Spending time with like-minded politicians and activists at the annual Conservative Party Conference is a key part of my year, and none more so than this year.Since Kemi Badenoch became the leader of the Conservative Party last year, I have been part of a small team working with her on a review of a
It was a great pleasure it was to be invited to Ardtully Care Home in Ingatestone last week for a tour of the home and to have the opportunity to meet some of the residents, and enjoy a wonderful afternoon tea.Manager Merjury Clavadetscher runs the home with great warmth and passion and her and her
As children get back to nursery settings following the long summer holiday, the age old decision about whether they have a packed lunch or eat a nursery lunch needs to be made.Last year, Essex County Council Public Health commissioned ‘Nourishing our Future’, researched by Anglia Ruskin University t
The MP for Brentwood and Ongar, Alex Burghart, has welcomed the decision by the Mid and South Essex Integrated Care Board to keep Intermediate Care beds at Brentwood Community Hospital, with 25 specialist strokes beds staying on site too.Alex led a campaign of support for the hospital by local resid
When Brentwood Community Hospital was under threat of being closed for local services, and turned into a stroke unit, one of the side issues to come up through the consultation was the difficulties older people living in Brentwood would have – and do have – in getting to any of the other hospitals i
I was absolutely delighted to be invited to open St Clare Hospice’s latest charity shop in Ongar on Saturday 14th June. With more and more people keen to embrace recycling and sustainable fashion and homewares, the shop offers a great opportunity for the local community to support hospice care
There have been some wonderful events in the constituency over the last few weekends, not least the opening of the new St Clare Hospice charity shop on Ongar High Street, and the ever-wonderful Strawberry Fair in the King George’s Playing Fields.
Getting men to talk about their mental health and how they are coping with all that life can throw at us has always been something of a difficulty.However, the Brentwood Men’s Shed hopes to change that but providing a safe space for men to come to talk to someone outside the family, make frien
After a number of complaints from constituents across Mid and South Essex about the lack of community audiology appointments available for those who felt their hearing was beginning to deteriorate, I joined some of my fellow Conservative Essex MPs in writing to the Mid and South Essex Integrated Car
Today [Tuesday 18 March 2025] Kemi Badenoch, Leader of the Conservative Party, announced the Policy Renewal Programme. We are living off the inheritance of previous generations. For three centuries, every era in our country’s history left a better legacy for its children. The greatnes
