Chi will be meeting with Newcastle City Council on Wednesday 3rd August to discuss the proposals for the Blue House roundabout which will see parts of Little Moor Dukes Moor turned into a new roundabout.
Chi will be voicing …
Dear Newcastle
I always enjoy returning to Newcastle after Parliament breaks up for recess but this year it is a relief as well as a pleasure! Westminster is reeling from two months of unprecedented turmoil – and the country is also suffering …
Mariana Mazzucato on the North East and the EU
Chi sat down to speak to Mariana Mazzucato this week on why the North East should vote to remain IN the European Union.
Mariana is a leading economist: a Professor in the Economics of Innovation at the University of Sussex. …
Dear Newcastle
The football season ends with Newcastle relegated to the Championship League for the second time under Mike Ashley, and yet beating Tottenham 5 1. That’s a lot for fans to take on board and demotion will undoubtedly impact the heart …
Dear Newcastle
Almost four months into 2016 and it’s still not clear if it’s winter or spring or whether Newcastle will be a premiership club next season. The political weather is equally uncertain.
In March the Government were prevented from overturning the …
Dear Newcastle
It has been a wet Christmas and New Year with flooding in many places but thankfully not in Newcastle Central. I hope everyone managed to enjoy a few days rest and relaxation as 2015 ended, I know my emails were …
Dear Newcastle
Dear Newcastle
It is over two months since I wrote to you and in that time so much has happened. By the time some of you read this Parliament will have decided whether to endorse airstrikes on Syria. I am …
Chi thoughts on Syria and voting intention
Dear Newcastle Central Constituents
I have spent much of the weekend considering how I will vote on the question of whether the UK should extend airstrikes against Daesh/ISIS from Iraq to Syria, seeking out and weighing the evidence and the …
Dear Newcastle September 2015
Dear Newcastle
Well this summer you could say the political weather has been even more changeable than the real weather. After a long and gruelling summer campaign Jeremy Corbyn was overwhelmingly elected as leader by a huge new membership and …
Dear Newcastle
Dear Newcastle: July 2015
Last weekend’s Pride festival was a great example of our city coming together – on the Town Moor of course – to celebrate diversity, unity, culture – and to party. There was a great atmosphere and …