Getting Brexit Done

Amidst everything else going on the UK is currently involved in some major trading negotiations as we take advantage of some of the opportunities presented by Brexit. One of the most contentious issues within these talks are food and agricultural standards.

I am writing this on January 31st 2020  – by the time you read this the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland will have left the European Union. This has been a long time coming.

Work in Parliament has begun again in earnest after the hiatus of the election and Christmas recess, and the Government has hit the ground running.

The Conservatives will get Brexit done.

As the Gazette goes to press this week the country is readying itself for a General Election on Thursday 12 December – the first election at this time of year since Stanley Baldwin went to the country in December 1923.

Written by Alex Burghart for the Brentwood Gazette

Last week I had the pleasure of attending the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester. Although, highly unusually, parliament was sitting during the conference, there was an enormous turnout and an extremely positive atmosphere.

As the Gazette goes to press the parliamentary term is poised to begin – and it promises to be a parliamentary term like no other.

My latest constituency wide newspaper is being delivered across Brentwood and Ongar during the next couple of weeks, so keep an eye out for it popping through your letterbox.