GB News Interview 18th August 2023
Priti’s interview with Patrick Christys on GB News, Friday 18th August 2023.
Priti meets with local mental health and wellbeing charity
Priti Patel, the Member of Parliament for Witham, has recently met with Liz Rotherham, the Chief Executive of local mental health charity Heads2Minds, to discuss the work they do to support people with mental health challenges. The charity, which has its headquarters in Braintree, was founded by Ms Rotherham and …
Witham MP visits Colchester Zoo to hear about its future plans
Priti Patel, the MP for Witham, has made one of her regular visits to Colchester Zoo to find out all about the plans that the Zoo is making for its future. The plans include a major expansion and becoming a registered charity from 1st January 2025. Priti began her visit …
Priti slams ULEZ expansion ‘tax grab’
The Witham MP, Priti Patel, has continued to stand up for motorists in Essex who face paying the costs of the Labour Mayor of London Sadiq Khan’s hated ULEZ tax, which will affect vehicles crossing the Greater London boundary, when it is expanded in two weeks’ time on 29 August. The £12.50 …
Anger in Ardleigh as villagers reject ‘bribes’ for pylons
Retired film-maker Christopher Hamblin is unmoved at the prospect of a lump-sum payment from developers to compensate him for the electricity pylons and cables they want to build near his village in the east of England. “That’s the trouble with these guys — they know the price of everything and …
Home Office ‘evasive’ on Wethersfield asylum plans
Witham MP Priti Patel has called on the Government to be transparent and clarify their plans for the length of time they expect the Wethersfield site to be used for asylum accommodation, following reports this weekend that the Home Office is planning to use the site for five years. The …
Rishi Sunak under mounting pressure to speed up law to protect venues against terror attacks
Rishi Sunak is under mounting pressure to bring forward promised protections against terror attacks in venues and public places. The mother of Manchester Arena victim Martyn Hett, Figen Murray, has been campaigning for a law in his name for four years, with the backing of victims of terrorism, former senior …
Priti visits award winning local business
Priti Patel, the Member of Parliament for Witham, recently paid a visit to meet staff at Facial Aesthetics, an award-winning local business based in Rivenhall. The business, which is a medical aesthetics clinic, provides a number of services as well as skincare treatments. Along with celebrating their 20th anniversary this …
Priti Patel blasts government’s ‘secretive’ five-year plan to house asylum seekers on RAF base
Former home secretary Priti Patel has accused the government of being “secretive about its intentions” to house asylum seekers on a former military base. Ministers claim that accommodating 1,700 migrants at RAF Wethersfield in Essex will be cheaper than hotels, but a leaked Home Office memo showed that “value for …
Priti Patel MP meets Managing Director of Go East Anglia to discuss Hedingham bus service concerns
Priti Patel, the Member of Parliament for Witham, visited the Hedingham Omnibuses depot in Kelvedon on Wednesday 9th August to meet with Mr Gavin Smith, Managing Director of Go East Anglia, to discuss the concerns constituents have raised in recent weeks about the school bus services provided and to visit …