Elizabeth's column in the Kenninghall News - August 2010
With a new Government in place, it has been a very busy time in Parliament - partly as there are only three legislating weeks left until the recess, with lots of business to get through. Following the Finance Bill - which confirmed the budget measures, we are now discussing the Academies Bill ...
Elizabeth delivered her Maiden Speech in the House of Commons, 8th June 2010
Thank you for calling me, Mr Deputy Speaker, and may I congratulate the hon. Member for South Down (Ms Ritchie) on her passionate advocacy of the economic development of her constituency? I also congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for East Hampshire (Damian Hinds) on his advocacy of the importanc...
Elizabeth was interviewed by Mark D'Arcy on BBC Radio 4's "Today in Parliament", 4th June 2010
Extracts below: Mark D'Arcy: [Your maiden speech] is an ordeal you are yet to undergo? Elizabeth Truss: Yes, I am indeed preparing my maiden speech. I'm planning to speak in the Economic Affairs debate next week, talking about the growth agenda for Norfolk, specifically about how...
Elizabeth was interviewed by Kirsty Wark on BBC2's "Newsnight", 12th May 2010
Kirsty Wark: A new world that we're living in. Elizabeth Truss, do you think this is a significant and lasting moment of change for the Conservatives, or is it all for necessity? Elizabeth Truss: Well, I think it's a bit of both, actually. It is a lasting moment of change.&n...
Region's new MPs prepare for life in Westminster - EDP, 10 May 2010
Elizabeth Truss, whose election victory continued the Tory grip on South West Norfolk, is expecting a busy first few days as a new MP. Like other new MPs, she has been summoned to a meeting tonightat Westminster and then expects to be involved in the next few days in the induction and training proc...
As a new MP, I'm tired - but ready to widen the debate - Comment is Free, 7 May 2010
Thursday was a marathon day of visiting polling stations and getting out the vote. I had fish and chips and a glass of wine to induce three hours kip before the count. When it finished at 6.30am, I felt shattered and excited, which has meant no more sleep today. I was surprised by the size of the ma...
Let passengers decide how to get any place, any time, any way - Mail Online, 21 August 2009
Britain is a past master at spending money on the wrong things. The welfare budget nudges up past £180 billion - mostly on a money-go-round that creates a dependency culture. More money is poured into an unreformed NHS, with the political debate surrounding it at an all-time low level. Meanw...
The misuse of maths - CentreRight, 10 July 2009
Today 64 leading mathematicians put in their objections to the proposed Use of Maths A Level. The QCA consultation on it closes today. To put your views forward fill in the form here [If you can bear to answer a series of questions such as "The learning outcomes are statements of learning achievemen...
Shed the quango comfort blanket - Comment is Free, 6 July 2009
Quangos (quasi non-governmental organisations) inhabit a twilight zone unaffected by the robust questioning of politics or the rigours of the market. The financial and governance crisis has seen bankers and MPs on the frontline with their practices exposed for all to see, while officials running the...
Universities should be put in charge of A Levels - ConservativeHome, 17 June 2009
The relationship between politicians and academics has not always been an easy one. However, a reforming Government should view universities as allies in the battle for intellectual integrity and the starting point in abolishing the ersatz academic qualifications that are emerging from government qu...
A-levels fail to make the grade in teaching our pupils to think - Yorkshire Post, 17 June 2009
HISTORICALLY, great Yorkshire universities saw their role as inspiring and motivating local students to come to their institutions. They were the intellectual leaders of the local community. In 1903, Sheffield and Leeds came together with three other northern universities to establish the Joint Mat...
Organised crime can only be beaten by organised police - The Daily Telegraph, 27 February 2009
Ours is the most expensive police force in the world but it is failing to do its job properly. Structural inefficiencies mean that it is failing to get to grips with criminal networks peddling drugs, guns and people. While the latest intelligence report stated that an inflow of firearms from oversea...
Serious crime is booming and we need a radical new approach to defeat it - Daily Mail, 26 February 2009
As the rest of the economy contracts, it's sad to say that serious and organised crime is a boom industry. The sharply falling price of cocaine shows increased supplies from new routes. People-trafficking has come from nowhere to become a major social problem affecting towns and cities across the U...
Let's cut crime by leaving local policing up to local people - Yorkshire Post, 26 February 2009
YORKSHIRE policing was reorganised into four large forces in 1974. A factor was criticism of the Leeds City Police Force over the death of David Oluwale, now being dramatised at the city's West Yorkshire playhouse. The new structure, although it addressed "bad apples" in local forces, left a legacy...
Let the people police the police - The Sunday Telegraph, 14 September 2008
Senior police officers appear to have adopted the modus operandi of their political masters: plots, public attacks on colleagues and secret briefings. The racism row at the Metropolitan Police has revealed a fractious high command, apparently more intent on pursuing legal action against each other ...
On Policing - BBC London News, 2 September 2008
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New media politics revolution
In their book Wikinomics, Dan Tapscott and Anthony Williams described "a new age of participation and mass collaboration ...endangering the future of hierarchies as a mode of organizational structure". In this new world individuals can directly select and contract with large organisations, leaders a...
Eco towns - the zero evidence footprint
Professor Nick Bosanquet and Elizabeth Truss The eco town plans have been provided as one part of the answer to addressing climate change and housing need. However the Government has not presented any estimates of the costs of the programme; nor does there seem to have been any in-depth considerati...
Only create
Whether by accident or design, as a nation we speak the international language of business and have many links to the newly developing powerhouse nations of the 21st century such as India and China. In their wake we have achieved consistent economic growth for the past 15 years. But many people ask...
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