Richard Holden: Labour must work with new Red Wall Tory MPs for the common good – or it will be swept aside

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. 

Richard Holden: A call to CCHQ. Spare no effort to help us consolidate our breakthrough in the North East during next year’s elections.

I’ve noticed in my constituency that, to parts of the community, I am a disruption to the local natural order.

Richard Holden: Five ideas for the new Chancellor’s Budget

The Chancellor could please every beer & cider drinker; charity donor; motorhome manufacturer, retailer and owner; caravan site owner, and public toilet user in Britain.

Richard Holden: There’s no time like a Monday afternoon for a Maiden Speech

I’m looking forward to helping put some local and national issues on the table when I make mine later today.

Richard Holden: The Red Wall. My part in its downfall. How I won North West Durham – Labour since its creation.

We need to build long-term trust to hold seats like this one. We can win again – but we must deliver.

Election Battlegrounds 5) The North East

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?

Skelton on One Nation, and how Tories must take the lead in reviving towns which have been left to rot

The patriotic, Brexit-voting working class, neglected for decades by Labour, must now be championed by the Conservatives.

Profile: Philip May, the Prime Minister’s closest and best sounding board

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.

Battleground Seats 10) North East

Continuing our ConservativeHome series on the key contests in each region or nation.

Election 2017: Karen Lumley and Andrew Turner stand down. Here’s the list of other MPs also doing so to date.

A running list of the current Members of Parliament, of all parties, who aren’t seeking to stand again.