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 following my workplace destination column last month, I reveal Winchester City Council's response to my challenge ...

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 challenging column published in the Hampshire Chronicle ...

‘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.

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 killed tens of thousands.

Work continues at pace as MPs respond to the Covid-19 outbreak and I’m doing my best, using all my experience, to signpost the very latest to constituents and businesses. Tough times.

Widespread media coverage about the “return” of Parliament this week made many MPs smile because, for most of us, it never went away.

Three years ago, when I was first appointed UK Public Health Minister, I was taken to Porton Down; the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory for which I had Ministerial responsibility.

Westminster Diary 20th February 2020

Westminster Diary 23rd January 2020

Westminster Diary 24th October 2019