffington Post UK | Dina Rickman | Posted 29.10.2011 | UK Politics

The MP at the centre of attempts to force abortion clinics to provide independent counselling has claimed the Department of Health capitulated because...