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Leader: Being right does not earn friends for Britain

David Cameron has not achieved everything the eurosceptics in his party wanted amid the desperate salvage operation in the wake of the euro debacle, but at least he has taken a stand on behalf of Britain.


MP Mark Pritchard says lighten up in row over PMQs ageism jibe

Shropshire MP Mark Pritchard has called on the House of Commons to lighten up after a row erupted over a supposedly ageist comment.


Letter: Call Alex Salmond’s bluff over Scottish independence referendum

Cameron has a golden opportunity, I trust he seizes it with both hands, even if it leads to his departure from English politics in view of his Scottish connections.


Parliament tour for bucket list Ben

Shrewsbury’s Ben Hughes, who has been given just months to live, is hoping to rub shoulders with Prime Minister David Cameron when he travels down to London to visit Parliament.


David Cameron and Ed Miliband agree on Scotland at PMQs

Prime Minister David Cameron and Labour leader Ed Miliband say they want to keep the UK together and oppose Scottish independence during PMQs.


Letter: David Cameron might regret this

Your leader on January 4 envisages David Cameron rueing his phrase ‘We’re all in it together’.


Leader: David Cameron’s timely call on NHS ward action

Things in the NHS have come to a pretty pass when it takes the Prime Minister himself to call for the most obvious and basic procedures in safeguarding the welfare of patients.


Letter: Was EU veto the right move?

The UK exported nearly £143 billion of goods and services to the EU in 2010 compared with £121 billion to the rest of the world.


Joy will be in short supply in 2012

It is a time for a message of hope and cheer for the New Year as it unfolds into 2012.


Leader: A fair tax system is what’s required

Prime Minister David Cameron is keen to emphasise at every opportunity that we are all in it together. Some people, however, are clearly far more in it than others.


Letter: Petty bureaucrats want to make Britain pay

So it seems the petty bureaucrats in Brussels are determined to make Britain pay for David Cameron’s policy of sticking up for his country.


Leader: Batting for Britain, but what is the next step?

Today David Cameron showed he has some backbone. Caught between a rock and a hard place, he did what British voters and British MPs expect him to do – which is bat for Britain.


Shropshire Tory MPs back David Cameron on eurozone treaty vote

Shrewsbury MP Daniel Kawczynski today backed David Cameron’s decision to use the British veto to block eurozone treaty change.


Leader: David Cameron, remember you are British

The next 48 hours could be the defining period of David Cameron’s premiership.


Shropshire’s Tories step up referendum plea

The spectre of Conservative Party infighting over Europe returned today as David Cameron made final preparations for a crucial summit in Brussels aimed at sorting out the mounting debt crisis.


Shropshire MPs pile the pressure on David Cameron at PMQs

Shropshire MPs this afternoon piled the pressure on David Cameron as the Prime Minister came under renewed pressure on the eve of a crunch EU summit meeting.


Leader: EU Referendum never more essential

A central plank of the big European dream – a common currency for supposedly merged economies – has turned out to be a misconceived disaster which now lies in tatters.


Leader: Soft justice has become national joke

Want a joke? Try British justice. And while you may not find anything funny, violent criminals are laughing.


Anger grows over Fifa poppy ban

David Cameron has condemned the ban on England’s footballers wearing poppies on their kit as ‘outrageous’.


Leader: Things set to get worse for Britain

The saving grace of the whole Eurozone disaster has been that Britain is not in the Euro and has not been directly embroiled in the chaotic mess.


Leader: ‘Happiness survey’ an expensive waste of our money

As an exercise in the banal, futile, and pointless, the new “happiness survey” being championed by David Cameron will take some beating.


Letter: Charity begins at home, Mr Cameron

Letter: Having listened to David Cameron and his aid minister on Newsnight yesterday night, I feel compelled to give my view of this episode of financial ineptitude.


More misery for Clegg as Alternative Vote bid lost

Britain has rejected adopting a new electoral system after the No To AV campaign won a crushing victory in the referendum, including in Shropshire.


PM: Tory share of vote held up

David Cameron praises Conservative councils over election results.


David Cameron praises Shropshire-based Royal Irish Regiment welcome

David Cameron has praised Market Drayton for its “very successful” homecoming parade for Shropshire-based soldiers, who are recently back from a seven-month tour of Afghanistan.


Cameron accused of sexism

Labour has accused David Cameron of sexism after he told Angela Eagle to “calm down, dear”.


Blog: Should David Cameron have gone on The One Show?

Blog: David Cameron rated his own life just “six out of ten” when he appeared on BBC’s magazine programme The One Show last night.


Ryanair fly in to help Shropshire MP

Owen Paterson was thankful to be able to spend two nights in the same bed this week when last night’s vote on increasing university tuition fees kept him in London for the second night running, writes Westminster blogger John Hipwood.


Live Q+A – Careers in engineering – Thursday 2 December – 12-2pm

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Blog: Measuring our happiness

So, the Government wants to measure our happiness, writes Jon Simcock.

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