After another hectic week which saw new Prime Minister Boris Johnson change most of the Cabinet and get off to a barnstorming start with an energising 2-hour debut at the Despatch Box, an exhausted Parliament starts the summer recess this week.
As I write we are still waiting to hear the outcome of the election of a new Conservative leader, so anything could have happened by the time you read this.
“It may seem like a remote issue - but it’s an important principle for human rights of minorities throughout the world, and the Tibetans have suffered for far too long”
As Chairman of the APPG on Tibet, I have just presented a ‘Ten Minute Rule Bill’, which aims to emulate the ‘Reciprocal Access to
Last Wednesday I met Dame Esther Rantzen and David and Elisabeth Carney-Haworth, both recently awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for their work safeguarding children from domestic abuse.
In 2011 the former Plymouth police sergeant David Carney-Haworth and his wife Elisabeth, a head
Congratulations to the organisers of Worthing Pride – even bigger and better and noisier than last year and a great advert for the fantastic welcome that awaits everyone in our town.
Thank you to all those who have entered my ‘Cutest Pet’ competition to mark the new Animal Cruelty Sentencing Bill introduced by the Government last week to up the punishment for cruelty to animals.
I today lent my support to 80 charities calling for better support for disabled people.
I attended the launch event in Parliament for the report ‘Has welfare became unfair?- the impact of changes on disabled people”.
Funded by the Three Guinea’s Trust and commissioned by the Disability Benefit Con
It was an honour to receive a special award, in recognition of my support for the Long Live the Local campaign and helping to secure consecutive freezes in beer duty.
