Parliament said goodbye to Sir David Amess this week. The murdered MP for Southend was a lovely, gentle, kind man with a perky sense of humour and endless, boundless energy for helping the people he represented in Parliament. But it wasn’t just who he was that mattered; it is what…
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Weston’s MP has said that a spike in energy prices could not have come at a worse time following the Covid pandemic and has pledged to push for a more affordable energy price cap to help reduce fuel poverty. As part of its #ThereWithYouThisWinter campaign, the Mercury recently published figures from…
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Weston’s MP, John Penrose, has welcomed Government cash for new homes on a brownfield site in central Weston. Ministers have given just over £1million for new homes on the old Police Station site in Walliscote Place. It is the latest instalment of almost £7million they’ve already provided to improve the…
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The MP who led the charge for the energy price cap has called for further reform of the mechanism to tackle the so-called loyalty penalty. John Penrose, delivering the annual Beesley Lecture, hosted by the Institute of Economic Affairs today (7 October), implored Ofgem to ape rules introduced by the…
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