I took another call from Mavis last week. It was a sad but familiar story. This time it was her local GP surgery in my constituency of Fareham. She has terrible back pain but can’t get an appointment for three weeks. “Suella – can you help?” I’ve known Mavis a long time. We’ve become friends over the past decade because of her long-term and ongoing travails with the NHS: the 12-hour wait at A&E with her husband who had a fall in 2015, and the stress of finding the right care package for him when
AT 8pm on Sunday, it will be the end of an era when a fish and chip shop which has been running for nearly a century closes its doors for the last time.