Karen Welcomes HS2 Announcement
Karen Lumley MP for Redditch County today welcomed the long awaited announcement that the Midlands will get to have a direct, high capacity and high speed rail link to London and the North. Karen has campaigned for HS2 ever since being elected in 2010 and is delighted by the Secretary of State for Transport’s announcement this morning.
She said, “This has to be good news for our region and for Redditch. We will now see travel times slashed to Birmingham and the airport being made far more accessible from London. I have always believed that we must invest in travel connections to ensure faster and more convenient journeys between our major cities and this is how we will support our companies to make Britain and especially the West Midlands the best place in the world to do business in.”
Karen is shown outside Parliament welcoming the announcement with Pete Waterman.
Happy New Year
Karen Lumley MP and her staff wish everyone in Redditch County a very Happy New Year
Montage of Karen watching the New Year fireworks from the Commons
Chequers Dinner
Following the Prime Minister’s attendance at the EU summit in Brussels, Karen was one of twenty MPs invited to have dinner with David Cameron at Chequers on Friday evening.
Karen said it had been “… a wonderful experience to see Chequers and to hear first hand from the Prime Minister about just how the EU negotiations had gone. He was in fine form and we had a lively and fascinating evening.”
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