IF areas of the UK were divided into “football tables” to reflect their natural assets ours would be in the Premier League – but we might be in danger of scoring an own goal when it comes to maximising the benefits.
Last week Trudy Harrison, my neighbouring MP for Copeland, weighing up whether Brexit can be described as “a pig’s ear, a dog’s dinner, or a cat’s arse.” She spoke for me and I am sure also the vast majority of Mail readers. The one thing that unites all of us is surely despair over this dreadful mess.
AFTER over two years of Brexit debate, divide and in-fighting, the crucial vote on the prime minister’s Brexit deal was postponed this week - and as I write this column, Theresa May’s leadership hangs in the balance.
POLITICS is a pretty angry and turbulent place at the moment, with the government teetering on the brink and wild disagreements over the best way ahead on Brexit.
MY test for the Budget announced in Parliament this week is simple, and it is the same for everything that comes to that place, will it, on balance, make things better for people in Furness?
For nearly a year now, I have been urging ministers to introduce tougher laws make it easier to catch the hundreds of British jihadis who travelled to Iraq and Syria to join the evil extremists Daesh fighting against British forces and our allies.
