As the local Member of Parliament, I see it as my duty to be frank with my constituents – recent events in Westminster have been damaging to economic confidence, and our wider credibility, and I very much regret that we have ended up in a position of senior Ministers changing like pages of a cale
Campaigners have hit back at National Grid (NG) after the company claimed an offshore option to their controversial pylon project would cost six times the amount of existing plans (Image: PA/Susan Lang/Office of James Cartlidge MP)
As a mortgage broker during the 2008 credit crunch, my memory is seared with those extraordinary days when email alerts of products being withdrawn piled in.
As Parliament returns today, our main business will be repeal of the six month-old Health and Social Care Levy. Given that all the main parties are now against the tax, abolition is a certainty.
Campaigners and a Suffolk MP have slammed National Grid after the company publicly admitted they "did not consult offshore options" as part of their East Anglian pylon project - Credit: PA/Susan Lang/Office of James Cartlidge MP
South Suffolk MP James Cartlidge has called the 45% top income tax rate cut 'unacceptable', calling for a transparent discussion on 'how on earth we pay for our future health and social care costs'. - Credit: Office of James Cartlidge MP
Last Thursday our new Prime Minister - sworn in before our late Queen barely 48 hours earlier – rose before the House of Commons to set out her planned policy on energy bills.
South Suffolk MP James Cartlidge visited the Cock Inn in Clare to discuss their management's concerns over soaring energy prices. - Credit: Office of James Cartlidge MP
