Rob Wilson MP

Stories by Rob Wilson MP

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• Last updated: 18 Feb 2010 21:00

  Rob Wilson's Westminster Diary, February 18, 2010

  MONETARY union via the Euro was always half-baked because it was never really a genuine economic union.

• Last updated: 4 Feb 2010 07:00

  Rob Wilson's Westminster Diary, February 4, 2010

  I RARELY comment on the minor parties at Westminster - and that includes Liberal Democrats, DUP, SNP, Ulster Unionists and assorted independents - because their impact is so limited and their behaviour so erratic.

• Last updated: 27 Nov 2009 12:00

  Rob Wilson's Westminster Diary, November 26, 2009

  OVER the past four years I have been part of the procession of MPs that makes its way to the House of Lords after being summoned by Her Majesty.

• Last updated: 12 Nov 2009 09:00

  Rob Wilson's Westminster Diary, November 12, 2009

  I KNOW that Britain has changed in recent years, with people displaying more openly their emotions, some suggest as a result of Princess Diana.

• Last updated: 29 Oct 2009 09:00

  Rob Wilson's Westminster Diary, October 29, 2009

  THE Prime Minister and the Government grow weaker by the day.

• Last updated: 15 Oct 2009 10:00

  Rob Wilson's Westminster Diary, October 15, 2009

  WESTMINSTER has finally returned, almost three months after rising for the summer recess.

• Last updated: 2 Oct 2009 15:00

  Rob Wilson's Westminster Diary, October 1, 2009

  TWO party conferences down, only one to go.

• Last updated: 17 Sep 2009 08:00

  Rob Wilson's Westminster Diary, September 17, 2009

  POLITICS is starting anew after the summer with the Party Conference season already underway, but there's nothing fresh coming from our Prime Minister.

• Last updated: 24 Jul 2009 09:00

  Rob Wilson's Westminster Diary, July 23, 2009

  MOST MPs have had enough of Westminster and want to get back to their constituencies for the rest of the summer.

• Last updated: 9 Jul 2009 12:00

  Rob Wilson's Westminster Diary, July 9, 2009

  I WAS sorry to hear about the death of Michael Jackson last week, he certainly made his mark on the world in his fairly short life.

• Last updated: 25 Jun 2009 10:00

  Rob Wilson's Westminster Diary, June 25, 2009

  SPEEEa…..KERRR is the familiar shout that goes up every day at Westminster and announces the Speaker"s procession from his chambers to the floor of the House of Commons.

• Last updated: 11 Jun 2009 09:00

  Rob Wilson's Westminster Diary, June 11, 2009

  I AM NOT sure I"ll see the like again of the past fortnight, however long I remain in Parliament. By any standards it"s been quite extraordinary.

• Last updated: 28 May 2009 10:00

  Rob Wilson's Westminster Diary, May 28, 2009

  IT"S HARD to believe important elections are taking place in under seven days" time!

• Last updated: 14 May 2009 08:00

  Rob Wilson's Westminster Diary, May 14, 2009

  I HOPE you"ll forgive me, but I am sick to death of talking about MPs" expenses, because it"s all people want to discuss. Unfortunately, I know I can"t avoid it this week.

• Last updated: 30 Apr 2009 10:00

  Rob Wilson's Westminster Diary, April 30, 2009

  NEW media is playing an ever increasing role in politics. Leaked emails uncovered the anti-Conservative smears a couple of weeks ago and blogger Guido Fawkes brought them to our attention.

• Published: 2 Apr 2009 12:30

  Rob Wilson's Westminster Diary, April 2, 2009

  IT WAS Abba who sang ‘Money Money Money' in the 1970s. I've had very few conversations in Westminster in the past fortnight that haven't involved money.

• Published: 19 Mar 2009 08:30

  Rob Wilson's Westminster Diary, March 19 2009

  ANOTHER day and another Minister in my constituency.

• Published: 19 Feb 2009 09:00

  Rob Wilson's Westminster Diary

  POLITICS is clearly more febrile than it was even 10 years ago. The internet, mobile phones and a 24-hour news media have all changed politics and the way it operates. Information is now available from a host of sources, some of which are less than balanced.

• Published: 5 Feb 2009 12:00

  Rob Wilson's Westminster Diary

  PARLIAMENT can be frustrating at times!

• Last updated: 22 Jan 2009 14:00

  Rob Wilson's Westminster Diary and letter to the editor

  I HAVE read Alan Clark's diaries and what a good read they were.

• Published: 8 Jan 2009 12:00

  Rob Wilson's Westminster Diary

  I TRY hard to keep my Westminster Diary about Westminster, so that my column does what it says on the tin.

• Published: 11 Dec 2008 09:00

  Rob Wilson's Westminster Diary

  OVER the past 11 years we have been through the New Labour 'modernisation' of Parliament.

• Published: 27 Nov 2008 12:00

  Rob Wilson's Westminster Diary

  FOR the past few years, people have said to me that "you political parties are all the same now, there's no choice".

• Published: 13 Nov 2008 12:00

  Rob Wilson's Westminster Diary

  THERE were several elections last week, but you may be forgiven for thinking that there was only one.

• Published: 29 Oct 2008 08:00

  Rob Wilson's Westminster Diary

  AS a backbencher you can speak in the House and to the media about, more or less, anything you like.

• Last updated: 17 Jul 2008 09:58

  Rob Wilson's Westminster Diary

  POLITICS is as interesting as I can remember it at the moment, nationally and internationally.

• Published: 26 Jun 2008 12:15

  Rob Wilson's Westminster Diary

  "WHY are there always so many strikes at the end of Labour Government?", is the question that my colleague Sir Michael Spicer put to the Prime Minister last week.

• Published: 12 Jun 2008 11:30

  Rob Wilson's Westminster Diary

  IT IS a statement of the blindingly obvious that the debate over whether British citizens should be detained without charge for six weeks is about the issue of security.

• Published: 29 May 2008 13:00

  Rob Wilson's Westminster Diary

  THE big talking point at Westminster for the past fortnight has been the Crewe and Nantwich by-election.

• Published: 15 May 2008 10:00

  Rob Wilson's Westminster Diary

  THE Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill finally arrived in the Commons this week and if I'm honest, I've been slightly dreading it.