
Rupert Barnes: Let’s do more to celebrate our historic counties
Remember where we are; remember what has come down to us. Our unique heritage is there to be opened up.
Remember where we are; remember what has come down to us. Our unique heritage is there to be opened up.
This is what we have been doing at the Dover front line – working hard on preparations for disruption. We are making sure that we stand ready.
The Government should back these sensible plans. We must avoid a repeat of the disruption on the roads that took place in 2015.
We decided to leave the EU but have continued to behave as if we were still in. But preparing for the future means knowing where we are.
It’s easy to gripe, but the role, done well, can be powerful, transformative and create greater transparency.
Plus: May in trouble and Rudd in danger over Windrush. Corbyn stumbles. The pound rises. Local elections loom. And: the dignity of Neville Lawrence.
As a Kent MP, I’m delighted Canterbury is one of the sites chosen to host new training facilities.
Only six per cent of land is built on. Yet the planning system is still blocking perfectly reasonable development proposals.
We should also be aware of any risks to privacy or individual freedom, but in Kent the technology is working well.
There will always be an element of policing that involves helping those in distress or crisis. But our officers are no substitute for proper NHS services.
Maybe it was ever thus, at least in modern times, but Tory-held suburban seats outside the South-East are under-represented at the top table.
Heath and Social Care integration is in everyone’s interests and we need to work hard to make it a reality.
When it comes to fiscal prudency it is important to set a good example.
Last time UKIP denied the Conservatives outright victories in Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, East Sussex. Lincolnshire, Oxfordshire and Warwickshire.
The reality is that most of it will be concentrated on pupils older than 16 – whatever the best age may be at which to select.