Priti raises awareness of blood cancer
Witham MP Priti Patel has supported Blood Cancer Awareness Month and the Bloodwise campaign to make blood cancer visible. Blood cancer is the fifth most common cancer but the third biggest cause of cancer deaths in the UK. There are over 100 different types of blood cancer, about 240,000 people …
Priti Patel preparing the case for long term rail investment on GEML
Chair of the Great Eastern Main Line (GEML) Taskforce, Priti Patel MP, has pressed stakeholders and the Government today for significant rail investment in the Anglia region to upgrade infrastructure and improve the reliability of services for passengers [Tuesday 11 September 2018]. The Taskforce has moved into a critical phase of …
Priti writes in the Daily Express, 23 August 2018
One of the most exciting Brexit opportunities for our great country is that we will once again be able to set our own trade policy. There has been much discussion about doing deals across the world, yet less focus on why this matters to Britain. The EU’s own forecasts say …
Priti writes in The Sun “It’s time to chuck Chequers”
EXCLUSIVE by Priti Patel, former International Development Secretary and Conservative MP for Witham How in the world did we get here? After the British people voted to leave the European Union we were told “Brexit means Brexit” and that critical “red lines” would guide our negotiations with the EU. So …
Witham MP chairs Great Eastern Main Line Rail Taskforce meeting
Witham MP, Priti Patel, chaired a meeting of the Great Eastern Main Line Taskforce held in Parliament today [Monday 2 July 2018]. The Taskforce was established in 2013 to make the case for investment in the Great Eastern Main Line (GEML) and was successful in influencing the new Greater Anglia …
Witham MP pressing rail company about train services
Witham MP, Priti Patel, met with representatives from Greater Anglia on Wednesday [27 June 2018] to raise passenger concerns about rail services and ask Greater Anglia about what steps they are taking to improve their services. Priti met with Jamie Burles, Managing Director at Greater Anglia, and Jonathan Denby, Head …
Priti welcomes Royal Assent for EU Withdrawal Act
Witham MP Priti Patel has welcomed the passage of the legislation to facilitate Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union after it received Royal Assent. The European Union Withdrawal Act repeals the European Communities Act 1972, which is the legal basis for the UK’s membership of the EU. It also transposes …
Witham MP challenges Network Rail over response to rail disruption
Witham MP, Priti Patel, has challenged Network Rail over its response to the disruption experienced by passengers at London Liverpool Street last week [week commencing 11 June 2018]. Owing to a crack in a bespoke piece of track, services to and from London Liverpool Street were severely disrupted and Priti …
Witham MP holds Greater Anglia and Network Rail to account over rail disruption
Witham MP, Priti Patel, has held Greater Anglia and Network Rail to account over the disruption experienced by passengers at London Liverpool Street this week. Owing to a crack in a bespoke piece of track outside London Liverpool Street, Greater Anglia has been unable to run any services in and …
Priti Patel to launch Get Witham Reading 2018
Witham MP, Priti Patel, will launch her yearly literacy initiative Get Witham Reading in schools on Thursday 5th July 2018 to celebrate and promote reading amongst schoolchildren. First launched in 2012, Get Witham Reading is celebrating its seventh year by bringing together over a hundred schoolchildren and their parents and …