2025 November

His Excellency José Pedro Aguiar-Branco, President of the Assembly of the Republic of Portugal, visited Parliament with a delegation on 4-5 November 2025, hosted by his British counterpart, the Speaker of the House of Commons, Sir Lindsay Hoyle MP. The President was accompanied at the meetings by the Ambassador for Portugal to the UK, HE

I planted a Remembrance Cross in the Garden of Remembrance on Wednesday 5 November 2025 on behalf of my constituents in Walsall and Bloxwich. All constituencies are represented. We will always remember them.

I am the Co Chair of the APPG on Publishing and was delighted by the announcement  by the Chancellor that £10million will be allocated to schools so that every primary school has a library. I have campaigned on this issue and recently conducted a survey of schools in Walsall and Bloxwich to see which schools