Reporting Back July 2026 Wednesday, 29 July, 2026 Coming straight to your doorstep these coming weeks is my quarterly Reporting Back newsletter, where you can catch up on everything I’ve been working on as your Member of Parliament for Chingford and Woodford Green. Inside, you’ll find updates on local issues, recent community visits, and the ongoing work I’m doing to fight for the priorities that matter most to you. Read the full Reporting Back... Local News
It’s time to finally fix the botched Northern Ireland Brexit situation. Here’s how 5th December 2024 The Irish Sea border is a ball and chain round our ankles in other trade deals around the world. On Friday, Parliament will get a chance to finally resolve the... Articles
Middle-class drug users are fuelling the mayhem 1st December 2024 My good friend Noreen Oliver MBE, who died recently, was the founder of the drug charity the BAC O'Connor Centre, helping addicts through rehabilitation to... Articles
Starmer’s Britain won’t be China’s peer, it’ll be Xi’s puppet 19th November 2024 Britain will regret getting into bed with the most brutal and unreliable of regimes. The Prime Minister’s face-to-face meeting with President Xi Jinping at the... Articles
I know exactly why Donald Trump would like to do a trade deal with UK – Labour must embrace him fully 16th November 2024 The PM campaigned to stop us leaving the EU, then he spent years on the Labour frontbench trying to prevent a clean Brexit. This new Labour Cabinet has made no... Articles
Kemi has shown she’s fearless. That’s exactly what our party needs. 20th October 2024 I believe she has the right attributes: integrity, courage, and the ability to grow in stature as opposition leader. As the ballots go out to members, I feel it... Articles
Banning smoking outside makes no sense and is ironic when NOTHING is done to stop cannabis smokers. 1st September 2024 SOME 60 days in to this Government’s time in office and the list of what Sir Keir Starmer and his cohort of senior ministers dislike and what they plan to do is... Articles
Elections are won on the common ground, not the centre ground. 30th July 2024 Too much of the Tory leadership debate is riddled with platitudes about broad churches and not lurching to the Right. Listening to some of the comments made... Articles
Britain is already at war, and nobody wants to admit it 18th June 2024 The threat posed by the axis of totalitarian states is the dog that hasn’t barked during the general election. There are fewer than three weeks to go until... Articles
Iain Duncan Smith - Chingford & Woodford Green. A record of delivery, a promise of more. 30th May 2024 30 years in three minutes was a challenge - but I tried! Watch to see all the amazing achievements we've done together in Chingford and Woodford Green. Local News