‘MP should have raised alternative issue’

A QUESTION about homeopathy by Hinckley and Bosworth’s MP during Prime Minister’s Questions prompted an angry response from a political opponents

David Tredinnick asked Theresa May to congratulate doctors who are members of the Faculty of Homeopathy on their work dealing with cases he said were too difficult for conventional treatments.

Despite being barracked by fellow MPs and Speaker John Bercow ordering calm while he spoke, Mr Tredinnick’s question prompted a response from the Prime Minister saying local NHS and commissioning groups should select the best treatments available.

Liberal Democrat county councillor Michael Mullaney said Mr Tredinnick should have been raising the issue of cuts in local health services instead of once again raising the issue of homeopathy in the Commons.

He said: “Being called in Prime Minister’s Questions is a golden opportunity to raise with the Prime Minister the key issues in your local area. This was the chance for Mr Tredinnick to raise the problems our local NHS faces.

“Instead of that he instead raises his old hobby horse of homeopathy.

“This is yet another example of our MP letting our area down. Our large and growing population around Hinckley face losing the Mount Road Hospital in Hinckley, without any replacement facility like a Walk-in Centre being offered. And we now face £20million of savings to our local NHS which will likely see even more NHS services lost.

“Mr Tredinnick had a chance to speak up for Hinckley and Bosworth’s NHS, yet again he blew it.”