Hampshire Chronicle column

We now have the Government’s “roadmap” for lifting national restrictions in England. I don’t know about you but I still struggle to believe headlines such as...

This week has been an extremely busy one as I’ve been working with colleagues across Parliament to push the urgent case for our schools to (fully) re-open. My...

What a year. Surely 2021 has to be better than this? For more than a decade I have represented us in Parliament and I don’t think I’ve ever worked harder or...

December 3rd may be the first day of the rest of our lives but, for many, it will feel a lot like the day before as the Covid nightmare continues. Yes we will...

The NHS, both locally and nationally, remains my priority. I’ve written about that once or twice before in the Hampshire Chronicle and of course in my own...

This month I wrote for our main local paper about my work for the early years sector, follow-up to the Kings Worthy school bus crash and, as fall-out continues...

Winchester has a unique opportunity to become a real workplace destination but does it have the leadership and the ambition? Read Steve Brine's hard-hitting and...

‘Be honest over hospital says MP’ read the headline on last week’s Hampshire Chronicle. Let me expand on that; starting with three indisputable truths. One...

Recent unrest, here and in the US, following the death of George Floyd has shocked two nations already reeling from political turbulence and a pandemic that’s...