Meeting with residents across Lingfield and Horley

It was great to speak to residents on the doorstep in Lingfield this morning where petty crime and electric vehicle charging points came up a lot.

I also popped into the wonderful Lingfield Community Library, an ancient building which has been in place since 1424, what a local treasure.

After a pit stop for lunch at the Horley Recreation Ground, I spent a brilliant afternoon with Geoffrey Lean at the Red Barn, Lingfield whose outside area is looking beautiful.

I feel so lucky that Geoffrey is a Tandridge resident. As the longest standing environmental journalist, he gave me great insight into COP progress and has kindly agreed to do a session with residents to give them his independent view of where we are and what the world needs to do next. More details soon.

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Before I became an MP, as part of my work on regeneration at the Centre for Social Justice, I spent time in deprived neighbourhoods which had somehow been forgotten.