After weeks of winter campaigning Conservative candidate, Victoria Prentis was re-elected as Member of Parliament for North Oxfordshire with an increased majority of 16,813.

Full results were as follows:

North Oxfordshire Conservative Association is pleased to confirm that Victoria Prentis will be the Conservative candidate for the North Oxfordshire constituency in the General Election on 12 December.

Victoria, who was first elected as our Member of Parliament in 2015, said:

Banbury and Bicester Conservatives are deeply disappointed to learn that the Oxfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) is to recommend the temporary downgrade of the Horton General Hospital’s maternity unit be made permanent.

18 North Oxfordshire schools are set to benefit from a notable increase in per-pupil funding from the Department of Education. Oxfordshire schools have been historically underfunded.

Bicester teenagers will be given the opportunity to have their say in the future direction of the town after a proposal to formulate a local democratic youth body received the unanimous backing of Bicester Town Councillors. 

World-leading cancer screening services will remain at the Churchill Hospital after controversial plans to change the provider of PET-CT scanning in Oxfordshire were reversed.

600 new Police Officers are set to be recruited in the Thames Valley as part of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s pledge to increase police numbers.

Important works to improve safety on the A361 are currently underway.

In her most recent column for the Banbury Guardian, North Oxfordshire MP Victoria Prentis discusses the change of leadership at the top of the Conservative Party and Country. 

1000kgs of waste has been removed from Southwold thanks to a neighbourhood litter blitz carried out by Conservative-controlled Cherwell District Council’s street cleansing team.