*Update 9/11/19: The Green Party will no longer be fielding a candidate in Cheltenham for this election; they have agreed to stand aside for the Liberal Democrats as part of a ‘Remain Alliance’ organised by Heidi Allen* It does not take a political scientist to see that most of the parties in our country have […]
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Gloucestershire MP says ‘hands off my constituency’
Gloucestershire MP David Drew is campaigning to stop his constituency being broken up. He has called on the government to drop a review of the boundaries of his Stroud parliamentary seat. Dursley and Cam could be moved to a new parliamentary area should the review go ahead. Boundary Reviews are completed every eight to twelve […]
Rage against the fruit machines: The Government’s attempt to tackle fixed odds betting
Some call them “fruit machines” – to others they’re known as the “crack cocaine of gambling”, but whatever they’re called fixed odds betting machines take billions from gamblers every single year. The problem is so severe that the government has been forced to step in. Tracey Couch, the minister of the Department for Digital, Culture, […]