In her weekly column, Alison Bennett, Liberal Democrat MP for Mid Sussex, discusses the alarming rise in water bills and the government's decision to delay county council elections, and why these decisions are a failure for Sussex residents.
In May 2025, voters were set to have their say in the county council elections, but last week the Labour government, at the request of Conservative-controlled West Sussex County Council, decided to postpone them for a year...
In her weekly column, Alison Bennett, Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Mid Sussex goes out with our local Meals on Wheels service.
More on growth, Gatwick, medical innovation in Sussex and the latest with UBAT and sixth form strikes in this weeks Monday mail
In her weekly column, Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Mid Sussex, Alison Bennett urges the government to fix the mess they have made of teacher pay across local sixth form colleges.
Today - 27th January - marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the infamous former Nazi concentration and death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. Along with people across the UK - and internationally...
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In her weekly column, Alison Bennett, Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Mid Sussex, explains why she is supporting ‘The Sunshine Bill’, a plan to make it the law for all new homes to be built with solar panels.
Sixth Form Strikes in Sussex, Blue Monday becomes Brew Monday and a march on county hall in this weeks Monday mail
Last week in Westminster, in the news and online there has been a lot of conversation about the horrifying crimes of child sexual abuse, and how we as a country go about investigating, prosecuting and preventing these atrocities from taking place.
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...
