Tatton MP Esther McVey has returned to the backbenches in Parliament following her resignation as Work and Pensions Secretary last week.
She made her first contribution on Monday afternoon during Commons' Work and Pensions question time when she welcomed her successor Amber Rudd to the role.
Now Ms McVey has said her work continues as usual as MP for Tatton and vowed to continue fighting to secure the best outcome for the area.
Ms McVey said: "I remain the MP for Tatton and I will continue to pursue all the matters for the local residents and the area and I will also carry on with the issues that made me an MP in the first place, like social mobility and building blocks of empowerment from education to opportunities to attainment.
"As I return to being a backbencher it is like having my first day back at work. I now need to find a new office, as I cannot keep my old ministerial office, I need to find new staff and start all over again.
"Change is difficult but I am prepared for that as you cannot live in fear. You have got to know your options, know what change is involved and go forward and do that, which is exactly what I am doing. You have got to believe in something and I believed that the withdrawal agreement was not good enough for the people of the UK and I believe in the people of the UK so I am going to fight for what is best for them."
As a backbencher Ms McVey can speak in debates, ask ministers questions and submit written parliamentary questions.
Ms McVey added: "Each day in Parliament there is a different departmental question time and it just happened Monday was DWP questions, so I was there supporting the new Secretary of State in taking forward some of the changes I introduced, including the extra £4.5 billion for the department because Universal Credit needed that. I fought for that."
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Add to that the current craziness of "parking" in the town where free flowing traffic is endangered, as are the pedestrians, as are residents who are daily challenged by car parkers blocking pavements, driveways and small side roads, then there is much to do Esther. I hope she can make a difference....for our town, for her constituency, and for the better. I really hope so.
@ Yvonne Howson, also well-said. Thanks to George Osborne my wife is £45000 short of the pension entitlement she paid in for. OK, so that's only about a tenth of the money he bilked from us when he was flipping his home and claiming expenses but it makes a great deal of difference to ordinary folks, who planned their retirement carefully and then were robbed, by the Bullingdon Boy, who was supposed to be representing us.
@ Buck; there was a lady from Liverpool who sang "anyone who had a heart". There is a female from "across the water" who says that it is "right" that people should depend upon food banks.
Mr Hamilton took political opportunities to a different level. I do wonder who ever selected him as a candidate in the first place.
Martin Bell - where are you now?
You would win this seat in the blink of an eye on one basic premise - you could be trusted!
The aqueduct.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7tvauOJMHo
No, actually, the A556 is often cited as one of his achievemnts.
I chose the headline, it was not the headline of the press release. The reason I chose it was because I thought it would grab people's attention.
It is a quote from Esther McVey, and, as is the case with all quotes, I am neither agreeing or disagreeing with it. I leave it up to the readers to make their own judgement.
This is a web site for local news, not the Guardian, so stop trying to force your political views on Lisa who does a great job in keeping the town informed.