I was ready to vote for the Prime Minister’s Deal today and get Brexit done, honouring my promise to constituents to deliver Brexit and provide certainty for business.

Parliament, however, decided to kick the can down the road again.

New Prime Minister Boris Johnson is assembling his Government, and Victoria Atkins, Member of Parliament for Louth & Horncastle, has been re-appointed to both her roles.

The Conservative party leadership campaign has now concluded, with Boris Johnson beating Jeremy Hunt for the top job. 

Member of Parliament for Louth & Horncastle, Victoria Atkins, said of the news:

Victoria Atkins, Member of Parliament for Louth & Horncastle and Minister for Crime, Safeguarding and Vulnerability, last week introduced landmark legislation to transform the legal response to Domestic Abuse.

June was Pride month, and the beginning of July has been marked by the spectacular London Pride parade.

Victoria Atkins, MP for Louth & Horncastle said from outside the Number 10 Pride instillation:

It is awful to think so many vulnerable children have to tackle life without a strong adult figure they can confide in.

We're bringing in new measures to make bosses of companies which bother people with unsolicited nuisance calls personally liable for fines if they break the law. For too long rogue directors have escaped justice by liquidating their firms and opening up again under a different name.

Today, a statue of suffragist Millicent Fawcett was unveiled in Parliament Square.

It was the first statue of a woman and the first made by a women in the Square and bears Millicent's own words, 'Courage calls to courage everywhere'.

Chemical weapons must not become normalised.

The Prime Minister has joined our allies in targeted action to stop Assad using chemical weapons yet again on the people of Syria.

Child sexual exploitation online is a global threat and it needs a global answer.