General News

Priti writes in the Daily Express, 23 August 2018

Category: General News Published: 23rd August 2018 - 5:18 pm

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 …

Witham MP chairs Great Eastern Main Line Rail Taskforce meeting

Category: General News Published: 3rd July 2018 - 8:55 am

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

Published on 27th June 2018 Published in General NewsPublished in Local News

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 Patel to launch Get Witham Reading 2018

Published on 7th June 2018 Published in General NewsPublished in Local News

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 …

Witham MP chairs meeting for Essex businesses on International Trade

Published on 6th June 2018 Published in General NewsPublished in Local News

Witham MP, Priti Patel, chaired a meeting of the Essex Chambers of Commerce International Trade Forum on Monday evening [4 June 2018] with guest speaker Greg Hands MP, the Minister of State for Trade Policy. The meeting was well attended by a number of Essex businesses and the Minister provided …

Priti Patel chairs public rail meeting for local commuters

Published on 1st June 2018 Published in General NewsPublished in Local News

Witham MP, Priti Patel and Chair of the Great Eastern Mainline Taskforce chaired a rail meeting for local commuters with Greater Anglia and Network Rail on Wednesday evening in Witham [30 May 2018]. At the meeting, representatives from Greater Anglia and Network Rail addressed concerns from passengers about engineering works, …

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