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Tea with Mark Francois MP

Mark Francois is the Conservative MP for Rayleigh and Wickford, and one of the 28 ‘Brexit Spartans’, who refused to vote for all three of Theresa May’s Brexit bills. We caught up with him to discuss the current Conservative government, Brexit, and his new book – Spartan Victory: The inside story of the Battle for […]

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The Frank Report IX

International Women’s Day kicked the week off, and as is customary, the cock was optional. It’s nice to see women taking the lead for once, with men playing a more supportive role. Getting us underway was Labour’s Claudia Webbe, who tweeted ‘Nuclear weapons are not good for the survival of humanity. They must be eliminated.’

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Tea with Kathy Gyngell

Since its inception in 2014, TCW (defending freedom) has become one of Britain’s most popular conservative websites, attracting almost a million views per month. We caught up with its editor, Kathy Gyngell, and asked about how it all got started, the woeful state of conservatism within the Conservative Party, and the Covid farce.   Editor:

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Tea with Jihyun Park

Jihyun Park has survived the brutality of the North Korean regime: labour camps, starvation and torture. Now she has a new life in Britain, where she will once again stand for the Conservatives as a councillor in this year’s local elections.   Editor: Yours is an incredible story. You arrived in the UK in 2008,

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The Frank Report VIII

The only thing worse than virtue signalling, is other people doing so on your behalf. I trust therefore, that you’ve all poured yourself a large VAT (vodka and tonic, for those not overly familiar with Arthur Daley), and let us begin.  There was sad news from the Welsh town of Colwyn Bay, where Tom Mansfield

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The New Conservative

Who are the media kidding? Paulette Hamilton is ‘moderate’ for the Labour Party

Today’s by-election in the Birmingham seat of Erdington was supposed to be a walk in the park for the Labour Party candidate, Paulette Hamilton, who is campaigning to become Birmingham’s first black MP. The election follows the death, in January, of veteran Labour MP Jack Dromey, who won the seat at the 2019 general election

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The New Conservative

The fall of the West

I’m no expert on geopolitics. I slept through most of GCSE History, and I could just about find Ukraine on a map (assuming you gave me a couple of cracks at it). But I know something – the West isn’t the West anymore. For too long now, we’ve been getting away with non-actions; repackaging our

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