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Statement on the Prime Minister

This is a statement which I've drawn up to answer everyone who's emailed me over the last two or three weeks and those who've been messaging me with various questions both today (about the Conservative MPs Vote of Confidence on the PM).

CityFibre works in Gloucester

Residents know City Fibre is installing the lines across our city so that every resident and business has access to SuperFastBroadband. Weโ€™ll be one of the first cities/towns in the SW to have this option available for us as a result.

Nazanin and Hope

We needed some good news and got it yesterday.
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Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoussheh Assouri are back from Iranian jail, where they were effectively hostages for a very long time - in Nazaninโ€™s case for 6 years.
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Speech on defending open societies

If the story of the last century is of authoritarian invasions, underestimating the resolve of the West to unite and defend open societies, then it is both bizarre and tragic the same lesson has to be reinforced in this century. But we now know the same resolve is needed again.