Articles for the Herald and Post

The fourth named storm of the winter, Storm Darragh, recently wreaked havoc across the country, bringing down trees, blocking roads, causing train cancellations...

The quiet after the vote was very noticeable. Not quite silence, but something very close to it. No one said “hear, hear” or waved an order paper. There was...

Applied generals; level 3 ESOL; level 3 NVQ; Tech levels; the access to higher education diploma; a level 3 award, a level 3 certificate or a level 3 diploma...

Last week I met a group of farmers in Westminster Hall. They had all travelled up from East Hampshire to stand alongside fellow farmers from across the country...

Seeing the Chancellor’s team line up with her on Downing Street reminded me of my own spell as a junior minister at the Treasury, at the Budget and Autumn...

I’m writing this week’s column in the run up to Remembrance weekend. An important time to focus our thoughts on our armed forces, both serving and retired. And...

Anybody reading Sir Chris Hoy’s interview in the Times recently in which he revealed his terminal cancer diagnosis cannot fail to have been moved. Faced with...

We are fortunate to have excellent schools in East Hampshire, outstanding both in results and in pastoral care. That’s reflected in local schools’ OfStEd...

In July my party suffered a terrible defeat at the polls. We lost votes in multiple directions - to Labour, obviously, but also to other parties including...