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It is always a great pleasure to get to meet the young recruits to the National Citizen Service on their summer programme which I was asked by David Cameron to...

What a fantastic week of sport we have had. A spectacular opening ceremony for the Commonwealth Games and a slew of medals for the home nations and the historic...

Parliament rose for the summer recess last Thursday and as usual it was accompanied by the usual hackneyed media claims that MPs are off on their long summer...

There may be a big race going on at Westminster but in Shoreham on Saturday all eyes were on the Scout Jamborettes Duck Race starting at the Old Toll Bridge. I...

Well, what a week that was! In my 25 years as an MP, I don’t think I have seen so much politics crammed into the space of 48 hours or so. Last week was a real...

Politicians are used to being made to feel the heat under scrutiny by tenacious interviewers but not usually literally and when it is electrically induced by a...