Opinions

After a year’s break due to Covid-19, the 2021 Conservative Party Conference was a welcome opportunity to once again raise the profile of our work in Stoke-on...

Perhaps not the most exciting of subjects to write about, but a good opportunity to share how we’ve been addressing procurement at Stoke-on-Trent City Council...

There’s an ongoing lingual gentrification battle in Stoke-on-Trent - it revolves around how certain words are pronounced, such as book, look and scone. As any...

One issue that has been at the forefront of political debate in Stoke-on-Trent this year has been children’s social care and the rising number in the care of...

In between campaigning, I managed to find five minutes to have a chat with LGiU about what I think is at stake for local government in the forthcoming general...

Over the last few years, I’ve taken part in increasingly more events and fringes at Conservative Party Conference, becoming increasingly aware that outside the...

I have written occasionally in the past about the increase in Conservative councillors in Stoke-on-Trent, and although our recent gains in the local elections...

Age is a funny business. One minute you’re young and keen, changing the world by nagging your parents to get rid of CFC sprays and recycle paper, and the next...

My first Personally Speaking column for the Sentinel talks about the administration’s ambitions for the next four years, and a little bit about me! Just over 50...