This January - like most Januaries - there is a lot in the news about the ‘winter crisis’ in our hospitals. Indeed with rates of flu and other viruses soaring, last Friday our local hospital trust...
In recent years, I haven’t watched Strictly as avidly as I used to, but I have seen enough to know that the steps of a foxtrot are slow, slow, quick, quick, slow. It struck me last week that this is akin to how Labour have been approaching their reforms..
Next week the Monday Mail will be enjoying a mince pie induced snooze, ready to return on Monday 6th January. One thing I have learnt about Parliament, is that you start the day having one plan, and by the end of it, something entirely different has...
On Tuesday I met Charlotte and Caitlin who are two of the young adult carers who wrote and perform the Christmas single ‘Love is Enough’. All funds raised from downloads and streams will go to the Carers Trust and Bath Philharmonia, so do consider...
In her weekly column for the Mid Sussex Times, Alison Bennett Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Mid Sussex, shares her concerns about how the NHS will fare this winter, and the importance of taking up the vaccines on offer.
The illegal smuggling of puppies and other pets is one of the cruellest practices imaginable. Vulnerable animals are often bred in appalling conditions, torn from their mothers too young, and crammed into vehicles for long, harrowing journeys to the UK...
Last week was a momentous week for Parliament and the country, and I expect that Friday’s vote on the Assisted Dying (End of Life) Bill will be one of the most important decisions I will take whilst I am your Member of Parliament...
Many of my constituents have written to me about the Private Member’s Bill that Kim Leadbeater tabled: ‘Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill’ and I know many more are deeply interested in this. This Bill was debated and went to a vote on Friday and...
In her weekly column, Alison Bennett, Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Mid Sussex celebrates Brighton and Sussex Medical School’s twenty year anniversary.
I spent time on Tuesday joining the farmers’ protests and meeting Mid Sussex farming families. The farmers who came to meet me wanted to tell me why they are so fearful and angry about Labour's family farm tax. For readers who aren’t farmers and want...
Last weekend, I had the privilege of joining an incredible community event at the Triangle Leisure Centre in Burgess Hill. Organised by PCaSO and the Burgess Hill District Lions, it brought together over 1,000 men for free prostate cancer screenings...
Building on my comments in last week’s email about the impact of increases to Employers’ National Insurance Contributions (NICs), this week I continued to speak to those impacted in the sector, and press ministers to think again...
