Frank Field MP
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Article - Published in Guardian.co.uk - 07 January 2012
Britain is in a deep housing crisis. High prices and low supply, strict lending criteria, and unbridled rent rises have created a vicious circle. Home ownership is plummeting. We need a radical new policy both to ease the pressure on social housing and lend a helping hand to aspiring homeowners.

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Article - Published in The Liverpool Echo - 16 January 2012
SCOTLAND is lost. That is my conclusion unless the Government is prepared radically to rethink its strategy. All the main parties in Westminster are basically English parties. Even the Lib Dems, who rely disproportionately on the Celtic fringe for representation, owe most of their presence to English MPs. And yet the English voice is hardly ever heard at Westminster. All three main parties wish to speak in terms of Great Britain.
Article - Published in The Liverpool Echo - 17 December 2011
IT was not meant to end like this. The European dream was to ensure an age of European political stability. Now switch from that utopian goal to where we are now. Germany is insisting on the balancing of budgets in those countries who German taxpayers see as profligate.
- 13 December 2011
Frank with WPH ASB team
Frank met with WPH's ASB team to congratulate them on recieving a Tilley award for their work on the Nocturum Estate.
Article - Published in The Liverpool Echo - 10 December 2011
THE House of Commons has not had much work to do recently. There have been debates and we have sat for normal hours. But there is not much government legislation to consider. This is not because there is no government legislation. The simple fact is that all the government's main Bills are now 'imprisoned' in the House of Lords. The government has no idea when it is going to get its measures away from their Lordships.
Article - Published in Pensions Week - 05 December 2011
It is worth recalling the alternatives set out by the Pensions Commission. Although the report was not published that long ago, the commissioners were living in a different world. They confidently looked to a future of rising prosperity.
Article - Published in The Liverpool Echo - 03 December 2011
THERE have been, so far, two key markers in my political life. As a very young school boy I was fascinated by the public response to a statement made by the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rab Butler. Rab would make the most profound statements in a throw away manner.
- 02 December 2011
Festival of Light
The Christmas season got off to a lovely start last week with Prenton High School’s long-established and highly successful Festival of Light Christmas fair.

Frankly Speaking

Frank's Blog from Westminster


11 January 2012
LAST week I published a pamphlet on extending the right to buy to housing association tenants. How...
21 December 2011
JOHN Syvret and his team at Cammell Lairds are now working hard to reform technical education on...

Frank's Campaigns


Cool Earth
Protecting rainforests to help combat climate change
Balanced Migration
Cross Party Group on Balanced Migration
King James Bible Trust
Celebrating the 400th anniversary of 'The Book That Changed The World'
Poverty and Life Changes
In 2010 Frank chaired the Review, reporting to the Prime Minister
The Pensions Reform Group
Ending pensioner poverty

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