Posts Tagged ‘Ken Clarke’

Happy birthday to the minimum wage?

Welcome to ‘Letters From A Tory’, covering British politics from a conservative perspective. Please leave a comment if you have any thoughts about today’s letter, and don’t forget that you can CLICK HERE to get my letters sent to you by RSS every morning.Dear Ken Clarke,
You’ve been a little quieter than usual in recent [...]

Quote of the day

“Jogging is for people who are not intelligent enough to watch breakfast television”
- Kenneth Clarke, Shadow Business Secretary

Quote of the day

“[Alistair Darling] should be slowing down the growth of public spending to the levels he’s admitted he’s going to have to reduce them to the year after. I’m sure Gordon Brown told him, ‘no, no, no more restraint in public spending on top of what we’ve already done this side of an election’. Gordon wants [...]

Yet again, our membership of the EU costs businesses dearly

Dear Ken Clarke,
Much has been made of your pro-EU stance in returning to the Shadow Cabinet.  Expectations are running high in terms of your policies and credibility as our economy continues its march towards new lows every week, if not every day.  Peter Mandelson has already landed himself in trouble with his contentious decision to delay [...]

The Conservative Party should start a ‘Save Our Pubs’ campaign

Dear Ken Clarke,
As I predicted a little while ago, your return to the Shadow Cabinet has pushed Alan Duncan out of the picture.  In the last letter I wrote to Alan Duncan, I explained to him why his performance as Shadow Business Secretary was simply unacceptable as he had done little more than give quotes to newspapers [...]

Ken Clarke will replace Alan Duncan, not George Osborne

Dear Alan Duncan,
I fear that this may be the last letter I write to you on this blog.  Such has been your woeful performance as Shadow Business Secretary, your position has becoming extremely vulnerable.  With a reshuffle on the Conservative frontbench now thought to be imminent, the last thing any sensible Shadow Cabinet member would [...]