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Sorry not to have been in touch for so long!
Here’s my THOUGHT FOR TODAY
We are told the Tony Blair wants to suck up to working mothers by increasing paid maternity leave by a stonking 50 per cent — to nine months.
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No Daily Telegraph Comment from Boris today
What a shock to open the paper and see Boris transmuted into another face in his column slot today.
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Sue Ryder Care Campaign – photo
Boris Johnson hosted the “We Care: who Pays?” campaign launch for Sue Ryder Care on 15th December in the House of Commons. A number of people gave moving testimonies of how helpful Sue Ryder Care had been in looking after their loved ones who had suffered terrible disease. A few people were moved to tears, including the heroic Olympic rower herself.
This charity really does deserve every possible support.
Boris with Olympic rower Sarah Winckless, Phil Dalton and Barry Stuart – both affiliated with care Centres.
Press Release:
Boris Johnson MP this week sponsored the launch of the Sue Ryder Care “We Care: Who Pays?” campaign in Parliament. The campaign is aiming to promote awareness amongst MPs of the true cost of the care provided by Sue Ryder Care. It is believed that in the past four years alone, Sue Ryder Care has effectively subsidised state care by over £50million.
David Blunkett biography
Amusing detail in this Review in The Sunday Telegraph today:
“Pollard tells the hilarious story of Blunkett and other senior ministers arriving at Buckingham Palace to exchange the seals of office. Prescott walked towards the Queen, nodded, kneeled, recited his oath and walked away forgetting to take the seals of office with him ‘and leaving the Queen holding them vacantly’. Straw mangled his oath. Then he had to lead Blunkett up to the dais. Instead of placing him so that he faced the Queen, he positioned the new Home Secretary at 45 degrees to the monarch, facing a statue of George IV, to which he addressed his oath. The Queen looked at her ministers and said, ‘I hope you run the country better than you’ve managed over the last 15 minutes'”.
Margaret Thatcher in Parliament today
For the first time ever in the known history of Portcullis House
Google Scholar
As you know an MP’s day-to-day working involves a great deal of research to keep up to date with latest policy ideas and Bills running through Parliament.
Now Google have come up with a cracking first-rate search engine http://scholar.google.com/ looking up scholarly literature including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. This should greatly enhance our research capability. Released yesterday for beta testing, it looks promising and you may like to try it out as well.
Boris Website back live
Following a great meeting with constituents and some blogging supremos this lunchtime we, in Boris’s office, are now ready for action and the challenges ahead.
All we can say is that over the last few days the comments we received via email have been 100-1 in favour, so MANY, MANY THANKS for your warm support and encouragement.
We look forward to hearing from you soon.
Olly and Melissa
for BORIS
Media Maelstrom
Great of you to log on to Boris Johnson’s website.
We are snowed under at the moment, but will be ready to resume later on this week with Boris’s next posting.
All comments options will be frozen in the meantime.
Photos of Boris Johnson in Israel
As promised, here are some pictures of Boris in Israel.
Boris and George Osborne MP with Israeli soldiers
Boris with Israeli Finance Minister and former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Mark Francois MP.
Visit to Israel
Boris is away on a long-planned trip to Israel this week as guest of the Conservative Friends of Israel Group.
During his stay in Tel Aviv he will be meeting economists, academics, national security advisers and Ministers – as well as leading Palestinians. He is having dinner with editors of the national press and the British Ambassador.
Last year he visited Sudan, Zimbabwe and Russia which proved to be very fruitful visits.
We shall hope to hear his reports about the situation on the ground very soon.