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I was grateful to be able to spend an hour with the team at the Kennet and Avon Medical Practice today. This was a chance to understand more about how the Practice is set up to deliver primary healthcare and the issues that they face.
Comment on today's budget announcement.
As the UK officially enters recession, "The Growth Agenda," looks at the economic challenges facing the UK and proposes two broad missions to address these issues.
If you have decided, like almost everyone I spoke to yesterday, that you absolutely want to remove this Conservative government from power, then there is a 3 stage decision taken in this order: (1) who is the candidate and party most likely to defeat Dann
The Liberal Democrats have warned that Danny Kruger, Conservative MP for Devizes, is risking a "new Windrush-style scandal", after he voted to refuse to offer EU citizens physical proof of their right to stay in the UK.
February 26th 2020.
Liberal Democrats for Marlborough have asked for councillors to consider easing restrictions on outdoor spaces for hospitality businesses within the town
( Boris Johnson - my part in his downfall...)
Dominic Cummings famously declared that he didn't care about appearances-he'd stuck to the letter of the law and that's all that matters. It sounds like an unsympathetic insurance company wriggling out of a claim but I'm prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt because the real issue, for me, is that appearances do matter. And we'll be able to tell in about a week's time whether I'm right.
This is Aldbourne resident John Gill- ...Aldbourne? Village. Near Ramsbury. No? Near Hungerford? Ring any bells? No? Oh well, it's in Wiltshire, and like most other Wiltshire villages, is packed with people who unthinkingly vote Tory and think Boris is "a right laugh". I've lived in a beautiful 17th-century cottage here for 10 years. My name's John Gillett. But locally I'm known as "John the actor". Probably other things too, but mainly that one, because.... well, because I'm an actor. I'm known as Aden Gillett when I swan about the stage, but John the Actor when I swan about The Blue Boar or Crown in Aldbourne.
Dear Mr Kruger, Your unconditional acceptance of the behaviour of your friend Mr Dominic Cummings is profoundly disappointing. In your letter to the Gazette you have sought to downplay his actions and cast them as just the sort of act any man in that
