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4 years

Why doesn’t the NHS use the Nightingale hospitals for CV 19 and keep more of the other hospitals virus free for all the other treatments people need?

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3 years

Yesterday the BBC asked me to appear on Newsnight about CV 19. I agreed a time and the link. Later they wanted to know in more detail what I would say. Then they failed to send the link as the way of cancelling. Clearly I had the wrong views for their story line. Yet again.

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The pound rises 11% in nine days and the stock market surges. Why no media stories on this huge vote of confidence in UK economic policy when they were so ready to blame the government alone for the falls two weeks ago?

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How many delegates and leaders are flying to Glasgow to tell others not to use jet travel? Why wasn’t COP 26 an on line event? It is easier lecturing others how to live if you follow your own advice.

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Brexit voters did not vote for a deal on EU terms. We voted to leave. We want an independent country that owes the EU nothing and makes our own way in the world.

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Why not open and staff all the Nightingale hospital capacity they need for CV 19 cases and get the rest of the NHS back to full capacity for everything else? No need to scare us with the idea the NHS will not cope.

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2 years

I expect a record number of Conservative MPs to vote against these latest restrictions. Many more this time round do not think a good case has been made.

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3 years

Time to end the EU talks. The EU still wants to keep 70% of our fish. We have not asked to take any of their natural resources. Their demand is insulting.

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3 years

Without bad news on Brexit the BBC now regularly makes news out of predictions of what might go wrong in the future. Try reporting what is happening not what people hostile to Brexit think might happen.

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3 years

Why should UK people be told to fit expensive heat pumps they don’t want and can’t afford when China and Germany keep on burning coal on an industrial scale to dominate export markets?

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1 year

This morning solar and wind has slumped to just 4% of our electricity with gas,coal and wood at 73%. Those who say rely on wind turbines need to explain what we do when the wind does not blow instead of telling us to close all the generators that keep the lights on.

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3 years

The EU has made clear they do not want a fair free trade agreement. They want to control our laws, stop us backing our business, and take our fish. Time for an independent UK.

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3 years

French closure of ports owing to CV19 whilst we are in the single market is bad news. Time to use the lorry parks we have built. We rely on imports too much. Let’s grow and make more at home.

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3 years

A week after Brexit and Dover port working fine. Still no apologies from the Project Fear commentators and media forecasters.

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2 years

I thought the Canadian PM was elected as a Liberal. Now he is using emergency authoritarian powers to shut down protests about his anti covid policies. So he is using an anti freedom policy to stop protest against freedom restricting policies.

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1 year

Why has government been sending overseas aid money to China? All this money has to be borrowed. China has $3 trillion savings in the bank.

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2 years

Margaret Thatcher cut Income tax from 33% to 25%, top rate tax from 98% to 40% and Corporation tax from 52% to 34%. Rishi Sunak raised Corproation Tax from 19% to 25%, increased the National Insurance rate and imposed new taxes. Rishi Sunak is no Margaret Thatcher

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John Redwood

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2 years

The BBC wants to interview me about parties but has no wish to hear views on taxes, the energy shortage, the income squeeze, the wrong OBR forecasts of the debts and the policies to import more and produce less. The public is less interested in past parties than they think.

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3 years

Disappointing to hear from the talks the EU still wants the U.K. to be a colony. Good news that the U.K. is not making any concessions. We have to repeat we intend to leave the single market and customs union to be independent, in control of our own laws, money and fish.

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3 years

The EU’s threats to trade in vaccines is a warning to us. We need to increase our own ability to make and grow things at home, not rely on too many EU imports. A new fishing, farming, energy and manufacturing policy is needed.

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3 years

Why has Mr Barnier come to London to insult us with an offer of a tiny part of our own fish back? He wants us to stay tied to single market rules and tariffs, locked into a new legal nightmare. We voted to leave the single market and to be free.

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2 years

Are they attacking the Home Secretary because they do not want her to control our borders?

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4 years

The EU have not negotiated in good faith. Time to end the talks as promised.

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4 years

The BBC Today programme was pressing to give away our fish to the EU, telling us it unrealistic to take back control.Why are they always on the EU's side? Catching our own fish and selling it at home or to the wider world is one of the big wins from Brexit which we must deliver.

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John Redwood

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2 years

If France carries on blocking entry people should go some where else on holiday. It's no fun to spend 7 hours in a traffic jam. Glad my summer holiday is booked for England. Go somewhere that welcomes you.

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John Redwood

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3 years

If France and Germany want tariff free access to the UK market they need to drop their claims to control our laws and take our fish. No deal is much better than their deal for the UK.

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2 years

I cannot understand why the very government officials who were imposing rules on the rest of us and telling us to obey them thought they did not apply to themselves. Clearly they did not think the rules were crucial to safety after all.

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3 years

The Prime Minister promised us we could just leave the EU if there was no deal by October 15th. Time to deliver the promise.

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2 years

Yesterday BBC R4 invited me onto their PM programme. They then asked me my views on the economy and Bank of England. They thought about it and cancelled the invite. GB News and LBC ran interviews. Once again I did not fit into the BBC's narrow and repetitious story line.

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3 years

The EU has just had four and half more years of over fishing our seas. That’s a long transition. Time to take back control.

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3 years

The BBC keeps on re running Project Fear. No interviews on how we can use our freedoms with a clean Brexit to be a much better and more prosperous country.

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3 years

Why do people who campaign about climate change think they should fly round the world to conferences instead of holding an on line event?

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3 years

Will the government now ban foreign supertrawlers and pulse fishing in our seas? That would show we had taken back control and look after our fishing grounds and marine environment.

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4 years

The U.K. will prosper more with no deal than with a bad deal.

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3 years

Greta Thunberg should withdraw her false accusations about the UK. She should concentrate on China which produces 27 times the amount of CO 2 the UK does.

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3 years

Poland short of lorry drivers. The USA turning to 14 year olds to fill jobs in hospitality. Those ’Brexit’ problems popping up in lots of different countries!

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3 years

Will the supermarkets buy the shellfish the EU will not take and work with our fishing industry to sell it to U.K. buyers?

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1 year

If we invite in an extra 500,000 people a year we need to build a city the size of Liverpool every year to provide the homes, schools and hospitals they need. No wonder we are short of GPS, energy, water. Government needs realistic plans about what we can manage.

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5 years

The Conservative Manifesto promised to take us out of the EU, single market and Customs Union. Letting people down is not a good idea.

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John Redwood

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4 years

The EU refuses to implement the two main points of the Withdrawal Agreement, a free trade agreement and U.K. sovereignty. Why doesn’t the U.K. media call them out for this and interview them about this refusal to honour their promises?

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John Redwood

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2 years

When the pound briefly fell to $1.03 government critics said it showed the tax policy was wrong. Now the pound has rallied to $1.12 why don’t they see that as support for the tax policy which has not changed?

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John Redwood

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4 years

Mrs Merkel still doesn’t get it. The U.K. voted to be a fully independent state. Let’s get on with it. The EU still wants control over us as if we had not left.

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John Redwood

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3 years

Mr Barnier threatens to end the talks as the UK hasn't caved in. It's good news as we must be sticking to the truth there is no need to give away our fish, our right to make our own laws and control our own borders just so Germany can sell us cars tariff free. Your move EU.

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John Redwood

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3 years

Instead of thinking up more complex rules for everyone government should spell out the risks of the virus and trust people to make more of their own decisions. Help those who want protection .Let others rescue the economy and get on with their lives, judging safety themselves.

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John Redwood

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2 years

Protesters trying to stop production of more U.K. gas and oil are helping Russia and the Middle East who will supply it instead. Why do we want them to have the tax revenues and jobs and not us here at home? Such protests do not save the planet but they worsen the energy crisis.

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John Redwood

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3 years

Well done PM and David Frost. No need to give away our fish or our law making powers. We voted to be an independent country. The EU has to decide if it wants a Free Trade Agreement or not.

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John Redwood

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3 years

The U.K. must now legislate to take control of GB/ Northern Ireland trade and our fish. The EU’s conduct on vaccines is unacceptable. They should apologise to Astra Zeneca and remove their threats to our trade.

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2 years

Why do so many CV 19 test kits come from China? As the NHS is buying so many can they speed up more domestic production so all that cost provides more U.K. jobs and incomes?

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3 years

The EU wants to break contracts over vaccine export sales to threaten others. They only believe in international law and rules when it suits them. Good job most of our vaccines are made in the U.K.

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3 years

End the talks. The EU wants to stop us being independent. They cannot stop our trade. People and businesses buy and sell under WTO rules. The EU just makes empty threats.

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2 years

If the government wants us to grow less food, produce less energy and stop making diesel and petrol cars how would it like us to earn a living?

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3 years

The EU single market has damaged our economy, crippling us with a huge trade deficit whilst we have a surplus with the rest of the world. They took our fish, cut our food production and even pushed us into importing electricity. Time to break free and do better.

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John Redwood

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3 years

Media reports no delays for trucks at Dover. Quite unlike the chaos of last month when we were in the single market. Time for the media to cheer up about the majority democratic decision of a great independent nation.

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John Redwood

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3 years

Recall Parliament. The government should consider other ways of tackling the virus, protecting the NHS and saving more businesses and livelihoods.

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John Redwood

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2 years

Why does the Treasury think it right to charge 85p of tax on a litre of motor fuel, and put up the tax through VAT every time the product price rises? They are deliberately pushing up inflation and making the cost of living squeeze worse.

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John Redwood

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4 years

Glad Mrs Merkel has at last grasped the UK wishes to be an independent country in charge of our own laws, borders, money and fish. She warns there will be consequences. Yes we will be free and better off.

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3 years

Now we must use our new freedoms to rebuild our fishing industry, increase home food production,boost transport,manufacturing and energy.All these suffered from unhelpful EU laws, taxes and trade policies.Bring on policies to help UK business.

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1 year

The EU single market made us pay huge sums into the EU so they could replace our home production with their exports. We lost out in steel, cars, food, fish, chemicals, energy and many other key areas as they used rules and unfair competition against us.

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John Redwood

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2 years

Laughable idea that the BBC represents all viewpoints as a truly national institution. It comes across as a net zero campaign organisation, wanting government to interfere in every aspect of our lives. It wants people on who fit its script of what we think to confirm its view.

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John Redwood

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2 years

So the IMF and some big foreign investment banks and funds do not want the UK to be more competitive with lower taxes. I do not recall them offering advice against the global policies which brought on the inflation which has so disrupted living standards.

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3 years

No deal is better than a bad deal. It should be easy saying No to anything which stops us being an independent self governing country.

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John Redwood

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3 years

The UK has now agreed Free Trade deals with 58 countries before leaving the EU Customs Union. No apologies yet from those who said we would lose all EU trade deals on leaving. I look forward to us agreeing to join the large Pacific partnership which the EU has not joined.

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John Redwood

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2 years

Mr Sunak is running on John Major policies backed by grandees. He too wants a more pro EU "prudent" economic policy. When Mr Major tried that we went into recession and Conservatives were thrown out of office for 13 years.

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John Redwood

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4 years

There is a simple answer to the French demand to take our fish - No. Or to avoid any misunderstanding - Non.

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John Redwood

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3 years

When is the Chancellor going to take up the wins from Brexit? We want VAT off essential products. We need a farm subsidy scheme that promotes more U.K. grown and reared food. We want a fund to expand our fishing fleet and help our fish processing industry. Let’s get on with it.

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John Redwood

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3 years

Why is Welsh government buying electric buses from China? As in the Times today we do need to buy these new products from U.K. manufacturers by encouraging more capacity and competition at home.

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3 years

The SNP have only ever wanted to use devolution to destroy the union of the U.K. They have not used devolution powers to improve public services or the growth rate in Scotland. The SNP see the Scottish Parliament as a battering ram against the U.K.

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Once again we are relying on coal to keep the lights on. Our steel industry needs coal to survive. Why do Greens insist on us importing it when we could produce it at home and save CO2 on the transport?

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John Redwood

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2 years

The EU now says gas is a green fuel. The U.K. should agree with them. The EU says it wants to import more gas from Russia. The U.K. should produce more of our own and not import from Russia.

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John Redwood

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3 years

Time for the government to ban very large foreign trawlers with large and heavy gear damaging our fish stocks and marine environment. They say they do not have a definition of such trawlers. Not difficult to invent one.

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Mr Sunak says he wants to bring down inflation and be responsible. So why did he authorise £450 bn of Money printing to keep rates down? Why did he offer a Treasury guarantee to the Bank for a policy that was bound to cause inflation and losses on the bonds.

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The top NHS management have failed to recruit, retain and motivate enough medical staff to serve patients. Why are the managers still all in post?

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3 years

Wales went for a tougher lockdown and has had more cases and deaths per million than England. Time for a U.K. rethink on how to fight the virus.

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Why doesn’t the BBC ask senior NHS managers why there is no manpower plan? Why do they not fill vacancies? Why do they use so many agency staff? Why do they not pay good people more within pay scales or with promotions? Why can’t they get staff onside?

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John Redwood

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3 years

Just leaving the EU Looks better and better. Look at how they tried to entrap us once again under their rules. We must leave the single market where we have a huge trade deficit. Let’s have our own rules and tariffs which let us make and grow more at home.

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The last thing we want is more uncertainty by asking for an extension to talks with EU. They have spent four and a half years offering us a rotten deal to undermine Brexit so how would an extension help?

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John Redwood

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2 years

After mourning a much loved Queen and the state funeral Parliament should meet. The current plan for a long conference recess means a delayed return on October 17th. We need to tackle the cost of living crisis and energy shortage before then.

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Rishi says he will put a cap on migrants. In office he invented new types of visa to increase numbers. He never proposed a migrant cap then. Polls show lots of people do not believe his promises.

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3 years

We do not want to surrender our fish, our laws and our courts to the EU. If the EU still wants us to compromise on these there should be no more talks.

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1 year

Parliament strengthened the law that illegal migrants should be prosecuted if they arrive here without permission or documents. Why isn’t this being enforced?

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3 years

So what will the BBC put in their news bulletins as it turns out the Project fear stories for Brexit day were wrong?

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2 years

Why did BBC Today say the problem of energy prices is international energy prices which we cannot do anything about? US gas prices are way cheaper than ours because they allow business to find and produce more gas. We in the U.K. should produce more of our own energy.

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Why did Rishi Sunak in office never challenge the EU's escalating demands for more UK money after Brexit? Why did he let the EU dictate our VAT policy? Why did he not protest about the EU's distortion of the N I Protocol? Why did he delay the Freeports?

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Independent regulators have left us short of water, gas and electricity.They turn to water rationing instead of new reservoirs. They make us import more gas instead of licensing more home production. They do not provide enough electricity back up for when the wind does not blow.

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It is wrong to be paying farmers not to grow food. We need to cut the food miles with more home grown food.

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2 years

A visit to Grantham will not make Rishi Sunak a Thatcherite. In the seven years I have known him he has never once asked me anything about Margaret Thatcher or her economic policies despite knowing I was her economic and policy adviser in the middle period.

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3 years

The EU is allowing huge subsidies and state aids to its businesses. No sign of a level play field there, yet they still want to stop us helping our businesses. No deal is better than an unfair deal.

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Trade deals are nice to have but not essential. We didn't have a trade deal with the USA when in the EU. Getting back full control of our laws, our money and our borders is essential.

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2 years

Rishi Sunak says he wants to become a Thatcherite. In office he was a Gordon Brown tribute act.

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3 years

The BBC invited me onto Newsnight last night. They told me they were interested in my views and did not want to fit me into a script. I agreed. They then told me what I had to talk about which was something I had not expressed a view on! Why do that? I declined.

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Why did the Post Office hound so many post managers on false charges? I and some other MPs told them it was ridiculous to think hundreds of good honest staff all decided to become fraudsters at the same time just as they introduced a new computer system.

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2 years

Why has the media been highlighting the Belarus migration problem but not the migration by small boats from France? Glad to see the U.K. government said current levels unacceptable. We need a solution.

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3 years

There is plenty of support for growing more of our own food. Tell your local supermarket we want more U.K. produce. I am pressing the government to get behind our farmers and fishing industry. Not much choice of U.K. cheeses, fruit and veg in some shops.

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4 years

So the EU now wants to talk. No point unless they drop their demands to carry on making our laws, taking our fish and putting us under the control of their court.

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2 years

The government is reaping a huge windfall from extra tax on higher oil and gas prices. At the pump half the price is tax, many times the oil company profit. Time to give some of this tax rip off back to help ease the squeeze on families.

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2 years

Rishi Sunak wants to solve our border problem by being nice to President Macron. Who believes that is going to work?

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3 years

EU industrial trawlers have been hoovering up fish in UK waters in the last days under EU control. Glad we will patrol our waters as we have been doing, but this time to enforce our rules. We can have a fishing policy kinder to our industry and marine environment.

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John Redwood

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2 years

The BBC is going into anti UK overdrive again by quoting Nancy Pelosi's idle threats. The same as when Mr Obama threatened us with no trade deal if we dared vote for Brexit. Maybe they should learn a majority of U.K. voters do not accept bullying from abroad.

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Great BBC Match of the day. All action. Good replays so you could see what happened and understand penalty calls. Pity they did not show more of the football and run each match a bit longer. Too much chat in the previous programmes.

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John Redwood

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4 years

No Deal with the EU is a much better outcome than what the EU is proposing. Time For the UK to move on from talks going nowhere.

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