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REMEMBRANCE Sunday is one of the biggest days in the constituency year. With two of the UK’s major military bases in the patch – RAF Leeming and Catterick...

UNWANTED telephone calls, either to our mobiles or landlines, are a blight on our daily lives. To some these calls are a minor convenience but to an increasing...

THE Government minister in charge of formulating a British Agricultural Policy after we leave the EU has given me some encouraging assurances about the future...

THERE are times when the House of Commons chamber looks very empty and understandably people ask: where are all the MPs? I can assure you that while we may not...

OUR legal system is sometimes criticised for being slow and expensive. While that might be true to a degree in some areas of the law, much of the day-to-day...

The American food writer Bill Marsano once wrote that “the British Empire was created as a by-product of generations of desperate Englishmen roaming the world...

One of the most common misconceptions about what MPs do relates to planning matters handled by local authorities. In short, MPs have no formal jurisdiction over...

The average smartphone user in the UK uses their device for more than two hours daily – or ten minutes in every waking hour. For most of us, that’s perhaps not...

In the 14 months I have represented you in the House of Commons I have come to love the Palace of Westminster in which it is housed. I can’t deny it took a bit...