Speeches

Across the country, there is very great concern about the decline in arts subjects in many secondary schools. Between 2010 and 2018, the number of pupils taking...

At the moment, electric scooters, which are now much in the news, are illegal on public highways, except in 50 areas of the country were trials are taking place...

Few dispute the number and extent of the problems caused by cyclists who ride on the roads –-and pavements—without bells, but they are rarely discussed in...

All those who apply for British citizenship are required to study an official handbook on life in the United Kingdom, and answer questions that it poses. The...

On 13 March, the Met was plunged into a fresh crisis when some of its officers overreacted in policing a peaceful vigil on Clapham Common. Their conduct will be...

Alistair Lexden has been closely involved with independent schools since 1997 when he became General Secretary of the Independent Schools Council, which has...

Operation Midland, conducted by the Met in 2015-16 into allegations of child sex abuse, was one of the greatest disasters in police history. It relied on a pack...

Brothers and sisters who buy a home together and stay together for their lifetimes — which thousands do — should have the same legal and fiscal protections as...

It will be a long road, extended even further as a result of an amazing lack of leadership by the Education Department and abrupt Government changes of course...