My latest SFP column - December 2025 Thursday, 18 December, 2025 As we enter the final week before Christmas, I hope most readers will be more organised than me – and are able to avoid last minute shopping. But whether you’re completely stocked up for the Yuletide phase or still have some way to go to tick everything off the list, I’m sure you won’t mind my usual refrain… don’t forget to shop local! Helpfully, the Town Council have produced a free Sudbury... Articles
Statement on the George Floyd protests 8th June 2020 I have received a number of emails from constituents regarding both the killing of George Floyd, and the subsequent ‘Black Lives Matter’ demonstrations. First... Articles
My Statement on the Matter of Dominic Cummings 27th May 2020 Earlier this week I issued a statement in relation to the recent reports surrounding the Prime Minister’s senior adviser, Dominic Cummings. I have now updated... Articles
My latest column - 21st May 2020 21st May 2020 I appreciate that some readers may have been confused when the Prime Minister recently made his Sunday broadcast switching our principal instructive slogan from... Articles
MPs from Suffolk ask for siblings to go to same schools on transport 7th May 2020 Six Suffolk MPs have urged the government to require education authorities to offer siblings places on the same school bus in a bid to change the county’s... Local News
3,000 people tested at Copdock coronavirus centre 1st May 2020 Around 3,000 people are now said to have been tested for coronavirus at the Copdock drive-through centre. Around 3,000 people have been tested for Covid-19 at... Local News
Cartlidge raises plight of cancer patients awaiting treatment during PMQs 29th April 2020 South Suffolk MP James Cartlidge raised concerns about delays to cancer treatment. Picture: OFFICE OF JAMES CARTLIDGE The government should draw up a new... Speeches in Parliament
My latest column - 16th April 2020 16th April 2020 On Tuesday I received an email of historic proportions from the Speaker of the House of Commons, informing me that we were likely to meet as a ‘virtual... Articles
A Sudbury couple stranded in India for more than a month after contracting coronavirus abroad are finally expected to return to the UK on Thursday. 15th April 2020 Steven Hancock, left, and partner Ann Williams from Sudbury had been left stranded in India when the coronavirus pandemic struck. Picture: STEVEN HANCOCK/ANN... Local News
MP for South Suffolk honoured to be appointed PPS to Chancellor of the Exchequer 26th March 2020 The MP for South Suffolk has expressed his delight after being appointed as the parliamentary private secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak... Westminster News
