Justin Tomlinson

Justin Tomlinson

North Swindon

Swindon Advertiser Column - It Was Great To Be Part Of Kemi's Exciting Campaign

Swindon Advertiser Column - It Was Great To Be Part Of Kemi's Exciting Campaign

Last week finished on a high- as part of Kemi Badenoch’s inner team, we had defied the odds to make the final 5 in the leadership contest and earnt the chance to appear in the two TV hustings over the weekend. Kemi’s strength is her authenticity - a straight-talking, no-nonsense candidate – underlined with a good sense of humour. First up was the Channel 4 debate. I could see in the opening exchanges the nerves were there, but she soon settled in and overall, there was a positive media respon...

Government And Leading Businesses Join Forces To Help Households With Cost Of Living

Government And Leading Businesses Join Forces To Help Households With Cost Of Living

Retail deals and discounts to help families over the summer holidays have been announced as part of the government’s Help for Households Campaign. Signed with some of the UK’s biggest businesses, including Asda, Morrisons, Amazon and Vodafone, these deals are designed to reduce costs at the checkout, help provide entertainment and ensure access to necessary services for families during the summer holidays and beyond. Agreed with the government’s Cost of Living Business Tsar David Buttress, the d...

Justin Attends Bliss Parliamentary Event To Support Neonatal Care (Leave and Pay) Bill

Justin Attends Bliss Parliamentary Event To Support Neonatal Care (Leave and Pay) Bill

Justin Tomlinson MP for North Swindon attended a Parliamentary event on 6 July 2022, hosted by Stuart McDonald MP and the UK’s leading charity for premature and sick babies, Bliss, to pledge their support the introduction of the Neonatal Care (Leave and Pay) Bill. The Bill was introduced to Parliament on 15 June 2022 by SNP MP Stuart McDonald, and the second reading of the Bill is on July 15 2022. Stuart, who topped this year’s Private Member’s Bill Ballot and introduced the Bill on June 15 202...

Two Million More Women In Work Since 2010

Two Million More Women In Work Since 2010

The number of working women has now reached 15.7 million – a rise of 2 million since 2010 with more women progressing into senior, higher-skilled jobs. The figures show the portion of women becoming managers, directors and senior officials has climbed almost 25% since 2010, rising by nearly a quarter of a million. Women in professional occupations is also up 40% since 2010 and almost 40% more have moved into associate professional and technical jobs like science, technology, engineering and math...

Hundreds of People Turn Out To Enjoy North Swindon MP’s Summer Activities Fair

Hundreds of People Turn Out To Enjoy North Swindon MP’s Summer Activities Fair

Hundreds of people visited the Orbital Shopping Park last weekend to enjoy the good weather and visit Justin Tomlinson MP’s Summer Activities Fair, The Summer Activities Fair is an annual event, bringing together clubs, businesses and organisations from across Swindon to showcase the events and activities on offer throughout the Summer Holidays. There were a number of different activities kindly arranged by the groups in attendance including: an acrobatic gymnastics display from Evoke Gymnast...

Swindon Advertiser Column - I'm Backing Impressive And Commanding Badenoch

Swindon Advertiser Column - I'm Backing Impressive And Commanding Badenoch

This is the 3rd leadership election I have experienced as an MP, though it is the first one I have been actively involved with. Last weekend I took the decision to resign as Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party. A position I loved but I had no choice. Those connected to CCHQ must remain neutral in the leadership contest as it is CCHQ who organise and run the ballot. However, I wasn’t elected to sit on a fence, and I knew who I wanted to proactively support. My choice from the very beginni...

Nearly £635k Extra Funding For Domestic Abuse And Sexual Violence Victims In Wiltshire Announced

Nearly £635k Extra Funding For Domestic Abuse And Sexual Violence Victims In Wiltshire Announced

Nearly £635,000 worth of funding will be used to support victims of domestic abuse in Wiltshire over the next three years after a successful bid by the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner (OPCC). The latest announcement by the Ministry of Justice, at the beginning of the month, means that funding for the services will be boosted by £211,000 a year for the next three years - and this in addition to the money the OPCC already provides and awards to services. A detailed breakdown of how the...

CapX Article: Kemi Badenoch Is An Unapologetic Conservative Who'll Always Be Straight With Voters

CapX Article: Kemi Badenoch Is An Unapologetic Conservative Who'll Always Be Straight With Voters

Last week will live long in the memory for many. Never before have we seen such scenes in Westminster. For those of us in the fray it feels like a dramatic end of an era. But for those outside of the bubble, beyond the boundaries of SW1 and away from the blow-by-blow accounts of our rolling media, the story will be viewed very differently. Political infighting sees Prime Minister toppled; meanwhile the cost of living crisis rages on, our tax burden remains at its highest in decades and is set to...

North Swindon MP Visits GWH to Welcome Site Expansion and Improvements

North Swindon MP Visits GWH to Welcome Site Expansion and Improvements

Justin Tomlinson MP spent Friday morning at Great Western Hospital to welcome the latest round of site expansions and meet with the CEO, Kevin McNamara. Justin was taken on a tour of the site to view the potential site expansion and the new Urgent Treatment Centre (UTC) alongside Kevin McNamara (CEO), Julian Auckland-Lewis (Project Manager), and Claire Thompson (Director of Partnership and Improvement). Following this, Justin joined the official UTC ribbon cutting ceremony alongside Cllrs Curtis...

Swindon Advertiser Column - A Week Is A Long Time In Politics

Swindon Advertiser Column - A Week Is A Long Time In Politics

Deep breath! As fast as I have tried to type this, events continue to overtake! When I caught the train to Parliament on Monday, I was not expecting to see a change in PM, but ‘a week is a long time in politics!’. Very quickly it became clear colleagues were unhappy, the vote of confidence only a few weeks early which in theory granted the PM 12 months grace was deemed not sufficient. Whilst I was a supporter of the PM, his ultimate resignation became inevitable as he lost the trust of colleag...