News Guardian Articles - Alan Campbell MP for Tynemouth

More to fishing than the catch

Even with the great uncertainty about what will happen after any deal to leave the EU the Government still needs to put in place alternative arrangements. So it was that the Fisheries Bill passed its first stages in the Commons last week as Ministers seek a new framework for managing…

Time is running out

Churchill said the reward of victory is responsibility. Yet what followed the First World War was hardly a land fit for heroes and two decades later Europe was plunged into a second civil war – that’s why Churchill was so keen on increasing European cooperation. So it’s ironic that at…

Too little, too late

It seems appropriate that in the week before Bonfire Night the Chancellor’s Budget has proved to be a damp squib. It wasn’t as if there hadn’t been plenty of hype beforehand. The Prime Minister had announced an end to austerity, her Chancellor spoke only of austerity coming to an end.…

Schools need proper funding

The opening of the new Backworth Park Primary School provided a timely reminder of the importance of a good environment in which children can learn. Strong leadership, excellent staff and supportive governors and parents all matter and they need and deserve the best schools we can provide. What is also…

The thin blue line is getting thinner

I recently signed up for Northumbria Police’s “Give a Day to Policing” an excellent initiative designed to keep MP’s up to speed with policing in their area. My “day” was in three parts. The first was spent with the Safeguarding Team and I visited a specialist unit in Newcastle where…

Tough times for Public Sector

In usual times Parliament would be looking towards an autumn budget but these are not usual times. The expected economic fall out from Brexit means the Chancellor has yet to set a date for his Statement. There is however no shortage of advice. Many constituents have contacted me about an…

Concerns raised over medical supplies

My colleague Mary Glindon was absolutely right to raise concerns over NICE plans to limit access to drugs on cost grounds. But there are other concerns worrying people with some long term conditions. There are 4.6 million people living with diabetes in the UK. In the next fifteen years a…

A nation of shopkeepers

Napoleon once mocked England as a nation of shopkeepers. I prefer to see shopkeepers and shopworkers as pillars of our community and I’m spending part of the summer recess campaigning for some of their causes. Shop theft remains one of the biggest challenges to local shops and their staff, costing…

The NHS at 70

Like most families mine had its stories of lives cut short and blighted before the creation of the NHS. So I need no encouragement to celebrate the 70th anniversary of one our greatest institutions. Early in the summer recess I visited the new specialist hospital at Cramlington. I’m familiar with…

Policing at the Coast

When anti-social behaviour broke out in Cullercoats earlier this year concerned residents met to discuss their fears for the summer. Ironically the long hot weeks have seen a steady stream of visitors and so the spikes which can be difficult to manage have not happened. I have met the police…

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