Angela Smith MP Articles

Welcome and thank you. Now, I want to be cheerful this morning; in particular, I don’t want to puncture the feel good mood created by Wes Streeting’s wonderful speech at last night’s dinner. We may be down, we may be feeling lost and friendless, we may even have...

Friday 13 November 2015 will be forever remembered as the day when everything changed. Like 11 September 2001, when so many died in the name of a fanaticism forged in the fires of hatred and contempt, the massacre in Paris shocked the world into realising afresh that...

What has science ever done for us? That was one of the questions I raised yesterday in my debate on the role of the Treasury in supporting science in the United Kingdom. Well, what has it done for us? Why do we need to use public funds, taxpayers’ money, to support...

It is often said that the Labour party owes as much to methodism as it does to socialism. Not that the great dissenting faith founded by John Wesley ever formally affiliated, of course. But, its non-conformist spirit undoubtedly helped to nourish one of the key...