It is my pleasure and privilege to serve the people of Royal Sutton Coldfield. I always work hard to help local residents and to champion the issues of importance to our town.
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It was ‘standing room only’ in a packed emergency meeting at Royal Sutton Coldfield Town Hall this week, as angry residents gathered to learn more about bankrupt Birmingham City Council’s plan to charge for parking in Sutton Park.
Shadow Foreign Secretary Andrew Mitchell tables an Urgent Question on Sudan. Sudan is currently the largest humanitarian crisis, hunger crisis and displacement crisis in the world and, as penholder on Sudan at the United Nations Security Council, the UK has a special responsibility to accelerate international efforts to find a solution.
Andrew has a keen interest in international development and in 2007 founded Project Umubano, the Conservative Party’s ten-year social action project in Rwanda. The project culminated with the Kigali Declaration against Genocide and Identity-based Violence.
The latest revelations about security service collusion in respect of Ms Shamima Begum make alarming reading. It has been obvious from the outset that she and her foolish young friends were groomed. Now we discover that ministers knew she was a trafficking victim, transported by a terrorist group, but chose to strip her of her British citizenship regardless.
Last Sunday night I was at Good Hope Hospital for a routine appointment. And thanks, so much to the brilliant clinician who looked after me so well and who I last met in our Town Centre dressed as a cat (her not me) doing excellent work for one of our Royal Town’s cat charities.
This week my column comes to you during another busy week in politics. The news is rapidly changing on an almost hourly basis and yet as I write this on Wednesday afternoon, very little has actually changed in terms of progressing Brexit. We continue to await the outcome of the next EU Council meeting on 17th and 18th October.