Welcome to my website. I hope that you find it informative and interesting. Stoke-on-Trent is a wonderful city with a rich and proud history: birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, unique linear city of Six Towns, hub for the finest ceramics industry in the world, backdrop for Arnold Bennett’s greatest novels, host for Stoke City and Port Vale football clubs, and home to some of the warmest, hardest-working, and generous people in the country.
I am desperately proud to represent both the city and the people of Stoke-on-Trent in Parliament.
My priorities for the city are simple. I want to see private sector-led regeneration with more jobs and inward investment; an improvement in educational attainment; a world-class ceramics sector; and a more positive profile for the city.
My duty to constituents is to represent their interests at Westminster and provide an efficient and accessible service here in Stoke-on-Trent. If there is anything I can help with, as your local Member of Parliament, then please do get in touch.
“I DO not know what Nature originally made of it,” wrote JB Priestley, when he visited The Potteries in 1934, “because nearly all signs of her handiwork have been obliterated … To begin with, it is extremely ugly … The small towns straggle and sprawl in their shabby undress, following the ugly fashion of industrial small towns.”
I was fortunate to secure an adjournment debate on the ‘Bogus Back Stamping’ and the need for the ‘Made in Staffordshire’ brand to be protected. The debate can be read here.
Stoke-on-Trent was privileged to enter a garden in the prestigious, Chelsea Flower Show.
