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At the Neighbourhood Plan Meeting, Sudbury, March 2025. Government support for neighbourhood plans must continue, or else communities will be ‘deprived of the...

Last Wednesday we saw the publication of the Chancellor’s Spending Review, which is when the Government sets out public spending plans for each Government...

Attending the Hadleigh Show on 17th May. It’s been an incredibly busy time in my shadow defence role these past few weeks, coming to a head with the publication...

Last week’s VE Day 80th anniversary celebrations were particularly poignant because they marked one of the last major such landmarks where we retained a living...

With the ‘on and off’ Trump tariffs, and the fate of British Steel requiring Parliament to sit on a Saturday – only the third time since I was elected almost a...

MP James Cartlidge on National Insurance and farming I’ve set out my concerns about the economy in a number of my EADT columns since the election – but now...

As readers may know, I ran my own SME before becoming an MP in 2015 and had the privilege of creating jobs in the real world. I have transferred that passion to...

James Cartlidge is Shadow Defence Secretary and has been MP for South Suffolk since 2015 With the Government’s much vaunted Strategic Defence Review due to be...

In my previous column, with Christmas in full swing, I urged readers to ‘shop local’, recognising that “our businesses are under a lot of pressure”. I must...