Hampshire Chronicle column

After a break from my column last month during the General Election it is good to be back. First of all, thank you to my constituents for re-electing me as our...

Over the Easter weekend I read in the Guardian how President Trump is coming in for heavy criticism. Not healthcare reform or travel bans this time but not...

Winchester is changing. That is happening too fast for some and nowhere near fast enough for others. As the local MP, I think the city must change – we’ve a...

One hundred and fifty years ago this August, eight year-old Fanny Adams was playing with her sister in their home town of Alton when a man approached them with...

The turn of the year saw widespread coverage of the winter pressures facing our NHS. It was therefore, handy that early January saw my third ASKtheNHS public...

Christmas is the one time of year when an MP’s mail-bag slows a little and, I must admit, I am looking forward to some time with the family and a period of...

Conventional wisdom would have you believe there is no other story in Westminster these days outside of Brexit. Don’t get me wrong, it rightly dominates the...

Chronicle readers will remember me writing previously about the battle against breast cancer. That is because, for the duration of the last Parliament, I co...

Six years ago, when I was first elected, I said the local NHS would be my top priority. That hasn't changed. What has changed is the cost of drugs, an ageing...