The Conservatives launch their 25-year environment plan tomorrow.

Despite being heavily trailed to the media, the proposals are expected to be limited. 

The Churchill Hospital in Oxford is having to cut chemotherapy services due to staff shortages.

This is a horrendous situation.

Vital treatments that can save or extend life are under threat because of the pressures the NHS faces.

All of us will have friends and loved ones who have had a cancer diagnosis, and to learn that they might face a delay or a cut back in treatment to alleviate symptoms is appalling.

This morning I attended the Single Market Summit, the start of a cross-party initiative between opposition leaders to oppose the Conservatives’ hard Brexit.

To the anger of many Labour MPs – and to my great disappointment, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn refused to attend. 

The Conservative’s roll out of Universal Credit risks driving up homelessness.

That’s what I will warn in a debate in Westminster Hall this morning.

Commenting, Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable said: 

“This is a good, positive step to parliamentary co-ordination between opposition parties against the Conservative Brexit. There are four parties here who are putting their political differences to one side for the good of the country.