Congratulations to Lucy, aged 8, of Queens Park Academy for winning our Christmas Card Competition! She will be featured on the front of my Christmas card to my Westminster colleagues, friends, local businesses and councillors.

As I am sure you can imagine, I have received more correspondence on this issue than any that has come before. I am grateful for the hundreds of emails and letters sharing views, asking questions and encouraging me to support a variety of different proposals.

This year I am running a Christmas card competition which I am opening up to all primary school aged children in my Bournemouth East constituency.

Many of my constituents have contacted me regarding their concerns with the recent work on the A338. I fully appreciate and agree with the frustration from local residents who have been hugely inconvenienced by the current delays and I strongly believe more could be done to avoid this.

Thank you to all of those who have taken the time over the last few years to contact me regarding your thoughts and concerns surrounding Brexit.

I want to take this opportunity to reassure you all of a few things regarding Brexit negotiations. 

You are invited to take part in EqualiTeas (18 June-2 July 2018) a UK-wide celebration of our democratic equality that will mark the 90th anniversary of the Representation of the People Act 1928 in which all people were given the right to vote on an equal basis.

Today I was delighted to see that the UK will be introducing a ban on ivory sales.

The Commission published a draft legal text of the withdrawal agreement in February 2018 and an updated draft on 15 March.

Delighted that a decision has been made today by Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government Sajid Javid MP, to approve the proposed plans for a Local Government Merger in Dorset.

Yesterday marked an important centenary in British Politics. On February 6th 1918, the 1918 Act was passed after years of protest and debate for women’s suffrage.