MP columns

Mark Field, MP for Cities of London and Westminster, here discusses the looming threat of protectionism in his monthly column for the Westminster Chronicle.

'A Double Raid on UK Plc as Overseas Buyers Swoop' was how the Evening Standard fearfully described both a recent bid by a US-Canadian consortium to buy British manufacturing firm, Tomkins, and the revival of merger talks between France's GDF-Suez and the UK's International Power.

Karen Buck, MP for Westminster North, here discusses the future of social housing in her monthly column for the Westminster Chronicle.

On 30 April 2010 the Prime Minister stated that the Conservative Party has 'no policy to change the current or future security of tenure of tenants in social housing'.

Mark Field, MP for Cities of London and Westminster, here discusses the proposed cap on housing benefit in his monthly column for the Westminster Chronicle.

The government is in the process of announcing a cap on housing benefit.

Karen Buck, MP for Westminster North, here discusses policing cuts in her monthly column for the Westminster Chronicle.

Rare indeed is the occasion when someone is prepared to argue that we have too many police.

Mark Field, MP for Cities of London and Westminster, here discusses the budget in his monthly column for the Westminster Chronicle.

The month of frenetic activity by the new Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, has provided welcome reassurance to many in the City of London.

Karen Buck, MP for Westminster North, here discusses budget cuts in her monthly column for the Westminster Chronicle.

Before polling day - just seven weeks ago, though it feels far longer - we were being told that emergency cuts this year, deemed essential to the control of the country's debt, would be aimed squarely at 'waste'.

Mark Field, MP for Cities of London and Westminster, here discusses the protestors in Parliament Square in his monthly column for the Westminster Chronicle.

Once the General Election was over, Members of Parliament came to Westminster only to find that parliament had some new neighbours.

Karen Buck, MP for Westminster North, discusses holding the government accountable for its decisions in her monthly column for the Westminster Chronicle.

It was a huge honour and privilege to be re-elected two weeks ago, for what is a new constituency for me - losing the four North Kensington wards I had represented for the past 13 years but gaining Bayswater and Lancaster Gate.

Mark Field, MP for Cities of London and Westminster constituency, here discusses the future of the public sector in his monthly column for the Westminster Chronicle.

Regular contact with top institutions and companies in my constituency has convinced me that many of the leading professionals in their vocational fields are feeling completely demoralised.

Karen Buck, MP for Regent's Park and Kensington North, here discusses the recession in her monthly Westminster Chronicle column.

It may feel like a long way from Harrow Road or Westbourne Grove to the towers of Canary Wharf and the City, but it is not.