When I was elected as the Member of Parliament for this wonderful constituency in May 2015, I thought I knew that the next General Election would be on Thursday 7th May 2020.

Over the last two weeks thousands of students across the Wells Constituency have been receiving their A-Level, B-Tech and GCSE results.

In my last column I wrote about the newly crafted industrial strategy for our region and my hopes for how it might catalyse some change in our county's economy.

Last week I had an excellent meeting with the Chief Executive of our Local Enterprise Partnership to discuss our vision for developing the economy in Devon and Somerset.

Boris Johnson has asked James to be his Parliamentary Private Secretary. The PM will have two PPSes - the other is Alex Burghart (Brentwood and Ongar (and Somerset educated!)).

There are plenty of road closures at the moment as our roads are dug up for the arrival of fibre broadband. This has been a long time coming and represents a step change in connectivity for communities who have had to wait years to get superfast broadband speeds.

There was a stark contrast between the victory speeches of the new leaders of the Conservative Party and the Liberal Democrats. Jo Swinson accepted her new role in front of a huge sign that said 'STOP BREXIT' and said in her speech that this was her party's top priority.

This is the last column I'll write whilst Theresa May is our Prime Minister. By the time this paper is published next week, the Queen will have called for the winner of our party's leadership election to see her at Buckingham Palace and invited him to form a Government.

The proposal to move Wells's Post Office is attracting lots of attention and emotion. Three years ago we were able to 'save' the Post Office in its current location because we persuaded Post Office to remove a financial advantage for the postmaster to resign at that time.

On the morning before Meaningful Vote Three I felt genuine hope that we might be about to make significant progress on our Brexit journey. Enough Labour MPs seemed to be wavering and on our own side the majority of ERG rebels seemed to be falling into line.