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Peter Kyle MP Articles

The Productivity Plan – short on measurability

The business, innovation and skills select committee, which I sit on, has just published its report into George Osborne’s much-hyped Productivity Plan which he unveiled last summer. Unfortunately like so many of the chancellor’s grand announcements, once you look at...

The fantasy world of Green policy meets reality

For a party that loathes motoring so much it is an irony how often they seem to suffer political car crashes. Today’s general election campaign launch is no different. Natalie Bennett’s instantly infamous ‘mind blank’ on LBC was preceded by a deeply uncomfortable set...

We should not try to to out-Green the Greens

For those whose approach to politics begins by pigeon-holing, I am usually shoved in a box marked ‘centre ground’. The great thing about being placed there is that I am in the middle of things and within easy reach of everyone else. So I have never been scornful of...

Four weeks to go until Operation Flight

When the hashtag #WhereIsWeatherley started trending about my opponent, I knew there was all to play for in the upcoming election. He clearly did too, which is probably why he resigned earlier this year. Being an activist in an ultra-marginal with a weak opponent...