Greater: Britain After the Storm

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Read more about the condition Very Good: A book that has been read and does not look new, but is in excellent condition. I've no doubt Penny Mourdant will be on the ballot paper for the next leader of the Conservative Party if she can persuade her colleagues to face the real challenges that face Britain. As Paymaster General, Mordaunt met with the Secretary General of the MCB, Zara Mohammed, which Alan Mendoza of the Henry Jackson Society described as "shocking". The Labour frontbencher had also asked about ministers’ plans to bring forward a ban on MPs entering Parliament when they are arrested for violent or sexual offences.

The implementation knowhow this cries out for actually took us 30 years to fully get straight as new breakthroughs were factored in. The actress Dame Angela Lansbury was her grandmother's cousin, [10] [11] thus she is distantly related to former Labour Party leader George Lansbury. Before you even reach the first chapter, there is a veritable Becher’s Brook of bedazzling “names” saying how wonderful it is – Boris Johnson, Tony Blair, Elton John, Richard Curtis, Ruth Davidson, Peter Hennessey, Ben Ainslie, and Bill Gates wrote the Foreword. We want our comments to be a lively and valuable part of our community - a place where readers can debate and engage with the most important local issues.A poor condition book can still make a good reading copy but is generally not collectible unless the item is very scarce. What comes to mind is the inane waffle that pads out the word count; words for the sake of words, the literary equivalent of filibustering. During her tenure, she was accused by the Fire Brigades Union "of misleading MPs over assurances given to firefighters from fire authorities regarding what would happen to their pensions if they fail fitness tests". We give people around the world the opportunity to contribute to the circular economy, earn money and protect the planet, by trading their unwanted books and media.

She served as an officer in the Royal Naval Reserve and is now Honorary Commander of 2nd Mine Countermeasures Squadron. Powerful business and financial firms are hollowing out the state, but economic growth requires low taxes and light regulation. The book also urged the UK to use its new independence to strengthen ties with America, rebuild relations with India and trade with China on a fair footing.As a new era of US leadership dawns, this is a timely blueprint for what Global Britain should be all about. In a foreword to the book, philanthropist Bill Gates wrote: “This book shines a spotlight on why Britain is a great nation and points the way ahead for it to become greater still. Under Prime Minister John Major she was Head of Youth for the Conservative Party, before working for two years as Head of Broadcasting for the Conservatives under party leader William Hague (1999–2001). My favourite politician and, I hope, a future Prime Minister, describes our country, warts and all and, in doing so, brings into the light those things which need reformatting and those things about which we should be mightily proud.

The conversation will go back to what it should be about – people who care passionately about the issues, but disagree constructively on what we should do about them. Again, the Covid cloud had a silver lining in that working from home brought fresh economic stimulus to rural locations. After Boris Johnson was elected Conservative Leader and appointed Prime Minister, he sacked Mordaunt as Defence Secretary thus she left the Government on 24 July 2019.In November 2003, Mordaunt was selected as the Conservative candidate to contest Portsmouth North in the 2005 general election. In a cabinet reshuffle in February 2020, Mordaunt re-entered the Government, joining the Cabinet Office as Paymaster General in succession to Oliver Dowden.