This morning I hosted a breakfast meeting with shopkeepers on Upminster’s Station Road, Corbets Tey Road and St Mary’s Lane to discuss the issues most affecting the health of the local high street.

I had the pleasure this afternoon of speaking at the monthly lunch of the Hornchurch Plus business group at the Mandarin Palace, Hornchurch.

I have been contacted this week by the Royal Mail and Post Office about new postal services coming to the constituency. 

First, the Cambourne Avenue Post Office proposed for Harold Hill. 

This morning my team and I visited Harold Hill business, Metro Security, to congratulate them on winning a prestigious Queen's Award for Enterprise.

My Conservative Association and I ran a campaign on the proposed closure of the Post Office branch on Hornchurch High Street when the proposal was first mooted by the Post Office in summer 2017.

A Havering MP tried her hand at pulling a pint to mark the re-opening of a Hornchurch pub.Hornchurch and Upminster MP Julia Lopez visited The Sutton Arms in Station Lane on Thursday, May 16 following the completion of the pub's £200,000 investment.

Julia Lopez Conservative, Hornchurch and Upminster  3:31 pm, 30th October 2018

This afternoon my team and I visited Ford Dagenham to see their plant, meet the people working on the factory floor and discuss diesel, the future of autonomous vehicles, high tech manufacturing and Brexit.

This morning the team and I visited Harrison Wipes, a manufacturing business on Harold Hill that has been a family-run operation since 1891 when Saul Harrison founded the company in Great Yarmouth.

Today the team and I visited Uniserve, the UK's number one independent logistics and global trade management provider.