This coming Saturday will be High Street Saturday, which is a new campaign day that aims to celebrate our town centres and high streets. As part of the day, people are encouraged to pledge to shop locally, share photos and messages online using #HighStreetSaturday, and to encourage local councils like Crawley to make good use of the Future High Street Fund. This is a fund that is provided by the Government to help make high streets and town centres fit for the future.

Henry Smith MP has welcomed the news that a good cause in Crawley has received funding from players of the People’s Postcode Lottery.

Henry Smith MP has encouraged people in Crawley to join him in showing their support for the high street by shopping locally for High Street Saturday on 16th March.

Crawley MP Henry Smith and actor Stephen Mangan have joined forces this March to help Marie Curie provide care and support to more people living with a terminal illness.

New figures show that the south east of England exported £46,820 million worth of goods in 2018. This is an increase of £7,779 million since 2015; a rise of 19.9 per cent.

More than 170 families in Crawley have been able to realise their dream of home ownership thanks to the Government’s right to buy schemes, according to new figures.

For many years, I’ve seen political ping-pong at both national and local level, but often the full facts are not being disclosed when politics is spun. For example, last week we had a press release issued by Crawley’s Labour council where the Cabinet Member for Housing was taking credit for a 1% annual rent reduction for our council tenants.

Henry Smith MP has spoken out against the historical underfunding of local schools in a Westminster Hall debate on school funding (Monday, 4th February) and has called on the Department for Education to do more to ensure the concerns highlighted by local parents and teachers are better addressed.

Henry Smith MP has welcomed figures released which show that in the south east of England, there are 4.6 million people in work – meaning over 408,000 more people have the security of a job since 2010.

Last week was potentially the start of a major realignment of our party politics. Time will tell, but we may be seeing a tectonic shift. A healthy democracy needs viable alternatives that can govern effectively and a politics where everyone in society feels there is a credible and respectable voice for them.