Chester’s Local Labour Candidate Chris Matheson celebrates long sought after access to life-saving cystic fibrosis medicine

17 Nov 2019

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

17 Nov 2019

Chester’s local Labour candidate Chris Matheson is calling for more ambitious cervical cancer screening targets…

Residents’ Coffee Morning

07 Oct 2019

This Wednesday 9th October I am holding a coffee morning in Vicars Cross for Chester…

Chris Matheson MP discusses State Pension Inequality with 1950s Women

16 Sep 2019

Chris Matheson, MP for the City of Chester, held a discussion meeting with those affected…

“Menstrual products are a basic requirement”: Chester MP calls on all Chester employers to provide menstrual products for staff

16 Sep 2019

The MP for Chester, Chris Matheson, made a step forward in his period dignity campaign…

Housing Drop-in Surgery

12 Aug 2019

This Wednesday 14th August, Chris Matheson will be holding a special drop-in surgery for constituents…

Chris Matheson MP demands action on cystic fibrosis drugs stalemate

07 Jun 2019

Chris Matheson MP has called on Theresa May to take urgent action to allow access…

Chester MP calls for greener building regulations

07 Jun 2019

This week, Chris Matheson, MP for the city of Chester visited an ultra-low carbon house…

Funding Workshop Event

06 Jun 2019

On Friday 28th June Chris Matheson will be hosting a funding workshop event in conjunction…

Remembrance Services in Chester

07 Nov 2019

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

24 Oct 2019

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

10 Oct 2019

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

12 Sep 2019

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

29 Aug 2019

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

16 Jul 2019

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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