What has Richard Graham been up to today?
Richard Graham is MP for Gloucester and a member of the Conservative party.
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Thank you @RichardGrahamUK for being a tireless advocate in the fight against #vawg. Amazing work from many local Gloucester partners working together and supported by @ukhomeoffice funding to support victims and prevent crime https://twitter.com/richardgrahamuk/status/1541363608436760576
Great that Minister @redditchrachel came to #Gloucester to share Home Office plans legislation re VAWG & hear local challenges & experience hosted by @TheNelsonTrust & Butlers. Huge progress & more to come eg onspiking. Thx charities Maisie Cllrs Police & GCC for vital input
Heartwarming reunions by families of Polish & British airmen WW2 as Polish Academy #Gloucester renamed after Wing Cdr Piotr Laguna RAF by his son. Campaign to rebuild Laguna Spitfire continues & strong
🇬🇧 🇵🇱 partnership must endure - bilateral, multilateral, NATO & helping 🇺🇦
Great that Minister @redditchrachel came to #Gloucester to share Home Office plans legislation re VAWG & hear local challenges & experience hosted by @TheNelsonTrust & Butlers. Huge progress & more to come eg onspiking. Thx charities Maisie Cllrs Police & GCC for vital input
Ground breaking on c£105m #TheForum redevelopment former bus station #Gloucester. Strong partnership Reef plc, @kiergroup & @GloucesterCity: Tesco relocating to new premises & Grosvenor Hse coming down 2022. New Hub in Clarence St opening soon #GloucesterOnTheUp
Honoured to start 9th Gloucester 10k Run #GloucesterPark. Organised again by Nigel Tillott/Davies & Partners, with G Quays Rotary & sponsored this year by @EGCarterCoLtd 800 runners inc 2 honeymooners ran past some of our city’s great heritage for good causes inc @GWAAC
Strong presence in Gloucester #ArmedForcesDay2022 all services inc cadets @GlosPoppy, @HQARRC Brig Kevin Copsey & Gurkhas. Thank you organisers, stall holders @SoldiersofGlos & all who came to support & maybe join our Armed Forces (& to the rain for mostly staying away)
👋 Thank you @RichardGrahamUK for your support! #MoreInCommon
Join the Great Get Together this weekend ⬇️
http://www.greatgettogether.org/2022
Train strikes this week are bad for everyone who travels for work, study or visit, as well as the staff of leisure/retail business. RMT union action damages our economic recovery & trust in rail travel. And no political party should be supporting such a national own goal
The NHS has plenty of challenges. But the back log of elective surgery is coming down & cancer waiting times improving @gloshospitals performing better on both than other SW hospitals. Focus now is on reducing patients who don’t need to be in GRH to free up space for those who do
✅📉Great news that the number of people waiting more than two years for NHS treatment in England has dropped by 2/3rds since February. @DHSCgovuk @SajidJavid is tackling the Covid backlogs so more patients can access care more quickly. 👇
Since the Emperor Nerva’s urban regen from AD97 #Gloucester has been a Must Visit city. Masses of surprises old & mod. Join @GlosCivicTrust walking tour, visit @MuseumOfGlos @SoldiersofGlos @gloswaterways @GlosCathedral @LlanthonybyGlos Reserve the date: #GlosHistFest2022 3-18Sep
A decade ago I helped encourage the creation of @RotaryGlosUK Community Awards & a joy to see 17 good local causes eg St Catherine’s English classes, Westgate Activities Group & Windrush Meals awarded funding by High Sheriff Dusty Miller & visit Hundred Heroines #CommunityMatters
Fantastic Friday community togetherness Oxstalls #Gloucester 120 organisations at #BigHealthWellbeing. Showcased depth of resource for physical/mental health, inc school immunity prog: backed by strong focus on inclusivity & anti hate crime. Much to do & much commitment to do it
Reconnecting as Trade Envoy for Indonesia with 3 Ministers, Governor of Jakarta, Econ DSG ASEAN, Dep Speaker Parlmt, CEOs MRT, Trans JKT & Jakpro on partnerships in security, transport, renewable energy, waste & educn. Great 🇬🇧🇮🇩 progress pre G20 #Dimanaadakemauandisituadajalan
Menhan RI @prabowo Subianto menerima kunjungan kerja Richard Graham MP, Utusan Dagang Perdana Menteri (PM) Inggris untuk ASEAN, bertempat di kantor Kemhan RI, Jakarta, Senin (13/6).
@Kemhan_RI @RichardGrahamUK @DubesInggris
#IDM #IndonesiaInggris #Pertahanan #Militer
Another great Malaysia-UK partnership moving forward after our discussions in KL. This could position CapitalA @airasia & Malaysia at the forefront of aerospace technology with Bristol based @VerticalAero
The links started when @tonyfernandes_ studied in the UK
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We were delighted to welcome Tony Fernandes to Vertical HQ where our founder, Stephen gave Tony a tour of our full scale VX4 model. With a shared ambition to revolutionise air travel for everyone, we're excited for our partnership with @airasia to continue for years to come
The revelations about cover ups of critical errors at NE Ambulance Service mean cultural changes called for in NHS Leadership Review even more urgent, as I highlighted to to Health Secretary @sajidjavid
Forty years ago today Ronald Reagan’s words in our Parliament inspired a generation – and the pull of democracy is as relevant today as it was then https://www.politicshome.com/thehouse/article/forty-years-ago-ronald-reagans-words-inspired-a-generation-his-belief-in-democracy-is-still-as-relevant-today-82982
I welcome any & all constituents mailing me your views on the VoteofNoConfidence this eve. As always your mail will be treated in confidence & I hope you will respect my right to privacy on private letters to 22 Cttee Chair & how I vote in a secret ballot
Our Queen, for anyone who wants to know her
On a weekend of Queen anecdotes, this won't be matched. Just lovely.
So the Platinum Jubilee Test v NZ won in style with a hundred by Joe Root, who also becomes joint (with Alistair Cook) youngest batsman to reach 10,000 Test runs. What a day for him, the Ben Stokes led team & 🏴.
I sense a purr of approval from Windsor Castle..
WHAT A MAN!! 🦁🦁🦁
A huge win to start the summer!
🏴 #ENGvNZ 🇳🇿
An Even Greener Gloucester lies ahead, as my mini video for #WorldEnvironmentDay explains
(Thx @CEN for filming in Victoria Tower Gardens, the green space beside Parliament & the R Thames)
On #WorldEnvironmentDay, CEN MPs are looking ahead to the UN's next nature summit, COP15. 🌳🌍
With UK leadership, we can set global targets to halt the decline of nature and revive the world's biodiversity.
There is #OnlyOneEarth. We can and must restore our planet.
Yesterday shone as brightly in honour of HMQueen’s 70 years of unstinting service as so many across the world would have wished
#HM70
Holding the Gloucester #TallShipsFestival during #PlatinumJubilee is Union Jacks & corgis (see Cherie’s wing mirror) meets rigging & pirates
Our beacon atop Robinswood Hill #Gloucester a huge gathering of constituents old & young (& dogs). Thx Council, Park Rangers, all who lugged the beacon up, RM piper, cadets, Bish etc & Town Crier Alan. Across UK several 000 beacons cherishing a special moment #PlatinumJubilee
Look closely at Jimmy Anderson’s bowling figures, against NZ (the world’s top rated side). 2 wickets for no runs off 4 overs. The legend continues..
#Gloucester gets ready to party #PlatinumJubilee
Platinum Jubilee #Gloucester: traditional lamprey (well Gloucester Old Spot pork now) pie to HM Queen via Lord Lieutenant, #TallShipsFestival & street parties galore. More details on http://www.richardgraham.org #GodSaveTheQueen
Back from first visit to Malaysia since 2019. Great catch ups @weekasiongmp @DrAdhamBaba @dswjtj @tonyfernandes_ @n_izzah & more. Opportunities now to move on TPP ratification, MRT3 tenders, political reform & tech/green agenda. HMG/UKplc/WFD ready to work bersama
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There are well known problems moving patients from our GRH when ready (freeing up beds). Main cause is too few domiciliary care workers to help at home. But progress being made on specific changes & an external review aimed at @gloshospitals doing more faster. We shd back both
We’ve issued a statement in response to a misleading and inaccurate story about the Emergency Department at GRH in a national tabloid newspaper today.
Read the full response here: https://www.gloshospitals.nhs.uk/about-us/news-media/press-releases-statements/inaccurate-media-report/
Good to see friends old & new celebrating Malaysia’s 65th anniversary.I welcomed Plantations Min Zuraida Kameussin & many others as 🇬🇧 🇲🇾 bersama vital to so much from forestry commitments to Battersea Power Stn project completion & security/5PDA agmt & trade/investment
Great news for @kaminajsmith
🇬🇧 🇯🇲 relations & wider Commonwealth family
With a month to go until the Commonwealth comes together in Rwanda, delighted to confirm the UK will support @kaminajsmith’s campaign to be the next Secretary General.
She has the vast experience & support to unite our unique family of nations and seize the opportunities ahead.
When we launched with @DWP the first Disability Confident gathering in #Gloucester & then aspired to get a million people with disabilities into work by 2027, I never expected that this would have been achieved by 2022. Altho always more to do, we can all welcome this..
Putin’s greatest achievement so far in the invasion of Ukraine: Finland & Sweden deciding to join NATO, with strong UK support
Finnish Parliament vote on @NATO:
YES 188
NO 8.
Historic.
The differences between European nations on how to respond to the invasion of Ukraine are growing into a significant chasm
BREAKING:
European Commission, France and Germany all announced that European energy companies should be allowed to pay for gas in rubles at a closed meeting between EC representatives and EU diplomats in Brussels on late Friday evening.
Poland & the Netherlands were outraged.
Proper news at last..
The Minchinhampton cows are back out grazing 🐮🤩
Polish Heritage Day #Gloucester enwrapped our historic partnerships RAF & GCHQ, Polish residents contribution today eg @CllrJaro as well as national togetherness in NATO & on helping Ukraine. Music & dance, while dealing with & preparing for the worst
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This article (& book) gets to the heart of any health system and especially NHS challenges - and post pandemic there are plenty. We put our nurses & doctors on a pedestal to clap & then complain bitterly about system failures. We all have to do better
Doctors and nurses are exhausted and the NHS is crying out for renewal. Read the first extract from my new book: ‘Zero: eliminating unnecessary deaths in a post pandemic NHS’ in the Sunday Times today: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/16d7506a-d2dc-11ec-b39a-dd0cbc8c6f6d?shareToken=af3bf6d22812678df16e9dd995f8bfe5
Congratulations to new Philippines President Ferdinand Bongbong Marcos on his overwhelming electoral victory. This is a new chapter in a different era, not a replay of the 80s when I lived there. Our work strengthening 🇬🇧🇵🇭 ties never more important
Key Indonesian govmt visitors this Spring: Foreign Min Retno Marsudi, Invmt Minister Bahlil Lahadalia & JKT Governor Anies Baswedan for 🇬🇧 🇮🇩 Roadmap 2022-2025 & three business MoUs on electric batteries, buses and Jakarta MRT extension. Forward green tech together!
Much of the Financial Services & Markets Bill in the Queen’s Speech will help the sector while invisible to many. But this pledge to reimburse victims of fraud - a rising crime too many constituents know all about - will be widely appreciated
It will also ensure that legislation is passed to enable the payments regulator to require banks to reimburse victims of authorised push payment fraud, which currently totals hundreds of millions of pounds each year.
40 years ago next month then President Ronald Reagan made a great, prescient & far reaching speech on the challenge of our times in UK’s Parliament. The ‘Westminster speech’, in full, is on the walls of the @IRIglobal 1/3
Our @WFD_Democracy team had great meetings y’day with US govmt & democracy org reps - also good to see Ukrainians & meet Filippo just outside the White House. He’s been making his quiet protests here on different issues for 14 years: and he too represents democracy
In Washington to expand @WFD_Democracy partnerships with US democracy champions as Ukraine & Myanmar continue to show freedoms are being fought for, values trump economics & that we need clear strategies to work with those on the cusp. Thank you @NEDemocracy @NDI @IRI @USAID
New Chief Exec of Hong Kong SAR, John Lee, the only candidate, was rubber stamped by 1,416 residents selected by a Cttee of 7, chaired by..John Lee. Far from making progress on Article 45 HK Basic Law (selection ‘by universal suffrage’) this is a great leap backwards
Puts most of our challenges into perspective..
Today is a day when you answer typical "how are you?" with "no nuclear attack, thank God".
#StandWithUkraine
This, if agreed and implemented, which I suspect it will be, is a huge step for the EU. When completed it will lead to a heavy Russian dependency on China energy purchases. As Putin’s options shrink the risks of further military escalation increase
EU chief proposes Russian oil ban over war in Ukraine http://reut.rs/3ycqAxy
Very fortunate to have @glosdeaf resources & expertise here & great to hear about their new work for South Glos as well as our constituents across Gloucestershire. Plus great news of Rosie Cooper PMB going thro #DeafAwarenessWeek More clinic details soon on FB @richard4gloucester
GDA's Better Health Day is off to a flying start! Raising Deaf Awareness putting a spotlight on health services to Deaf and Hard of Hearing people in South Glos.
#DeafAwarenessWeek #Deaf #SouthGlos
I promise there is no typo here & yes it was extraordinary