Ann Widdecombe
Ann Widdecombe
Ann Noreen Widdecombe, DSGis a former British Conservative Party politician and has been a novelist since 2000. She is a Privy Councillor and was the Member of Parliament for Maidstone from 1987 to 1997 and for Maidstone and The Weald from 1997 to 2010. She was a social conservative and a member of the Conservative Christian Fellowship. She retired from politics at the 2010 general election. Since 2002 she has also made numerous television and radio appearances, including as a...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth4 October 1947
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I think we have lost sight of something of importance, something which has always been at the heart of Conservatism which is the family - functioning as a family unit with legal rights and responsibilities and being able to make its choices and let its children grow strong,
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It is only by maintaining the current law and making it the norm that adoption takes place by married couples and stability for an adopted child can be achieved.
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I think we've fallen away from that in recent years and I think Edward is quite right to say 'hang on, this is always been at the centre of Conservatism'.
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I cannot bear the language TV chefs use - they don't seem able to look at a plate of vegetables without accusing it of sexual activity.
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I stay on terra firma: the more firm, the less terror.