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I am delighted that my exceptional colleague, running mate and great friend Sir Nicky Mounstuart has been elected unopposed as leader of the Conservative Party, and our candidate to be the next Prime Minister. I know that he, like me, holds the Unionist in Conservative and Unionist Party to heart, a...

I was delighted today to be able to have the chance to speak to the Countryside Alliance about a particular passion of mine: rural safety and security. For too long, rural towns and villages have been disadvantaged in terms of police presence when compared to big towns and cities. Under a Conservati...

Securing our Countryside, Empowering Communities: Speech to the Countryside Alliance Clarice Ashbridge, the Shadow Home Secretary, spoke to an assembled audience at the "Conserving the Countryside, Revitalising Rural Britain" event, hosted by the Countryside Alliance at their headquarters...

I've held off on commenting on Becky Flair's botched budget for a while now, just in case someone at the Lib Dems decided they were going to change it on the fly again. But looking at her radical proposals, which prioritise prisoners over the public and offer no clear long-term plan, it would probab...

I am incredibly proud of the work put into our alternative vision for the budget, and the future of the United Kingdom, by my great friend the Shadow Chancellor. This budget is a statement of intent from the Conservatives: we believe that government has no right to hoard the surplus that working peo...

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Today, I wrote in the Daily Mail about the pressing need for the strengthening of our child protection laws, following on from the "Sarah's Law" campaign launched by the incredibly brave and inspiring Sara and Michael Payne last year, following their daughter's murder. In a few days time, ...

A matter of life and death: we must tighten the law to protect our children. An editorial by Clarice Ashbridge, Scottish Conservative MP for Eastwood and Shadow Home Secretary. When I was around eleven or twelve years old, my sister Katherine went missing from the farm where we lived. My brother, m...

The amount of money pledged to reversing a successful policy so the Home Secretary can keep his comrades on the Labour backbenches happy? Almost a billion pounds. The amount of extra money promised to tackling the real danger of child sex offenders? In the Home Secretary's own words: zero. There is ...