On Monday I once again supported the Prime Minister in the House of Commons when she made her statement on the Brexit deal which she was able to agree with the EU last weekend.
One of the outstanding images of the Armistice Day centenary has been the silhouettes of Tommies which have appeared all over the country as part of the There But Not There campaign.
Across West Sussex on Sunday, at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, the Last Post will sound as we remember the moment when, a century ago, the guns of Europe fell silent.
Three cheers for a Budget which delivered so many of the things which local people told me they wanted to see. I believe support for the high streets in our small market towns will be especially welcome.
Last Saturday a number of my constituents attended the march in London for a second Brexit referendum. I appreciate that they feel strongly about the issue, and they want me to side with them.
Last week there was a short debate in the House of Commons about the Government’s proposals to change the planning procedures for onshore drilling for oil and gas.
On Monday I met some constituents who came to Westminster to attend an event hosted by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Listed Properties, of which I’m a member.
When I was at school in the 1970s we hadn’t heard of the internet, personal computers were just being invented and it would be another two decades before the World Wide Web would be designed (by a British inventor, Sir Tim Berners-Lee).
On Sunday, September 23 a cycle race will take place across West Sussex. 15,000 amateur riders will take part in Velo South, taking a 100-mile route through the South Downs.
This week there has been further publicity – and understandable outcry – about the investigation of a decorated paratrooper over the events of Bloody Sunday in Northern Ireland in 1972.
This week the Government published its revised National Planning Policy Framework. This will be important in our area where so much new housing is planned.
This week I again met residents of River Road in Arundel to discuss the collapse of the river wall, and later at the Commons I again met representatives of the Environment Agency to receive an update on the issue. I am doing everything I can to resolve this problem.
