Richard Benyon MP

Richard Benyon's Westminster Diary, February 24, 2011

FOR TOO long in politics to admit you are wrong is, for some reason, considered the first sign of madness.

Richard Benyon's Westminster Diary, January 6, 2011

A YEAR AGO I was involved in the usual pre-election tussles with my closest rivals in West Berkshire, the Liberal Democrats. Now I am in Government with them.

Obsessed MPs are out of tune with the real issues

ONE OF my children has a toy that plays “Oh Susanna” the whole time. Continuously. All day.

Richard Benyon's Westminster Diary, August 5, 2010

THERE has been much talk of the Big Society since the Prime Minister's launch a few weeks ago.

Richard Benyon's Westminster Diary, July 28, 2010

MUCH Parliamentary business is done away from the Commons Chamber in the Committee corridor.

Richard Benyon's Westminster Diary, July 21, 2010

IT IS three years since the devastating floods of 2007. Floods then, drought now. Our weather seems to fluctuate between increasing extremes.

Richard Benyon's Westminster Diary, July 14, 2010

LAST WEEK Lord Prescott of Hull parked his ample haunches on the red leather benches in the House of Lords.

It's time to squirrel away these ridiculous laws

It is with some concern that I have found I have been breaking the law.

Richard Benyon's Westminster Diary, June 30, 2010

LAST WEEK started with a 48-hour trip to Agadir in Morocco for the annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission.