For some years now I have been sending out a letter to constituents as they turn eighteen, congratulating them and providing contact details should they ever require help. I also ask them to complete a short online survey asking various questions, and many do.
It was a pleasure last Friday to visit two Plymouth Covid 19 vaccination centres to review progress to date. The major one is at Home Park where they could now administer 30,000 per week – very impressive set up.
One of the great delights of being a Member of Parliament is to see excellence being delivered by many organisations in the constituency. Last week I took the opportunity to visit the new rapid Covid 19 testing system for pupils and staff put in place by Ivybridge Community College.
Having been contacted by young people, their parents and teachers about this important issue, today I used the opportunity of being first in the PMQ ballot to ask a question seeking certainty for the examination situation in the months ahead.
Democracy is partial, recent and fragile. We take it for granted but we should not.
Partial. The people of China, Russia, Iran and several Central Asian, Latin American, African and Middle Eastern countries do not live under a meaningful democracy.
As we all know, the roll-out of the Covid-19 vaccine is being prioritised to those over 80 years old, with the aim that all those over 70 will have been vaccinated by the spring.
My staff are off this week, so I have been responding to a light dusting of emails myself each day to prevent a massive backlog. This morning was a classic.
Reading any international legal agreement is a bit like banging your head against a brick wall, especially the case with any EU Agreement. I do not know how anyone without a legal background can make head or tail of the archaic wording.
