Tameside MEP Chris Davies writes in his blog today about the plan to reduce Britain’s deficit: “Most people know that the country is in a very bad situation. But I don’t think many of them realise just how bad things are, or how much worse they could get if the Government gets the strategy wrong. [...]
Police forces across Europe will have more power to crack down on human traffickers after the UK signed up to support tougher measures today. Tameside’s Lib Dem MEP Chris Davies, who has campaigned for the UK to sign up to the new anti-trafficking directive, said: “The UK has long been a leader in the fight [...]
Fears that an explosion in rat and mice numbers could result from a new EU law intended to curb the use of dangerous chemicals have been calmed. A meeting called by Tameside Euro-MP Chris Davies to give public health and safety experts the chance to explain their concerns to Brussels officials has paid off. In [...]
Tameside’s Lib Dem Euro-MP is calling for brothels to be made legal to provide greater security for prostitutes who work from them. Chris Davies claims that the killings of Suzanne Blamires, Susan Rushworth, and Shelley Armitage in Bradford highlight the urgent need for a new approach. He said: “It is appalling that two or more prostitutes [...]
Tameside’s Lib Dem MEP has cast the key vote to reject a bid by the food industry to use ‘meat glue’ to enable meat from different sources to be stuck together in products. Liberal Democrat Chris Davies says that he was not satisfied that consumers would be told the whole truth about what they were [...]