Chris Matheson MP urges Government to support Chester businesses
Chris Matheson MP has asked the Government for additional financial support for Chester businesses in…
Chris Matheson MP Member of Parliament for City of Chester.
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Last weekend I tested positive for Coronavirus. Having felt progressively more uncomfortable on Saturday and…
Chris Matheson presents city artwork to Storyhouse
Chester MP Chris Matheson has been presented with a special city artwork as a celebration…
Chester MP Backs British Farming
Chester MP Chris Matheson has lent his support to the Back British Farming campaign, which…
Chris Matheson presses Government on NHS Immigration charges
Chester MP Chris Matheson is calling for action to exempt the NHS from charges to…
Chris Matheson MP presses for aviation industry support
Chester MP Chris Matheson has spoken out about the need for a support package for…
Chester MP concerned about unemployment figures
Chris Matheson MP has expressed concern about figures which show the current scale of unemployment…
Chris Matheson MP urges employers to protect workers
Chester MP Chis Matheson is encouraging employers to ensure the wellbeing of their workers as…
Chester’s MP Chris Matheson urges Government to properly fund free school meals
Chester’s local Labour MP, Chris Matheson, is calling on the government to address the gap…
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Personal update
Last weekend I tested positive for Coronavirus. Having felt progressively more uncomfortable on Saturday and Sunday I drove to Deeside Industrial Estate, took the test and got the results back on Monday. I had had a bad chest and cough, a headache and my muscles ached so it was…
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The Overseas Operations Bill
Last week in Parliament, amidst the all the coronavirus statements, we had the Second Reading (that’s the first general debate and vote) of the Overseas Operations Bill. This is the proposed law to protect our servicemen and women from multiple vexatious claims arising from their conduct when in combat. A…
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Getting back on our feet
With Parliament in recess, August should be the time for MPs to get out and about in our constituencies. It is a great time to visit businesses and community groups, church groups and local campaign organisations. But of course, this summer that isn’t really possible. We are still in the…
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The Fight for Our Rights
We are a long time from when Barbara Castle – the then Labour government’s Employment Minister – had a meeting with the women of Ford’s Dagenham plant in 1968 during their strike over equal pay. We were reminded of this important moment in history in recent years by the 2010…
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Airbus redundancies
The news that Airbus are cutting 1700 jobs in the UK came as a terrible blow. And hearing that 1400 of those job losses will be at Broughton has rammed home the severity of the situation we are in. Airbus management want to achieve these cuts through voluntary redundancy but…
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Embracing our common humanity
My email inbox has been dominated in the past week by two issues, ostensibly one international and one local. But it is not as simple as that. Internationally, I have been shocked by the events in the USA, prompted by the death of George Floyd at the hands of police.…
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