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Michael Moore’s Westminster Notes

Every week Liberal Democrat Secretary of State for Scotland Michael Moore writes a column for newspapers in his Borders constituency. Here’s this week’s edition.

Mobile phone coverage

Mobile phone service ‘not spots’ across my constituency remain a huge frustration for local people and have a serious knock-on effect for businesses and Borderers going about their daily lives. As local MP, I have been working for many years to tackle this issue and I have welcomed the UK Government’s commitment, through the Mobile Infrastructure Project, to invest £150million to improve mobile phone signal in rural areas and on key transport routes.

Last week I …

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  • User AvatarMark Blackburn 20th Jun - 11:29am
    I am so glad Kate Parminter has come up with this reasoned and rational rebuttal to the bombastic Owen Paterson. How such a biased individual...
  • User AvatarNick Thornsby 20th Jun - 10:56am
    @ Carl Gardner Yes, I did consider whether this was more a PR phenomenon. But the thing is, a lot of the statements are put...
  • User AvatarSteve Griffiths 20th Jun - 10:53am
    Where did "going forward" come from? Everyone uses it now, especially politicians and media pundits. It seems to have replaced the much clearer "in the...
  • User AvatarEddie Sammon 20th Jun - 10:51am
    Alistair, how is that fair? We should not be discouraging businesses from hiring lawyers, the government and the regulators are not always right - the...
  • User AvatarCarl Gardner 20th Jun - 10:40am
    I completely agree with you - but I'm not sure it's really a lawyers' word, is it? Lawyers make all sorts of horrible linguistic missteps...
  • User AvatarGraeme Cowie 20th Jun - 10:39am
    At best they are repudiating.
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