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- Stewart Jackson
- ERG member.
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- Oct.23.2018: Stepfather of boy with EU flag tells ex-Tory MP to apologise for 'cretin' jibe. The stepfather of a boy in hospital has called for David Davis’s former chief of staff to apologise for calling him a “pathetic cretin” in response to a tweet of the child’s EU flag bedcover. Jackson deleted his tweet on Monday night and told Politico: “I think it’s awful that people with extreme views on remain like this parent should invade a sick child’s privacy to make a political point.” One Tory Brexiter source expressed deep frustration. “After a weekend of disgusting briefing about knives and nooses, it is so depressing to read David Davis’s key ally attacking the family of a sick child because they campaigned for remain”. Jessica Elgot, The Guardian.
- Oct.02.2017: Iain Dale’s 100 most influential people on the Right 2017. Special Advisor to David Davis. Having lost his Peterborough seat in the election, and having been Davis’s PPS in the last parliament, Jackson set himself up as a Brexit consultant. That didn’t last long and when DD came knocking and asked him to be his SpAd, he couldn’t say no. He’s a total believer in not just a hard Brexit but a ‘steel’ one. Iain Dale, Conservative Home.
- Jan.12.2016: Tories vote down law requiring landlords make their homes fit for human habitation. Labour MP Teresa Pearce's amendment to the Housing and Planning Bill 2016, which would place a duty on landlords to ensure that their properties are fit for habitation when let and remain fit during the course of the tenancy, was defeated by 312 votes to 219. Marcus Jones said the govt believed that homes should be fit for human habitation, but did not want to pass a new law that would explicitly require it. Other ministers claimed the proposal would impose "unnecessary regulation" on landlords, and that it would push up rents. Stewart Jackson, himself a landlord, was one of those who voted "No". Jon Stone, The Independent.
- May.26.2015: Expenses and sex scandal deleted from MPs’ Wikipedia pages by computers inside Parliament. Tory backbencher Stewart Jackson’s profile was wiped of references to how David Cameron was “appalled” by Tory expenses claims. (Also see International Business Times) Ben Riley-Smith, The Telegraph.