Articles tagged Patrick Thompson:
Is The Independent Group Destined to Become a Pub Quiz Question in History?
- 23 Feb 2019
It’s been a huge week in politics with MPs leaving both the Conservatives and Labour. Iain Dale says the new independent MPs need to quickly build a realistic policy platform. I was just 18 years old when the Gang of Four left the Labour Party to form the SDP in 1981. It se...
EDP Column: What Price Loyalty? Does Parliament Reflect the Country on Brexit?
- 19 Jan 2019
Loyalty, loyalty, what price loyalty? Given the events in Parliament this week you might think that our local MPs might have shaken off the shackles of party loyalty and allegiance, but not a bit of it. Political parties are an always have been tribes. You’re elected under a p...
A Tribute to Audrey Barker 1927-2018
- 4 Nov 2018
I had some sad news when I woke up this morning. A good friend of mine, Audrey Barker, had died at the age of 91. I first met Audrey in 1985 when she became Conservative Party Agent in Norwich North. At the time, I had just left university and was working for the local MP, Pa...
What Norfolk Means To Me (And Being Interviewed by a Guinea Pig)
- 23 Sep 2018
What is your idea of perfect happiness in Norfolk? Walking along Mundesley beach (pic below). When I was at university in Norwich in the early 1980s I used to drive out there at midnight from time to time and just wander along the beach listening to the waves crashing again...
EDP Diary: Up for an Award
- 18 Jul 2007
As you read this column, think of me as I spend a week in Rwanda along with forty assorted Tory MPs, candidates and volunteers. They have each forked out the best part of £1,000 to spend a fortnight on a VSO backed scheme to do good works in a country still ravaged by the afte...