Today, I visited Esher High School, one of our top local secondary schools. It was a great opportunity to meet the (still relatively) new headteacher, Mike Boddington, tour the school to see the impact of the expansion (now almost complete), and of course talk to local pupils. The facilities have undergone major improvement, and there […]
Read MoreOn Friday, I dropped in on Anne Cooper, Headteacher at Bell Farm Primary School (as pictured below). Ms Cooper led the school through a tough patch, taking the school from an Ofsted rating of ‘Inadequate’ to a rating of ‘Good’ in just 18 months. Ofsted singled out the senior leadership of the school for praise. […]
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Today, I have been beetling about the constituency getting back into the swing of things locally. It was a great pleasure to join our local Conservative Women’s Organisation for a lunch in Cobham. Organised by Mamta Rathore, Ruth Mitchell and Elise Dunweber, we had a terrific turnout. As well as thanking everyone for their hard-work […]
Read MoreI was delighted to be appointed by David Cameron to serve as a Justice Minister in the new government, working in a great team under Justice Secretary Michael Gove. I have been allocated the human rights reform agenda, which is an area I have worked on in the past, and care deeply about. I am […]
Read MoreIn the early hours of this morning, I was honoured to be re-elected as the MP for Esher & Walton constituency with 35,845 votes (63% of the vote share), and a majority of 28,616. (I am told this is the second highest Conservative majority in the UK, and fifth overall. Turnout was 72%, also above […]
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With polling day looming, after numerous hustings, public meetings, dawn raids on railway stations, and meeting thousands of residents, I know that both voters and candidates are pretty exhausted with the general election campaign. So, to sum up, as we enter the last 48 hours before voting, I have written a column for Conservative Home, here, on […]
Read MoreTonight, I hosted a public meeting at Churchgate house in Cobham, pictured below, with around a hundred people turning up to ask questions ranging from the economy and the local free school to the case for legalisation of drugs and the defence budget. It was my sixth public meeting in Cobham since the 2010 election, […]
Read MoreThis week was a good week for the Conservative election campaign. Following a clear win for David Cameron in the BBC Question Time Leaders’ interviews, the Financial Times and The Economist both backed him to stay PM, a further vote of confidence in our economic record. Ed Miliband’s refusal to apologise for Labour’s record of […]
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