Promoting the Politics of Courage
The Health and Social Care Committee has this week launched an inquiry into the cost of inaction on adult social care reform. Local MP, Andrew George – a member of the Committee – is calling for local contributions to inform the inquiry: “Successive governments have failed to implement the many ideas which have come forward […]
The Chancellor’s hike in national insurance will seriously undermine community pharmacies, social care providers, GP practices and hospices, says West Cornwall & the Isles of Scilly MP, Andrew George. Figures published today indicate this will result in 20,000 fewer GP appointments in Cornwall alone. The CEO of Cornwall Hospice Care has warned it would strip […]
The Chancellor’s hike in national insurance will seriously undermine community pharmacies, social care providers, GP practices and hospices, says West Cornwall & the Isles of Scilly MP, Andrew George. Figures published today indicate this will result in 20,000 fewer GP appointments in Cornwall alone and the CEO of Cornwall Hospice Care has warned it would […]
“The saddest day of the week: awful news from Flambards today. “After almost half a century, Flambards has been a constant in our lives, for visitor activity, employment, community events and parties. “The owners have assured me that Ferdi’s Indoor Play will remain open, and that redundancies will be kept to a minimum. But that […]
Local MP Andrew George has secured a Commons debate on the regulation of holiday and second homes – taking place on Wednesday morning at 11am. Mr George has been a senior housing professional and has consistently campaigned for housing justice for over forty years. He successfully led the parliamentary campaign to remove tax subsidies for […]
Zero Hour – Climate and Nature Bill group Liberal Democrat photo. The landmark Climate and Nature Bill which would put the UK back on course to meet its international climate and nature targets has taken an important step forward in Westminster. Andrew George MP, a leading supporter of the Bill, says the decision of a […]
The landmark Climate and Nature Bill which would put the UK back on course to meet its international climate and nature targets has taken an important step forward in Westminster. Andrew George MP, a leading supporter of the Bill, says the decision of a fellow Liberal Democrat (Dr Roz Savage MP) who came high in […]
Today in the House of Commons, Andrew George MP called on the UK Government to act against the Israeli government, rather than merely condemning their actions with words. “Netanyahu’s far-right regime’s decision to ban the United Nations’ humanitarian aid service (UNWRA) is just the latest example of its utter distain towards the rest of the […]
Andrew George, Liberal Democrat MP for West Cornwall & the Isles of Scilly (St Ives), has called for the government to impose sanctions, including a halt to any executive bonuses, on water companies including South West Water, after it was announced this week that companies must pay back to customers due to poor performance. South […]
Andrew George MP told Health Secretary, Wes Streeting MP, that rebuilding staff morale and improving staff retention is critical to rebuilding our NHS. His intervention came during a commons debate on the Prof. Lord Darzi Review into the current state of the NHS. The Health Sec. had emphasised: “The NHS may be broken, but NHS […]