Promoting the Politics of Courage
📅 27th November 2026 🕐 2pm – 5pm 📍 Mennaye Field, Penzance (Cornish Pirates RFC/Penzance and Newlyn RFC), Alexandra Road, TR18 4LY Andrew George MP is hosting a Storm Resilience Summit on Friday 27th Nov. He’s inviting residents, parish & town councils, community groups and businesses to attend. Places are free. The event will bring […]
Homes & Planning Bill – Second reading – Friday 13th November Our housing and planning system operates as if the housing needs of local people were an inconvenient afterthought. Despite valiant efforts to improve it, we still have a housing and planning system which rewards land-value speculation more than charitable providers of affordable homes, puts […]
Local MP, Andrew George has again cautioned the Government over it’s widening of tax loopholes for holiday homeowners in last week’s budget. In a statement on Friday, Mr George described the Chancellor’s decision to increase the threshold for Small Business Rates Relief (SBBR) from £12,000 to £18,000 as “unbelievable” and urged Government Ministers to think […]
Unbelievable! In his Budget, the Chancellor extended multi-million tax handouts to second/holiday homeowners, and without consideration for the housing emergency. It’s tax loophole which has been extensively exploited by second homeowning property investors since 2012. The Budget enables second homeowners who ‘flip’ their properties from Council Tax to Business Rates, apply for the Small Business […]
Unbelievable! In his Budget, the Chancellor extended multi-million tax handouts to second/holiday homeowners, and without consideration for the housing emergency. It’s tax loophole which has been extensively exploited by second homeowning property investors since 2012. The Budget enables second homeowners who ‘flip’ their properties from Council Tax to Business Rates, apply for the Small Business […]
Second Reading: Friday 13 November 2026 Andrew George MP will bring his Homes & Planning Bill, also known as the Affordable Homes Bill, before the House of Commons for its Second Reading on Friday 13 November 2026. The Bill aims to tackle the housing emergency by giving communities greater control over affordable housing and addressing […]
Local MP, Andrew George, has attacked the Chancellor for announcing an extension to a multi-billion pound tax loophole which has been exploited by many wealthy second homeowners for over a decade. The Chancellor announced in his budget yesterday that eligibility for those second homeowners who ‘flip’ their properties from Council Tax to Business Rates and […]
Can the government end “corridor care” at the same time as slashing hospital budgets? That’s what Ministers believes. And that was a key question West Cornwall Healthwatch’s excellent and well attended public meeting at the weekend wanted answers to. Speakers included local Doctors, who’re charged with delivering the government’s policy. I offered my own critique […]
I called on the Chancellor to use this week’s budget to combat widening inequality. The top 50 richest families now hold more wealth than the poorest half of the population. I’m not interested in the politics of envy and have no problem with clever, enterprising, exceptionally hard-working, genuinely risk-taking and talented people becoming fabulously wealthy. […]
West Cornwall & Isles of Scilly MP Andrew George challenged Government Ministers over the growing poverty gap for private renters in a Westminster debate this afternoon. He pointed to a search today which found 1,700 holiday lets advertised on Airbnb alone across his constituency (and thousands more holiday lets advertised through other agents). Meanwhile there […]