For football players and fans, May can be the cruellest month; a fact that was no more clearly demonstrated than in Folkestone Invicta's heart-breaking loss on penalties to Leatherhead in the play off final. Yet, once the dust settles on the season just gone, there will soon a new one to look forward to and […]
Buckingham Palace confirmed last week that Prince Harry will attend the opening of the Folkestone, First World War centenary, memorial arch, on 4th August. The Prince will be the guest of honour and will be invited to conduct the formal unveiling of the Arch. I was delighted to learn that Prince Harry was able to […]
We are delighted that HRH Prince Harry will be the guest of honour on 4th August 2014 at the ceremony to mark the opening of the First World War centenary memorial arch in Folkestone. Prince Harry will be invited to perform the official opening of the arch, which stands over the route taken by millions […]
A new report published this week shows that the Folkestone and Hythe area has been the biggest beneficiary so far from High Speed Rail. The Institute for Economic Affairs report shows that we have seen the best performance in terms of the increase in the percentage of working age population in work, compared with the […]
On April 3rd 2014, I submitted a Bill to Parliament regarding the reformation of football governance in England. The Bill proposes that all football clubs in England would only be entitled to play in the top eight levels of professional and semi-professional if they publicly declare the ownership of the club. If enacted, the Bill […]
The Folkestone and Hythe constituency saw a big fall in unemployment last month, according to the latest figures published last week. The overall unemployment rate is now nearly 25% lower than it was in May 2010. Last month this area saw the biggest fall in unemployment in Kent, and over the last year the rate […]
GPs in Folkestone and Dover received a boost this week, with the granting of £1.89 million to improve access to their services for patients. The grant comes from Prime Minister David Cameron’s challenge fund, which has been set up to help give GPs the resources to offer a more flexible service to their communities. Folkestone […]
For the last year I have been campaigning with our local fishermen to keep Hythe Bay open for commercial fishing. We have taken this campaign to the door of 10 Downing Street, where we presented a petition demonstrating the strength of feeling on this issue. I also organised a special debate in the House of […]
Below I outline how the Help to Buy Scheme works to support first time buyers and boost manufacturing. The way the Help to Buy scheme works is that you can borrow money from the Government towards your deposit. The Government will loan you 20% of the value of the property you want to buy, but […]
I outline below how the budget will help pensioners through reforms to the pension's system and ISAs. Pensioners will benefit from the Budget by the improved rates for savings that we’re going to offer through our new pensioner bonds, through reforming the way that ISAs work, which again will make it much easier to save […]