Tag: David Cameron

PM in Brussels to argue his case for reform

08:23 Thursday 17th December 2015
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

DOTTY MCLEOD: European leaders look set to maintain their firm opposition to some of David Cameron’s demands for changes to Britain’s relationship with the EU. The Prime Minister will come head-to-head with his European counterparts later at a summit in Brussels. Mr Cameron wants the UK to remain in a reformed EU, but he’s ruling nothing out if his objectives are turned down. Our Europe correspondent Gavin Lee has more details.
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Stewart Jackson – PMQ – Peterborough’s University Technical College

12:15 Wednesday 18th December 2013
BBC Two
Daily Politics

MR SPEAKER: Mr Stewart Jackson.
HOUSE: Hear hear.
STEWART JACKSON: Unemployment in the Peterborough constituency stands at 5.5%, the lowest since the financial crisis, and there are 1,180 fewer JSA claimants than a year ago. However there are too many young people who are jobless and lacking work skills. So will the Prime Minister give an early Christmas present to Peterborough people, by giving his personal support for our bid for a University Technical College to be decided in the New Year?
DAVID CAMERON: I know that my Right Honorable Friend the Education Secretary will look closely at the proposal for a University Technical College. They are working well. I think it’s a very good innovation in our education system. But the news on youth unemployment is better, 19,000 down this quarter, and the claimant count as well falling. But there’s a lot more work to do, and I think we should particularly look at the Work Experience Programmes, which seem to have one of the best records at reducing youth unemployment, and see what we can do to encourage companies and businesses to get involved in this Work Experience Programme.

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Stewart Jackson On Political Engagement

17:07 Friday 22nd November 2013
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

[C]HRIS MANN: This hour we’re asking why do so few people vote or get involved in public life. Why are people apparently turning their backs on the idea of the Big Society? Is it apathy? And does anyone care? Is the answer that we should be able to do more on-line, like vote in referenda and elections? Yesterday there were local elections in the county, and about one in three bothered to vote. In the PCC elections a year ago fewer than 15% voted. And now the idea of neighbourhood panels has been scrapped here in East Cambs, because no-one it appeared was bothering to attend. So much for the Big vaunted Society the Prime Minister had put so much store by. Well earlier I asked Conservative MP for Peterborough Stewart Jackson what was in the theory, and what was it all supposed to be about?
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UK Focus On Aid For Syrian Refugees

17:24 Tuesday 3rd September 2013
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

[C]HRIS MANN: The Foreign Secretary William Hague has been facing questions in the Commons on Syria, in the wake of Parliament’s decision not to take military action. President Obama is to seek authority from the US Congress next week on whether to launch missile strikes. The Foreign Secretary told MPs that any action by the Americans would be to prevent the future use of chemical weapons. Continue reading “UK Focus On Aid For Syrian Refugees”

The Syria War Lobby

17:23 Monday 2nd September 2013
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

[C]HRIS MANN: Should MPs be asked to vote again on the idea of military action against Syria? A number of high-profile politicians certainly think so. But a BBC poll suggests the majority of us are against military intervention. Joining us from Westminster with the latest political reporter Matthew Presland.
MATTHEW PRESLAND: Well Chris I mean the Government’s posistion on thie seems fairly clear to me. Downing Street has firmly ruled out a second vote by MPs on British involvement in Syria, but I mean even if more evidence you know against President Assad’s forces comes to light in the coming days and weeks they say. Now a Number 10 spokesman says the Government has absolutely no plans to go back to Parliament for another vote. And just about an hour ago in the Commons the Defence Secretary Philip Hammond said MPs had spoken, and that people should respect it. Continue reading “The Syria War Lobby”

DNA Database Dave Tours Cambridge To Splash The Cash

17:08 Monday 10th December 2012
Drive BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

CHRIS MANN: The Prime Minister made a surprise visit to Cambridge today to announce £100 million boost to cancer research. The investment means three years of research money and new jobs for the county, and the possibility that yet another new scientific breakthrough will happen here. It means that up to 100,000 patients with cancer and rare diseases are to have their entire genetic code or genome mapped. And the Cambridge Cancer Research Institute is one of the facilities receiving a share of that £100 million funding the project. The Prime Minister David Cameron paid a visit to the BBC Radio Cambridgeshire studios and told the Andy Harper Show what he was announcing. (TAPE)
DAVID CAMERON: Wow. It’s complicated stuff. I mean we all I think understand that DNA is the sort of er is the code of what makes us up. And the fact is if we could try and put people’s DNA onto a database, then that would be an enormous national and medical resource that would help us to do things like crack cancer. Because if you can find out which people with what sort of DNA get what sort of cancers, then you’re a long way to cracking cancers. So the announcement today is £100 million to enable this DNA database to be built and held here in Britain. And it’s not just good for medical purposes. It will also give us a massive economic lead in an area of business, pharmaceuticals, life sciences, biotechnology, which are one of the industries of the future, and one of the industries that Britain does pretty well already. But with this, it can take us even further.

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