As the Summer recess fast approaches it is beginning to feel like crunch time with many of the issues we are addressing in Parliament.
The European Council meeting last week has set the tone for the next round of Brexit talks, the Prime Minister needs to offer clarity after the meeting of the Cabinet at Chequers this weekend. If not the warnings from business may become deafening. Similarly, the NATO summit next week gives added pressure to the Government’s Modernising Defence Plan. If the Defence Secretary fails to produce the increases and changes needed, the summit will not be a pleasant one for the UK.
Elsewhere, it was a pleasure to Chair the AGM of the APPG on MND this week. I spent two days of this week in Berlin at a Security and Intelligence Conference looking at issues around terrorism and serious and organised crime.
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