Dr Luke Evans MP urges Government to reverse family farm tax which “devastated” farmers Monday, 4 November, 2024 Dr Luke Evans, Member of Parliament for Hinckley and Bosworth, has attacked the Chancellor’s changes to Agricultural Property Relief and accused the Labour Government of “taking an axe to the trunk of family farming in the UK.” In the Autumn Budget on 30th October 2024 the new Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, announced the Government would scrap Agricultural Property Relief for farms valued over £1... Local News
Dr Luke's Weekly Update - 5 December 2020 5th December 2020 This week has been a momentous week in the fight against COVID as the first of hopefully several vaccines has been approved for public use. I’m sure that most... Local News
Dr Luke's Weekly Update - 28 November 2020 28th November 2020 This week in parliament has understandably been dominated by the Government’s proposals for local tiers after the end of this second national coronavirus... Local News
Dr Luke's Weekly Update - 21 November 2020 21st November 2020 Over the past few months I have received many emails from constituents who are passionate supporters of Leicester Tigers and other rugby clubs who were... Local News
Dr Luke's Weekly Update - 14 November 2020 14th November 2020 A number of local people have been in touch with me over the past week with concerns they have about fireworks. Some people, understandably, have missed the... Local News
Dr Luke's Weekly Update - 7 November 2020 7th November 2020 This week has understandably been dominated by the debate and vote on the Government’s second lockdown to help us defeat coronavirus. Many of you have been in... Local News
Dr Luke's Halloween Update - 31 October 2020 31st October 2020 Parliament has been in recess this week which means that the day to day business of the House of Commons, for example the debates that you see in the chamber or... Local News
Dr Luke's Weekly Update - 24 October 2020 24th October 2020 It’s been another busy week in Westminster made slightly more complicated than I had at first anticipated by waking upon on Monday morning with potential Covid... Local News
Dr Luke's Weekly Update - 17 October 2020 17th October 2020 This week the Government announced their new local COVID alert system to tackle the long predicted second spike in the virus. It’s important that we have a... Local News
Dr Luke's Weekly Update - 10 October 2020 10th October 2020 It’s not every day that you get speak to the head of the NHS but after recently writing an article for the News Statesman magazine about the health service... Local News
“We will empower police to tackle scourge of violent knife crime,” pledges PM 19th November 2019 A Boris Johnson majority government would take a tough new approach to tackling knife crime and serious violence. National News
Life will mean life for child murderers 19th November 2019 Adults who murder children will be imprisoned for life, without parole, under tough new justice plans to be introduced by a Conservative majority Government. National News
Corbyn’s Pension Tax to cost savers £11,000 and force millions to delay retirement 18th November 2019 New analysis of Corbyn’s tax raid on pensions reveals that 10 million savers could lose an average of over £11,000 and be forced to delay retirement by almost... National News
Labour’s Brexit Policy: Even More Chaos and Indecision 18th November 2019 As per usual, Labour are only offering more talk, more delay and more indecision on Brexit. National News
Prime Minister Boris Johnson's CBI Conference speech 18th November 2019 Read the Prime Minister's speech from the CBI Conference here. National News
Boris Johnson: End the Brexit uncertainty so we can get on with business 17th November 2019 The Prime Minister has unveiled a package of measures designed to help business make the most of Brexit. National News