Great to welcome @dannychambers.bsky.social and team for an evening of tabletop gaming with a brilliant Star Trek RPG 🖖 It’s also Independents’ Month, so here’s a big thank you to everyone who supports independent businesses. Every visit makes a difference. #IndependentsMonth #LoveLocal #Winchester

2 years on from the 2024 General Election, I'm still working hard to represent my constituents. Governments and Prime Ministers - they come and go, but my job stays exactly the same - fighting for the people of #Winchester and the Meon Valley.

Score for Liberal Democrat Home Affairs spokesperson @maxwilkinson.bsky.social The Government is now letting pubs stay open for this weekend’s game after he raised the issue in Parliament today! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Week Two on the Health Bill Committee coincided with the heatwave. @helenmorganlibdem.bsky.social and I spent hours pushing for action on dental deserts, guaranteeing GP appointments and fixing social care. Stay tuned for our next update.

This June, healthcare was a big focus for me. I challenged Keir Starmer once again at PMQs to tackle our #NHS repair backlog and invest in #Winchester's hospital. I also asked the Home secretary about how her policies could lead to NHS staff shortages.

Nigel Farage: half a million promoting gold, £5 million 'reward' for Brexit, £100k for Cameo videos. While people are struggling, Farage is grifting.

Last week was English Wine Week! It was brilliant to join the team for Longdown Vineyard to celebrate their launch. To bring this energy to Parliament, I also tabled a motion celebrating our local vineyards: edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo...

Animal abuse is an early identifier for domestic abuse. Currently, if someone abuses an animal, there is nothing to stop them buying a new pet and no register available to police. By clamping down hard on deliberate animal abuse, we can protect families, children and animals from future harm.

Britain should be the safest country in the world to have a baby. The Ockenden and Amos Review have confirmed what we feared: women, babies and staff are being let down. The details are absolutely harrowing. After 14 reviews, we need action to keep families safe.

When I first became an MP, there were 500,000 children on mental health waiting lists. Now there's a million. Mental health should be treated as seriously as physical health. We need urgent action from the government to ensure no child is left on a waiting list for years.

Ed Davey calls to rejoin the EU Single Market to grow our economy And explains why Free Movement of People benefits Britons Starmer could have done the same, instead he adopted his island of strangers nonsense along with his growth-stunting red lines

It was lovely to attend the Evensong Celebration with Winchester City Chaplaincy and the Wellbeing Café and Hub at Winchester Cathedral!

What change would you make to the NHS? On the Health Bill Committee, we are able to vote for and against crucial changes to the NHS, as well as putting forward our own ideas.

Despite a record-breaking heatwave, it was amazing to see more than 60 MPs, Peers & #TeamVet colleagues pledge support for #VSAReform at our @houseofcommons.parliament.uk event this week. Huge thanks to event sponsor, vet & MP Neil Hudson. Read more about the event: www.bva.co.uk/news-and-blo...

The Government needs to be boosting our economy by joining the single market and building stronger relationships with our European neighbours. The Conservatives' Brexit deal costs us £90 billion annually. If you had an extra £90 billion, how would you spend it?

Reminder now it's getting hot again... ⬇️

Today's resignation speech was a tough watch. We are now getting our seventh prime minister in ten years. There is no point changing leader if you do not change plans, so whoever becomes PM must focus on social care, boosting the economy and defence spending.

The Health and Education Select Committees want to hear from you about challenges facing young people's mental health. Fill in the survey, get your voice heard. Link here: forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Summer Solstice ☀️

Meet Omelette, who enjoys excellent care from the pupils and staff at Otterbourne Primary School. It was lovely to visit and see their Pupil Parliament in action. it's a fantastic idea and I loved hearing from them about everything they've achieved this year and their plans for the future.

Today, we are calling for a bold new deal with Europe that will make Britain richer, safer, and stronger. A Customs Union. Taking Britain back into the Single Market. Tearing down barriers to trade. It’s time to end the chaos and put Britain back at the heart of Europe.

Over the next couple of weeks, I will be spending hours going through the new Health Bill line by line. Being on the Health Bill Committee also means meeting many organisations, including with the Institute of General Practice Managers. Watch this space for updates!

It has been over four years since Putin's illegal invasion of Ukraine. I urged Ministers to keep up pressure on Russia and not water down any sanctions on Russian oil, so we can ensure that we are not sending money to Putin's war machine.

We need buses, not barristers. Hampshire County Council is prepared to spend up to £500,000 on a judicial review of local government reorganisation but not prepared to ensure that children have a safe way to get to school. I will keep fighting to save the Henry Beaufort School bus!

The Government has finally banned AI girlfriends and boyfriends. No child should be engaging with a machine like an AI chatbot for a relationship, it is misleading and dangerous. While there is still lots more to do to regulate these bots to keep children safe online, this is a welcome first step.

You can only treat a patient correctly if you get the diagnosis right. This morning I gathered local experts to discuss how Winchester Micro Lab is leading the way with their excellent work to show that care can and should be provided in the community, at the point of need.

What is one thing men do best? Dad jokes. This Men's Health Week, I wanted to shed light on what we can celebrate, but also what we must do better to take care of our health. Early intervention saves lives, so do not put off going to the GP. Add your favourite dad joke in the comments:

I met with independent booksellers in Parliament to discuss business rates and rising costs. I'll be raising these issues during Independent Bookshop Week. We have brilliant bookshops in Winchester doing well in a tough economy. I want to see independent sellers thrive everywhere in the country.

AI chatbots, often integrated into social media, need regulation to stop them giving out inaccurate and dangerous medical advice. I joined @kitbradshaw.bsky.social on ITV to talk about what the @libdems.org.uk would do to tackle the problem.

The Prime Minister must stop begging tech companies to tackle child sexual abuse material and take decisive action to protect children online. @munirawilson.bsky.social, @dannychambers.bsky.social, @carolinevoadenmp.bsky.social

It was great to join Professor Kordo Saeed for this Winchester Rotary event in support of @endpolionow.bsky.social. From battlefields to hospitals across Europe, antimicrobial resistance is one of the greatest threats we face. But by taking a 'One Health' approach we can stop the next pandemic.

Scientists have spent over 50 years searching for it, and now it's official: Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way, is blowing a powerful, hot cosmic wind into space! 🌌 1/3

Do you trust big tech companies with children's safety online? Keir Starmer is giving tech companies three months to stop children seeing and sharing explicit content online, or he will change the law. Why is the Prime Minister begging tech companies for change? He should be leading. Not pleading.

We're all far more likely to be treated by immigrants working for our #NHS than we are to be waiting in queue behind them. Staff in our local hospital come from 104 countries. I urged the Home Secretary to reflect on how her immigration reforms could seriously impact our NHS and social care.

Children's mental heath is in crisis. We need to protect children from addictive algorithms, which often push inappropriate content for under-16s. An age-rating system would help protect young people and put pressure on the big tech companies to improve content moderation.

Our armed forces were hollowed out by the previous Conservative Government. We now have a war in Ukraine, conflict in the Middle East and Trump in the White House. We need urgently to boost defence. A Defence Bonds programme would allow us to reach 3% of GDP spending on defence by 2030.

Financial abuse is a form of domestic abuse. A parent that refuses to attend court leaves the other stuck in this loop of abuse, with no means of escaping. That is why I raised a case with the Solicitor General to look at how parents who fail to show up to court evade prosecution.

Pet flea treatments sold in supermarkets are washing pesticides into Britain's rivers and chalk streams, endangering aquatic life like our Atlantic salmon. The Minister needs to regulate these sales to keep our riverways safe.

Conservatives promised hospitals, but never delivered. Now, the Labour Government has spent millions on a new site where a hospital may never even be built 20 years from now. If we can find the money for that, surely we can find the money to save Winchester's hospital, that needs fixing right now.

Local pharmacies are a brilliant resource that keeps pressure off GPs and allows patients to receive help on the high street. I spoke today in a debate to urge the Government to implement a long-term sustainable funding model for pharmacies so that we can keep our pharmacies open.

It's no surprise that when cost margins are so tight, farmers feel they have no choice but to find every way possible to make the numbers add up. Nobody is getting a fair deal if people can’t afford healthy British food and producers can’t make a profit producing it to high welfare standards.

Great advice from vet & MP @dannychambers.bsky.social! Heatstroke can be fatal for our dogs, so walk them early morning or late evening in this weather. Find out how to spot the early signs of heatstroke and what to do in an emergency: www.bva.co.uk/news-and-blo... #DogsDieOnHotWalks #heatwave

Wishing Rafferty the very best of luck for tonight's Britain's Got Talent Final! He is an incredible talent and has certainly done all of us in Winchester proud. Best of luck Rafferty, we are all rooting for you!

💧 It's taken almost two years for this government to announce any kind of plan to sort out the water industry. It's time to stop the delays, stop watering measures down and start taking action. @libdems.org.uk have been presenting strong proposals that this government should listen to.

A quick reminder that no dog died from missing a walk, but many dogs have died as a result of being exercised in hot weather! I've treated many dogs with heat stroke and it is often fatal. There's loads more useful info on preventing and treating heatstroke at Veterinary Voices UK!

When people like Trump put anti-science ideologues in charge of public health and cut humanitarian funding, outbreaks get harder to stop. If we stand by and watch, it will only become more difficult and more expensive. We should be stepping up to help stop this as much as we can.

Tackling harmful social media, providing suitable provision for SEND in schools, and ensuring ADHD and autism are promptly diagnosed, would massively help young people and save us a lot of money. If we can get education and healthcare right from the very start of a child’s life, everyone benefits.

"Free bus tickets for young people" (actual bus services not included)

#Brexit has cost us billions in lost trade and left us with a stagnant economy. Our amendment to the King's Speech called on the government to start negotiating a new customs union with the EU to cut import costs and help bring prices down for everyone.

You can’t fight a war without investing in your military. You can’t end a war without investing in diplomacy. Cutting the diplomatic team leading the UK response to Trump’s idiotic war is idiotic. Yet Rachel Reeves “prioritises” de-escalation… www.bloomberg.com/news/article...