Parliament broke for the summer recess last week after an intensive end to the session involving no fewer than 18 consecutive votes during ‘ping pong’ over the contentious Illegal Migration Bill.
Thank you to all those constituents sending me details of roadworks involving seemingly unwarranted lane closures and lights causing traffic chaos, since the launch of my campaign last week.
The train operating companies have announced plans to close most railway ticket offices in England. In their place, roving assistants will be on concourses and platforms to sell tickets, offer travel advice and help people with accessibility.
Many of my constituents are rightly concerned about the news from earlier in the week that nearly all railway station ticket offices across England could be closed.
In my constituency newsletter last week I launched my new campaign to clamp down on roadworks involving temporary traffic lights and lane closures which seem to be for the convenience of the utility company or highways authority doing the works oblivious of the disruption caused to motorists.
Recently we marked Alzheimer's Awareness Week and I attended a number of events in Parliament to hear from people involved in the fight against dementia.
It was Enoch Powell who once said that ‘all political careers end in failure.’ It is perhaps too easy to apply that description to Boris Johnson’s dramatic flouncing out from Parliament after taking against the findings of the House of Commons Committee of Privileges.
