Burstow, Horne & Outwood Conservatives

06/05/2026

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05/04/2026

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25/03/2026

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19/03/2026

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Iran’s strike last night on the Ras Laffan facility in Qatar is a significant escalation. It risks a prolonged supply crunch on the global LNG market.

Yet here at home, the Chancellor says all countries must play their part in boosting oil and gas production - while her own Energy Secretary bans new drilling in the North Sea.

Ed Miliband’s position is untenable.

Those desperate to shut down our own industry will say it takes too long to get our own wells up and running. They argue it won’t make a difference to the current crisis.

This is bogus.

By autumn, Jackdaw could be producing enough gas to heat 1.6 million homes. All of it will go into our pipes.

The approval has been sat on Ed Miliband’s desk for months.

If the conflict is not resolved, we will be in for difficult times. Turning our backs on the tax revenue and extra supply from the North Sea is inexcusable.

However, so too is Ed Miliband’s other mistake.

He has spent the last two years making electricity expensive, when he should have been making it cheaper.

If you want people to use electricity to heat their homes or drive their cars, we need to address the biggest problem we have - our electricity is too expensive.

Our Cheap Power plan could have been adopted by the Government by now to cut everyone’s electricity bills by 20%.

Expensive electricity has stopped consumers from adopting technology which gives them options in energy price spikes.

We also need to cherish our industrial power.

Crippling Carbon Taxes - which have doubled because of Labour’s policies - mean we lost a third of our refineries last year alone. That makes us more reliant on imports at the worst moment.

In the longer term, renewables tie us to gas as we always need flexible power that we can ramp up when the wind stops blowing.

Yet Labour’s plan means that gas power gets four times more expensive. The Government must reinstate my plans for a third large-scale nuclear plant.

That’s why our Energy Resilience Strategy is as follows:

BACK THE NORTH SEA

MAKE ELECTRICITY CHEAP

STOP IMPOSING CRIPPLING CARBON TAXES ON INDUSTRY

DOUBLE DOWN ON NUCLEAR

18/03/2026

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It was a pleasure to bring Kemi Badenoch to Godstone today to hear from some of the local business owners who have faced so much disruption this past year.

Thank you also to everyone who came along to Friday’s public meeting on traffic management in the village. There is clearly a strong appetite for change, and I think we came away with a range of potential short and long-term options for when the road does eventually reopen - with a 20mph restriction and road narrowing the two most popular interim measures.

I’m going to put together a survey in the next week to send to all residents. I’m keen to listen to the views of the whole village and understand which ideas people would like to see prioritised in the immediate term.

What cut through in the meeting was a feeling that the collapse has accelerated the sense that the village has lost some of its community spirit. We should all feel proud of where we live, and the resilience shown by residents and local businesses over the past year is testament to that. If improved traffic management can help the village in some way to regain that sense of pride, I will do all I can to make the case to Surrey County Council.

Please keep an eye out for the survey next week. I also send out monthly updates on the collapse to keep you all up to date. You can sign-up here: https://tinyurl.com/ClaireCoutinhoGodstoneUpdates

Thank you all once again to everyone who made it and to the wonderful team at the White Hart Barn for allowing us to use their space.

12/03/2026

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28/01/2026

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14/01/2026

In just a few weeks, 200 children who question their biological s*x will be put on a puberty blocker trial.

The vast majority of those children will no longer have those feelings once they make it through their adolescence and into adulthood.

They deserve our love, care and support - not to be put on a medical pathway to lifelong infertility. The Government must stop this trial before it’s too late.

✍🏾Me in The Express

31/05/2025

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The son of one of our great late local campaigners Elwyn Blacker dropped off some old photos at the office this week.

In East Surrey, we have a rich political history. Prime Minister Lord Palmerston represented the rotten borough of Bletchingley, William Wilberforce lived in Woldingham, but did you know that Sir Geoffrey Howe once rode a donkey in the Oxted Derby? Me neither…

Looking through these photos reminds me just how proud I am to represent this treasure chest of beauty and heritage in East Surrey.