I have always been a supporter of our police officers who do a superb job in difficult circumstances keeping our community safe.

Since I became an MP over 9 years ago, and the three and a half years before that when I was the Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for Northampton North, I have always been eager to speak to all of my constituents and hear their views and concerns.

I always enjoy visiting schools in Northampton North and over the past ten years I have done so dozens of times. I very much admire the teaching profession and take the view that a good education is a precious right for everyone.

Just nine weeks after I was promoted to the rank of Minister of State by the then Prime Minister Theresa May, and appointed as Minister of State for Transport I was, on 26th July, promoted once again by the new Prime Minister Boris Johnson to the position of Solicitor General for England and Wale

One of the responsibilities of the Solicitor General is to review what are called ‘unduly lenient sentences’ which is when a judge’s ruling on a guilty person in a Crown Court is so lenient that it is thought to be unlawful.

On Tuesday 30th July I was deeply honoured to be sworn in before the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales at the Royal Courts of Justice in London as one of Her Majesty’s Queen’s Counsel.

I think it is fair to say that my tenure as the Minister of State for Transport was a short one, being in the job for nine weeks!

On the evening of Thursday, 11th July I travelled back to Northampton from my ministerial duties in order to be the keynote speaker at Northampton Academy’s 2nd annual ‘Best in Everyone’ awards evening.

In a previous report (https://www.michaelellis.co.uk/news/michael-and-us-ambassador-strengthe…) I wrote about the fact that the USA is the single biggest foreign investor in the UK, and th

In the last fortnight I had the pleasure as Minister for Transport of launching two key new roads in a new housing development in Wellingborough called Stanton Cross.