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Taunton and Wellington MP, Gideon Amos, visits Musgrove Park Hospital

In praise of life-saving cancer service

Gideon Amos is urging residents to use Somerset's award-winning cancer self-referral service after visiting Musgrove Park Hospital. The life-saving scheme bypasses GPs to speed up diagnoses for breast, lung, bowel and womb cancers

1 Jul 2026
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Gideon Amos MP for Taunton and Wellington

Support our veterans

Your MP, Gideon Amos, is backing Help for Heroes’ People’s Promise to fix the broken systems letting down armed forces veterans, while launching a battle to protect vital NHS veteran outreach workers across Somerset from health service cuts

30 Jun 2026
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Gideon Amos MP for Taunton and Wellington speaking in Commons carbon budget debate

Gideon calls for ban on fracking

Gideon Amos makes an impassioned plea in Parliament to ban fracking, warning that Conservative and Reform policies threaten the Somerset countryside, including areas near Taunton and Wellington, with earth tremors and pollution risks to the River Tone

29 Jun 2026
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Gideon Amos, MP for Taunton and Wellington

Join our public meeting on local planning changes

Are new developer-led planning rules pushing local communities aside? Join housing spokesperson Gideon Amos MP and a panel of experts at CICCIC, 7pm Friday, 17 July, for a free public meeting to ask 'Why So Many Houses?'

23 Jun 2026
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Gideon's MP Column June 2026

Gideon Amos MP Column June 2026

In his latest MP Column, Taunton and Wellington MP Gideon Amos covers securing a major breakthrough to keep Wellington’s new railway station on track, cracking down on rogue high street landlords and fighting the local housing crisis

19 Jun 2026
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Gideon Amos MP speaks during debate on high street shops

Demanding tougher action on rogue shops

Gideon Amos MP calls for crackdown on high street criminality. Backing a return to proper community policing to give officers and councils stronger powers to fast-track shop closures, slash paperwork and penalise rogue landlords

18 Jun 2026
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Gideon Amos MP speaks during housing questions

Fighting to protect local green spaces

Gideon Amos demands a parliamentary debate and vote on the Government's new planning framework that will overrule local plans and threaten precious green spaces, including land near the Wellington Monument

17 Jun 2026
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UK Lib Dem headlines

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Cost of living

Our Essential Energy Guarantee

The Liberal Democrats have announced a new policy to make energy affordable again and help make fuel poverty a thing of the past.

8 Jun 2026
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