Chester MP Chris Matheson celebrates step forward in fight for sustainable housing regulations
Following a year-long campaign, Chester MP Chris Matheson has welcomed the Government consultation into changing…
Chris Matheson MP Member of Parliament for City of Chester.
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Chester MP says teachers should be ‘properly respected and valued’
Chester’s MP, Chris Matheson has criticised the government’s record on teachers pay and recruitment levels,…
Chris Matheson MP celebrates successful period dignity campaign
Chester MP, Chris Matheson has welcomed news this week that schools and colleges across England…
Chester MP hopeful for ‘real change’ to cervical screening after meeting with health officials
During his first week back in Parliament following re-election as the MP for the City…
Chris Matheson slams Government for huge rise in foodbank usage
Chris Matheson, Labour candidate for the City of Chester constituency and MP since 2015, recently…
Chris Matheson Launches Green New Deal for Chester
Chester Labour candidate, Chris Matheson, today addressed a large crowd at Chester Cross to announce…
Chris Matheson to address Chester Global Climate Strike at The Cross on Friday 29th November
Chris Matheson will address the Climate Strike Rally planned at Chester Cross on Friday (29th…
Chester’s Local Labour Candidate Chris Matheson celebrates long sought after access to life-saving cystic fibrosis medicine
After years of campaigning, children and young people in England with the life-shortening disease cystic…
Chester’s local Labour candidate Chris Matheson is calling for more ambitious cervical cancer screening targets following a national review
Chester’s local Labour candidate Chris Matheson is calling for more ambitious cervical cancer screening targets…
Blog posts
Remembrance Services in Chester
This week, we remember the brave service men and women who fought and gave their lives in both World Wars, and those who have fallen since. There are services taking place across the constituency: Chester Cathedral – This year’s Annual Service of Remembrance takes place on Sunday, November 10th. The…
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A Worse Deal than Before
The Commons sat on a Saturday last week for the first time in 37 years, as yet another Brexit precipice approached. Boris Johnson had made some changes to Theresa May’s deal with the EU, but in fact he had made it worse. He has to solve the problem of the…
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Hamilton House and the National Scandal of Homelessness
Homelessness is back in the news this week after a group of homeless people broke into the upper floors of Hamilton House and began to squat there. Hamilton House, tucked in behind Watergate Street and the Forum shopping centre, is a former council building that has been empty for some…
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Why we must not support PM’s ruse
Well it has been quite a couple of weeks In Parliament. The main focus has been around preventing a No-Deal Brexit, which the government is now intent on pushing through. No Deal would be catastrophic for the UK. Not just in the short term, as we face up to food…
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Upcoming business in Parliament
Parliament returns from recess on Tuesday next week for the September sitting, At the moment we are scheduled to sit for ten days, but that could change at any time. The main issue, of course, is whether the government will be allowed to crash the UK out of the EU…
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The Universal Right to Education
Every year, several Chester schools participate in the Send My Friend To School campaign. It is a programme that highlights the plight of children across the world who can’t access education. And the numbers are astonishing. Over 260 million children across the world are not in education. I’ll repeat that…
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