For many in my community – particularly those on tight budgets, pensioners, and people trying to manage their way out of debt – cash is what they live by.
His “Goldilocks Politics” of “too much/too little, too fast/too slow” throughout the pandemic is unlikely to win over voters.
We need to switch from specifying “what’s allowed to open” to “what in the interest of public health needs to continue to be restricted.”
Shotley Bridge hospital was mentioned in Parliament three times in ten years by my predecessors; and as often by me in the last six months.
I’ve noticed in my constituency that, to parts of the community, I am a disruption to the local natural order.
The Chancellor could please every beer & cider drinker; charity donor; motorhome manufacturer, retailer and owner; caravan site owner, and public toilet user in Britain.
I’m looking forward to helping put some local and national issues on the table when I make mine later today.
We need to build long-term trust to hold seats like this one. We can win again – but we must deliver.
This region contains a string of those ‘Labour Leave’ seats which are central to the Tory strategy – but will the Brexit Party trip them up?
The patriotic, Brexit-voting working class, neglected for decades by Labour, must now be championed by the Conservatives.
He would be averse to leaving without a deal, but even more alarmed by the idea of taking any course of action which risked breaking the Tory Party into fragments.
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A running list of the current Members of Parliament, of all parties, who aren’t seeking to stand again.