Opinions

Housing and planning issues are some of the topics I’m most often written to about, so I was keen to ensure I spoke in the House of Commons debate on the...

As I have received a high volume of correspondence on the Sue Gray report/confidence vote in the past 2 weeks, I am therefore sending the same reply to most...

I’m writing this straight after 4 days of attending Platinum Jubilee events locally. I try and get to as many events in the community as I can all year round...

Can you remember who the organisation you work for last gave work experience to? The relative of a fellow employee? A client’s child? Perhaps someone from a...

This week is Mental Health Awareness Week, lead by the Mental Health Foundation. For a long time, mental health was thought of as something people either had...

I was pleased to support this cross-party campaign because far too many advertising and promotional images contain digitally manipulated body proportions...

This week I took a constituent, Sharon Gaffka, to meet the Safeguarding Minister, Rachel Maclean. Sharon has been campaigning on the issue of spiking. Spiking...

Regarding today’s vote I had decided I would not vote to block the Committee of Privileges investigating this issue and I told the colleague I am supposed to...

Attention is largely – and rightly – on Ukraine and the cost of living at the moment. But alongside this, important policy reforms are taking place, not least...