This is a piece I've written for today's Daily Mail about the referendum and its aftermath:

The Prime Minister was absolutely right to say outside the door of 10 Downing Street that “If you’re a white working-class boy you’re less likely than anybody else in Britain to go to university.”

If we want this to change, we have to go right back to the beginning.

Portsmouth is encouraging firms to hire disabled jobseekers. The event is part of the Government’s Disability Confident campaign – working with employers to recruit and retain more disabled people.

With my colleague and co-chair of the All-party Women and Work Group in Parliament, Jess Phillips, I have written a piece for Stylist magazine which looks at some of the challenges, and indeed attacks, which women MPs have to face.

Yesterday Parliament debated the right of giving EU citizens living in the UK freedom to remain here after Brexit. I am clear that we must guarantee this - and here is my speech.

This week, Parliament paid remembered those who took part in the Battle of the Somme in 1916. Today there are services of remembrance all over the country for those who fought there. I was fortunate to be called to speak during our commemoration in the Chamber, and this is my speech: 

Portsmouth South MP Flick Drummond was joined by Gosport MP Caroline Dinenage on a visit to Portsmouth Naval Base where the pair met with apprentices from BAE Systems.

I am very disappointed about the result of the referendum, but the people have voted to leave and I respect that. Anecdotally, from the straw poll that people did at the count, many wards in Southsea indicated that they would prefer to stay in. However, the vote has been counted as a single total across the two Portsmouth constituencies and it shows a clear decision for leaving the EU.

MP Flick Drummond has been quizzed about life in Parliament when students from Portsmouth Grammar School Juniors came for a “behind the scenes” tour of Westminster.

This is a piece I've written for the Conservative Home website, which has gone online today: