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Posted by Alistair Lexden, May 11th, 2012 .
On 11 May 1812 Spencer Perceval was assassinated.
On 11 May 1812 Spencer Perceval, who had been Prime Minister for three years, was assassinated in the lobby of the House of Commons. He is the only British Prime Minister to have met a violent end.
Apart from the manner of his death at the age of 49, he has been largely forgotten. But in his day he was a commanding figure in Parliament, regarded as second only to the Younger Pitt as debater. ‘Nothing’, wrote a contemporary, ‘could be so gentlemanlike and fair as his management of the House of Commons’. For years he campaigned vigorously alongside William Wilberforce for the abolition of slavery.
As Prime Minister he rallied the nation in support of the Duke of Wellington, rejecting the widespread criticism of the latter as the outcome of the Peninsular War hung in the balance. At home he preserved law and order by putting down Luddite riots against the country’s growing industrialisation with what some regarded as excessive severity. He was a Tory in his politics but always rejected the Party label. This was a period of transition in British politics; dividing lines between the Whig and Tory Parties were blurred.
He possessed an engaging streak of eccentricity. An authority on Biblical prophecies, he did detailed calculations which convinced him that the world would end in 1926.
On the fateful day he strolled into the Commons lobby ‘talking and laughing’ with friends. He was shot at point-blank range by a man called John Bellingham who drew a revolver from a specially tailored pocket inside his coat. An eye-witness recorded that Perceval clutched ‘his hand to his heart and exclaimed “oh” faintly and fell forward on his face’ dead.
The assassin had no political motive. Having been imprisoned for some years in Russia, he became obsessed with securing financial compensation from the British government. His sense of grievance became concentrated on the Prime Minister personally. He was hanged seven days later after an unprecedentedly rapid trial.
He has nothing in common with his direct descendant, Henry Bellingham, a junior Foreign Office minister.
Alistair Lexden is the Party’s official historian; details of his historical writings can be found on his website.
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Tags: Duke of Wellington, history, John Bellingham, Spencer Perceval
Posted by Alistair Lexden, May 9th, 2012 .
A century ago, the Conservative & Unionist Party was formed.
On 9 May 1912 large numbers of Conservatives descended on the Queen’s Hall in London, best-known at that time as the home of Sir Henry Wood’s Promenade Concerts (which thirty years later were forced by the Luftwaffe to move to the Royal Albert Hall). The Tories came not to listen to sublime music, but to make historic changes to the Party’s organisation and name.
The conference had been convened by the National Union of Conservative Associations to which most, but not all, of the Party’s constituency associations belonged. The Chairman of the National Union, Sir William Crump, a self-made City businessman and Islington’s first mayor, moved the adoption of a report by a Special Committee which recommended the creation of a new body to be known as the National Unionist Association of Conservative and Liberal Unionist Organisations. ‘ That’, he said, ‘would in future be the name of the central organisation of both wings of the party’. ( A few years later it was simplified, becoming the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations.)
Over the years since its emergence in 1886 as fierce opponent of Gladstone’s Home Rule scheme for Ireland, the Liberal Unionist Party, led pugnaciously in the Commons by Joe Chamberlain, had drawn so close to the Conservatives that the two Parties had come to operate in practice as two wings of a single entity, known generally as the Unionist Party, though the name had no official status. The historic conference a century ago united them formally. Crump’s motion was carried ‘without a single dissentient’.
Joe Chamberlain, incapacitated by a stroke six years earlier, sent of message of warm approval. ‘I believe’, he said, ‘that both wings of the party will reap advantage from an amalgamation which will give to the Unionist Party as a whole a single central organisation on a popular and representative basis’.
Up until the day before the conference the Conservatives had planned to ditch their name completely. They had come to be called Unionists in everyday usage, and preferred to be known as such for years to come. They agreed in early 1912 under the terms of the merger to adopt formally the title of the National Unionist Association (or Unionist Party for short). Only forceful last-minute protests saved the historic name. Hastily siding with the protesters, Crump explained that ‘they had had some strong criticism—he thought just criticism—of the name they proposed to adopt. (Hear,hear.) After consultation as late as the previous night with the Liberal Unionists they had decided to meet the objections—the great objection was the dropping of the word Conservative—by making their name the National Unionist Association of Conservative and Liberal Unionist Organisations. ( Cheers.)’
So the word Conservative did not after all disappear from the political lexicon: and between the wars under Stanley Baldwin the Party reverted to it, except in Scotland where the combined forces did formally become the Unionist Party in 1912 and so remained until 1965. On this day a century ago it was the campaign to defeat the Liberal Party’s third attempt to give the whole of Ireland self-government that made Unionism more important to the Party than anything else. Crump concluded by asking the Queen’s Hall conference ‘to show the United Kingdom and Ireland that they were prepared to stand shoulder to shoulder as a fused organisation [with the Liberal Unionists] to help in every way their brethren of Ulster, the loyalists who were calling on Englishmen to come to their help.( Loud cheers)’.
Alistair Lexden is the Party’s official historian; full details of his historical writing can be found on his website: www.alistairlexden.org.uk. This article draws on papers in the Conservative Party Archive at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, copies of which were kindly supplied by the Party’s Archivist, Jeremy Mcllwaine.
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Posted by Boris Johnson, Mayor, May 2nd, 2012 .
Boris Johnson discusses what he’s doing to take London forwards.
The Mayoral election on Thursday comes when we have been going through the toughest times that anyone can remember.
The big question is therefore blindingly simple – who has the best plan for the jobs and growth that will help bring prosperity to all?
It is about who will deliver the investment from central government that will take London forward.
It is about who you can trust to spend that money wisely – and who will be honest with you about where the money is coming from, and how it is spent.
I believe my 9 point plan is right for the future of the greatest city on earth. It secures Greater London’s future by cutting waste at City Hall, reducing council tax, creating 200,000 new jobs, protecting green space, investing in transport, cutting tube delays and ensuring a true Olympic legacy.
My ambition is to make London ever safer, greener, cleaner and more attractive to live, work and invest in.
By managing our budgets responsibly, we have abandoned the grandiose and wasteful approach of the previous mayor. This has allowed me to keep my promises to London over the last four years:
- I have put 1,000 more police on the streets and now we are taking officers out of backroom jobs – putting 2,000 more officers in Safer Neighbourhood Teams.
- I have delivered a 24 hour Freedom Pass – and we will now make sure that everyone gets it as soon as they turn 60, and we will negotiate to put it on overground rail as well.
- I got rid of the Western Extension Zone of the Congestion Charge, because it was imposed in defiance of people’s wishes.
- I banned alcohol on public transport and put another 697 uniformed officers on the buses and Tube.
- I have got rid of the bendy bus and introduced a new Routemaster-style bus for London, built in Britain, creating jobs in this country, the cleanest new bus in Europe – and each of them costs no more than a current hybrid bus.
- I have saved billions in unnecessary expense at TFL, disposed of 23 buildings and 25% of the directors. I have sold two police flats and cut bonuses across the board.
- And it is this relentless efficiency with your money that has allowed me to freeze the Mayoral share of council tax for four years. Now I am promising to cut it by 10%.
The choice is clear this Thursday.
It is between a Mayor who invests in our future – not the irresponsible proposals from Ken Livingstone that would put that investment at risk.
I know I am best placed to get the funds our city will need. I will use that money well – not waste it on schemes of no economic benefit to London.
I want to unite London – not try to divide one group from another.
I want to take London forwards – not back to the 1970s.
I believe I am best placed to lead London out of recession, to get real and lasting value from the Olympics, and to lengthen our lead as the greatest city on earth.
I hope I can count on your vote this Thursday. For Greater London. For the future.
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Tags: Boris Johnson, Conservative Party, elections, Ken Livingstone, London
Posted by Stephen Crabb, March 20th, 2012 .
The project has new ambitions for Sierra Leone.
The Party is now recruiting volunteers for Project Umubano 2012 in Rwanda and Sierra Leone.
Now in its sixth year, Project Umubano is a truly remarkable expression of the Conservative Party’s core values: voluntarism, compassion, enterprise and an outward-focus. It is also combines a lot of fun and hard work.
Umubano brings together the most diverse groups of Party members and supporters, working for two weeks each July in challenging environments alongside African partners focused on tackling the root causes of poverty. (A video snap-shot of last year’s project can be viewed here).
The scope of the Project continues to grow in response to requests from our partners. There is a strong focus on training to ensure there is a lasting benefit to the work we do.
In a number of Project areas we require specialist skills and experience: Healthcare, Law, Business & Finance, and parliamentary support. But there is also a wide range of opportunities for the generalists among us.
The Umubano English language teaching programme in Rwanda, led by Wendy Morton remains the largest single part of the Project, and there will also be teaching opportunities in Sierra Leone through our partner Street Child of Sierra Leone.
Our sport project will also operate for the first time in Sierra Leone under the leadership of FA-qualified coach Stephen Ogden who has been at the forefront of our football and cricket coaching in Rwanda in previous years.
One of the highlights last year was the success of our workshops for Rwandan entrepreneurs, led by Fiona Bruce MP. This will continue with the addition of a specific Introduction to Finance training programme.
Strengthening Parliament and civil society goes hand-in-hand with developing a market economy. Last year a team of researchers led by Anita Boateng and Emma McClarkin MEP trained staff at the Rwanda Senate. We hope to return there in July with an expanded team. There will also be a Community Group Advocacy Project working with NGOs that focus on the survivors of the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
With ages ranging from late teens to early seventies, our volunteers come from all kinds of background and from right across the UK. Every Umubano volunteer finds that they have something special and unique to contribute. Operating outside of our comfort zone brings out the very best in the whole team.
Whatever skills and experience they all bring, Umubano volunteers all share our Party’s strong commitment to social action and international development. It is this enthusiasm and commitment which ensures that Project Umubano goes from strength-to-strength and continues to make a modest but real difference in two of the poorest countries on earth.
Project Umubano 2012 runs from 7th-21st July in Rwanda and Sierra Leone. For further information and application form, email projectumubano@live.co.uk.
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Tags: Project Umubano, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Social Action, volunteers
Posted by John Glen MP, March 20th, 2012 .
Labour’s opposition is confused and contradictory.
Reflecting on the exchanges in last week’s Opposition Day debate on the Health and Social Care Bill, I found it difficult to discern precisely what Labour’s opposition to the Bill was based on.
Lurching wildly from listing the number of amendments to the bill, to reiterating supposed public or Royal College opposition, and finally trying to square the circle of opposition to the bill but support for GP-led commissioning, Labour have not worked out what they are actually opposing.
I want to tackle some of the arguments that have been put by the Opposition over the past couple of days and suggest that the empty rhetoric coming from the Labour benches is simply not constructive.
Opinion polls as exclusive guide to policy-making
Public opinion polls have never been a sufficient or exclusive guide to effective policy-making. The detail of every reform cannot be set out in a General Election campaign (though the Conservative party committed in our manifesto to opening up the NHS to private and voluntary sector provision), and much less can the technical intricacies of reform in a large public body be debated effectively in a national debate.
The supposed opposition of the Royal Colleges (many of which, as effective trade union bodies, may well have an ideological opposition to competitive structures within the NHS) is similarly overstated. It has been well-documented that despite the claim that 98% of the Royal College of GPs want the Bill to be withdrawn, only 7% of its 44000 members responded to their survey and less than 6% called for the withdrawal of the Bill. The same is true of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health – the alleged 79% of their members cannot be calling for withdrawal of the Bill as only 15% responded to the survey and less than 12% call for withdrawal.
Inflexibility?
It was not long ago that the Opposition were castigating the government for an ‘arrogant’ and ‘inflexible’ approach to reform. When the government responds by having an unprecedented level of debate on the content of the bill, and accepted hundreds of amendments, it is complained that the process has been “tortuous” and that the Commons is merely “rubber-stamping” a heavily-amended bill. The contradictions and confusions in Labour’s opposition to the bill hint at politically expedient point-scoring rather than serious and thoughtful opposition.
Look at the underlying facts
The government is not introducing NHS reform out of an ideologically driven aim to introduce competition come what may: the reforms are to give clinicians real responsibility and build on the virtues of competition into the health service without compromising the central principle of healthcare provided according to need and not according to ability to pay.
Private activity is only permitted insofar as it contributes to supporting the treatment of NHS patients; and private providers of services can compete on quality, rather than price, ensuring that the best possible treatment is available to NHS patients. The possibility that this could lead to postcode lotteries is dealt with by a statutory requirement to tackle health inequalities within the NHS.
Insubstantial opposition
The Secretary of State, Andrew Lansley MP, put his finger on it when he observed that the Shadow Secretary of State for Health has been reduced to shouting slogans. The hollow opposition to the Health and Social Care Bill is a mess of contradictions and confusions. This is an obvious example of a trend I observed in the Labour Party back in November – that they are in danger of becoming a “fast food” opposition, serving up the political equivalent of insubstantial “happy meals” that look good but don’t have much substance.
When Labour asked the government to listen, they scheduled hours of debate and accepted hundreds of amendments. The bill addresses the challenges of health inequalities and private provision, and above all brings in structural reform that maintains for the long-term the guiding principles of the NHS – the best possible treatment for patients, according to need and not ability to pay.
What more do they want? I am not sure that even they know!
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Tags: Andrew Lansley, Conservatives, GP, Health and Social Care Bill, Labour Party, nhs, Opposition
Posted by Ben Howlett, March 13th, 2012 .
Conservative Future Conference returns for 2012.
CF Conference returns for 2012 welcoming Transport Secretary Justine Greening and other special guests for a day not to be missed.
On Saturday 31st March CF members from across the UK will be travelling down to London for the Conservative Future National Conference.
We’ve chosen to hold the conference in London so that in the morning we can go campaigning to help ensure that Boris Johnson is re-elected as the Mayor of London on May 3rd.
Opening the CF conference in the afternoon attendees will hear from the Transport Secretary Justine Greening. Justine has been a big supporter of CF for many years and I’m sure will provide an insightful view of the work she does at her department. Later on in the day we will hear from CCHQ about the ‘Road to 2015′ and the efforts that we will be supporting to ensure a Conservative majority in 2015.
There will also be a “Question Time” style session that I will be chairing. The topic of the panel discussion will be: “Issues Concerning Young People”. Attendees will be able to submit questions in advance to the panel which includes Toby Young and Penny Mordaunt MP.
You can view the full agenda for the conference here.
What better way to spend your Saturday than to share it with friends and fellow CF activists, sharing drinks and ideas.
You can still register for the CF National Conference by clicking here.
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Tags: Ben Howlett, Boris Johnson, CF National Conference 2012, Conservative Future, Justine Greening, London, Question Time, Toby Young
Posted by Richard Graham, February 8th, 2012 .
Apprenticeships are good for the country, companies and individuals.
Before the General Election, as a Conservative Party candidate, I visited companies in Gloucester who regularly told me of the value and importance of apprenticeships. They convinced me apprentices are an idea of the past whose time had come again.
This week is National Apprenticeship week and no better time for all MPs to champion Apprenticeships.
Since May 2010 I have twice secured Westminster Hall debates on apprentices and helped organise the Gloucestershire Apprenticeship Fair with the National Apprenticeship Service in 2011, alongside regular jobs fairs.
Apprenticeships work because they’re good for the country (lower youth unemployment), good for companies (cost effective growth) and good for the individual (earning while learning). By the end of this year we will have half a million apprentices starting – a huge new army of talent and aspiration.
The government is right to focus now on higher apprenticeships – moving from 20 to 2000 in a short space of time through the £6 million Higher Apprenticeship Fund to create thousands of new higher level apprenticeships in sectors like aerospace, engineering and renewable technologies. And it is right to provide incentives (£1500 each) for SME companies to take on an apprentice.
Business now sees the transformational power of apprenticeships: this week will see major banks announce their plans to hire large numbers of apprentices. There is no reason why the insurance sector can’t do the same and even services like accountancy. MPs can do the same too. I was one of the first to employ an apprentice (now doing an NVQ3 in Business Admin) and the Minister has promised to host a party for the first 100 MPs’ apprentices.
Increasing growth and reducing youth unemployment are defining issues of today. Apprenticeships are not the complete answer but they are a critical part of it. Every MP and every employer should consider one.
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Tags: apprenticeships, business, companies, Economy, employment, SMEs
Posted by Baroness Warsi, January 31st, 2012 .
Sayeeda Warsi opened the first CPF Winter Conference.
Anyone who says that grassroots debate has disappeared from the heart of politics just needs to look at the Conservative Policy Forum, whose first Winter Conference was held at Scalford Hall in Melton Mowbray last weekend.
I had the pleasure of kicking off the proceedings at the venue, reflecting on the CPF’s achievements just one year after its re-launch.
Participation in the organisation – whose groups form and submit policy suggestions direct to ministers – has increased from eight per cent of Conservative-held constituencies to more than 45 per cent.
This is testament to the Party’s commitment to the Voluntary Party that these groups – from Scotland to Cornwall, Wales to East Anglia – are working towards the key document which will secure an outright Conservative majority: our 2015 manifesto.
I made clear to the delegates on Saturday morning how important their role is. Lady Thatcher argued that consensus between political parties was a bad thing; I argue that consensus within parties is bad. And that is why I welcome the broad scope of views being represented by our broad party.
During the Q and A session, one delegate asked if we could come up with a statement of political philosophy. We don’t need to, I argued.
Our philosophy is there for all to see, shining through everything we Tories do. And while we represent a broad church of views and experiences, we are all united by our belief in the importance of aspiration, opportunity, enterprise, fairness, responsibility, free markets, lower taxes and strong families.
Indeed, as I argued, isn’t the fact that we have come together and formed a Coalition in the national interest the most powerful demonstration of our pragmatism and commitment to Britain?
These are some of the big issues that the CPF is grappling with, and how, with our Conservative values, we can best respond to today’s problems. I have enjoyed looking at the incisive reports they have produced, for example housing, on vulnerable people, on the elderly, on child poverty, on the natural environment.
I urged the CPF to continue their crucial work going forward. After all, if you look at the progress of the organisation after just one year, just think what can be achieved in the coming years.
Click here to view Sayeeda Warsi’s full speech to the CPF Winter Conference.
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Tags: Conservative Policy Forum, CPF, policy, Sayeeda Warsi, winter conference
Posted by Alistair Lexden, January 4th, 2012 .
John Bright was one of the giants of the Victorian era.
Anyone who picks up Bill Cash’s new book assuming that it will inevitably be about the European Union is in for a big surprise. There is not a single reference to the EU in the index.
Cash has a second life as a fine, dedicated historian. The subject of this book, John Bright, was one of the giants of the Victorian era, ranking alongside Gladstone and Disraeli. Karl Marx got it right (for once) when he hailed Bright as “one of the most gifted orators that England has ever produced”.
He was the leading radical politician of his time, though never a wild, left-wing ideologue. He possessed, as Cash perceptively notes, a strong vein of conservatism in his character which brought him first into temporary alliances, and finally into a firm association, with the Conservative Party. He helped strengthen the Party as a progressive force in British politics.
Bright was the first English politician to attract and retain an immense personal following throughout the country, numbered in tens of thousands, outside a mainstream party political organisation. He acquired his mass support by arguing with tremendous power for a variety of specific far-reaching reforms, ranging from the extension of the franchise to the protection of human rights in India. He mounted the first well-organised campaigns in modern British history, Cash writes, “with an energy and commitment, and on such a scale and range of matters, that has scarcely, if at all, been emulated by any other politician”.
Bright campaigned hardest of all to secure the repeal of the Corn Laws, which imposed taxes on foodstuffs, and to get the vote for working-class men. These two great changes were implemented by Conservative governments with which Bright worked in the national interest. In Cash’s words, “Bright put conscience, conviction, the working man and the country before party or any personal interest”. He heaped praise on Sir Robert Peel for removing taxes on food in 1846, and wept when he heard of the death of “this great statesman”.
Twenty years later Bright’s influence on the left of the Liberal Party brought Disraeli, governing without a Commons majority, the extra votes he needed from the Opposition to pass the legislation which conferred voting rights on working men in urban constituencies. “Whatever happens, you and I will always be friends”, Disraeli told him.
When he died in 1889, Bright was a leading member of the newly formed Liberal Unionist Party which worked closely with the Conservatives as part of a Unionist alliance against Irish Home Rule until 1912- exactly a century ago – when the two Parties merged to form the Conservative and Unionist Party. Bright’s ideals thus passed into the bloodstream of the Tories, reinforcing their vision of One Nation, particularly in social affairs ,to which Bill Cash himself who is distantly related to Bright has always adhered.
In this fine, richly documented biography, Cash ends the neglect into which his forebear has been allowed to fall, and restores him to the pinnacle of nineteenth century political history where he belongs.
John Bright: Statesman, Orator, Agitator by Bill Cash is published by I.B.Taurus & Co. Ltd. at £25. Alistair Lexden is the official historian of the Conservative Party. For information about his publications and other historical writings, visit his website: www.alistairlexden.org.uk
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Tags: Bill Cash, Conservative Party, Corn Laws, Disraeli, Gladstone, John Bright, Liberal Party, Liberal Unionist Party, One Nation, Robert Peel, Victorian politics
Posted by George Freeman MP, December 8th, 2011 .
We can make Britain the global hub for medical science.
The UK’s Life Science Sector generates over £50 billion per year in turnover and accounts for 165,000 jobs. With growth of 9.8% per annum it is clear that the Life Sciences sector is of vital strategic significance to the UK economy.
In leading the global fight against rising epidemics of western lifestyle diseases such as cancer, dementia, and diabetes, which most of us are likely to be affected by at some point of our lives, it is also important to our wider wellbeing. ‘Health and Wealth’ go hand in hand.
The Prime Minister’s announcements on Monday set out a new strategy for UK Life Sciences which will help us capitalise on our world class Life Science base of talented and pioneering researchers and compete in this challenging global arena. The UK has been at the forefront of discovery for the past 40 years, but the sector is changing rapidly, putting new pressures on the pharmaceutical sector which requires strategic response.
One such change has been the speed of computing and breakthroughs in genomics. These are opening up untold opportunities, however the time and cost of developing new treatments is rising significantly and the traditional models of research and development, based around large scale establishments, are becoming unsustainable. The future is going to see more tailored medicines, much better targeted at specific patients whom we will be able to predict from their genetic blueprint will be particularly vulnerable to a certain disease. The challenge therefore is to put human clinical disease studies and patients back at the heart of medical discovery and to do this in the UK.
Similarly the current models of funding are under strain. Healthcare providers are looking for increasingly cost-effective solutions, yet we can’t avoid the fact that innovation often comes at a cost. Under current NHS practice, this means that uptake can too often be slow with the knock on effect that industry can often find it increasingly difficult to justify investing in the UK.
The industry has been calling for measures to aid the discovery, development and commercialisation of research; and that is what we have done. The global race is on to maintain the UK’s standing as a leader in medical diagnostics, bio-technology and pharmaceuticals and we need to make sure we become the natural choice for investment in Life Sciences, for the benefit of research, UK plc, and most importantly for our patients.
The core vision at the heart of the Prime Minister’s strategy is to provide an unrivalled ‘ecosystem’ that brings together business, researchers, clinicians and patients to translate discovery into clinical use for medical innovation within the NHS. Through a £180 million Catalyst Fund, a streamlined regulatory framework enabling quicker entry to the market for new discoveries, and a package of reforms to make it easier for industry, universities and hospitals to work together on clinical research, we will provide an environment and infrastructure that supports pioneering researchers and clinicians to bring their innovation to market earlier and more easily.
Most important will be the benefits for patients. Under these proposals NHS patients will find it easier to access the many benefits of being involved in research such as earlier access to innovative treatments and the opportunity to take part in clinical trials. We can stop the stories of cancer patients forced to fly overseas to take part in potentially life-saving trials and open up access to innovative treatments here in the UK.
Just as pharmaceutical research is increasingly driven by genomics, we need to encourage an approach whereby every NHS patient can be a research patient, contributing to the struggle to prevent disease in the next generation by the better use of data on disease and drug side effects to better design and target medicines. This is already happening in the field of Cancer Research, with one in six patients already involved in research. Looking into the genetic trends of drug responsiveness is key to cracking diseases like dementia, diabetes and cancer, and with the appropriate protections in place these measures can radically improve our chances.
The Conservatives are committed to re-energising the UK’s medical science sector. The announcements on Monday were an historic step to accelerate the integration between academics, clinicians and industry we need to deliver better health outcomes for patients. As a new MP with a fifteen year career supporting biomedical innovations I know it was an announcement that will make a real difference.
George Freeman is the MP for Mid Norfolk. In July 2011 he was appointed Adviser on Life Sciences to the Minister of State for Universities and Science, the Rt Hon David Willetts MP.
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Tags: Cancer Research, Catalyst Fund, health, Medical science, nhs, pharmaceutical sector, UK Life Science Sector
