Politics

Get the latest news and updates for local politics across the Purbeck area. We talk exclusively to your local MP’s for news at home and in Westminster.

Michael Tomlinson

Visits to Belfast and on home turf

AS always, I am writing this several weeks before publication – and today the American President is visiting Northern…

Nick Ireland

Tories can’t get policing basics right

AS the son of a police officer who served for 30 years from the early 1960s and having an…

Chris Bradey

Refugees: Reality and the rhetoric

THE Isle of Portland is a magical place, the most southerly point of the Jurassic Coast. Its scenery makes…

South Dorset MP Richard Drax, inset left, made an impassioned speech to immigration minister Robert Jenrick, inset right

WATCH: MP’s impassioned speech over plans for migrant barge off Dorset coast

A DORSET MP hit out at the Home Office and says a minister ‘has not covered himself in glory’…

Michael Tomlinson

Green light on rail crossing study

The work of a Member of Parliament covers local and national matters. Both are equally important and I take…

Chris Bradey

We must be good ancestors

I often visit the RSPB Reserve at Arne. I find peace among its trees, and although not a twitcher…

Vikki Slade

Tenants facing huge energy bills hike

IN recent months we have all seen terrifying increases in our energy bills and heard reports of households taking…

The Bibbi Altona a similar vessel to the Bibby Stockholm that is set to be installed at Portland Port. Picture: Wikipedia

Home Office reveals barge plan for 500 asylum seekers off Dorset coast

DORSET will be home to the first berthed vessel in the UK to be used to house asylum seekers. The…

Nick Ireland

Another month, yet another Budget

I recall that, once upon a time, the Budget was something that happened in the spring and a battered…

Chris Bradey

Having a home – a fundamental right

On my way for a coffee in Wareham last week, I passed a young man wrapped up in a…