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Posted on: 7th April 2025
The US President seems content to undermine international relations and the ‘rules-based World order’. The rest of the world are left to calm markets and find rational solutions, while the toys are thrown out of the White House playpen. The UK must work to establish an international ‘Coalition of the Willing’. The only alternative is […]
Posted on: 4th April 2025
West Cornwall MP Andrew George has launched a ‘Buy Cornish, Back Britain’ campaign with his North Cornwall parliamentary colleague Ben Maguire MP to support local businesses potentially affected by Donald Trump’s damaging new trade tariffs. Andrew said, “Britain has always resolutely stood up to bullies. We must work to establish an international ‘Coalition of […]
Posted on: 2nd April 2025
Figures obtained by the Liberal Democrats show that Royal Cornwall Hospital Trust is the country’s most-improved trust for 12-hour waiting times, albeit from a low base. In the winter of 2024/25, 11.5% of patients had to wait over 12 hours to be admitted to hospital following a visit to the Emergency Department, compared to 21.8% […]
Posted on: 2nd April 2025
Figures obtained by the Liberal Democrats show that Royal Cornwall Hospital Trust is the country’s most-improved trust for 12-hour waiting times, albeit from a low base. In the winter of 2024/25, 11.5% of patients had to wait over 12 hours to be admitted to hospital following a visit to the Emergency Department, compared to 21.8% […]
Posted on: 1st April 2025
Attached a photo taken at the meeting: L-R Ben Maguire, Noah Law, Andrew George, Matthew Pennycook, Anna Gelderd, Phil Mason (Cornwall Council), Nicola Stinson (Council of the Isles of Scilly). Not in the picture are Jayne Kirkham MP and Perran Moon MP, both of whom were on House of Commons business, but who contributed to […]
Posted on: 1st April 2025
Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly’s housing crisis will be centre stage in Westminster this morning (Tuesday 1st April). All six Cornish MPs and officials from Cornwall and Scilly Councils will meet Housing & Planning Minister, Matthew Pennycook MP. The meeting was secured earlier this year when Andrew George MP challenged the Prime Minister to […]
Posted on: 31st March 2025
Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly’s housing crisis reaches centre-stage in Westminster this week. All six Cornish MPs and fellow sector delegates will meet Housing & Planning Minister, Matthew Pennycook. The meeting was secured earlier this year when I challenged the Prime Minister to put right a system his government inherited from the Conservatives, where […]
Posted on: 31st March 2025
Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly’s housing crisis is centre-stage in Westminster this week. All six Cornish MPs and fellow sector delegates will meet Housing & Planning Minister, Matthew Pennycook. The meeting was secured earlier this year when I challenged the Prime Minister to put right a system his government inherited from the Conservatives, where […]
Posted on: 31st March 2025
Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly’s housing crisis will be centre stage in Westminster tomorrow morning (Tuesday 1st April). All six Cornish MPs and officials from Cornwall and Scilly Councils will meet Housing & Planning Minister, Matthew Pennycook MP. The meeting was secured earlier this year when Andrew George MP challenged the Prime Minister to […]
Posted on: 27th March 2025
A debate in parliament led by West Cornwall MP Andrew George has resulted in a promise for action by Fisheries Minister Daniel Zeichner MP, with an agreement to tackle other important questions in the coming months. The MP, whose constituency includes Newlyn, one of the UK’s biggest fishing ports, challenged the Minister to look closer at […]