A petition set up by the Milton Keynes Conservatives to achieve free parking in Central Milton Keynes for all shoppers has reached over 1,000 signatures. The campaign, backed by local MPs and councillors, aims to help attract shoppers back as MK’s economy begins to recover from lockdown.

Our plan for jobs is about supporting people to find the jobs that are out there, creating new jobs through investing in our infrastructure and housing, and finally protecting jobs by revitalising the hard-hit sectors upon which many jobs depend.

Today the Chancellor announced our Plan for Jobs, worth up to £30 billion, to kickstart the economy and help create, support, and protect jobs across the United Kingdom.

Today we have announced a world-leading £1.57 billion package of emergency grants and loans to protect Britain’s world-class cultural, arts and heritage institutions from the impact of coronavirus.

The role of Head of Economic Development at MK Council is being removed from MK Council’s management structure in a bid to make savings.

Key workers that staff and administer Covid-19 tests at the Central MK drive-through testing facility are being denied key worker free parking, contrary to the Labour-led MK Council’s offer of free parking to key workers in council-owned on-street bays.  

Your questions answered by Matt Hancock, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care

The Prime Minister this morning set out our ‘New Deal’, an ambitious economic strategy to rebuild Britain across the UK, putting jobs, skills and infrastructure investment at the heart of our economic recovery post-coronavirus, and delivering on our manifesto pledges to level up the entire countr

By Chris Wardle, local campaigner