Hosted by UK 2020 at the Carlton House Terrace in London
With the Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith MP

26 January 2016 - Page 20-21 of Oswestry and Border Counties Advertizer

Last Friday, it was a real honour to attend the opening of the new state-of-the-art theatre and oncology building at The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital by HRH Princess Alexandra.

Read the speech to the Harvard Club in Hamburg here. 

This evening, I will be discussing Brexit at a conference in Hamburg.

Late last month, I had a meeting with officials from the Department for Transport in London. I had previously met the Transport Minister, John Hayes, in Parliament to discuss pressing transport and infrastructure projects in North Shropshire, which I campaigned for during the election in June.

Last week marked a year since 17.4 million people voted to leave the European Union. In February, 494 MPs voted to leave by triggering Article 50.

It is a great honour to be re-elected to represent the people of North Shropshire for the sixth consecutive time.

At the last General Election I promised to campaign to improve road, rail, broadband and mobile phone communications across North Shropshire. 

Rural economies are diversifying fast and Government must work with all forms of providers to improve communications.

The future of immigration policy was one of the most emotive subjects of the Brexit campaign. To the detractors on the Remain side, concerns over immigration amounted to nothing more than racism or xenophobia, but they are nothing of the kind.