It was great to be back at Commonweal School on Friday to join staff and students to see a performance of a play called Smashed. The play, by a travelling group of young people, talks about the dangers of excessive alcohol consumption and peer pressure, feeling pressured into doing the wrong thing. The audience was Year 7 and Year 8 students, and some people may believe that is a bit young, but I think the opposite. It is important that younger teenagers are educated early about the dangers of excessive alcohol and succumbing to peer pressure.
I would like to thank every single person who has taken the time to contact me over the past few hours, as well as to offer my congratulations to our new Member of Parliament for Swindon South, Heidi Alexander.