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The Secretary of State for Defence, the Rt. Hon. Gavin Williamson MP, visited Stoke-on-Trent today to visit local factories making parts and equipment for the defence industry.

Independents in Longton and Fenton can earn an extra £1m between them, if we each spend just £14 more this Small Business Saturday, says Jack Brereton MP.

In the last few weeks we have seen stabbings in Meir and Fenton. Thankfully these incidents are relatively rare here and the fact this shocks us is perhaps a good thing for our city. However, it is essential that shocking crimes like this are treated with the seriousness they deserve. 

Landau combined recently with Jack Brereton, Member of Parliament for Stoke-on-Trent South, to encourage employers to do more to help disabled people and veterans into work, at a business breakfast at its Training and Enterprise Centre in Newstead, Stoke-on-Trent.

Jack has today been named as Road Safety Parliamentarian of the Month for October 2018, by Brake, the road safety charity, and Direct Line Group.

Jack has welcomed the transfer of a prominent derelict parcel of land into local authority ownership.

Jack, and Deputy Leader of Stoke-on-Trent City Council, Cllr Abi Brown, have welcomed the Government’s announcement of how much additional funding local authorities in England will receive to ease pressures in social care services over winter, including £1,331,896 for Stoke-on-Trent.

Jack has recently been lobbying Victoria Atkins, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Crime, Safeguarding and Vulnerability at the Home Office, to have Monkey Dust reclassified as a Class A drug.

I firmly believe that we can always learn and improve what we do – whatever walk of life in which we happen to be – by observing others, and seeing how other people do things.