It’s brilliant when local people with huge knowledge and experience from other walks of life put themselves forward as council candidates and want to use their skills to help make our area an even better place to live.

Today postal votes are landing across Teesside. I joined Councillor Steve Turner at Redcar and Cleveland Council to set out local Conservatives’ positive plan to deliver a better future in partnership with Ben Houchen, our fantastic Tees Valley Mayor!

Everyone who was involved in making the Klondike such a fantastic celebration of our area on Sunday deserves a huge thank you, I hope everyone enjoyed their day as much as I did!

It was great to join so many friends for the amazing East Cleveland Klondike today - including lots of Conservative council candidates at the heart of their communities.

Many of you will have seen the shocking photos of the shop break-ins from Guisborough over the last two nights.

Lots of Nunthorpe residents are concerned about school parking, which affects not only parents but anyone who struggles to get into and out of their homes at peak times.

This April we mark the 50th anniversary of the Continuous At Sea Nuclear Deterrent, and it was a privilege to pay tribute to thousands of submariners on behalf of our constituency in Parliament this week.

Over the last couple of years, we’ve become used to the drumbeat of good news stories about our local economy. Government backing for this giant new power station is another really important example.

The Government is in talks with Labour about their proposal for a Customs Union with the EU after we leave. It is still very unclear what will emerge from those talks - there is a reasonable chance nothing will - but I have warned this would be totally unsuitable for our country.

Yesterday I argued in favour of improving access to medical cannabis oils to help treat youngsters living with severe epilepsy. I’ve had some very powerful meetings with the parents of children who can fit dozens of times a day at my surgery over the last two years.