Tag Archives: Huw Merriman

The statement from Huw Merriman

Posted on July 17, 2024 by ianchisnall

The Bexhill and Battle area in East Sussex was first created in 1983 and controlled by Conservatives even in this Election. Kieran Mullan had been the Crewe and Nantwich MP from 2019 but has now been elected for this area. … Continue reading →

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Three weeks to go and election fever hots up

Posted on June 17, 2024 by ianchisnall

It is three weeks until the General Election and announcements have been made about Political Party Candidates standing across Sussex. Two locations in particular will require a new MP due to MP’s retiring in Brighton Pavilion and in Brighton Kemptown … Continue reading →

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Gatwick area are delivering to the Brighton main line

Posted on March 23, 2024 by ianchisnall

On Thursday this week on 21st March 2024 there was a session in the Parliament being discussed by several MPs on the subject of Rail Services and the first MP was Elliot Colburn, from Carshalton and Wallington who started with … Continue reading →

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MP grills Chancellor in the run-up to the Budget

Posted on February 12, 2024 by ianchisnall

During this week MPs are not based in Parliament because of a planned Government Recess from the end of last Thursday opening again on Monday 19th February.  However, the House of Lords will hold their own discussions for three days … Continue reading →

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MPs vote to rebel on infected blood scandal

Posted on December 11, 2023 by ianchisnall

(This article was published in the Brighton Argus today – 11th December 2023) On Monday last week there were five votes in Parliament for two Bills under discussion. Four were relating to the clause aspects for the “Victims and Prisoners … Continue reading →

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Many MPs agree new rules to ease EV charging

Posted on November 4, 2023 by ianchisnall

Last week on the 25th October Jack Loughran published a document on the Institution of Engineering of Technology which is entitled in “MPs agree new rules to ease EV charging” that can be obtained from here. I have included some … Continue reading →

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International Rail Services: Kent and Sussex

Posted on November 2, 2023 by ianchisnall

Last Wednesday on 25th October 2023 there was a discussion in Parliament which was initially set out with the title International Rail Services: Kent which was initially from Damian Green who is the MP for Ashford. However after he had … Continue reading →

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Gillian Keegan leads the way at Tory Conference

Posted on October 9, 2023 by ianchisnall

(This piece was published in the Brighton Argus today – 9th October 2023) The last few days has seen three Party Political Conferences overlapping this weekend. The only one taking part here in Brighton was the Green Party and on … Continue reading →

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last week in Parliament some unusual voting took place

Posted on September 18, 2023 by ianchisnall

Today is the beginning of the third week of Parliament however this week marks the end of usual Parliament sessions until the third week of October as the three main political parties will hold their Party Conferences for this year. … Continue reading →

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Railway Tickets questions from a Brighton MP

Posted on August 1, 2023 by ianchisnall

Back on Monday at the beginning of the last week for Parliament, two MPs asked several questions about Railway Tickets. There was only one question from Julian Knight who is the Conservative MP for Solihull and then there were four … Continue reading →

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