If you listened to Conservative ministers speaking at their party conference in Manchester this week, you could be forgiven for thinking that the government was on the brink of securing a breakthrough on Brexit. In fact, nothing could be further from the truth.
This was the week when the unthinkable became reality: Boris Johnson is now our country’s Prime Minister. I know many Ham&High readers will shudder, as I do, at this thought.
After another hectic period in British politics, this feels like a good time to update Ham&High readers with where we are on Brexit both as your local MP and as Labour’s Brexit spokesperson.
I often promise Ham&High readers that I will use this column to write about local matters.
I had the very great pleasure, last weekend, of joining my predecessor Frank Dobson, council leader Georgia Gould and many others in a triple NHS celebration: 70 years of the NHS, 20 years of the Caversham Health Centre in Kentish Town, and two years of the “listening space” outside the centre.
January is well underway but it’s not too late to wish everyone a Happy New Year!
