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By Chris Williamson MP So the ConDem coalition has agreed to make £9 billion cuts in benefits after George Osborne and Iain Duncan Smith "struck a deal". The reforms will see the current welfare system replaced with a universal benefit with…
By Chris Williamson MP On Monday evening the ConDem coalition secured the second reading of its gerrymandering Parliamentary Voting and Constituencies Bill, that will reduce the number of constituences and introduce AV. It passed its second…
By Chris Williamson MP / @ChriswMP The hyperbole surrounding the first 100 days of the ConDem coalition government has now passed. It was a milestone that saw the media concentrating on the fact that two political parties are working…
By Chris Williamson MP The parliamentary recess has just started and it's now just 12 weeks since I was elected as the member of parliament for Derby North. I must say I have been amazed at how quickly the Conservatives have reverted to…
By Chris Williamson MP All the post war progressive legislative change has been introduced by Labour governments, often in the teeth of fierce opposition from the Tories and sometimes the Liberals too. Examples include the NHS…
By Chris Williamson Imagine a Derby with 327 fewer doctors, 701 fewer nurses and 92 fewer midwives. Picture a Derby where 13 of our new schools suddenly ceased to exist, where they were either replaced by older, less appropriate buildings…
By Chris Williamson The Tories and certain sections of the media have been trying to undermine Labour's record on unemployment and welfare. I remember them doing the same thing in the run up to the 1979 general election with their infamous…
By Chris Williamson In December 1993 a local magazine, Derbyshire Now, published a piece I had written about the aftermath of the late 1980s and early 1990s property boom that saw record numbers of repossessions (left). When I wrote that…
By Chris Williamson Derby is renowned as the region's economic powerhouse, generating more exports per capita than anywhere else in the UK. The average earnings of people who work here are the highest in the East Midlands. But in an…
By Chris Williamson Labour has today launched a consultation on new patient rights to be contained within the NHS Constitution. The various proposals include a new right to be treated within 18 weeks - or seen by a cancer specialist within…
