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Theresa May is encouraging local pupils to join thousands of children worldwide this October in celebrating the benefits of walking to school during International Walking to School Month. Theresa said, “Walking to school is a fantastic way to start the day and a great way of getting some physical activity and [...]

Last week I attended a public meeting on the future of Royston School. There was a good turn out though local SNP councillors were conspicuous by their absence. Parents and staff made impassioned speeches against the planned closure. A number were proudly wearing T-shirts saying ‘Give Mr Hunter [the Headteacher] [...]

Was just looking at the Number 10 petition website and read the following rather startling message:Notice: Submission of new petitions will be closed until 7th September while the Prime Minister is away from Number 10. Does this mean that the PM personally approves every new petition before it goes on [...]

Over the Summer, several local young people have helped out in my constituency office and have had the opportunity to learn more about how politics works. Here, Emily Ashford, 18, from Thornbury, describes her experiences and reflections on her time in the constituency office - uncensored!:“This week I [...]

• Local MPs meet with BT representatives • 24mbps broadband to be rolled out across Norfolk by 2012. SOUTH NORFOLK MP Richard Bacon met representatives of BT in Norwich recently to hear about the company’s plans to stamp out broadband ‘not-spots’ – areas where an effective and affordable [...]

• The Capability Reviews are a "useful tool" for transparency • Senior civil servants "get away" with serious mistakes COMMENTING ON publication of the Commons public accounts committee’s report on the Cabinet Office’s programme of bi-annual Capability Reviews, South Norfolk MP Richard Bacon, a member of the committee, [...]

Conference 2009 Bournemouth 2009 will be one of our most important Conferences ever. This is the last autumn Conference before a general election. With Labour finished and much of the country still unconvinced that Cameron’s Conservatives offer anything better, this is an extremely exciting time for our party. The ideas we [...]

A simply incredulous attack on the cost of fighting the recession, from Mr Cameron today. He has attacked this month’s deficit figures; and yet admitted in his press conference earlier this week, that his plan for £5 billion cuts in public spending this year wouldn’t reduce the deficit by a penny [...]

Video of Hodge Hill youth group report back from Sweden on how we could – and should – put sport for young people within easy reach now online [...]

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The OECD says fighting unemployment – not cutting back inthe middle of the recession – has to be everyone’s top priority; ‘Helping the unemployed and getting economies moving again will be among the most pressing issues on the table at the G20 Summit in Pittsburgh on 24-25 September 2009.’  Keynes, I [...]

Nick Clegg Liberal Democrats Conference 2009 Day 1: Nick’s Agenda Highlights Saturday 19th September 2009, Bournemouth - Conference 2009: 12.00: Nick Clegg arrives at Conference Nick Clegg, Leader of the Liberal Democrats and his wife, Miriam Gonzalez Durantez arrived in Bournemouth today for the 2009 Conference. After speaking to the media they had a coffee [...]

Nick Clegg Liberal Democrats Conference 2009 Day 2: Nick’s Agenda Highlights Sunday 20th September 2009, Bournemouth - Conference 2009: 14.00: Nick Clegg Leader’s Q & A - Conference 2009: 18.30: Nick Clegg Fringe Event – Imagining New Britain, Forging a New National Identity with Yasmin Alibhai-Brown Full coverage will appear here as events unfold.The Liberal Democrats 2009 [...]

Planning to save rather than slash and burn cuts is what Nick Clegg has set out at the Lib Dem conference in Bournemouth. And today it's the turn of the central bureaucracy which is far too top heavy. His proposals include cutting the number of MPs to 500 from 638.On [...]

First, a huge thank you to the great race organisers at the National Institute for Conductive Education, who organised the fab 10K in Cannon Hill Park this morning…a personal best for me – 51 minutes 20 seconds…my knees now hurt quite a lot…. [...]

Here’s the link to my rather long Channel 4 interview about George Osborne’s school-boy economics. A transcript of my Sky interview is below. Basically George Osborne first said there were ’secret’ tax plans. So secret they were set out in Table 2.9 (page 40) of the Budget’s ‘Economic and Finances’ document, [...]

For twenty five years we've had redundant nuclear submarines in Rosyth Dockyard. Yet despite endless promises about future disposal they are still with us and look set to remain there for many years to come if the latest news is of significance.Two top advisers have been sacked in what seems [...]

Are we seeing green shoots in Ashford? [...]

Theresa May has hailed a successful result for the campaign run by her and local residents to bring broadband to Waltham St Lawrence and parts of Hurst. Twyford telephone exchange is one of only ten sites selected for a pilot scheme that BT is running which will use advanced technology [...]

Nick Clegg Liberal Democrats Conference 2009 Day 3: Nick’s Agenda Highlights Monday 21st September 2009, Bournemouth - Conference 2009: 13.00: Leadership in a Global Age – The Economy The Environment & Globalisation (Noreena Hertz) Nick Clegg today took part in his second fringe meeting at Conference 2009 with economist Noreena Hertz at the Liberal Democrats [...]