Hampshire Chronicle column

Earlier this month I was very fortunate to travel to Africa as part of my ongoing work on global health. My first time on the continent took me to Uganda on a...

Contrary to the view of some, Parliament is a very modern workplace; housed in a very old building. Once a year however, an ancient ceremony dating back to the...

Energy was a hot topic of discussion when COP26 President Alok Sharma came to Winchester for my latest ASKtheMINISTER event. There will, I suspect, be countless...

Hard as it is to believe, Russia’s war against Ukraine is only a month old. In 28 dark days, the world has come together to decry Putin’s unprovoked aggression...

This month I am returning to a familiar subject; one which my constituents know I am passionate about. In recent weeks, I have spoken in Parliament about the...

Readers of the Hampshire Chronicle will know I have been pressing since the launch of the “Get Boosted Now” campaign to bring some walk-in capacity to...

Last week, now lost in the fast-moving world of 24-hour news and Covid revisited, the Government produced a new 10-year drugs strategy which earned it genuine...

What do we want Winchester to become over the next ten, twenty, years? It’s a question I hear a lot as I go about my work and it’s not a new one. Like many...

First of all, I want to say thank you. Thank you to the large number of constituents who got in touch (or spoke with me while I was out and about last weekend)...