Blog - Chris Matheson MP

What a mess.

What a mess. What a shambles. To be fair I always thought that Brexit was a dreadful idea. But even I could not have predicted the chaos we are now in. People voted to leave for a variety of reasons. Some just don’t like being in the EU and think…

UK Parliament Week

It’s Parliament Week! UK Parliament Week is a UK-wide festival taking place from 12-18 November, which aims to engage people, especially young people, from different backgrounds and communities, with the UK Parliament. This is a chance to learn more about the UK Parliament, how it works and why your voice…

The Overseas Voters Bill

When you think of the House of Commons, you most likely think of the main chamber with its green benches and raucous debate. But, as I have written previously, work is also going on elsewhere around the Parliamentary estate. On the first floor, overlooking the River Thames, is the main…

Remembrance Sunday Events

As you will know, Remembrance Sunday falls every year on the Sunday closest to 11th November, the anniversary of the Armistice that ended the First World War. And in this year, the 100th anniversary of the end of the Great War, appropriately Remembrance Sunday falls exactly on the 11th November itself. The day…

Parliamentary pub of the year

In the last couple of weeks, I have been running a public poll on my Facebook page to choose the best pub in Chester. Each year, MPs are asked to make a nomination for the Parliamentary Pub of the Year and I thought this would be a good way to…

Out of bounds

Much of the talk in Westminster this week has been about the new parliamentary constituency boundaries, published by the Boundary Commission on Monday. But even as they have been revealed, there are some doubts they will be adopted. There are two main flaws with the proposals. The first is that…

Cuts have consequences

News last week that Torbay Council in Devon has become the fourth council in England to declare emergency financial controls will come as no surprise. Many readers will have seen that Northamptonshire County Council has effectively gone bust and is now being run by Commissioners appointed by the Secretary of…

Super Trees Steve

Steve Hughes is an industrial chemist from Chester. He is also a runner – a serious runner. Steve organises the Park Run every Saturday morning in the Countess Country Park, where up to a hundred runners of all ages and all abilities take part whether to compete against their own…

100th anniversary of women having the right to vote

Parliament, indeed the whole country, has been celebrating the 100th anniversary of women having the right to vote. In fact, in 1918 it was only women over 30 who could vote, and it took another decade, to 1928, for the age that women could vote to be equalised with that…

Reflections on the Armed Forces…

For the first thirty years of my life, Northern Ireland was ever present. Every night on the news would be more depressing stories of bombings, brutal sectarian killings, or British soldiers being shot and often killed themselves. For younger generations, we still need to explain the background to this: decades…

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