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WESTMINSTER has been a fascinating place to be over the last 12 days. As a new MP, I’ve been inspired by what I have heard, witnessed and participated in.

THE Autumn Statement and the Comprehensive Spending Review was the big event of the Westminster week and it contained some very good news.

BEFORE I became an MP, I spent my working life in business ­–­ in the UK and the US.

STANDING in Richmond’s Friary Gardens on Sunday, the last strains of the Last Post fading away as hundreds of townsfolk stood in respectful silence, was a truly...

THE business of the House of Commons amounts to much more than the debates that take place in the main chamber seen on TV.

This week's column in the D&S on exemplary efforts locally to tackle dementia

THE village of Moulton, north-east of Richmond, is typical of many in my constituency.

MY background before entering Parliament was in business and specifically helping small and medium-sized businesses to grow.

WE are blessed in North Yorkshire to have generally excellent schools. Consistently, they outperform the national average in the annual league tables and that’s...