The Prime Minister has this morning met with the Home Secretary and the Transport Secretary to discuss the situation in Calais to ensure that everything possible is being done to address the problems caused. Yesterday has to be one of the worst days we have seen in terms of disruption at the Channel Tunnel, caused […]
Last Friday I was the guest of Tim Waggott, the Folkestone resident who is Chief Executive of the Port of Dover, to visit the Harbour board and to see their plans for the future. It was great to see the port busy, and running smoothly, processing as it does five million vehicles and thirteen million […]
On Friday evening this week I have been invited by the Sandgate Society to deliver the Greenwall lecture, at 7.30pm in the Chichester Hall. The Society has been working at the heart of life in Sandgate Village for over fifty years to preserve its character, conserve its fine historic buildings and to organise events to […]
A few weeks ago I opened the new outdoor play area for the Punch and Judy nursery, which meets at Lympne village hall. This is a busy and popular nursery, and it was great to meet the team who run it, as well as some of the children. As a working parent with a young […]
As the leaders in world football meet in Zurich to vote for their next president, the growing pressure for change has become irresistible. Sepp Blatter’s defence against the terrible crisis that has gripped Fifa over the last few days is that it is unreasonable for him to have known what was going on within the […]
On Tuesday evening this week I attended a fundraising dinner at the Burlington hotel in Folkestone to support the relief for the victims of the earthquakes in Nepal. This event has been one of a series organised across our area since the first earthquake struck in April. There has been a tremendous response to this […]
A better local NHS with more services being delivered in the community, closer to where people live, is one of my top priorities for our area over the next five years. Folkestone is already leading the way as the first town in Kent to offer patients access to a GP seven days a weeks, between […]
It was a great honour to be re-elected as your Member of Parliament last week, and I would like to thank everyone in the Folkestone and Hythe constituency who voted for me, for their support. As always though I will work to represent everyone in our area, regardless of their political beliefs. My first surgeries […]
Last Friday I was delighted to unveil plans for the fantastic new multi-sports centre set to be built in Folkestone on the site of Tontine Street's derelict bingo hall. Currently being demolished, the site will be redeveloped by the Roger de Haan Charitable Trust and has been designed by well-known architect Guy Holloway. The design […]
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