I remain am increasingly worried by the number of constituents who lives have been ruined by the fact that they have to pay large sums of back-tax to Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC).   They have to do this because they were lured or ordered into schemes that advised them to minimise the

There is some fevered speculation about the possibility of a General Election very soon. I don’t know whether that will happen, but I do know that it will really be difficult to have one before 31st October which is, of course, the date in law on which we will be leaving the European Union.

Away from the Conservative Leadership Campaign (thankfully ending soon) other things are happening too.  Let me start though by highlighting two matters with which I have been concerned this last week before I return to the subject of our next Prime Minister. 

Many people talking to me say much the same these days. Firstly, like us, you must be bored sick by BREXIT and, secondly, that life must be very busy for you in Westminster at the moment.

On Monday 20 May I made the following speech in the Westminster Hall debate on the subject of immunity for veterans of the Northern Ireland campaign.

I do not often write about military matters because there are no MOD bases in my constituency. But I want to do so now to highlight a military matter which I believe we ignore at our peril.

A polite and but determined 16-year-old speaking as a ‘climate warrior’ arrives in the UK and she is feted for her message and because of her youth.  I presume she is has absence permission from her school and her parent’s consent.  Most certainly though she has made a mark already in her short l

We have been negotiating our departure from the European Union for over 2 years and I am aghast that we have extended that period by up to another 6 months. Parliament has now decided conclusively (without my vote though) that we cannot leave without a deal.

Today, Sunday 7th April, I appeared on BBC 1's Sunday Politics show with Karen Buck MP and Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London.  Although obviously we had to discuss BREXIT I wanted to particularly concentrate on the demise of small shops in our high streets and was given a couple of minutes to just that

There have been two sets of what have been called indicative votes as well as other debates (yesterday) over the last week. For the third time Mrs May’s Withdrawal Agreement has been rejected. Leaving the European Union without a deal was rejected.