I’m Amanda Milling – MP for Cannock Chase and the new Co-Chairman of the Conservative Party. My job is to help to deliver on the people’s priorities.

This week parliament has been in recess which means that I have been working in the constituency office.

New jobs figures today show that employment is at a record high – with more people in work than ever before –and unemployment is at its lowest since 1974.

Perhaps the most daunting event in the life of any Member of Parliament is the preparation for and day of your maiden speech.

When we came to office we promised to unite and level up, spreading opportunity across the whole United Kingdom.

Select committees have become increasingly important in parliament as a way of holding the government to account. Committees closely shadow the work of a government department and scrutinise its actions; they act very much as a critical friend and, sometimes, as a constructive opposition.

Apply to become a Conservative Mayoral Candidate in Greater Manchester or Liverpool City Region

Dr Luke Evans, newly elected Member of Parliament for Hinckley and Bosworth and a GP, is backing calls from the Less Survivable Cancers Taskforce (LSCT) to end a vicious cycle which has seen survivability stagnate amongst the six deadliest cancers over the last decade.

The budget is one of the most important events in the political calendar, especially when it also coincides with a new parliamentary term.

Watch the Prime Minister's fireside address to the nation, about our future outside of the European Union, here. Find it here before anywhere else.